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Post by markgoodair on Sept 21, 2024 7:10:37 GMT
Today Sri Lanka goes to the polls to elect a new President.
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Post by markgoodair on Sept 22, 2024 10:11:40 GMT
For the first time in history the Presidential election was will go to a second round as no one candidate got over 50% of the vote .
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Post by johnloony on Sept 22, 2024 13:42:31 GMT
For the first time in history the Presidential election was will go to a second round as no one candidate got over 50% of the vote . As I understand it, they use a limited form of AV in which the voter is allowed to express up to three preferences, and the election goes to two rounds with only the top two candidates in the second round. They used to use SV, with the voter only allowed to express 2 preferences, but (as you say) it never got to a second round before anyway. ( Apart from electing Mayors and PCCs in the UK, and the President in Sri Lanka, SV was only ever used for a few local elections in some states or counties or cities in the USA and Australia in the 1920s and 1930s. As far as I can tell, SV (under different names) was invented independently in each case, and was never consciously copied by one country from another) |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Sept 22, 2024 18:40:36 GMT
Not sure, everyThing is counted - but the FarLefty has obviously won. (The forum's lefties shouldn't be too jubilant, though: He is mostly the heir of Rajapaksa or at least SLPP: a socialist/communist, but also a nationalist).
As the 2 candidates from the (ex)UNP-camp had on their own received 50% (contrary to his 42%), i expected it to be close in the runOff.
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Post by Georg Ebner on Sept 22, 2024 21:51:02 GMT
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Post by Georg Ebner on Sept 22, 2024 22:07:29 GMT
Not 300,000 voters transferred their vote to one of the two finalists.
The inCumbent, finishing on third place, alone would have received 2,3m.
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Sept 23, 2024 21:52:04 GMT
Not sure, everyThing is counted - but the FarLefty has obviously won. (The forum's lefties shouldn't be too jubilant, though: He is mostly the heir of Rajapaksa or at least SLPP: a socialist/communist, but also a nationalist). As the 2 candidates from the (ex)UNP-camp had on their own received 50% (contrary to his 42%), i expected it to be close in the runOff. Hopefully he should be able to build bridges with the Tamil community around Jaffna at the very least, though. |
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