Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2010

14th Sri Lankan parliamentary election

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All 225 seats to the Parliament of Sri Lanka 113 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout	61.26%
First party Second party   Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa Ranil Wickremesinghe Party United People's Freedom Alliance United National Front Leader since 2005 1994 Leader's seat n/a Colombo District Last election 105 seats, 45.60% 82 seats, 37.83% Seats won 144 60 Seat change 39 22 Popular vote 4,846,388 2,357,057 Percentage 60.33% 29.34% Swing 14.73% 8.49%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Rajavarothiam Sampanthan Sarath Fonseka Party Tamil National Alliance Democratic National Alliance Leader since 2001 2010 Leader's seat Trincomalee District Colombo District Last election 22 seats, 6.84% n/a Seats won 14 7 Seat change 8 7 Popular vote 233,190 441,251 Percentage 2.90% 5.49% Swing 3.94% n/a
Winners of polling divisions. UPFA in blue, UNF in green and TNA in yellow.
Prime Minister before election Ratnasiri Wickremanayake United People's Freedom Alliance Prime Minister-designate D. M. Jayaratne United People's Freedom Alliance

Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
United People's Freedom Alliance

D. M. Jayaratne
United People's Freedom Alliance

The 2010 Sri Lankan parliamentary election was held on April 8 and April 20, 2010, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 14th Parliament. 14,088,500 Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election at 11,102 polling stations. It was the first general election held in Sri Lanka following the conclusion of the civil war which lasted 26 years.

The main parties contesting in the election were the party of Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse, the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), the main opposition United National Front (UNF) and the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) of Sarath Fonseka. President Rajapakse was previously reelected as president in January 2010.

As expected, the UPFA secured a landslide victory in the elections, buoyed by its achievement of ending the 30 year Sri Lankan Civil War by defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in May 2009. The UPFA won a large majority in the house, obtaining 144 seats, an increase of 39 since the 2004 election. The main opposition UNF is won 60 seats, a decline of 22. The minority Tamil party Tamil National Alliance (TNA) won 14 seats, down from the 22 they won in 2004, and the DNA, contesting for the first time, won 7 seats. The UPFA however fell short of its goal of obtaining a two-thirds supermajority in the house, which it would have needed to change the constitution on its own. The election saw the lowest voter turnout since independence.