Sri Lanka
○ Presidential Election
- Term of office: 5 years
○ Parliamentary Elections
· Parliamentary
- Seats: 225
- Term of office: 5 years
· Local government
- Term of office (Provincial Council Elections): 5 years
- Term of office (Local Authority Elections): 4 years
○ Election system
· Number of polling stations: 12,845
· Opening and closing time of polling stations
- 7 am and 5 pm respectively
· Number of registered voters: 15,992,096 (2019 election)
· Voter turnout: 83.72% (2019 presidential election)
· Voting age: 18
- Presidential: Under the contingent vote system, voters may rank up to three candidates. If no candidate wins a majority in the first round of counting, ballots whose first rankings are eliminated candidates are redistributed to the next-ranked candidates on those ballots. The winner is the candidate with the most votes after this second round of counting.
- Parliamentary
1. Open list proportional representation in multi-member constituencies.
2. Parties must clear a threshold of one-eighth of votes to win seats in the respective constituency.
3. Each voter may cast three preference votes.
4. There are 22 multi-member constituencies containing 196 seats and one nationwide constituency with 29 seats
· Voting process: Verify Identity Document -> Apply ink -> Receive Ballots -> Mark Ballots -> Cast Ballots
· Counting process
1. The results of postal votes will be announced first.
2. Count ballot papers in each ballot box and transfer them to a trough.
3. The ballot papers in the trough are put on the table and sorted according to the parties/groups.
4. Marking the number of preferences obtained by each candidate on tally sheets/summary sheets and calculating the total number of preferences obtained by each candidate.