The Marxist has campaigned on a pro-working class and anti-elite platform, which has proven popular with young people.

In Sri Lanka, counting of votes is underway after the polling for Presidential elections held on Saturday. According to the unofficial results so far, Leftist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake is ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake was leading Sri Lanka’s presidential election after ...

Colombo: In a historic first, Sri Lanka's presidential election on Sunday went into a second round of counting after no ...

Marxist-leaning lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads early official results in Sri Lanka’s presidential election, ...

Sri Lanka heads to its first ever presidential run-off between Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Sajith Premadasa after neither secured 50% of the votes. The election follows a severe economic crisis that ...

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly COLOMBO (Reuters) -Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake and opposition leader ...

The election, contested by 38 candidates, was largely a three-way race between Dissanayake, Wickremesinghe and opposition ...

Sri Lanka's presidential election has advanced to a second round for the first time in history as no candidate achieved over ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake is on course to become Sri Lanka’s next president Sunday, according to results ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake from the National People's Power leads Sri Lanka's presidential election with a significant margin, ...

The Election Commission of Sri Lanka has announced a second preference count after no candidate secured over 50% of the votes in the presidential election. Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Sajith ...