The election commission of Sri Lanka on Sunday ordered the counting of the second preference vote after no candidate secured ...

Sri Lanka has gone to a second round of vote counting after none of the candidates met the 50 per cent plus one vote threshold required to win the presidency. President Ranil Wickremesinghe in a shock ...

Sri Lanka is set to get its new president after a historic turn of events which led to a second round of counting of votes as ...

Marxist-leaning politician Dissanayake leads as second round of counting under way to decide the presidential winner.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's leading presidential candidate and Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayaka's party has said that it will ...

In Sri Lanka, counting of votes is underway after the polling for Presidential elections held on Saturday. According to the unofficial results so far, Leftist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake is ...

The Marxist has campaigned on a pro-working class and anti-elite platform, which has proven popular with young people.

Dissanayake, 55, leads the left-leaning coalition National People’s Power, an umbrella of civil society groups, professionals, Buddhist clergy and students.

In an unexpected turn of events, Sri Lanka polls, Elections Commission Chairman RLAM Ratnayake announced a second preference count. This decision came after early trends showed Anura Kumara ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake was leading Sri Lanka’s presidential election after knocking out the incumbent ...

There are 17 million eligible voters, and final results are expected today. They will show whether Sri Lankans approve of ...

Sri Lanka’s presidential election has gone into a second round of vote counting for the first time in history as the ...