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

The latest results showed Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party's broader front National People’s Power (NPP) had won 39.52 per cent of the votes counted.

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 ...

For the first time in the country's history, Sri Lanka's presidential election has gone into a second round of counting after ...

Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake and opposition leader Sajith Premadasa headed to a run-off for Sri Lanka’s ...

Dissanayake, 55, leads the left-leaning coalition National People’s Power, an umbrella of civil society groups, professionals, Buddhist clergy and students.

In an unexpected turn of events, Sri Lanka polls, Elections Commission Chairman RLAM Ratnayake announced a second preference count. This decision came after early trends showed Anura Kumara ...

National People's Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake seems set to become Sri Lanka’s ninth executive president on ...

In a historic first, Sri Lanka’s presidential election went into a second round of counting after no candidate secured over ...

Sri Lankans vote in a presidential election that will chart the country's future in recovery from its worst economic crisis ...

Presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake has already won and there is no reason to panic, NPP MP Vijitha Herath said ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake was leading Sri Lanka’s presidential election after knocking out the incumbent ...