2025 Sri Lankan local elections

2025 Sri Lankan local elections
6 May 2025
Registered17,156,338
Turnout61.88% ( 18.06 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake Sajith Premadasa Mahinda Rajapaksa
Party NPP SJB SLPP
Last election 5.75%,
0 councils		 DNC 40.47%,
231 councils
Seats before 434 DNC 3,436
Seats won 3,927 1,767 742
Seat change 3,493 1,767 2,694
Popular vote 4,503,930 2,258,480 954,517
Percentage 43.26% 21.69% 9.17%
Swing 37.51 pp 21.69 pp 31.30 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
ITAK
Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe S. Shritharan Anura Priyadarshana Yapa
Party UNP ITAK PA
Last election 29.42%,
34 councils		 2.73%,
41 councils		 12.10%,
9 councils
Seats before 2,433 417 1,048
Seats won 381 377 300
Seat change 2,052 40 748
Popular vote 488,406 307,657 387,098
Percentage 4.69% 2.96% 3.72%
Swing 24.73 pp 0.23 pp 8.38 pp

Local elections were held in Sri Lanka on 6 May 2025 According to the Election Commission of Sri Lanka, of the 17,296,330 registered voters nationwide, 17,156,338 were eligible to vote in this election. Voters elected 8,793 members for a four-year term to 339 of the 341 local authorities in the country, comprising 28 municipal councils, 36 urban councils, and 275 pradeshiya sabhas.

The ruling National People's Power (NPP) emerged as the largest party, winning 3,927 council seats and securing 43.26% of the vote, a notable decline from their result in the parliamentary elections the previous year. Voter turnout was relatively low, recorded at 61.88%, compared to 79.46% in the recent presidential election and 68.93% in the parliamentary election.

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