by: ZL Mohamed This post compiles information on Background on Postal Voting in Sri Lanka Rise of Postal Votes by District (1982-2015) Tilt of Postal Votes by Districts in 2015 And is a companion to the article on postal voting. Postal Voting in Sri Lanka Postal voting refers to early voting and is offered to government employees (and even a ...

ZL மொஹம்மட்                       தமிழாக்கம்: ந. அசோகன். இலங்கையின் 2015 ஜனாதிபதி தேர்தலில் உபயோகிக்கப்பட்ட வாக்காளர் பட்டியலில் 15,044,490 வாக்காளர்கள் இருந்தனர். ஆனால் மக்கள் தொகைக் கணக்கெடுப்புத் தரவின்படி சட்டபூர்வமாக வாக்களிக்கக்கூடிய வயதுள்ள பிரஜைகளின் எண்ணிக்கை  14,449,000 மட்டுமே. இந்த மேலதிகமான வாக்காளர் தொகை முழு வாக்காளர் பட்டியலின் தொகையின்  4.3 சதவீதமாகும். கடந்த ஜனாதிபதித் தேர்தல் 3.7% பெரும்பான்மையால் முடிவு செய்யப்பட்டது என்பதையும் அதற்கு முந்தைய தேர்தல்களின் பெரும்பான்மைகள் இதன் பாதியளவு எ

By Z.L. MohamedIn Sri Lanka’s 2015 presidential election By Z.L. Mohamed In Sri Lanka’s 2015 presidential election, 15,044,490 voters were on the electoral rolls but the number of citizens who were of legal voting age was only 14,449,000 going by the Census data. This amounts to an unaccounted excess of 4.3% in the electoral rolls. This is alarming since the ...

In Sri Lanka’s 2015 Presidential Election, there was a higher turnout in electorates that favoured Mahinda Rajapakse. Maithripala Sirisena’s surprising election victory has been explained by many on the grounds that he was supported more enthusiastically in certain regions and by certain groups and that this enthusiasm had spurred his supporters to vote in larger numbers.  On the other hand, ...

We shall provide quick analysis of the election results as they come in the next days. Since we have compiled some of the past data, and have tools on the ready, we shall be able to contextualize the results quickly. The tools are statistical, data visualization, GIS and computational tools to project MP’s by party on the ready. We are ...

Citizens need information to choose wisely at elections.  They also depend on the free and fair exercise of the vote.  As the Commissioner of Elections noted in July – it is the responsibility of all groups and citizens to ensure the integrity of elections. The Department of Elections announced that it shall not undertake statistical analysis: “The Department does not ...

සැක සහිත ලෙස තැපැල් ඡන්ද වැඩි වීම. 1982 හා 2015 ජනාධිපතිවරණ දෙක අතර තැපැල් ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාව (මිලියන 1.1 ක් දක්වා) දස ගුණයකින් වැඩි වී ඇති අතර ජනගහණය වැඩි වී ඇත්තේ (මිලියන 20.5 ක් දක්වා) තුනෙන් එකකින් පමණකි. පහත කරුණුද සලකා බලන්න: 1999 ට පෙර තැපැල් ඡන්ද සංඛ්‍යාව 50% කින් වැඩි වූ අතර ඊ ළඟ වසර දහසය තුළදී එය 300% ...

ZL මොහොමඩ්                                                           භාෂා පරිවර්තක(එන් කරුණාදාස) ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ 2015 ජනාධිපතිවරණය සඳහාවලංගු ඡන්ද හිමිනාමලේඛනයන් හිඡන්දදායකයින් 1,5 0,44,490 කගේනම්සඳහන්ව තිබුණද ජනලේඛනදත්ත අනුවබලනවිට ඒ වනවිට ඡන්දයදි යහැකිනීත්‍යානුකූල වයසටපත්වසිටි පුරවැසියන්ගේ සංඛ්‍යාව 1,44,49,000 ක් පමණකි. මෙයඡන්දදායක ලැයිස්තු ...

Election aElectoral DistrictProvinceUPFAUNFDNATNAIndUCPFTMVPSMBPTULFTNPFDPLFSLNFOthersValid VotesRejected VotesTotal PolledRegistered ElectorsTurnout %AmparaEA132,09690,7572,91726,8952,0291,49056696256,93615,516272,452420,83564.74%AnuradhapuraNC221,20480,36018,12952811,445147725332,53822,930355,468579,26161.37%BadullaUV203,689112,88615,7685,07311,481137644349,67824,169373,847574,81465.04%BatticaloaEA62,00922,93532466,2356,03416,886114,4241361,624180,61814,749195,367333,64458.56%ColomboWE480,896339,750110,6

Facebook Mail-bulk The 1978 Constitution introduced a radical departure to the previously existing electoral system and electoral districts. The previous system was based on constituencies with individual candidates nominated by recognized political parties or independent candidates. The candidate obtaining the highest number of votes in respect of the constituency was declared elected. This system, commonly described as the First-past-the-post ...

by: ZL MohamedThis post compiles information onBackground on Postal Voting in Sri LankaRise of Postal Votes by District (1982-2015)Tilt of Postal Votes by Districts in 2015And is a companion to the article on postal voting.Postal Voting in Sri LankaPostal voting refers to early voting and is offered to government employees (and even a few others) who are engaged in ...

In Sri Lanka’s 2015 Presidential Election, there was a higher turnout in electorates that favoured Mahinda Rajapakse. Maithripala Sirisena’s surprising election victory has been explained by many on the grounds that he was supported more enthusiastically in certain regions and by certain groups and that this enthusiasm had spurred his supporters to vote in larger numbers.  On the other ...

මැතිවරණ ක්‍රියාවලි‍ය ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර ක්‍රියාවලියේ උත්කෘෂ්ඨ හා අවශ්‍ය කොටසක් වන හෙයින් මැතිවරණ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර වාදයේ මිණුම් ලකුණක් ලෙස සැලැකිය හැකි වේ. මුලික වශයෙන් මැතිවරණ සතුව නීත්‍යානුකූල පරමාර්ථයක් ඇති බැවින්ද ඒවා පුරවැසියන්ට වැදගත් වන හෙයින්ද පුරවැසියෝ නිදහස් හා සාධාරණ ලෙස ඡන්දය භාවිතා කිරීමට අපේක්ෂා කරති. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් තමන්ගේ තීරණය පිළිබඳ නිශ්චිත විනිශ්චයක් ගැනීම සඳහා නොයෙකුත් ආකාරයේ තොරතුරු පුරවැසියන්ට අවශ්‍ය වේ. ඇත්තවශයෙන්ම ජන මාධ්‍ය ...

Suspicious Rise in Postal Votes The rise in postal voting in Sri Lanka in the last 16 years has been dramatic – far out of proportion to the population or to the number of government employees – consider the following: Postal voters accounted for less than 2% of the electorate until 1999 but since then this percentage has increased ...

At the district level, AKD of NPP has the highest vote share in 15 districts and SP of SJS had the highest vote share in 7 districts not counting the 3 merged districts of Kilinochchi with Jaffna and Vavuniya, Mannar, Mullaitivu as the Vanni District – in actual fact.SP leads in 7 electoral districts (Jaffna, Vanni, Trincomalee, Batticaloa, Ampara, Badulla ...

By  Dr.Ranjiva Munasinghe, Managing Director – Argyle X and Ruwanthi de Silva, Social Media Analyst – Argyle X Elections in Sri Lanka are an exciting affair. One need only look at a condensed timeline of events from the last Presidential Election to confirm this – from then SLFP Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena’s shock announcement that he would be running as ...

Election Electoral DistrictProvinceUPFAUNFDNATNAIndUCPFTMVPSMBPTULFTNPFDPLFSLNFOthersValid VotesRejected VotesTotal PolledRegistered ElectorsTurnout %AmparaEA132,09690,7572,91726,8952,0291,49056696256,93615,516272,452420,83564.74%AnuradhapuraNC221,20480,36018,12952811,445147725332,53822,930355,468579,26161.37%BadullaUV203,689112,88615,7685,07311,481137644349,67824,169373,847574,81465.04%BatticaloaEA62,00922,93532466,2356,03416,886114,4241361,624180,61814,749195,367333,64458.56%ColomboWE480,896339,750110,68

A decade ago, some data enthusiasts, IT specialists brought together their expertise to undertake analytics of data arising from the presidential and parliamentary elections. Through this, there was a relevant insight on the voter rolls, the ways in which seats have been allocated by district and on ghost voters. These results were published in newspapers (e.g. Sunday Observer, Financial ...

Without the PR system with 5% cut off point, parties such as the JVP, ITAK, SLMC, CWC, PLOTE, and other parties would not have obtained on their own the numbers of legislative seats – even one or two at times — they did in the elections held in and after 1989. Its benefits went to new political entities that ...

Two types of maps are presented below – each to visualize the election results in its own way. Gradient maps for vote share by district for the four main parties Winner, 2nd and 3rd places by electorate. The post Mapping the Parliamentary Election Results appeared first on Sri Lanka Elections Analytics.