Offcals results of PC election East, May 2008

POLITICAL PARTY/ INDEPENDENT GROUP VOTES OBTAINED/  PERCENTAGE /SEATS
UNITED PEOPLE’S FREEDOM ALLIANCE           308,886,              52.21%         *20
UNITED NATIONAL PARTY                              250,732,              42.38%         15
PEOPLE’S LIBERATION FRONT                          9,390                   1.59              1
TAMIZH DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL ALLIANCE  7,714                   1.30              1
EELAM PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY            5,418                    0.92 
UNITED SOCIALIST PARTY                              2,548                    0.43 
EELAVAR DEMOCRATIC FRONT                      2,275                    0.38 
UNITED NATIONAL ALLIANCE                        579                       0.10 
PEOPLE’S FRONT OF LIBERATION TIGERS        383                       0.06 
AKILA ILANKAI TAMIL UNITED FRONT            [...]

eastern PC election, most corrupt -UNP

Polls for the Eastern Provincial Council will go down in the country’s election history as the most corrupt of its kind, the United National Party has said.
Irrespective of the outcome, the UNP will go to courts against the election, the party’s General Secretary Tissa Attanayake said in a statement.
All three districts to the election experienced [...]

Eastern Provincial Council polls, a daylight robbery - JVP

JVP’s Wimal Piyatissa has described the Eastern Provincial Council polls as a daylight robbery of votes.
“The election was held at a time when the people of the east or the rest of the country did not expect it. Whatever the government says, terrorism has not been wiped out from the east. An election held in [...]

Eastern Provincial Council Election - 2008- CMEV statement

Media Communiqué on Election-related Violence,10th May 2008 - 14.30 hrs - Media Communiqué 2
CMEV has received 25 complaints of election related violence, today 10 May 2008, polling day in the Eastern Provincial Council Election. Of these, eighteen (1 fall into the category of Major Offences. The offences in the latter category include Murder, Attempted [...]