Sri Lanka General Election to be Held on 8th April 2010

Sri Lanka parliamentary elections will be held on April 8, 2010.Nominations are accepted from February 19, 2010 to February 26, 2010,according to the Gazette notification issued on Wednesday. The newly elected parliament will convene on April 22, 2010 for the innaugral session. Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was elected for a second term as the president in a presidential election held later last month, dissolved
the 225-member parliament effective midnight 9th February 2010.


General elections will be held to select 196 members of the parliament from 22 districts. The other 29 will be chosen from the national lists of political parties and/or independent groups, based on the national volumes
of votes they recived in the parliamentary election.


The current parliament was elected in 2004 completes its six-year term by April 22 and according to the Elections Act, the elections for the new parliament should be held 6-8 after the dissolution.