The Department of Elections announced that the United People’s Freedom Alliance has won the 2010 General Elections obtaining a total of 144 seats in the 14th Parliament.

The UPFA obtained the highest number of votes in Trincomalee and Kandy Districts at the re-polls in Kumburupiddy and Nawalapitiya held yesterday (20 April).

UPFA received a total of 339,819 votes in the Kandy District with 60.77% obtaining 8 seats while the United National Party received 192,798 votes with 34.48% obtaining 4 seats.

The UPFA won two seats at the re-poll in Trincomalee District obtaining 59,784 votes with 42.78%. United National Party and Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi won one seat each with UNP obtaining 39,691 votes and ITAK obtaining 33,268 votes with 28.40% and 23.81% respectively.

The voter turnout was 62.2% in Trincomalee while Kandy recorded a voter turnout of 53.54%.

The re-polling was peaceful yesterday according to the Department of Elections. The People’s Action for Free and Fare Election (PAFFREL), described the re-polls as ‘peaceful and uneventful’. Center for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) said that there had been significantly fewer incidents of election related violence during the re-polls.

With the final results of the re-polls, the UPFA will obtain 127 District basis seats along with 17 National basis seats; a total of 144 seats in parliament which is only 6 seats short of its target of a two-thirds majority (150 seats out of 225). It has obtained a total of 4,846,386 votes (60.33 %) island wide.

The UNP will obtain a total of 60 seats which comprise 51 on District basis and 9 on National basis. ITAK and Democratic National Alliance have won a total of 14 and 7 seats respectively.