Provincial Council Elections 2014: A Political Analysis—Central, Northern and North Western Province

Abstract

Provincial Council elections were conducted in three of Sri Lanka’s nine provinces, the Central (CP), North-Western (NWP) and Northern Provinces (NP) in September 2013. These provinces, when combined together, account for about a quarter of the island’s Sinhala and Muslim populations and over half the Tamil population. This report includes a background on provincial council elections which have been carried out in these areas; an analysis of the 2013 election results from each province; and also several cross-cutting implications arising from the analysis of all of these election results.