Sri Lanka President Election Result: The Counting of votes for the Presidential election has been going on since this morning in India's neighboring country Sri Lanka. By evening, the counting of the Presidential election was completed, and the name of the winner was announced. After an unprecedented second round of counting in the Sri Lankan Presidential election, the Election Commission has declared Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as the winner. 56-year-old Dissanayake, the candidate of the National People's Power (NPP), a broad front of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Party, defeated his nearest rival Sajith Premadasa of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB).

Dissanayake will take oath as President on Monday.

The National People's Party (NPP) said that Dissanayake will take oath as President on Monday, 23 September. Dissanayake will be the ninth President of Sri Lanka. No election in Sri Lanka has ever reached the second round of counting. Because a candidate has always emerged victorious based on first-preference votes.

But the Election Commission had ordered a second round of counting because no candidate had secured more than 50 percent of the votes required to be declared the winner in Saturday's election. Later, the Sri Lankan Election Commission started the second round of counting and declared the results.

Know who is Anura Dissanayake?

Let us tell you that Dissanayake was born to a laborer away from Colombo. He studied in local schools and became the first person to get admission to the university from his college. During his schooling, he joined the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). Then he got fully involved in politics during the JVP rebellion of 1987-1989.

Anura rose rapidly in the JVP and later became a prominent figure in the party's leadership. He was then appointed national organizer of the Socialist Students' Association in 1995. He then joined the JVP's Central Working Committee. Dissanayake then became an MP for the first time in 2000,

Sri Lanka holds first presidential election since economic crisis.

A day earlier, Sri Lankan citizens voted to elect a new president in the polling held on Saturday (September 21). About 75 percent of the voters exercised their franchise in the presidential election. This was the first election in Sri Lanka after the economic crisis of 2022. More than 83 percent of voting was recorded in the presidential election held in November 2019.