When is the Sri Lanka presidential election 2029?

Polling day is 2029-08-21, not yet officially confirmed.

When will the final result of the President of the Republic race be official?

Expected between 2029-08-21T18:30:00Z and 2029-08-24T18:29:59Z (UTC), confidence precedent. Presidential Elections Act No. 15 of 1981: if a candidate has more than half the valid votes the Commissioner (now the Election Commission) declares that candidate elected (s. 56); otherwise all but the top two are eliminated, the second and third preferences on the eliminated candidates' ballots are counted (ss. 57-60), and the Commissioner 'forthwith' declares the candidate with the majority elected (s. 61). The name is published in the Gazette (s. 64(2)). There is no runoff ballot. 2024 precedent: polling on 21 Sep, the first preference count failed to produce a majority and the first ever second-preference count was held on 22 Sep; the Commission declared the result on 22 Sep 2024 (reported by 20:04 SLST, Tribune India/PTI) and gazetted it the same day (Gazette Extraordinary 2402/26). 2019: polling 16 Nov, declaration 17 Nov (Wikipedia lead, not checked against the Commission). So about one day after the close in both. The opening (start of the day after polling, local) is an ESTIMATED floor; the window closes at the end of Friday 24 Aug 2029 SLST, three days after polling, to err late for a slow preference count. Election petitions go to the Supreme Court within 21 days of the Gazette notice (Act s. 102; Constitution art. 130); they are optional, so there is no court-validation stage.

Where are the official President of the Republic results?

No single-election results page is recorded yet. The counting authority is Election Commission of Sri Lanka (https://elections.gov.lk/).

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Sri Lanka presidential election 2029

Name: Sri Lanka presidential election 2029
Start: 2029-08-21
Location: Sri Lanka

Polling day Tue, 21 Aug 2029 Date not yet official. Counted by Election Commission of Sri Lanka. Times are Colombo time; hover for UTC.

22–24 Aug 2029

Final result window, derived from the last election. Treat as final after Fri 24 Aug, 23:59 Colombo time.

Polls close: Tue 21 Aug, 16:00
First count by: Wed 22 Aug, 23:59
Counted by: Election Commission of Sri Lanka
Results page: No single-election results page yet.
Authority site: elections.gov.lk

Count stages

22 Aug23 Aug24 Aug25 Aug

Election-night count

21–22 AugElection-night count: Tue 21 Aug, 16:00 → Wed 22 Aug, 23:59, precedent.

Final result

22–24 AugFinal result: Wed 22 Aug, 00:00 → Fri 24 Aug, 23:59, precedent.

announced set by law or the authorityprecedent from the last electionestimate our estimateColombo time. Polls close in 1054 days.

Stage windows and their sources 2 stages, each cited

Election-night count
Tue 21 Aug, 16:00 → Wed 22 Aug, 23:59
precedent

Polling day is TENTATIVE: the latest date the Constitution allows. The President's term is five years (art. 30(2); the Supreme Court dismissed a petition seeking a six-year reading on 9 Jul 2024, Daily FT 10 Jul 2024). Under art. 31(4)(b), where the incumbent is not re-elected his term is deemed to expire on the date the result is declared, and the new term commences then: the 2024 result was declared on 22 Sep 2024 (Gazette Extraordinary 2402/26 of 22 Sep 2024, under s. 64(2) of the Act, as indexed by search; documents.gov.lk was unreachable on 2 Oct 2026; the President took the oath on 23 Sep), so the term expires on 22 Sep 2029. Art. 31(3): the poll must be taken not less than one month and not more than two months before that, i.e. between about 22 Jul and 21 Aug 2029; this record uses the latest day, Tuesday 21 Aug 2029. The same reading gave the 2024 window: the Commission announced on 9 May 2024 that the poll would be held 'between 17 September 2024 and 16 October 2024' for a term expiring on 17 Nov 2024 (Daily Mirror, 9 May 2024). The Commission picks the actual day by Order under s. 2 of the Presidential Elections Act (2024, per Wikipedia, not checked against the Gazette: Order of 26 Jul 2024, nominations 15 Aug, poll Saturday 21 Sep); it cannot be a Full Moon Poya day or a public holiday (s. 2(2)), and the August 2029 full moon falls about 24 Aug (estimate). The date moves earlier if the President, after four years of a first term, proclaims an early election under art. 31(3A), or if the office falls vacant (art. 40). Polls: 07:00-16:00 local unless the Commission gazettes other hours (s. 30), so close 16:00 SLST (UTC+5:30, no DST) = 10:30 UTC. The Commission releases certified postal-vote and polling-division results through the night to registered media (Results_media_2024.pdf on elections.gov.lk). 2024: first official result (Ratnapura postal votes) at 23:40 SLST on polling day (Daily Mirror, 21 Sep 2024); the Commission chairman announced the first-preference totals and ordered the second-preference count on the afternoon of 22 Sep (Outlook India/PTI, 22 Sep 2024, 15:41 IST = SLST). The window closes at the end of the day after polling, local time. Running results, not the declared result.
Replaced on the live page by the final result from Fri 24 Aug, 23:59.
Final result
Wed 22 Aug, 00:00 → Fri 24 Aug, 23:59
precedent

Presidential Elections Act No. 15 of 1981: if a candidate has more than half the valid votes the Commissioner (now the Election Commission) declares that candidate elected (s. 56); otherwise all but the top two are eliminated, the second and third preferences on the eliminated candidates' ballots are counted (ss. 57-60), and the Commissioner 'forthwith' declares the candidate with the majority elected (s. 61). The name is published in the Gazette (s. 64(2)). There is no runoff ballot. 2024 precedent: polling on 21 Sep, the first preference count failed to produce a majority and the first ever second-preference count was held on 22 Sep; the Commission declared the result on 22 Sep 2024 (reported by 20:04 SLST, Tribune India/PTI) and gazetted it the same day (Gazette Extraordinary 2402/26). 2019: polling 16 Nov, declaration 17 Nov (Wikipedia lead, not checked against the Commission). So about one day after the close in both. The opening (start of the day after polling, local) is an ESTIMATED floor; the window closes at the end of Friday 24 Aug 2029 SLST, three days after polling, to err late for a slow preference count. Election petitions go to the Supreme Court within 21 days of the Gazette notice (Act s. 102; Constitution art. 130); they are optional, so there is no court-validation stage.

Results sources 5 pages, 0 can answer a results question

URL	Role	Kind	Can answer a results question	Last check
elections.gov.lk/en/elections/results_pre_E.html	results-live	results index	no (results section without an election code)	not checked yet
parliament.lk/files/pdf/constitution.pdf	timetable	other	no (no election or results marker)	not checked yet
elections.gov.lk/web/wp-content/uploads/publication/acts/15-1981_E.pdf	timetable	other	no (election page without a results marker)	not checked yet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election	see-also	other	no (election page without a results marker)	not checked yet
elections.gov.lk	authority-home	emb home	no (site root: cannot answer a results question)	not checked yet

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Global Election Index, “Sri Lanka presidential election 2029”, https://electionindex.org/election/sri-lanka-presidential-2029, dataset 2026-10-02.be7d6f40. CC BY 4.0.

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Provenance: researcher agent 2026-10-02: Constitution of Sri Lanka arts. 30-31, 40 (parliament.lk revised edition 2023); Presidential Elections Act No. 15 of 1981 ss. 2, 30, 55-64, 102 (elections.gov.lk, OCR of scanned PDF); Election Commission results index and 2024 presidential election page (elections.gov.lk); Gazette Extraordinary 2402/26 (via search index, documents.gov.lk unreachable); Daily FT 10 Jul 2024, Daily Mirror 9 May and 21 Sep 2024, Tribune India 22 Sep 2024 (CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)). Last verified 2026-10-02.

Questions and answers

When is the Sri Lanka presidential election 2029?: Polling day is 2029-08-21, not yet officially confirmed.
When will the final result of the President of the Republic race be official?: Expected between 2029-08-21T18:30:00Z and 2029-08-24T18:29:59Z (UTC), confidence precedent. Presidential Elections Act No. 15 of 1981: if a candidate has more than half the valid votes the Commissioner (now the Election Commission) declares that candidate elected (s. 56); otherwise all but the top two are eliminated, the second and third preferences on the eliminated candidates' ballots are counted (ss. 57-60), and the Commissioner 'forthwith' declares the candidate with the majority elected (s. 61). The name is published in the Gazette (s. 64(2)). There is no runoff ballot. 2024 precedent: polling on 21 Sep, the first preference count failed to produce a majority and the first ever second-preference count was held on 22 Sep; the Commission declared the result on 22 Sep 2024 (reported by 20:04 SLST, Tribune India/PTI) and gazetted it the same day (Gazette Extraordinary 2402/26). 2019: polling 16 Nov, declaration 17 Nov (Wikipedia lead, not checked against the Commission). So about one day after the close in both. The opening (start of the day after polling, local) is an ESTIMATED floor; the window closes at the end of Friday 24 Aug 2029 SLST, three days after polling, to err late for a slow preference count. Election petitions go to the Supreme Court within 21 days of the Gazette notice (Act s. 102; Constitution art. 130); they are optional, so there is no court-validation stage.
Where are the official President of the Republic results?: No single-election results page is recorded yet. The counting authority is Election Commission of Sri Lanka (https://elections.gov.lk/).