Sri Lanka presidential election 2024: President of the Republic

Final count

Turnout 79.5%: 13,619,916 ballots from 17,140,354 registered voters.

Rows are FIRST-PREFERENCE votes for all 38 candidates, names and party abbreviations as the Commission writes them ('IND' followed by a number is an independent group). Valid votes 13,319,616 (97.8%), rejected 300,300 (2.2%), polled 13,619,916 (79.46% turnout), registered electors 17,140,354. No candidate won more than half the valid votes, so a second-preference count was held between the top two (Act ss. 57-61). Final result (All_Island_Final_Votes.pdf, signed 22 Sep 2024 19:40 SLST): ANURA KUMARA DISSANAYAKE 5,634,915 + 105,264 preferences = 5,740,179, declared elected; SAJITH PREMADASA 4,363,035 + 167,867 = 4,530,902; 273,131 preferences counted in all. Published by Election Commission of Sri Lanka, 'All Island Result - Without Preferences' and 'Final Result', Presidential Election 2024/09/21 (signed 22 Sep 2024), 22 Sept 2024: elections.gov.lk/web/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/PRE_2024_Results/All_Island_Result.pdf. Official publication of the Election Commission of Sri Lanka; no reuse terms stated (the site footer carries only '© Election Commission of Sri Lanka', no licence or terms page; checked 3 Oct 2026 on https://elections.gov.lk/ and https://elections.gov.lk/si/elections/PRE_2024_Results.html). Intellectual Property Act No. 36 of 2003, s. 8(b): no copyright protection 'to any official text of a legislative, administrative, or legal nature' (as quoted by lankalaw.net; the Act's text was not read).