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Harini leads in Colombo preferential votes, setting new record

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5 months ago

November 15, 2024

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Preferential vote results of the Colombo District in the 2024 General Election have been released with NPP candidate Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya leading the preferential votes in the district.

She has secured a total of 655,289 preferential votes, setting a new record for the most preference votes received by a candidate in Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election history.

The record was previously held by former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who polled 527,364 votes in the 2020 General Election contesting from the Kurunegala District.

National People’s Power (NPP)

1. Harini Amarasuriya – 655,289

2. Chathuranga Abeysinghe – 127,166

3. Sunil Watagala – 125,700

4. Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi – 96,273

5. Aruna Panagoda – 91,081

6. Eranga Gunasekara – 85,180

7. Harshana Nanayakkara – 82,275

8. Kaushalya Ariyarathne – 80,814

9. Asitha Niroshana – 78,990

10. Rizvie Salih – 73,018

11. Susantha Dodawatta – 65,391

12. Chandana Sooriyaarachchi – 63,387

13. Samanmalee Gunasinghe – 59,657

14. Dewananda Suraweera – 54,680

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB)

1. Sajith Premadasa – 145,611

2. Harsha De Silva – 81,473

3. Mujibur Rahuman – 43,737

4. S.M. Marikkar – 41,482

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2 including IUSF convener granted bail

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25 minutes ago

April 4, 2025

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Two persons including the convenor of the Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) – Madushan Chandrajith have been granted bail,

They were arrested and remanded for staging a protest demonstration in front of the Health Ministry, defying a court order.

The duo was each released on two surety bails of Rs. 1 million each after being produced before the Maligakanda Magistrate’s Court.

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CoA orders to re-accept rejected nomination papers

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33 minutes ago

April 4, 2025

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The Court of Appeal has ordered the relevant Returning Officers to re-accept nearly 37 rejected nomination papers submitted by candidates to contest for several Local Government (LG) institutions islandwide.

This order was issued by the two-member Appeals Court bench comprising the Acting President of the Court of Appeal Justice Mohammed Thahir Laffar and Justice K.P. Fernando after considering writ petitions filed by several political parties and independent groups challenging the rejection of their nomination papers submitted to contest the upcoming LG Polls.