Voting Of The Parliamentary Election Began This Morning

 The voting of  the Parliamentary Election to elect 196 members for the 225 member Parliament(29 are elected through the National list) has begun at 7 a.m this morning(05) in 12,985 poling stations located at 160 Electoral divisions of 22 districts  and continues  till 5 p.m this evening according to the National Election Commission.

Today 's election is being held according to  Corona prevention  health guidelines and 7542 contestants from 20 recognised political parties and 34 Indepedent Groups are contesting the election. A total of 162,63,885 voters are being eligible to vote on this election. 

 The highest number of voters who are eligible to vote in this election are being located at Gampaha District and the lowest number of voters are in Vanni District. Two Former President's, A former Prime Minister as well as two sons of former Prime Minister and two sons of former Presidents are among those contesting in this election.  

One hour from 4 -5 pm this evening will be allocated for those Corona positives who are discharged from Hospitals after full recovery and under self quarantine to vote in this election. 

The counting of this election will begin tomorrow (06) morning and results are expected to issue before midnight tomorrow the Election Commission has announced.