AKD wins 15 out 22 districts; receives 5.6 million votes in first round

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Colombo, September 22 (Daily Mirror) Anura Kumara Dissanayake swept the 15 of the 22 districts at the end of the first round of counting at the Presidential Elections 2024.

Dissanayake topped the Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Kurunegala, Puttalam, Gampaha, Kegalle, Kandy, Matale, Colombo, Ratnapura, Kalutara, Galle, Matara, Hambatota and Moneragala districts.

Sajith Premadasa meanwhile claimed the Nuwara Eliya, Badulla, Digamadulla, Batiicaloa, Trincolmalee, Vanni and Jaffna districts.

Premadasa held onto the districts he won at the 2019 elections, while adding the Badulla district.

Dissanayake meanwhile won all but one of the 16 districts that Gotabaya Rajapaksa claimed on the way to becoming President in 2019.

Earlier the Election Commission Chairman Saman Sri Ratnayake confirmed that Dissanayake polled the most votes with 5,634,915 votes (42.31%).

Ahead of the counting of second and third preferential votes, Sajith Premadasa secured 4,363,035 votes (32.76%) and Ranil Wickremesinghe polled third with 2,299,767 votes (17.27%).

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roobarbie Sunday, 22 September 2024 05:17 PM

Congratulations Sir. Our very first People's Persident; please follow the country clean up campaign and development program based on model set by Liew Kuan Yew.

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Analyst Sunday, 22 September 2024 05:45 PM

A clear message has been given by educated, middle/upper middle class people of this country to create a better future. The party centric politics are dying and policy driven politics are emerging! While the results of North and East are obvious for ONE well known reason!

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Mohandev Sunday, 22 September 2024 05:47 PM

First SL president with a less than 50% minority vote thanks to most of '19 disgruntled voters of GR

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saman Sunday, 22 September 2024 10:31 PM

Anura Kumara, you should be happy for winning 15 districts without any alliance to any corrupt political parties in the North and East. Now you are not under obligation to any other political party. Nest step is to work towards to win at least 150 parliamentary seats during the next parliamentary election. You can do it. Wish you all the best.

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