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AKD secures 42.31% of total votes in Presidential poll
22 Sep, 2024
By Easwaran Rutnam
National People’s Power (NPP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake secured 42.31% of the total votes polled across the island in the 2024 Presidential Election.
According to the final cumulative results Dissanayake secured 5,634,915 votes (42.31%).
Dissanayake secured the highest number of votes in most Districts but was not the prefered choice in the Tamil dominated North.
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Leader Sajith Premadasa was second with 4,363,035 votes (32.76%) of the total votes across the island.
Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe secured only 2,299,767 votes (17.27%).
The Sri Lanka?Election Commission has decided to count the preference votes for Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Sajith Premadasa as neither candidate has secured more than 51% of the cumulative votes at the Presidential Election.
Election Commission Chairman R M A L Rathnayake said that Dissanayake and Premadasa have secured the most number of votes at the 2024 Presidential Election.
However, he said that as neither have secured more than 51% of the votes, the second preference vote will be counted from the ballots of the defeated candidates and added to these two candidates.
He said the new President will be picked from the candidate with the most number of votes after the cumulative votes and second or third preference votes are counted.
The Election Commission Chairman also said that the remaining candidates will not be considered for the preference vote as they are not among the top two contenders. (Colombo Gazette)
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