1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 15 February 1989, the first since 1977. The elections that should normally have been held by 1983 had been cancelled by the 1982 referendum.

1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election
15 February 1989
All 225 seats in the Parliament of Sri Lanka
113 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout63.60%
  First party Second party
 
Leader Ranasinghe Premadasa Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Party UNP SLFP
Leader since 1988 1960
Leader's seat n/a Gampaha District
Last election 50.92%, 140 seats 29.72%, 8 seats
Seats won 125 67
Seat change Decrease15 Increase 59
Popular vote 2,837,961 1,780,599
Percentage 50.7% 31.8%
Winners of electoral districts. UNP in green and SLFP in blue.
Prime Minister before election

Ranasinghe Premadasa
UNP

 Prime Minister-designate

Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
UNP

Results
PartyVotes%Seats
DistrictNationalTotal
United National Party[lower-alpha 1]2,838,00550.7111015125
Sri Lanka Freedom Party1,785,36931.9058967
Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students[lower-alpha 2]229,8774.1112113
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress202,0163.61314
Tamil United Liberation Front[lower-alpha 3]188,5943.379110
United Socialist Alliance[lower-alpha 4]160,2712.86213
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna91,1281.63213
United Lanka People's Party67,7231.21000
Democratic People's Liberation Front[lower-alpha 5]18,5020.33000
All Ceylon Tamil Congress7,6100.14000
Independents7,3730.13000
Total5,596,468100.0019629225
Valid votes5,596,46893.87
Invalid/blank votes365,5636.13
Total votes5,962,031100.00
Registered voters/turnout9,374,16463.60
Source: Election Commission

By province
Further information: Results of the 1989 Sri Lankan general election by province

By electoral district
Further information: Results of the 1989 Sri Lankan general election by electoral district

Notes
  1. Including the Ceylon Workers' Congress.
  2. Contested as an independent group in Batticaloa, Jaffna, Trincomalee and Vanni.
  3. Consisting of the Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front, the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization and the Tamil United Liberation Front.
  4. Consisting of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the Nava Sama Samaja Party and Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya.
  5. Including the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam.

References
    • "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-04.
    • "Table 39 Parliament Election (1989)". 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 1989". Inter-Parliamentary Union.
    • Rajasingham, K. T. (27 April 2002). "Chapter 37: Talking peace". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Asia Times. Archived from the original on 22 June 2002.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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