2024 Sri Lankan presidential election

2024 Sri Lankan presidential election

← 2022 21 September 2024 2029 →
 
Candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe Sajith Premadasa Anura Kumara Dissanayake
Party Independent SJB JVP
Alliance SJB NPP

 
Candidate Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe Sarath Fonseka Dilith Jayaweera
Party NDF Independent MJP

Incumbent President

Ranil Wickremesinghe
UNP



Presidential elections will be held in Sri Lanka on 21 September 2024.[1][2] Voters will elect a president for a 5-year term. Incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe is running for re-election as an independent candidate.[3][4][5] This would make him the first incumbent president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015. Other candidates include Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa and NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake.

  1. ^ "Sri Lanka presidential election set for September 21 amid ailing economy". Al Jazeera. 2024-07-26. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
  2. ^ "Sri Lanka to hold presidential election on Sept. 21". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
  3. ^ "Ranil to contest Presidential election, hints at poll early next year - Top Story | Daily Mirror". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ PTI. "President Ranil Wickremesinghe officially announces candidacy for Sri Lankan presidency". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 2024-07-28.

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