With postal vote results flowing in, National People’s Power (NPP) presidential candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake is leading in 11 districts.
With postal votes of 11 districts released out of 22, Dissanayake leads the count, becoming the first to pass 150,000 votes.
Accordingly Dissanayake has secured 20,864 postal votes in the Colombo district and 19,712 postal votes in the Matara district and votes in the 8,946 Nuwara-Eliya district.
The NPP candidate secured 25,892 postal votes in Galle, 5,480 in Trincomalee, 4,899 in Vanni and 12,186 votes in Matale.
He secured 19,185 votes in Ratnapura district, 11,768 votes in Polonnaruwa district, 14,482 votes in Hambantota district and 14,050 votes in Monaragala district.
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