{"id":106761,"date":"2013-09-22T03:58:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T22:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=106761"},"modified":"2013-09-24T02:30:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T21:00:26","slug":"updated-npc-results-tna-30-upfa-7-and-slmc-1-tna-secures-a-great-victory-today-sumanthiran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/updated-npc-results-tna-30-upfa-7-and-slmc-1-tna-secures-a-great-victory-today-sumanthiran\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated: NPC Results: TNA 30, UPFA 7 And SLMC 1: &#8220;TNA Secures A Great Victory Today&#8221; &#8211; Sumanthiran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6th Update at 5.40 am Sri Lankan time &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The TNA secured a great victory today at the Northern Provincial Council Elections despite heavy odds &#8211; blatant violations, voter intimidation and violence against its candidates. We bow to the resilience of our people. &#8211; TNA 30, UPFA 7, SLMC 1<\/strong><strong>&#8221; TNA MP\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=M.+A.+Sumanthiran&amp;x=8&amp;y=5\">MA\u00a0Sumanthiran<\/a><\/span>\u00a0told Colombo Telegraph.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>5th update;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>The Tamil National Alliance pulled off a surprising win in the Government ally EPDP dominated island of Kayts off the Jaffna Peninsula a short while ago, beating the UPFA by 4753 votes.<\/div>\n<div>The Jaffna islands are traditionally strong support bases of the Government&#8217;s key ally, led by Minister Douglas Devananda.<\/div>\n<p><strong>4th update;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_106664\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/polls-close-round-up-voting-was-slow-in-jaffna\/a-tamil-woman-shows-her-ink-marked-finger-after-she-cast-her-vote-during-a-local-government-election-in-jaffna\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-106664\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106664\" class=\" wp-image-106664\" title=\"A Tamil woman shows her ink-marked finger after she cast her vote during a local government election in Jaffna\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Tamil-Woman-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-106664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With the total votes in two districts of the Northern Province counted by 3 a.m. Sri Lankan time, the Tamil National Alliance has been able to secure 8 seats on the first Provincial Council in the island&#8217;s north, with 2 seats obtained by the Government alliance so far.<\/p>\n<p>Votes in the Jaffna District are just being released with the TNA obtaining big majorities in both Nallur and Jaffna electorates of the district. In Nallur, the TNA has received 23733 votes, the UPFA obtained 2651 while the UNP managed 148. In the Jaffna polling division, the TNA obtained 16 421 while the UPFA obtained 2416 and the UNP received 60 votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd update;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With all postal votes counted in the Northern Province and the first result of today&#8217;s polling just released, the Tamil National Alliance is now leading the Northern Polls Race by 29, 651 votes or 79% of the vote counted. The Mullaitivu electorate in the District of Mullaitivu was the first electorate result released by the Elections Commission. The TNA secured 27620 votes, the UPFA obtained 7063 and the SLMC received 199 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The TNA took a very early lead in the race for the Northern Provincial Council when it clinched the races for postal votes in the Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi, Jaffna, Mannar and Vavuniya Districts gaining on the ruling United Peoples&#8217; Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>In the Vavuniya Postal Vote Results, the TNA obtained 901 votes, the UPFA received 323 and the UNP received 65.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2nd Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tamil National Alliance took a very early lead in the race for the Northern Provincial Council when it clinched the races for postal votes in the Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi and Vavuniya Districts gaining on the ruling United Peoples&#8217; Alliance by a margin of 2303.<\/p>\n<p>In the Vavuniya Postal Vote Results, the TNA obtained 901 votes, the UPFA received 323 and the UNP received 65.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1st update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The Tamil National Alliance took a very early lead in the race for the Northern Provincial Council when it clinched the races for postal votes in the Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi Districts gaining on the ruling United Peoples&#8217; Alliance by a margin of 1096.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">In the Mullaitivu District, the TNA which is the main opposition party in the Northern Provincial battle obtained 646 votes to the ruling UPFA\u2019s 146.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The United National Party secured 02 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">In the Kilinochchi District the TNA received 756 votes to the UPFA&#8217;s 160, while the UNP managed one postal vote of the entire valid votes in the District.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Postal votes are traditionally cast by Government Servants who might be serving outside a home district. Postal voting results do not necessarily reflect the final result of a poll.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Mullaitivu is the former LTTE stronghold in the Wanni where the final battles of Sri Lanka\u2019s separatist war was waged. The UN claims 40,000 people died in the final days of the battle along the Mullaitivu coast, an allegation staunchly denied by the Sri Lankan Government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Northern Tamils went to the polls today to elect their provincial legislators for the first time in 25 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/first-northern-province-postal-poll-result-released-500-vote-lead-for-tna\/\"><strong>First Northern Province Postal Poll Result Released: 500 Vote Lead For TNA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Tamil National Alliance took a very early lead in the race for the Northern Provincial Council when it clinched the postal vote in the Mullaitivu District with 646 votes to the ruling UPFA\u2019s 146.<\/p>\n<p>The United National Party secured 02 votes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Postal votes are traditionally cast by Government Servants who might be serving outside a home district. Postal voting results do not necessarily reflect the final result of a poll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mullaitivu is the former LTTE stronghold in the Wanni where the final battles of Sri Lanka\u2019s separatist war was waged. The UN claims 40,000 people died in the final days of the battle along the Mullaitivu coast, an allegation staunchly denied by the Sri Lankan Government.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Tamils went to the polls today to elect their provincial legislators for the first time in 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"First Northern Province Postal Poll Result Released: 500 Vote Lead For TNA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/first-northern-province-postal-poll-result-released-500-vote-lead-for-tna\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">First Northern Province Postal Poll Result Released: 500 Vote Lead For TNA<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Updated: NPC Results: TNA 30, UPFA 7 And SLMC 1: &quot;TNA Secures A Great Victory Today&quot; 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