2024 Sri Lankan presidential election
2024
 
Candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe Maithripala Sirisena
Party UNP SLFP
Alliance TBA FPA
 
Candidate Sajith Premadasa Anura Kumara Dissanayaka
Party SJB JVP
Alliance SJB NPP
President before election

Ranil Wickremesinghe
UNP

 Elected President

TBA
TBA

Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka before September 2024, according to the constitution. Incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe is eligible to run for a second term.[1]

Background

Sri Lankan recent election results
Dates of elections Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
(SLPFA)		 Samagi Jana Balawegaya National People's Power Tamil National Alliance United National Party Others
Votes  % Votes  % Votes  % Votes  % Votes  % Votes  %
2019 presidential election 6,924,255 52.25% － － 418,553 3.16% － － 5,564,239 41.99%[lower-roman 1] 345,452 2.35%
2020 parliamentary election 6,853,690 59.09% 2,771,980 23.90% 445,958 3.84% 327,168 2.82% 249,435 2.15% 950,698 8.20%
Sri Lankan recent election results
2019 presidential election 2020 parliamentary election
Winners of polling divisions ■ SLPFA ■ SJB ■ TNA ■ SLFP ■ EPDP ■ Other parties
Elected members of each electoral district or municipality, gaining the highest number of votes

Candidates

Declared

Candidate Political office and constituency Date declared Notes Ref.
Maithripala Sirisena
Maithripala Sirisena (72)
Sri Lanka Freedom Party		 Former President of Sri Lanka (2015–2019)
Leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (since 2015)
Polonnaruwa		 31 January 2023 [2]

Ranil Wickremesinghe (74)
United National Party		 Current President of Sri Lanka (since 2022)
Leader of the United National Party (since 1994)
Former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1993–1994, 2001–2004, 2015–2019, 2022)		 8 April 2023 [1]

Sajith Premadasa (56)
Samagi Jana Balawegaya		 Current Leader of the Opposition (since 2019)
Leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (since 2020)
Colombo		 16 May 2023 [3]

Janaka Ratnayake (58)
Independent		 Former Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (2021–2023)
Chairman and CEO of Trillium Property Management & Services Limited (since 2014)		 24 May 2023 [4]

Anura Kumara Dissanayaka (55)
National People's Power		 Former Chief Opposition Whip (2015–2018)
Leader of the National People's Power (since 2015)
Leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (since 2014)
Colombo		 29 August 2023 [5]

Withdrew

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna

Opinion polls

Nationwide

Polling firm Date
of polling		 Link Dissanayake
NPP		 Premadasa
SJB		 Wickremesinghe
UNP		 SLPP Lead Margin
of error		 Sample
size		 Undecided/
Non-voters[lower-roman 2]
Institute for Health Policy March 2023 48% 37% 11% 4% 8% ±1–5% 3,500 13%
Institute for Health Policy July 2023 39% 33% 19% 9% 8% ±1–3% 3,500 13%

Notes

  1. ↑ New Democratic Front candidate led by the United National Party
  2. ↑ This column lists the percentage of undecided voters and non-voters in certain polls that publish this data. As some polls do not publish any data whatsoever on undecided voters and non-voters, the columns with survey participants that had a preference when polled are all that is needed to reach 100%. In surveys that do include data on non-voters and undecided voters, a scaling factor is applied to the margin of error and the rest of the data (for example, if the number of undecideds and non-voters equals 20%, each party would have their vote share scaled up by a factor of 100/80 (the formula is 100/(100-UndecidedPercentage)). This is done to keep consistency between the different polls and the different types data they provide.

References

  1. 1 2 "Ranil to contest Presidential election, hints at poll early next year - Top Story | Daily Mirror". www.dailymirror.lk. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  2. ↑ "Ex-Sri Lanka president Sirisena to run again; apologises to Catholics, compares self to Mandela". EconomyNext. 2023-01-31. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
  3. ↑ "Sajith Premadasa named as SJB Presidential Candidate". NewsWire. 2023-05-16. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  4. ↑ Siriwardana, Ajith (26 May 2023). "'All common candidates have failed, I will be people’s candidate': Janaka Ratnayake". DailyMirror. Retrieved on 26 May 2023.
  5. ↑ "JVP on the track before race is announced". Dailymirror. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  6. ↑ "Rajapaksa to seek second term as Sri Lanka crisis deepens". France 24. 19 July 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  7. ↑ "Sri Lanka President Vows to Finish Term, Won't Run for Re-Election". Bloomberg.com. 6 June 2022.
  8. ↑ "Basil will contest for President in 2024, says SLPPS Ranjith Bandara". 7 July 2021.
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