Anura Dissanayake got the most votes in sri lanka, yet...?
There has been a big upset in the presidential election held in Sri Lanka. Here no candidate got more than 50 percent votes required to win, after which for the first time in the history of sri lanka, a second round of counting has been ordered. In this election, Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the National People's Power (NPP), a front of the Marxist Janata Vimukthi Peramuna Party, has secured 39.52 percent votes.
No one got more than 50 percent votes
Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa of Samagi Jana Balawegaya stood second with about 34.28. Voting was held on saturday (September 21) for the first presidential election in sri lanka after the economic crisis of 2022. As a precautionary measure to prevent any untoward incident after the presidential election, a curfew was imposed in sri lanka from 10 pm on saturday to 6 am on sunday (September 22).
R. M. A. L. Ratnayake, Chairman of the Sri Lankan election Commission, said that Disanayake and Premadasa have secured the maximum votes in the presidential election. However, he said that since neither of them has got more than 50 percent of the votes, a second preference count of votes will be done.
Know how the winner will be decided now?
In sri lanka, voters elect three candidates in order of preference. If a candidate gets an absolute majority, he is declared the winner. If not, the second round of counting begins, in which the decision is taken on the basis of the votes of the second and third options.
R. M. A. L. Ratnayake, Chairman of the Sri Lankan election Commission, said that the new President will be declared elected after counting the total votes and preference votes. No election in sri lanka has ever reached a second round of counting, as a candidate has always emerged victorious based on first preference votes.
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