2024 Sri Lankan presidential election

Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka before September 2024, according to the constitution. Incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe is eligible to run for a second term.[1]

2024 Sri Lankan presidential election
2024
 
Candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe Maithripala Sirisena Sajith Premadasa
Party UNP SLFP SJB
Alliance TBA FPA SJB
President before election

Ranil Wickremesinghe
UNP

 Elected President

TBA
TBA

Background
Sri Lankan recent election results
Dates of elections Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
(SLPFA)		 Samagi Jana Balawegaya National People's Power Tamil National Alliance United National Party Others
Votes  % Votes  % Votes  % Votes  % Votes  % Votes  %
2019 presidential election 6,924,255 52.25% － － 418,553 3.16% － － 5,564,239 41.99%[lower-roman 1] 345,452 2.35%
2020 parliamentary election 6,853,690 59.09% 2,771,980 23.90% 445,958 3.84% 327,168 2.82% 249,435 2.15% 950,698 8.20%
Sri Lankan recent election results
2019 presidential election 2020 parliamentary election
Winners of polling divisions ■ SLPFA ■ SJB ■ TNA ■ SLFP ■ EPDP ■ Other parties
Elected members of each electoral district or municipality, gaining the highest number of votes

Candidates

Declared
Candidate Political office and constituency Date declared Notes Ref.
Maithripala Sirisena
Maithripala Sirisena (71)
Sri Lanka Freedom Party		 Former President of Sri Lanka (2015–2019)
Leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (since 2015)
Polonnaruwa		 31 January 2023 [2]

Ranil Wickremesinghe (74)
United National Party		 Current President of Sri Lanka (since 2022)
Leader of the United National Party (since 1994)
Former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1993–1994, 2001–2004, 2015–2019, 2022)		 8 April 2023 [1]

Sajith Premadasa (56)
Samagi Jana Balawegaya		 Current Leader of the Opposition (since 2019)
Leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (since 2020)
Colombo		 16 May 2023 [3]

Janaka Ratnayake (58)
Independent		 Former Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (2021–2023)
Chairman and CEO of Trillium Property Management & Services Limited (since 2014)		 24 May 2023 [4]

National People's Power

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna

Notes
  1. New Democratic Front candidate led by the United National Party

References
  1. "Ranil to contest Presidential election, hints at poll early next year - Top Story | Daily Mirror". www.dailymirror.lk. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  2. "Ex-Sri Lanka president Sirisena to run again; apologises to Catholics, compares self to Mandela". EconomyNext. 2023-01-31. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
  3. "Sajith Premadasa named as SJB Presidential Candidate". NewsWire. 2023-05-16. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  4. Siriwardana, Ajith (26 May 2023). "'All common candidates have failed, I will be people’s candidate': Janaka Ratnayake". DailyMirror. Retrieved on 26 May 2023.
  5. "The Case For (And Against) Anura Kumara Dissanayake". colombotelegraph.com. 10 January 2023.
  6. "Rajapaksa to seek second term as Sri Lanka crisis deepens". France 24. 19 July 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  7. "Sri Lanka President Vows to Finish Term, Won't Run for Re-Election". Bloomberg.com. 6 June 2022.
  8. "Basil will contest for President in 2024, says SLPPS Ranjith Bandara". 7 July 2021.
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