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2001 Sri Lankan parliamentary election

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All 225 seats in theParliament of Sri Lanka 113 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout	76.03%
First party Second party   Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe Chandrika Kumaratunga Party UNF PA Leader since 1994 1994 Leader's seat Colombo District n/a Last election 40.22%, 89 seats 45.11%, 107 seats Seats won 109 77 Seat change 20 30 Popular vote 4,086,026 3,330,815 Percentage 45.62% 37.19% Swing 5.40% 7.92%   Third party Fourth party   JVP Leader Somawansa Amarasinghe Rajavarothiam Sampanthan Party JVP TNA Leader since 1990 2001 Leader's seat n/a Trincomalee District Last election 6.00%, 10 seats Did not exist Seats won 16 15 Seat change 6 New party Popular vote 815,353 348,164 Percentage 9.10% 3.89% Swing 3.10% New party
Winners of polling divisions. UNF ingreen and PA inblue.
Prime Minister before election Ratnasiri Wickremanayake People's Alliance Prime Minister-designate Ranil Wickremesinghe United National Front

Parliamentary elections were held inSri Lanka on 5 December 2001, just a little over a year after theprevious elections in October 2000.

ThePeople's Alliance (PA) government faced a blow when most of theSLMC MPs left the coalition. PresidentChandrika Kumaratunga tried to recruit theJVP to replace it, but this angered several PA MPs, thirteen of which defected to the opposition. Ano-confidence motion was prepared; to forestall this, Kumaratunga called the election.

More than 1,300 incidents of election violence were reported during the campaign.^[1] Prime MinisterRatnasiri Wickremanayake was nearly killed by asuicide bomber. Overall, 60 people were killed in election-related violence, including 14 on polling day.^[2]

• Democratic People's Liberation Front (DFLP)
• Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP)
• People's Alliance (Bahejana Nidasa Pakhsaya, BNP), which consisted of:
  • Communist Party of Sri Lanka
  • Democratic United National Front
  • Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Sri Lanka Equal Society Party, LSSP)
  • Sri Lanka Freedom Party (Sri Lanka Nidahas Pakshaya, SLNP)
  • Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya (Sri Lanka People's Party, SLMP)
• Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People's Liberation Front, JVP)
• Sri Lanka Muslim Congress
• Tamil United Liberation Front (Tamil Vimuktasi Peramuna, TVP)
• United National Front, which consisted of:
  • United National Party (Eksath Jathika Pakshaya, UNP)
  • Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC)

The ruling People's Alliance lost the election, which saw theUnited National Front win the legislative power. UNP leaderRanil Wickremesinghe became the newprime minister.

Having the President and Prime Ministerbelong to two different parties proved to be unstable, and Parliament was dissolved again in 2004, leading to yet anothergeneral election.

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				District	National	Total
	United National Front[a]	4,086,026	45.62	96	13	109
	People's Alliance[b]	3,330,815	37.19	66	11	77
	Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	815,353	9.10	13	3	16
	Tamil National Alliance[c]	348,164	3.89	14	1	15
	Sri Lanka Muslim Congress	105,346	1.18	4	1	5
	Eelam People's Democratic Party	72,783	0.81	2	0	2
	Sinhala Heritage	50,665	0.57	0	0	0
	New Left Front	45,901	0.51	0	0	0
	Democratic People's Liberation Front	16,669	0.19	1	0	1
	United Socialist Party	9,455	0.11	0	0	0
	National Democratic Party	6,952	0.08	0	0	0
	Democratic Left Front	6,214	0.07	0	0	0
	United Lalith Front	3,851	0.04	0	0	0
	Eksath Sinhala Maha Sabha	2,771	0.03	0	0	0
	Muslim United Liberation Front	2,644	0.03	0	0	0
	Motherland People's Party	1,630	0.02	0	0	0
	Jathika Sangwardhena Peramuna	1,624	0.02	0	0	0
	Bahujana Nidahas Peramuna	1,361	0.02	0	0	0
	Liberal Party	1,152	0.01	0	0	0
	Ruhunu Janatha Party	1,089	0.01	0	0	0
	Democratic United National Front	978	0.01	0	0	0
	Sri Lanka Progressive Front	854	0.01	0	0	0
	Sri Lanka Muslim Katchi	802	0.01	0	0	0
	Sri Lanka National Front	719	0.01	0	0	0
	Socialist Equality Party	243	0.00	0	0	0
	Eksath Lanka Podujana Pakshaya	56	0.00	0	0	0
	Independents	41,752	0.47	0	0	0
Total		8,955,869	100.00	196	29	225
Valid votes		8,955,869	94.77
Invalid/blank votes		493,944	5.23
Total votes		9,449,813	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		12,428,762	76.03
Source:Election Commission

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• "Table 42b Parliament Election (Elected Members) (2001)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009. Archived fromthe original on 12 October 2010. Retrieved3 October 2010.
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