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 ...

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.

In a historic first, Sri Lanka’s presidential election went into a second round of counting after no candidate secured over ...

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

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly COLOMBO (Reuters) -Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake and opposition leader ...

The election, contested by 38 candidates, was largely a three-way race between Dissanayake, Wickremesinghe and opposition ...

Marxist-leaning lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake is on path to becoming the next President of Sri Lanka, leading the other ...

Election Commission Chairman R M A L Rathnayake said that Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Sajith Premadasa have secured maximum ...

Sri Lanka's Election Commission Chairman, R.L.A.M. Ratnayake, announced on Sunday that a second preference count will be conducted as no candidate secured the required number of votes in the ...

The Sri Lankan presidential election is going down to the wire. For the first time in the island country's history, the vote ...