Final results of polls released

[TamilNet, Thursday, 12 October 2000, 10:23 GMT]
Sri Lanka's Commissioner of Elections Wednesday officially announced the results of the elections to Parliament following the delay in the counting of votes in the Kandy district where widespread rigging was reported.

According to the final figures released by him the People's Alliance (PA) has 107 seats, the United National Party (UNP) 89, the JVP 10, the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) 5, National Unity Alliance (NUA) 4, Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) 4, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) 3 and the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC) 1, Independent group II Digamadulla (EPDP) 1. The Sinhala nationalist party 'Sihala Urumaya' (SU) won a seat on the basis of the total votes it polled island wide.

General Election, 2000
Parties	Votes	Percentage	No.seats (electoral)	No. of seats (national)	Total seats
PA	3,900,910	45,10%	94	13	107
UNP	3,477,770	40,21%	77	12	89
JVP	518,774	5,99%	08	02	10
NUA	197,983	2,28%	03	01	04
SU	127,863	1,47%	00	01	01
TULF	106,033	1,22%	05	00	05
EPDP	50,890	0,58%	04	00	04
TELO	26,112	0,30%	03	00	03
ACTC	27,323	0,31%	01	00	01
IND-2	31,748	0,38%	01	00	01
Total			196	29	225