(24News) The first phase of the presidential elections in Sri Lanka has been completed, but this phase was not decisive because no presidential candidate could get 50% of the votes in this phase.
After 50% of the votes were not received in the first phase of the presidential election, the second phase of vote counting has been started. Dasanayake led with 39 percent of the votes, while opposition leader Sajath Prem Dasa got 34 percent, with no candidate reaching 50 percent of the vote count and entering the next phase, which will be recounted.
How will the second phase of counting of votes be?
Looking at the ballot paper used in the Sri Lankan presidential election, it is slightly different from the voting pattern used in other countries. , but if you want to vote for more than one candidate, you can preferentially vote for number one, 2 and 3.
The importance of preferential votes cast in an election increases when a candidate does not get 50% of the votes in the first phase and it is seen which candidate the candidate has given second preference to.
It should be noted that after the worst economic crisis of 2022 in Sri Lanka, the polling of the first presidential election was held yesterday, in which the turnout was 76 percent. Law and order situation was maintained during the counting of votes, but the curfew is still in place after the second phase of voting started.
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2024-09-22 14:57:23