The counting of the second preference of this year’s presidential election has already started. That is due to the fact that no candidate could get 50% of the official results of the presidential election.
The Chairman of the Election Commission said while addressing the media that the counting started a few moments ago. According to the currently published election results, National People’s Power presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake was ahead.
However, result of several districts including Colombo, Kalutara, Gampaha are still to be released .