Sri Lanka's ruling party registers another milestone in polls history

Sri Lanka's ruling Party, United Peoples' Freedom Alliance (UPFA) has won North Central and Sabaragamuwa Provincial council Election held Saturday (23) to select 77 councilors for a four year term.
In the North Central Provincial council UPFA got total votes of 307,457 with 20 seats while the main Opposition, United National Party registered only 205,284 votes with 12 seats.
The Marxist People’s Liberation Front (JVP) managed to get only 26,738 votes with 1 seat from the North Central Province.
UPFA got 472,789 votes with 25 seats in the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council, while the UNP’s final result reads as 346,321 total votes with 17 seats.
JVP managed to get only 19,068 votes from the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council with 2 seats.
Sri Lanka's independent election monitoring groups said the elections were free and fair with a good turn-out. However there were some election violation incidents in some parts of the two Provinces.
Election observers say the most important aspect of this election is that the ruling party managed to win all the electoral seats of the two Provinces. A victory for the ruling party is seen as an endorsement for the on going war to free the country from the Tamil Tiger rebels.
At the moment with significant successes in the battlefield President Rajapksa’s ruling party is riding high on the public support for the military campaign against the Tamil Tiger rebels. President yesterday called on the voters to endorse the ongoing military operations against the Tamil rebels by voting for the ruling coalition.