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| Turnout | 65.85% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Winners of polling divisions. UPFA in blue, TNA in yellow and UNP in green. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Provincial council elections were held in Sri Lanka on 21 September 2013 to elect 148 members to three of the nine provincial councils in the country. 4.4 million Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election.[1] Elections to the remaining six provincial councils were not due as they had their last election in 2009 or 2012. This was the first provincial council election in the Northern Province in 25 years.[2]
The United People's Freedom Alliance's domination of Sri Lankan elections continued as expected. It retained control of two provincial councils (Central and North Western) but the Tamil National Alliance won control of the first Northern Provincial Council.
- ^ "Districts wise Details of Provincial Councils" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ^ Ranga Sirilal; Shihar Aneez (5 July 2013). "Sri Lanka to hold polls in ex-war zone for first time in 25 years". Reuters.[dead link]