Election Name: | 6th Sri Lankan provincial council election in Uva Province |
Country: | Uva Province |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | March 2014 Sri Lankan provincial council election |
Previous Year: | 2014 (Mar) |
Seats For Election: | 34 seats across one provincial council |
Election Date: | 20 September 2014 |
Turnout: | 76.15% |
1Blank: | Councillors |
2Blank: | Councils |
Leader1: | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
Party1: | United People's Freedom Alliance |
Home State1: | n/a |
Last Election1: | 72.39%, 25 seats |
Seat Change1: | 6 |
Popular Vote1: | 349,906 |
Percentage1: | 51.25% |
1Data1: | 19 |
2Data1: | 1 |
Swing1: | 21.14% |
Leader2: | Ranil Wickremasinghe |
Party2: | United National Party |
Home State2: | n/a |
Last Election2: | 22.32%, 7 seats |
Seat Change2: | 6 |
Popular Vote2: | 274,773 |
Percentage2: | 40.24% |
1Data2: | 13 |
2Data2: | 0 |
Swing2: | 17.92% |
Leader3: | Anura Kumara Dissanayake |
Party3: | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna |
Home State3: | n/a |
Last Election3: | 2.53%, 1 seat |
Seat Change3: | 1 |
Popular Vote3: | 36,580 |
Percentage3: | 5.36% |
1Data3: | 2 |
2Data3: | 0 |
Swing3: | 2.83% |
Chief Minister | |
Before Party: | UPFA |
After Party: | UPFA |
Provincial council elections were held in Sri Lanka on 20 September 2014 to elect 34 members to one of the nine provincial councils in the country. 0.9 million Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election. Elections to the remaining eight provincial councils were not due as they had their last election in 2012, 2013 or 2014 (Mar).
The United People's Freedom Alliance's domination of Sri Lankan elections continued as expected. It retained control of Uva Provincial Council. However, the UPFA recorded a loss of votes in the province, after Presidential Election 2015 number of UPFA councillors crossed over to UNP to back Harin Fernando which enabled him to secure the position of Chief Minister and toppling the UPFA rule in Uva Province. After the 2015 General election Harin Fernando resigned from the Chief Minister position to take duties as a cabinet minister, Chamara Sampath Dassanayake was appointed. In September 2015, the council was turned into a unity government with United National Party MP Upali Samaraweera was given a minister position and rest of the 3 ministers were appointed from Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
The UPFA retained control of the Uva provincial council.
valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2 width="300" | Alliances and parties ! | valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Bonus Seats ! | Total | |||||||||||||
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align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Votes ! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | % ! | align=center valign=bottom width="40" | Seats ! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Votes ! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | % ! | align=center valign=bottom width="40" | Seats ! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Votes ! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | % ! | align=center valign=bottom width="40" | Seats |
bgcolor= | 209,056 | 47.37% | 9 | 140,850 | 58.34% | 8 | 2 | 349,906 | 51.246% | 19 | |||||||
bgcolor= | 197,708 | 44.79% | 8 | 77,065 | 31.92% | 5 | 0 | 274,773 | 40.242% | 13 | |||||||
bgcolor= | 20,625 | 4.67% | 1 | 15,955 | 6.61% | 1 | 0 | 36,580 | 5.357% | 2 | |||||||
bgcolor= | 3202 | 0.73% | 0 | 2,874 | 1.19% | 0 | 0 | 6,076 | 0.890% | 0 | |||||||
bgcolor= | 5045 | 1.14% | 0 | 0 | 5,045 | 0.739% | 0 | ||||||||||
bgcolor= | 4,835 | 1.10% | 0 | 0 | 4,835 | 0.708% | 0 | ||||||||||
bgcolor= | 639 | 0.15% | 0 | 4065 | 1.69% | 0 | 0 | 4,707 | 0.689% | 0 | |||||||
Our National Front | 202 | 0.08% | 0 | 0 | 202 | 0.030% | 0 | ||||||||||
Jana Setha Peramuna | 119 | 0.03% | 0 | 54 | 0.02% | 0 | 0 | 173 | 0.025% | 0 | |||||||
bgcolor= | 162 | 0.07% | 0 | 0 | 162 | 0.024% | 0 | ||||||||||
Eksath Lanka Podujana Pakshaya | 124 | 0.05% | 0 | 0 | 124 | 0.018% | 0 | ||||||||||
Eksath Lanka Maha Sabha Party | 83 | 0.02% | 0 | 36 | 0.01% | 0 | 0 | 119 | 0.017% | 0 | |||||||
Maubima Janatha Pakshaya | 37 | 0.01% | 0 | 17 | 0.01% | 0 | 0 | 54 | 0.008% | 0 | |||||||
22 | 0.00% | 0 | 10 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 32 | 0.005% | 0 | ||||||||
12 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.002% | 0 | |||||||||||
Valid Votes | 441,371 | 95.38% | 18 | 241,426 | 94.94% | 14 | 2 | 682,797 | 95.22% | 34 | |||||||
Rejected Votes | 21,398 | 4.62% | 12,871 | 5.06% | 34,269 | 4.78% | |||||||||||
Total Polled | 462,769 | 254,297 | 717,066 | ||||||||||||||
Registered Electors | 609,966 | 332,764 | 942,730 | ||||||||||||||
Turnout | 75.87% | 76.42% | 76.06% |