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All 225 seats in the Parliament of Sri Lanka 113 seats were needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 63.60% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Winners of electoral districts. UNP in green and SLFP in blue. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 15 February 1989, the first since 1977. The elections that should normally have been held by 1983 had been cancelled by the 1982 referendum.