REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF 22 DECEMBER 1999
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National summary      11,779,180 registered, 8,635,290 (73.3%) voted
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M D Nandana Gunathilaka               JVP        344,173   04.1
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga    BNP      4,312,157   51.1
Ranil Wickramasinghe                  EJP      3,602,748   42.7
10 others                                        176,676   02.1
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invalid 199,536 (02.3%)                        8,435,754
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BNP  Bahejana Nidasa Pakhsaya (People's Alliance)
EJP  Ekshat Jathika Pakshaya (United National Party)
JVP  Janatha Vimuktasi Peramuna (People's United Liberation Front)

The People's Alliance is a coalition of the Sri Lanka Nidahas 
Pakshaya (Sri Lanka Freedom Party), the Sri Lanka Communist Party,
the Democratic United Front, the Lanka Sama Samaja Pakshaya (Sri
Lanka Equal Society Party) and the Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya (Sri
Lanka People's Party)