Election 2020

24 Royalists among the elected in new Parliament! - Numbers.lk

Even though prominent Royalist MPs like Ranil Wickramasinghe, Ravi Karunanayake suffered heavy defeats in 2020 elections, Royal College continues to hold the record for the highest number of MPs from a single school in Sri Lankan Parliament.

Even though prominent Royalist MPs like Ranil Wickramasinghe, Naveen Dissanayake, Ravi Karunanayake suffered heavy defeats in this years election, Royal College continues to hold the record for the highest number of MPs from a single school in Sri Lankan Parliament.
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Even though prominent Royalist MPs like Ranil Wickramasinghe, Naveen Dissanayake, Ravi Karunanayake suffered heavy defeats in this years election, Royal College continues to hold the record for the highest number of MPs from a single school in Sri Lankan Parliament.

11 August, 2020 | 17:02 p.m.

Staff Writer

Among the 196 elected MPs to 16th Parliament 24 are Old Royalists. That is over 12% representation among the elected.
Even though prominent Royalist MPs like Ranil Wickramasinghe, Naveen Dissanayake, Ravi Karunanayake suffered heavy defeats in this years election, Royal College continues to hold the record for the highest number of MPs from a single school in Sri Lankan Parliament.

Royal College is widely known as one of the premier educational institutions in the island. It has produced many distinguished politicians throughout the years including Presidents of two countries, a Sultan, and three Prime Ministers.

Full List of Royalists elected to 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna

01. Dinesh Gunawardana

02. Ranjith Siyambalapitiya

03. Mahindananda Aluthgamage

04. Priyankara Jayaratne

05. Kanchana Wijesekera

06. Dilan Perera

07. Vidura Wickramanayake(Kalutara 1st)

08. Anuradha Jayaratne

09. Nipuna Ranawaka (Matara 1st)

10. Anupama Pasqual

11. Jeewan Thondaman (Nuwaraeliya 1st)

Samagi Jana Balaweegaya

01. Sajith Premadasa

02. Gayantha Karunathilaka

03. Luxman Kiriella

04. Kabir Hasim

05. Rauff Hakeem

06. Harsha de Silva

07. Harshana Rajakaruna

08. Kavinda Jayawardena

09. Kins Nelson

10. Imran Maharoof

Others

01. S.M. Sumanthiran

02. G. Ponnambalam

03. C.V. Wigneswaran

Even though this is an impressive number in Royal college perspective this is a downgrade since the last parliament consists of 28 elected Royalist compare to this year’s 24. There were 31 Royalist were in the last parliament; 28 elected and 3 appointed.

Sri Lankan General Election was held on 05th of August 2020. Final results showed that Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP) won the election with 145 seats in the 225-member Parliament.

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