Sajith Premadasa’s Samagi Jana Balawegaya was a distant second with around 10 percent of the vote. The New Democratic Front ...

Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, who had campaigned to take part in a coalition government, vowed in his final campaign ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's promise to hold corrupt officials accountable has fueled his public support.

Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election that's key for their new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his ...

The NPP’s main opponents are the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, led by Sajith Premadasa, and the New Democratic Front, supported by ...

Sri Lanka on Thursday (Nov. 14) voted in snap parliamentary elections, in which the new leftist President Anura Kumara ...

Sri Lankans began voting on Thursday in a snap general election to decide if the Indian Ocean island nation will give its new ...

Sri Lankans began voting on Thursday in a snap Parliamentary election, widely seen as an attempt by new Leftist President ...

A total of 8,821 candidates are competing for these 196 seats. Dissanayake’s NPP is facing stiff competition from Sajith ...

With Sri Lanka's economic recovery hanging in balance, President Dissanayake hopes voters give him a strong mandate for his ...

(Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka began counting votes in a parliamentary election that will decide whether the nation’s outsider leftist president will be able to fulfill his ambitious pledges to combat ...