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Winners of polling divisions. PA in blue and UNP in green. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The elections were called by President Chandrika Kumaratunga for October 24, 2000.
The People's Alliance (PA) government Kumaratunga had led for six years was facing increasing criticism on two fronts: a series of military defeats at the hands of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the country's civil war, and the faltering performance of the economy.
The elections were marred by violence. Seventy people were killed during the campaign, including six on election day itself. [1]. Both the UNP and SLMC parties accused the PA of election fraud and intimidation.
As was the case for most elections since 1983, few ballots were cast in LTTE-held parts of the country.
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The PA remained in office but lost its majority. The resulting deadlock led to the 2001 election.
Alliances and parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
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District | National | Total | ||||||
People's Alliance | 3,900,901 | 45.11 | 94 | 13 | 107 | |||
United National Party
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3,477,770 | 40.22 | 77 | 12 | 89 | |||
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 518,774 | 6.00 | 8 | 2 | 10 | |||
Tamil United Liberation Front | 106,033 | 1.23 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |||
National Unity Alliance | 197,983 | 2.29 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
Eelam People's Democratic Party | 50,890 | 0.59 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |||
Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization | 26,112 | 0.30 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||
Sinhala Heritage | 127,863 | 1.48 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
Independents | 67,288 | 0.78 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
All Ceylon Tamil Congress | 27,323 | 0.32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
New Left Front | 32,275 | 0.37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Ceylon Workers' Congress1 | 23,013 | 0.27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Democratic People's Liberation Front | 20,848 | 0.24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Others | 70,595 | 0.82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Valid Votes | 8,647,668 | 100.00 | 196 | 29 | 225 | |||
Rejected Votes | 481,155 | |||||||
Total Polled | 9,128,823 | |||||||
Registered Electors | 12,071,062 | |||||||
Turnout | 75.63% | |||||||
Source: Department of Elections, Sri Lanka 1. CWC contested with the PA in three districts (Kurunegala, Nuwara Eliya and Ratnapura) and separately in all other districts. 2. SLMC contested with the PA in two districts (Ampara and Trincomalee) and with the NUA in all other districts. |
Results of the 2000 Sri Lankan general election by province
Results of the 2000 Sri Lankan general election by electoral district
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