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All 225 seats in the Parliament of Sri Lanka
113 seats needed for a majority
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Leader  | Mahinda Rajapaksa | Sajith Premadasa | Chandrika Kumaratunga
Party  | SLPP | SJB | People's Alliance
Last election  | 59.09%, 145 seats  | 23.90%, 54 seats  | New
Current seats  | 106 seats  | 59 seats  |
Seats needed  | 7  | 54  |

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Leader  | R. Sampanthan | Anura Kumara Dissanayake
Party  | TNA | NPP
Last election  | 2.82%, 10 seats  | 3.84%, 3 seats
Current seats  | 10 seats  | 3 seats
Seats needed  | 103  | 110

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Dinesh Gunawardena
SLPP

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Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka before August 2025 according to the constitution. The president has the power under the constitution to hold elections two and half years after the previous elections, which took place in August 2020.[1]

## Electoral system[edit]

The Parliament has 225 members elected for a five-year term. 196 members are elected from 22 multi-seat constituencies through a proportional representation system where each party is allocated a number of seats from the quota for each constituency according to the proportion of the total vote that party obtains in the district. The other 29 are elected from a national list, with list members appointed by party secretaries and seats allocated according to the island-wide proportional vote the party obtains.

## Contesting parties[edit]

Further information: List of political parties in Sri Lanka

Name  | Symbol  | Claimed
ideology(ies)  | Leader  | Voteshare
in 2020  | General seats won in 2020 | Seats before election

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| SLPP | Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ
இலங்கை பொதுஜன முன்னணி |  | Neoconservatism
Sinhalese nationalism
Right-wing populism | Mahinda Rajapaksa | 59.09%  |

145 / 225

106 / 225

| SJB | Samagi Jana Balawegaya
සමගි ජනබලවේගය
ஐக்கிய மக்கள் சக்தி |  | Liberal conservatism
Social democracy | Sajith Premadasa | 23.90%  |

54 / 225

59 / 225

| PA | People's Alliance
පොදු ජන එක්සත් පෙරමුණ
மக்கள் கூட்டணி  |  | Big tent | Chandrika Kumaratunga | New | N/A  |
| NPP | National People's Power
ජාතික ජන බලවේගය
தேசிய மக்கள் சக்தி |  | Communism
Anti-imperialism | Anura Kumara Dissanayake | 3.84%  |

3 / 225

3 / 225

| TNA | Tamil National Alliance
දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය
தமிழ்த் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பு | —  | Tamil nationalism
Federalism | R. Sampanthan | 2.82%  |

10 / 225

10 / 225

## Opinion polls[edit]

### Nationwide[edit]

Date  | Polling firm  | SLPP | SJB | NPP | UNP | ITAK | Others | Lead  | Margin
of error  | Sample
size  | Undecided/
Non-voters[i]

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March 2024  | Institute for Health Policy | 8%  | 38% | 35%  | 5%  | 5%  | 9%  | 3%  | ±2.0–3.5%  | 506
January 2024  | Institute for Health Policy | 8%  | 30%  | 40% | 6%  | 4%  | 12%  | 3%  | ±2.0–3.5%  | 506
December 2023  | Institute for Health Policy | 10%  | 27%  | 39% | 6%  | 3%  | 15%  | 12%  | ±2.0–3.5%  | 14,941
January 2023  | Institute for Health Policy | 8%  | 31%  | 32% | 9%  | 5%  | 15%  | 1%  | ±2.0–3.5%  | 724

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ This column lists the percentage of undecided voters and non-voters in certain polls that publish this data. As some polls do not publish any data whatsoever on undecided voters and non-voters, the columns with survey participants that had a preference when polled are all that is needed to reach 100%. In surveys that do include data on non-voters and undecided voters, a scaling factor is applied to the margin of error and the rest of the data (for example, if the number of undecideds and non-voters equals 20%, each party would have their vote share scaled up by a factor of 100/80 (the formula is 100/(100 - Undecided Percentage)). This is done to keep consistency between the different polls and the different types of data they provide.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Presidential, parliamentary elections to be held in 2024: Sri Lankan president-Xinhua".

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