For the first time in
Sri Lanka's history, election officials begin a second round of vote counting. In the first round,
National People's Power candidate
Anura Kumara Dissanayake led with 42.31% of the vote counted, while
opposition leader and
United People's Power candidate
Sajith Premadasa took second place with 32.76%. Incumbent
President Ranil Wickremesinghe came in third place with 17% of the vote. Following the counting of second and third preferences, Dissanayake is declared president-elect by the
election commission.