List of political parties in Sri Lanka
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This article lists political parties in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party. In the last decades, the United National Party and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party have been the largest parties by far. The general rule, however, has become coalition politics, since neither SLFP nor UNP are able to gather parliamentary majorities. Tamil areas are generally dominated by Tamil parties.
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[edit] Alliances
[edit] Parliamentary alliances
[edit] Extra-Parliamentary alliances
| Alliance |
Symbol |
Members |
Founded |
Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Left Front (formerly New Left Front) (aka Left Liberation Front) |
Umbrella | Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Alternative Group) National Democratic Movement Nava Sama Samaja Party New Democratic Party |
1998 | Vikramabahu Karunaratne |
| Democratic Tamil National Alliance (aka Tamil Democratic National Alliance) |
Brass Lamp | Democratic People's Liberation Front (PLOTE) Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (Padmanaba wing) Tamil United Liberation Front |
Veerasingham Anandasangaree | |
| Tamil National People's Front |
Bicycle | All Ceylon Tamil Congress | 2010 | Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam |
[edit] Alliances within major alliances
| Alliance |
Symbol |
Members |
Founded |
Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People's Alliance (Sinhala: Janatha Sandhanaya) |
Chair | All members joined UPFA in 2004 | 1994 | |
| Socialist Alliance | Clay Lamp | Communist Party of Sri Lanka Democratic Left Front Desha Vimukthi Janatha Pakshaya Lanka Sama Samaja Party Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya All members are members of UPFA and the alliance supports UPFA. |
[edit] Parties
[edit] Parliamentary parties
[edit] Other registered parties
| Party | Symbol | Alliance | Founded | Leader | Ideology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akila Ilankai Tamil United Front | Orange | 2005 | K. Vigneswaran | ||
| All Are Citizens All Are Kings Organization (Sinhala: Okkoma Wasiyo Okkoma Rajawaru Sanvidanaya) |
Till | ||||
| All Ceylon Tamil Congress | Bicycle | TNPF | 1944 | Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam | Tamil Nationalism |
| Ceylon Democratic Unity Alliance | Fish | 2002 | T.V. Chennan | ||
| Democratic People's Front | Ladder | Mano Ganesan | |||
| Democratic People's Liberation Front (political wing of People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam) |
Anchor | DTNA | 1988 | D. Siddarthan | |
| Democratic United National Front (Sinhala: Prajathanthravadi Eksath Jathika Peramuna) |
Eagle | DNA | 1990 | Ariyawansa Dissanayake | |
| Democratic Unity Alliance | Two Leaves | ||||
| Desha Vimukthi Janatha Pakshaya (English: National Liberation People's Party) |
Ear of Paddy | UPFA | 1988 | ||
| Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front | Bull | 1987 | |||
| Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (Padmanaba wing), previously Varatharaja wing |
Candle | DTNA | 2000 | T. Sridharan Varatharaja Perumal |
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| Eelavar Democratic Front (political wing of Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students) |
Plough | UPFA | |||
| Green Party | Goblet | ||||
| Janasetha Peramuna | Tractor | ||||
| Muslim Liberation Front | Butterfly | ||||
| Muslim National Alliance | Pair of Scales | ||||
| National Development Front (Sinhala: Jathika Sangwardhena Peramuna) |
Coconut | UNF | Achala Asoka Suraweera | ||
| National Peoples Party | Electric Bulb | ||||
| Nava Sama Samaja Party (English: New Equal Society Party) |
Table | LF | 1977 | Vikramabahu Karunaratne | |
| New Democratic Front | Swan | Shamila Perera | |||
| New Sinhala Heritage (Sinhala: Nava Sihala Urumaya) |
Bow & Arrow | 2006 | Sarath Manamendra | ||
| Our National Front (Sinhala: Ape Jathika Peramuna) |
Telephone | UNF | 2009 | Upulangani Malagamuwa | |
| Patriotic National Front (Sinhala: Desha Premi Jathika Peramuna) |
Flag | UPFA | Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism | ||
| People's Front of Liberation Tigers | Tiger | 1989 | |||
| People's Liberation Solidarity Front (Sinhala: Janatha Vimukthi Sahayogitha Peramuna) |
Lantern | UPFA | 1997 | Kamal Karunadasa | |
| Ruhuna People's Party (Sinhala: Ruhunu Janatha Party) |
Motor Car | UPFA | Aruna de Zoysa | ||
| Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya (English: The Great Consensus Party of the Sons of the Soil of Sinhala) |
Aeroplane | UPFA | Harischandra Wijayatunga | Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism | |
| Socialist Equality Party (Sinhala: Samajavadi Samanathmatha Pakshaya) (formerly Revolutionary Communist League) |
Pair of Scissors | 1968 | |||
| Sri Lanka Labour Party | Kangaroo | ||||
| Sri Lanka National Front (Sinhala: Sri Lanka Jathika Peramuna) |
Cricket Bat | UPFA | Wimal Geeganage | ||
| Sri Lanka People's Party (Sinhala: Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya) |
Eye | UPFA | 1984 | ||
| Sri Lanka Progressive Front (Sinhala: Sri Lanka Pragathishili Peramuna) |
Flower Vase | UPFA | 1996 | J.A. Peter Nelson Perera | |
| Sri Lanka Vanguard Party (Sinhala: Sri Lanka Peratugami Pakshaya) |
Envelop | ||||
| Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (English: Tamil People's Liberation Tigers) |
Boat | UPFA | 1984 | Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan | |
| Tamil United Liberation Front (formerly Tamil United Front) |
Sun |
DTNA | 1972 | Veerasingham Anandasangaree | Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism |
| United Democratic Front | Rabbit | ||||
| United Lanka Great Council (Sinhala: Eksath Lanka Maha Sabha) |
Fountain Pen | Nath Amarakone | |||
| United Lanka People's Party (Sinhala: Eksath Lanka Podujana Pakshaya) |
Cup | ||||
| United National Alternative Front (Sinhala: Eksath Jathika Vikalpa Peramuna) |
Gate | 2000 | |||
| United Socialist Party | Tri-shaw | 1989 |
[edit] Unregistered parties
| Party | Alliance | Founded | Leader | Ideology |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aziz Democratic Workers Congress | ||||
| Bahujana Nidahas Peramuna (English: Mass Freedom Front) |
1991 | |||
| Communist Party (Peking wing) | 1964 | |||
| Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Alternative Group) | LF | |||
| Left and Democratic Alliance | ||||
| Muslim United Liberation Front | ||||
| National Democratic Movement (Sinhala: Jathika Prajathanthravadi Pakshaya) |
LF | |||
| New Democratic Party | LF | 1991 | ||
| People's Tamil Congress | DNA | L. P. Shanmuganathan | ||
| Revolutionary Workers Party | 1968 | |||
| Socialist Party | 2006 | |||
| United Muslim Peoples's Alliance | ||||
| United National Alliance (Sinhala: Eksath Jathika Sandhanaya) |
UNF | Shamila Perera | ||
| Workers' Liberation Front | UPFA | Santhanam Arulsamy |
[edit] Defunct parties
| Party |
Symbol/ Logo/ Flag |
Founded |
Dissolved |
Ideology |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Ceylon Islamic United Front | 1960 | |||
| Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma (renamed Bolshevik Samasamaja Party) |
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| Bolshevik Samasamaja Party (absorbed by Lanka Sama Samaja Party) |
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| Federal Party (merged with others to form Tamil United Front) |
House |
1949 | 1972 | Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism |
| Lanka Prajathanthravadi Pakshaya (English: Ceylon Democratic Party) (absorbed by Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party) |
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| Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary) | 1964 | |||
| Muslim National Unity Alliance (absorbed by Sri Lanka Freedom Party) |
Pigeon | 2000 | 2010 | |
| National Alliance (Sinhala: Jathika Sandanaya) |
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| National Liberation Front (Sinhala: Jathika Vimukthi Peramuna) |
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| Sinhala Heritage (Sinhala: Sihala Urumaya) (replaced by Jathika Hela Urumaya) |
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| Sinhala Maha Sabha (English: Sinhala Great Assembly) (absorbed by United National Party) |
1934/5 | 1946 | ||
| Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party (absorbed by United National Party) |
1964 | |||
| Sri Lanka Freedom Party (Mahajana) (absorbed by United National Party) |
2007 | 2010 | ||
| Sri Lanka National Congress (absorbed by Sri Lanka Freedom Party) |
2009 | 2011 | ||
| Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party (absorbed by Sri Lanka Freedom Party) |
1982 | 1983 | ||
| Tamil National Liberation Alliance (absorbed by Tamil National Alliance) |
Unregistered/No symbol | 2010 | 2011 | Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism |
| United Lanka Congress | ||||
| Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party (English: Revolutionary Lanka Equal Society Party) |
1950 | 1959 |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- "Political parties". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pp.html. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
- "Sri Lanka". Leftist Parties of the World. 22 June 2004. http://www.broadleft.org/lk.htm. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
- "The List of Political Party/Group in Sri Lanka (1945-2004)". Sri Lanka Statistics. http://www.jpp.co.jp/lanka/gov/govr/govre/gov03e.htm. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
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