The UAPA coalition has won secured 81 seats.
The United National Party (UNP) is on course to becoming the single largest formation in the country’s eighth parliamentary elections by bagging 88 seats.
At 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the results for 184 seats were published out of a total of 196 seats. Of them, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party-led United People’s Freedom Alliance secured 81 seats followed by the Tamil National Alliance (TNA)/Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) – 10; Jantha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) – four, and the Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) – one.
The results of Batticaloa and Digamadulla (popularly called Ampara) are yet to be out. Out of the 20 electoral districts for which results were published, the UNP got a majority in 10 districts; UPFA – eight and the TNA/ITAK – two.
According to an estimate, the UNP established a margin of difference of three percentage points over the UPFA. The former has got 46.3 per cent and the latter, 43 per cent
On the basis of polls secured at the national level, the seats of 29 would be allotted to different parties.
The UNP secured 24 seats from the Western Province that covered Colombo, Gampaha and Kalutara. The UPFA’s tally was 20. In Colombo where Prime Minister and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and many other senior colleagues of his contested, the UNP got 11 seats and the UPFA – 7.
Likewise, in the Central Province comprising Kandy, Matale and Nuwara Eliya, the UNP netted 15 seats while the UPFA got 10 seats.
The UPFA’s best performance was in the Southern Province where it got 15 seats and the UNP – nine.
Earlier in the day, there were reports that former President and the UPFA’s candidate for Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, conceded defeat. Later, Mr. Rajapaksa’s official twitter account stated that he had not yet received official results fully to accept or concede defeat.
In the Kurunegala district, where Mr. Rajapaksa is in the fray as a candidate of the UPFA, eight seats have gone to his alliance and the remaining seven to the UNP.
At the provincial level, the Southern Province, a traditional stronghold of the UPFA, was the first to have all its results published. Out of 25 seats, the UPFA got 15, three less than what it got five years ago, the UNP nine and the JVP one. The Uva Province was another region where the UPFA got more seats than the UNP. In Moneregala and Badulla, the UPFA got eight seats whereas the UNP bagged five seats.
In the Polonaruwwa and Anuradhapura districts of the North Central Province, the two formations got seven seats each.
In the Tamil-speaking Northern Province, Jaffna, the TNA pulled ahead, by getting nine seats out of a total of 13. This was in the midst of a spirited campaign by two parties, All Ceylon Tamil Congress and the Crusaders for Democracy. While the UNP got two, Douglas Devananda’s EPDP and the UPFA bagged one each.
In Trincomalee in the Eastern Province where the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress contested on the UNP symbol, the UNP got two seats out of four with the rest shared by the TNA and the UPFA.
In Ratnapura of the Sabaragamuwa district, the UPFA got six seats and the UNP five.
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