Interesting points on today's election results

9 Aug 2009

Why UPFA lost in Vavunia even when winning whole Eeastern province and Jaffna?

• Vavunia is the capital of INGO activities of Sri Lanka. People of Vavunia is highly influenced by INGO activities (campaigning, direct and inderect earnings etc..). Therefore until INGO agents are active and spending Krones, Pounds and Dollars in Vavunia, they will decide the political direction of the area.

Uva Provincial council election:

For UNP -

• UNP only managed to get 129,144 votes (22.32%) of total votes in Uva province while UPFA get mammoth 418,906 votes (72.39%)
• UPFA won 25 out of tatal of 34 seats of the Provincial council. This is well over 2/3 of the seats even with propotianate voteing system.
  
• UNP (Ranil Wickramasinghe) won the Badulla district in last presidential election, but lost this time in huge margin.
• UNP managed to von only 9.9 % of while UPFA secured 87% of postal vote in Monaragala. This clearly shows government servents have full faith with UPFA government and no longer support UNP.
• Total number of the UNP votes in Monaragala district is less than the individual count of votes for UPFA in any of individual electorate in Monaragala district

For JVP-

• Considering the pathetic defeat of UNP, JVP could have easily become the second force in Monaragala district if they did not derail from progressive politics. Unfortunately, it happend to be a lost-lost situation for both UNP and JVP.

For UPFA-

• Mr. Sashindra Rajapaksa has won the higest percentage of the total preferential votes in Sri Lankan election history.
• While only ardent UNP supporters voting for UNP and only ardent carders of JVP voting for JVP, the majority common people have collectively accept and supported Mahinda Chinthanaya.
  

References:
- http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pro08082009.htm