COLOMBO -- Sri Lanka's National People's Power (NPP) party, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, won Thursday's parliamentary election in a landslide, paving the way for the new president to push his policies.
The NPP secured 159 seats in the 225-member legislature, or 70% of the total, according to the final result released Friday by the Election Commission of Sri Lanka, marking a seismic shift in voter sentiment for a party that held only three seats in the parliament before the election. Out of 225 seats, 196 are contested across the nation's 22 districts under a proportional representation system, which allocates seats to parties based on the number of votes obtained in each district. The remaining 29 are distributed to parties based on the nationwide vote count.
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