2000 Sri Lankan parliamentary election

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All 225 seats in the Parliament of Sri Lanka
113 seats were needed for a majority

Turnout

75.63%

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Chandrika Kumaratunga	Ranil Wickremesinghe	Somawansa Amarasinghe
Party	PA	UNP	JVP
Leader since	1994	1994	1990
Leader's seat	n/a	Colombo District	n/a
Last election	48.94%, 105 seats	44.04%, 94 seats	1.13%, 1 seat
Seats won	107	89	10
Seat change	2	5	9
Popular vote	3,900,901	3,477,770	518,774
Percentage	45.11%	40.22%	6.00%
Swing	3.83%	3.82%	4.87%

Winners of polling divisions. PA in blue and UNP in green.

Prime Minister before election

Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
People's Alliance

Prime Minister-designate

Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
People's Alliance

Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 10 October 2000.

The People's Alliance (PA) government Kumaratunga had led for six years was facing increasing criticism on two fronts: a series of military defeats at the hands of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the country's civil war, and the faltering performance of the economy.

The elections were marred by violence. Seventy people were killed during the campaign, including six on election day itself. [1]. Both the UNP and SLMC parties accused the PA of election fraud and intimidation.

As was the case for most elections since 1983, few ballots were cast in LTTE-held parts of the country.

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Results

The PA remained in office but had problems to form a majority. The resulting deadlock led to the 2001 election.


Party		Votes	%	Seats
Party		Votes	%	District	National	Total
	People's Alliance^[a]	3,900,901	45.11	94	13	107
	United National Party^[b]	3,477,770	40.22	77	12	89
	Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	518,774	6.00	8	2	10
	National Unity Alliance^[c]	197,983	2.29	3	1	4
	Sinhala Heritage	127,863	1.48	0	1	1
	Tamil United Liberation Front	106,033	1.23	5	0	5
	Eelam People's Democratic Party	50,890	0.59	4	0	4
	New Left Front	32,275	0.37	0	0	0
	All Ceylon Tamil Congress	27,323	0.32	1	0	1
	Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization	26,112	0.30	3	0	3
	Ceylon Workers' Congress	23,013	0.27	0	0	0
	Democratic People's Liberation Front	20,848	0.24	0	0	0
	Puravesi Peramuna	20,006	0.23	0	0	0
	Left and Democratic Alliance	9,731	0.11	0	0	0
	Motherland People's Party	7,293	0.08	0	0	0
	National Union of Workers	5,737	0.07	0	0	0
	The Liberal Party	5,188	0.06	0	0	0
	Democratic United National Front	4,405	0.05	0	0	0
	United Lalith Front	4,048	0.05	0	0	0
	Eksath Sinhala Maha Sabha	3,927	0.05	0	0	0
	Muslim United Liberation Front	2,575	0.03	0	0	0
	National People's Party	1,542	0.02	0	0	0
	Sri Lanka Muslim Katchi	1,287	0.01	0	0	0
	Bahujana Nidahas Peramuna	1,242	0.01	0	0	0
	Sri Lanka Progressive Front	1,136	0.01	0	0	0
	People's Liberation Solidarity Front	812	0.01	0	0	0
	Jathinka Sangwardhena Peramuna	769	0.01	0	0	0
	Ruhuna Janatha Party	658	0.01	0	0	0
	Socialist Equality Party	389	0.00	0	0	0
	Independents	67,138	0.78	1	0	1
Total		8,647,668	100.00	196	29	225

Valid votes		8,647,668	94.73
Invalid/blank votes		481,155	5.27
Total votes		9,128,823	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		12,071,062	75.63
Source: Election Commission

By province

By electoral district

Elected members

Notes

^ Consisting of the Ceylon Workers' Congress (in Kurunegala, Nuwara Eliya and Ratnapura only), the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, the Desha Vimukthi Janatha Party, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya and the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (in Ampara and Trincomalee only).
^ Including the Democratic Workers' Congress, the National Workers' Congress and the Up-Country People's Front.
^ Including the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress in all districts except Ampara and Trincomalee.

References

"Parliamentary General Election 2000 – All Island Result Composition of Parliament". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 26 August 2010.
"Parliamentary General Election 2000 – All Island Result". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 19 December 2012.
"Parliamentary General Election 10.10.2000 – Final District Results". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012.
"General Election 2000 Preferences" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2010.
"2000 General Election Results". LankaNewspapers.com.
"Table 41 Parliament Election (Electoral District) (2000)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
"Sri Lanka Parliamentary Chamber: Parliament Elections Held in 2000". Inter-Parliamentary Union.
"2000 - Parliamentary General Election". Manthree.com.
"REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 12 OCTOBER 2000". Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive.
"REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 12 OCTOBER 2000". Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive.

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