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Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka before August 2025 according to the constitution. The president has the power under the constitution to hold elections two and half years after the previous elections, which took place in August 2020.^[1]

Electoral system

The Parliament has 225 members elected for a five-year term. 196 members are elected from 22 multi-seat constituencies through a proportional representation system where each party is allocated a number of seats from the quota for each constituency according to the proportion of the total vote that party obtains in the district. The other 29 are elected from a national list, with list members appointed by party secretaries and seats allocated according to the island-wide proportional vote the party obtains.

Contesting parties

		Symbol	Claimed ideology(ies)	Leader	Voteshare in 2020	General seats won in 2020	Seats before election
SLPP	Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ இலங்கை பொதுஜன முன்னணி		Neoconservatism Sinhalese nationalism Right-wing populism	Mahinda Rajapaksa	59.09%	145 / 225	106 / 225
SJB	Samagi Jana Balawegaya සමගි ජනබලවේගය ஐக்கிய மக்கள் சக்தி		Liberal conservatism Social democracy	Sajith Premadasa	23.90%	54 / 225	59 / 225
PA	People's Alliance පොදු ජන එක්සත් පෙරමුණ மக்கள் கூட்டணி		Big tent	Chandrika Kumaratunga	New	N/A
NPP	National People's Power ජාතික ජන බලවේගය தேசிய மக்கள் சக்தி		Communism Anti-imperialism	Anura Kumara Dissanayake	3.84%	3 / 225	3 / 225
TNA	Tamil National Alliance දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය தமிழ்த் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பு	—	Tamil nationalism Federalism	R. Sampanthan	2.82%	10 / 225	10 / 225

Opinion polls

Nationwide

Date	Polling firm	SLPP	SJB	NPP	UNP	ITAK	Others	Lead	Margin of error	Sample size
Date	Polling firm							Lead	Margin of error	Sample size
April 2024	Institute for Health Policy	12%	34%	34%	5%	4%	11%	Tie	±1–4%	444
March 2024	Institute for Health Policy	8%	38%	35%	5%	5%	9%	3	±1–3%	506
February 2024	Institute for Health Policy	9%	30%	44%	4%	4%	9%	14	±1–3%	575
January 2024	Institute for Health Policy	8%	30%	40%	6%	4%	12%	10	±1.0–3.6%	506
December 2023	Institute for Health Policy	10%	27%	39%	6%	3%	15%	12	±2.0–3.5%	522
October 2023	Institute for Health Policy	5%	26%	40%	11%	4%	13%	14	±1–5%	567
September 2023	Institute for Health Policy	8%	22%	42%	13%	6%	6%	20	±1–3%	599
August 2023	Institute for Health Policy	11%	24%	30%	11%	6%	17%	6	±1–6%	556
July 2023	Institute for Health Policy	9%	24%	23%	8%	4%	33%	1	±1–3%	466
June 2023	Institute for Health Policy	9%	23%	23%	9%	5%	30%	Tie	±1–3%	506
May 2023	Institute for Health Policy	10%	26%	23%	13%	4%	23%	3	±1–5%	630
April 2023	Institute for Health Policy	6%	30%	32%	9%	4%	19%	2	±1–5%	580
March 2023	Institute for Health Policy	4%	30%	41%	6%	4%	15%	11	±2–5%	521
February 2023	Institute for Health Policy	4%	30%	43%	4%	4%	15%	13	±2–5%	421
January 2023	Institute for Health Policy	8%	31%	32%	9%	5%	15%	1	±2–3%	724
July 2022	Institute for Health Policy	18%	32%	42%	^[a]	–	8%	10	–	–
2020 election	N/A	59.1%	23.9%	3.8%	2.2%	2.8%	8.2%	35.2	N/A	N/A

Notes

^ In SJB

References

^ "Presidential, parliamentary elections to be held in 2024: Sri Lankan president-Xinhua".

[2] In SJB

[1] "Presidential, parliamentary elections to be held in 2024: Sri Lankan president-Xinhua".

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