PC Poll: Final Results

According to unofficial reports .....preferential votes for Dayasiri exceed 3 lakhs
North to ITAK
Sarath Fonseka ... third power
 1 seat for JVP
Outstanding victory for UPFA from NW and Central

       The official results of PC elections of North, Central and NW have been declared by now. As such the UPFA had clinched a victory in Central and NW PC while ITAK has won the PC elections in the North.

       ITAK managed to secure 30 seats and the MC 1 seat in the North; while the ITAK has got close to 4 lakhs of votes which is a special point of interest that UPFA has been able to secure 82000 votes. In the Central Province PC the UPFA was able to get 36 seats and the UNP 16 seats while the Democratic Party which supported Sarath Fonseka was able to win 2 seats.

      The Lanka Labour Congress won 2 seats and the SLMC and the Kandurata Janatha Peramuna secured 1 seat each.

       UPFA secured 34 seats, UNP 12 seats and DP which supported Sarath Fonseka won 3 seats; the UPFA thereby amassed a total of 7 lakhs votes with UNP collecting about 2 lakhs votes.

       The DP had received almost 46000 votes. Thus, they have secured 3 seats in NW with 2 seats to MC and 1 seat to JVP.

       It was ITAK that won all votes as well as postal votes on a seat-level in the North at this election. Leaders who represented the Tamil people instead of turning towards war had symbolically displayed their decision for democracy by casting a percentage of 67.52 votes and for a number of decades a voting system of such a nature had not been seen in the history of the North.

      Though democratic rights were withdrawn from Sarath Fonseka, he had given his support for this election on behalf of the DP and had made public speeches resulting in coming to the forefront as a power securing 3 seats from NW and 2 seats from Central Province. Thus the DP was able to collect 46114 votes from NW and 45239 from Central Province. In the North they were able to get only 170 votes.

      It is a point of interest to note that the JVP was able to secure only 1 seat at this election. They secured 19624 votes in NW, thus resulting in winning 1 seat. They received 13887 votes in the Central Province and it was as a summary about 1.17 percent of the entire election results, but failed to secure a seat. In the North they were able to get only 288 votes.

     While results of the preferential votes are still being received, though Dayasiri Jayasekera has got an outstanding win from the battle with Johnston's son Johan, it is reported that official results have still not been announced. Unofficial results say that Dayasiri has received over 3 lakhs preferential votes while Johan has received one and a half lakhs votes; thus becoming second on that list.

    Panduwasnuwara which was the seat of Dayasiri when he was with the UNP and also where he functioned as the organiser of that party was won over by uPFA this time with almost 40000 votes while UNP lost about 4000 votes and thus receiving one-tenths is considered a special victory.