TNA wins the northern PC

[ Sunday, 22 September 2013, 02:17.23 AM GMT +05:30 ]

The Tamil National Alliance has won the northern provincial council election as it bagged 30 seats out of 38, official results show. ProvincialCouncil Elections 2013

The party swept all the five districts. Two more seats go to the largest single party under a system of proportional representation and the TNA took the both, bringing the number of seats to 38. President Mahinda Rajapakse's United People's Freedom Alliance was a distant second with just seven seats, while Sri Lanka Muslim Congress bagged only one seat. Jaffna district ITAK -213,907 votes – 14 seats UPFA - 35,995 votes- 2 seats Kilinochchi district ITAK - 37,079 votes – 3 seats UPFA - 7,897 votes – 1 seat Mannar district ITAK - 33,118 votes – 3 seats UPFA - 15,104 votes – 1 seat SLMC - 4,571 votes – 1 seat Vavuniya district ITAK - 41,225 votes – 4 seats UPFA - 16,633 votes – 2 seats Mullativu district ITAK - 28,266 votes – 4 seats UPFA- 7,209 votes -1 seat