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Weerasinghe</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/S._A._Wickramasinghe" title="S. A. Wickramasinghe">S. A. Wickramasinghe</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">1943<span class="noprint">; 81 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1943</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Split from</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party" title="Lanka Sama Samaja Party">LSSP</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label" style="line-height:1.3em;">91 Dr N.M. Perera Mawatha,<br /><a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a> 08</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Newspaper</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Aththa" title="Aththa">Aththa</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Forward_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Forward (Sri Lanka)">Forward</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Deshabhimani_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Deshabhimani (Sri Lanka)">Deshabhimani</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Youth_wing" title="Youth wing">Youth wing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Communist Youth Federation</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Membership <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">(1960)</span></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">1900<sup id="cite_ref-1900pc_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1900pc-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies" title="List of political ideologies">Ideology</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communism</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" title="Marxism–Leninism">Marxism–Leninism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Political_spectrum" title="Political spectrum">Political position</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Far-left_politics" title="Far-left politics">Far-left</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">National affiliation</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Lanka_Coalition" title="Supreme Lanka Coalition">ULS</a><br /><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Alliance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="People's Alliance (Sri Lanka)">PA</a><br /><b>Formerly:</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Freedom_People%27s_Alliance" title="Freedom People's Alliance">FPA</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_People%27s_Freedom_Alliance" title="Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance">SLPFA</a><br /><a href="/wiki/United_People%27s_Freedom_Alliance" title="United People's Freedom Alliance">UPFA</a><br /><a href="/wiki/United_Front_(Sri_Lanka)" title="United Front (Sri Lanka)">United Front</a><br />United Left Front</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">International affiliation</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/International_Meeting_of_Communist_and_Workers_Parties" class="mw-redirect" title="International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties">IMCWP</a><sup id="cite_ref-Participants_List_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Participants_List-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Parliament">Parliament of Sri Lanka</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 225</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; 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a{color:var(--color-progressive)!important}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sidebar{display:none!important}}</style><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle">Part of <a href="/wiki/Category:Communist_parties" title="Category:Communist parties">a series</a> on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="font-size:200%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Communist_party" title="Communist party">Communist parties</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed hlist"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #CC0000; background:transparent; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Africa</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Algerian_Party_for_Democracy_and_Socialism" title="Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism">Algeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Benin" title="Communist Party of Benin">Benin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MELS_Movement_of_Botswana" title="MELS Movement of Botswana">Botswana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voltaic_Revolutionary_Communist_Party" title="Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party">Burkina Faso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Communist_Party" title="Egyptian Communist Party">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Swaziland" title="Communist Party of Swaziland">Eswatini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party_of_Ivory_Coast" title="Revolutionary Communist Party of Ivory Coast">Ivory Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Kenya" title="Communist Party of Kenya">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Lesotho" title="Communist Party of Lesotho">Lesotho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_Communist_Party" title="Libyan Communist Party">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congress_Party_for_the_Independence_of_Madagascar" title="Congress Party for the Independence of Madagascar">Madagascar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Namibia_(2009)" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist Party of Namibia (2009)">Namibia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moroccan_Communist_Party" title="Moroccan Communist Party">Morocco</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_R%C3%A9union" title="Communist Party of Réunion">Réunion</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Independence_and_Labour" title="Party of Independence and Labour">Senegal</a></li> <li>South Africa <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Economic_Freedom_Fighters" title="Economic Freedom Fighters">EFF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Communist_Party" title="South African Communist Party">SACP</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_South_Sudan" title="Communist Party of South Sudan">South Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudanese_Communist_Party" title="Sudanese Communist Party">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Togo" title="Communist Party of Togo">Togo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Party_(Tunisia)" title="Workers' Party (Tunisia)">Tunisia</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed hlist"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #CC0000; background:transparent; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Americas</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li>Argentina <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Argentina" title="Communist Party of Argentina">PCA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Argentina_(Extraordinary_Congress)" title="Communist Party of Argentina (Extraordinary Congress)">PCCE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party_of_Argentina" class="mw-redirect" title="Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina">PCRA</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Bolivia" title="Communist Party of Bolivia">Bolivia</a></li> <li>Brazil <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Brazil" title="Communist Party of Brazil">PCdoB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brazilian_Communist_Party" title="Brazilian Communist Party">PCB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party_(Brazil)" title="Revolutionary Communist Party (Brazil)">PCR</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialism_in_Canada" title="Socialism in Canada">Canada</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Canada" title="Communist Party of Canada">CPC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Canada_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)" title="Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)">CPC-ML</a></li></ul></li> <li>Chile <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Chile" title="Communist Party of Chile">PCCh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chilean_Communist_Party_(Proletarian_Action)" title="Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action)">PC(AP)</a></li></ul></li> <li>Colombia <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colombian_Communist_Party" title="Colombian Communist Party">PCC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Colombia_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)" title="Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist–Leninist)">PC de C (M–L)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Cuba" title="Communist Party of Cuba">Cuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Labour" title="Communist Party of Labour">Dominican Republic</a></li> <li>Ecuador <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ecuador" title="Communist Party of Ecuador">PCE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist_Communist_Party_of_Ecuador" title="Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador">PCMLE</a></li></ul></li> <li>Mexico <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Mexico_(2011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist Party of Mexico (2011)">PC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popular_Socialist_Party_(Mexico)" title="Popular Socialist Party (Mexico)">PPS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popular_Socialist_Party_of_Mexico" title="Popular Socialist Party of Mexico">PPSM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Mexico_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)" title="Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist–Leninist)">PCMML</a></li></ul></li> <li>Panama <ul><li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Party_of_Panama" title="People's Party of Panama">PPP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)_of_Panama" title="Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) of Panama">PC(ml)P</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paraguayan_Communist_Party" title="Paraguayan Communist Party">Paraguay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communism_in_Peru" title="Communism in Peru">Peru</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peruvian_Communist_Party" title="Peruvian Communist Party">PCP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shining_Path" title="Shining Path">PCP-SL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Militarized_Communist_Party_of_Peru" title="Militarized Communist Party of Peru">MPCP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Peru_%E2%80%93_Red_Fatherland" title="Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland">PCdelP–PR</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Uruguay" title="Communist Party of Uruguay">Uruguay</a></li> <li>United States <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_USA" title="Communist Party USA">CPUSA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers_World_Party" title="Workers World Party">WWP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_for_Socialism_and_Liberation" title="Party for Socialism and Liberation">PSL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party,_USA" title="Revolutionary Communist Party, USA">RCPUSA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Labor_Party_(United_States)" title="Progressive Labor Party (United States)">PLP</a></li></ul></li> <li>Venezuela <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela" title="Communist Party of Venezuela">PCV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist_Communist_Party_of_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela">PCMLV</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed hlist"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #CC0000; background:transparent; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Asia</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Liberation_Front_%E2%80%93_Bahrain" title="National Liberation Front – Bahrain">Bahrain</a></li> <li>Bangladesh <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Bangladesh" title="Communist Party of Bangladesh">CPB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers_Party_of_Bangladesh" title="Workers Party of Bangladesh">WPB</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Bhutan_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist%E2%80%93Maoist)" title="Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)">Bhutan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Burma" title="Communist Party of Burma">Burma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">China</a></li> <li>India <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India" title="Communist Party of India">CPI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist)" title="Communist Party of India (Marxist)">CPI(M)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)_Liberation" title="Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation">CPI-ML(L)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Maoist)" title="Communist Party of India (Maoist)">CPI(Mst)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Centre_of_India_(Communist)" title="Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)">SUCI(C)</a></li></ul></li> <li>Iran <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Iran" title="Communist Party of Iran">CPI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tudeh_Party_of_Iran" title="Tudeh Party of Iran">Tudeh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_of_Iran" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Party of Iran">Toufan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Communist_Party" title="Iraqi Communist Party">Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maki_(political_party)" title="Maki (political party)">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_Communist_Party" title="Japanese Communist Party">Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordanian_Communist_Party" title="Jordanian Communist Party">Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Kazakhstan" title="Communist Party of Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Kyrgyzstan" title="Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lao_People%27s_Revolutionary_Party" title="Lao People's Revolutionary Party">Laos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebanese_Communist_Party" title="Lebanese Communist Party">Lebanon</a></li> <li>Nepal <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Nepal_(Unified_Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)" title="Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist)">CPN (UML)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Nepal_(Maoist_Centre)" title="Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)">CPN (MC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Nepal_(Unified_Socialist)" title="Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)">CPN (US)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepal_Workers_Peasants_Party" title="Nepal Workers Peasants Party">NWPP</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Party_of_Korea" title="Workers' Party of Korea">North Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Pakistan" title="Communist Party of Pakistan">Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_People%27s_Party" title="Palestinian People's Party">Palestine</a></li> <li>Philippines <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Philippines" title="Communist Party of the Philippines">CPP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Partido_Komunista_ng_Pilipinas-1930" title="Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930">PKP-1930</a></li></ul></li> <li>Sri Lanka <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">CPSL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janatha_Vimukthi_Peramuna" title="Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna">JVP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontline_Socialist_Party" title="Frontline Socialist Party">FLSP</a></li></ul></li> <li>Syria <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_Communist_Party_(Bakdash)" title="Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)">SCP (Bakdash)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_Communist_Party_(Unified)" title="Syrian Communist Party (Unified)">SCP (Unified)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Tajikistan" title="Communist Party of Tajikistan">Tajikistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Vietnam" title="Communist Party of Vietnam">Vietnam</a></li></ul> <p><b>Former parties</b> </p> <ul><li>Cambodia <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kampuchean_People%27s_Revolutionary_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party">KPRP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Kampuchea" title="Communist Party of Kampuchea">CPK</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Indonesia" title="Communist Party of Indonesia">Indonesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Korea" title="Communist Party of Korea">Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malayan_Communist_Party" title="Malayan Communist Party">Malaya and Singapore</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Malaya/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist" title="Communist Party of Malaya/Marxist–Leninist">Marxist–Leninist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Malaya/Revolutionary_Faction" title="Communist Party of Malaya/Revolutionary Faction">Revolutionary Faction</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_in_Saudi_Arabia" title="Communist Party in Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/North_Kalimantan_Communist_Party" title="North Kalimantan Communist Party">Sarawak</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Taiwanese_Communist_Party" title="Taiwanese Communist Party">Taiwan</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Thailand" title="Communist Party of Thailand">Thailand</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed hlist"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #CC0000; background:transparent; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Europe</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Albania_(1991)" title="Communist Party of Albania (1991)">Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Communist_Party" title="Armenian Communist Party">Armenia</a></li> <li>Austria <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Austria" title="Communist Party of Austria">KPÖ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Labour_of_Austria" title="Party of Labour of Austria">PdA</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_Communist_Party_(1993)" title="Azerbaijan Communist Party (1993)">Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Belarus" title="Communist Party of Belarus">Belarus</a></li> <li>Belgium <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_(Flanders)" title="Communist Party (Flanders)">KP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_(Wallonia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist Party (Wallonia)">PC</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Communist_Party_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Workers' Communist Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></li> <li>Bulgaria <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Bulgaria" title="Communist Party of Bulgaria">KPB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Communists_in_Bulgaria" title="Union of Communists in Bulgaria">SKB</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Labour_Party_of_Croatia" title="Socialist Labour Party of Croatia">Croatia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Party_of_Working_People" title="Progressive Party of Working People">Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia" title="Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia">Czech Republic</a></li> <li>Denmark <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Denmark" title="Communist Party of Denmark">DKP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_(Denmark)" title="Communist Party (Denmark)">KP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Communist_Party_(Denmark)" title="Workers' Communist Party (Denmark)">APK</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Estonia_(1990)" title="Communist Party of Estonia (1990)">Estonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Finland_(1994)" title="Communist Party of Finland (1994)">Finland</a></li> <li>France <ul><li><a href="/wiki/French_Communist_Party" title="French Communist Party"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">PCF</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Communist_Party_of_France" title="Workers' Communist Party of France"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">PCOF</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pole_of_Communist_Revival_in_France" title="Pole of Communist Revival in France">PRCF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Revolutionary_Party_of_France" title="Communist Revolutionary Party of France">PCRF</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unified_Communist_Party_of_Georgia" title="Unified Communist Party of Georgia">Georgia</a></li> <li>Germany <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany_(1990)" title="Communist Party of Germany (1990)">KPD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Communist_Party" title="German Communist Party">DKP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist_Party_of_Germany" title="Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany">MLPD</a></li></ul></li> <li>Greece <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Greece" title="Communist Party of Greece">ΚΚΕ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Organization_of_Greece" title="Communist Organization of Greece">ΚΟΕ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Movement_for_the_Reorganization_of_the_Communist_Party_of_Greece_1918%E2%80%9355" class="mw-redirect" title="Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece 1918–55">Anasintaxi</a></li></ul></li> <li>Hungary <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Workers%27_Party" title="Hungarian Workers' Party">Munkáspárt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Party_of_Hungary_2006_%E2%80%93_European_Left" title="Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 – European Left">Munkáspárt 2006</a></li></ul></li> <li>Ireland <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ireland" title="Communist Party of Ireland">CPI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Party_(Ireland)" title="Workers' Party (Ireland)">WPI</a></li></ul></li> <li>Italy <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_(Italy)" title="Communist Party (Italy)">PC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Refoundation_Party" title="Communist Refoundation Party">PRC</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Latvia" title="Socialist Party of Latvia">Latvia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_People%27s_Front" title="Socialist People's Front">Lithuania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Luxembourg" title="Communist Party of Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Malta" title="Communist Party of Malta">Malta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Communists_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova" title="Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova">Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Communist_Party_of_the_Netherlands" title="New Communist Party of the Netherlands">Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Norway" title="Communist Party of Norway">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_Communist_Party_(2002)" title="Polish Communist Party (2002)">Poland</a></li> <li>Portugal <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Communist_Party" title="Portuguese Communist Party">PCP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Workers%27_Communist_Party" title="Portuguese Workers' Communist Party">PCTP</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_(Nepeceri%C8%99ti)" title="Communist Party (Nepeceriști)">Romania</a></li> <li>Russia <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communists_of_Russia" title="Communists of Russia">KR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Federation" title="Communist Party of the Russian Federation">CPRF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_of_the_Dictatorship_of_the_Proletariat" title="Party of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat">PDP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Communist_Workers%27_Party_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">RCWP-CPSU</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sammarinese_Communist_Refoundation" title="Sammarinese Communist Refoundation">San Marino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Communist_Party_of_Yugoslavia" title="New Communist Party of Yugoslavia">Serbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Slovakia" title="Communist Party of Slovakia">Slovakia</a></li> <li>Spain <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Spain" 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<li>Turkey <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_People%27s_Liberation_Party/Front" title="Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front">DHKP/C</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(Turkey)" title="Labour Party (Turkey)">EMEP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Communist_Party_of_Turkey" title="People's Communist Party of Turkey">HTKP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Revolution_Movement/Leninist_(Turkey)" title="Communist Revolution Movement/Leninist (Turkey)">KDH/L</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Kurdistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist Party of Kurdistan">KKP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_(Turkey,_2014)" title="Communist Party (Turkey, 2014)">TKP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maoist_Communist_Party_(Turkey)" title="Maoist Communist Party (Turkey)">MKP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist_Communist_Party_(Turkey)" title="Marxist–Leninist Communist Party (Turkey)">MLKP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party_of_Turkey" title="Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey">TDKP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Labour_Party_of_Turkey" title="Communist Labour Party of Turkey">TKEP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Labour_Party_of_Turkey/Leninist" title="Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist">TKEP/L</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Workers_Party_of_Turkey" title="Communist Workers Party of Turkey">TKIP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Turkey/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist" title="Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist">TKP/ML</a></li></ul></li> <li>Ukraine <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="Communist Party of Ukraine">KPU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Communists_of_Ukraine" title="Union of Communists of Ukraine">SKU</a></li></ul></li> <li>United Kingdom <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Britain" title="Communist Party of Britain">CPB</a></li> <li><a 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<p>The CPSL was founded as the Communist Party of <a href="/wiki/Ceylon" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceylon">Ceylon</a> in 1943 and was a continuation of the United Socialist Party. The USP had been formed out of the <a href="/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" title="Marxism–Leninism">Marxist–Leninist</a> wing of the <a href="/wiki/Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party" title="Lanka Sama Samaja Party">Lanka Sama Samaja Party</a>. The USP was proscribed by the colonial authorities. </p><p>The USP and then the CPC was initially led by Dr. <a href="/wiki/S._A._Wickramasinghe" title="S. A. Wickramasinghe">S. A. Wickramasinghe</a>. </p><p>In 1952 Wickremesinghe's wife, the English-born <a href="/wiki/Doreen_Young_Wickremasinghe" title="Doreen Young Wickremasinghe">Doreen Young Wickremasinghe</a>, a former leader of the <a href="/wiki/Suriya-Mal_Movement" title="Suriya-Mal Movement">Suriya-Mal Movement</a>, was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliament">Sri Lankan parliament</a>. </p><p>In 1963 the Communist Party, <a href="/wiki/Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party" title="Lanka Sama Samaja Party">Lanka Sama Samaja Party</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mahajana_Eksath_Peramuna" title="Mahajana Eksath Peramuna">Mahajana Eksath Peramuna</a> formed the United Left Front (1963). The ULF broke down in 1964 when the then Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Sirimavo_Bandaranaike" title="Sirimavo Bandaranaike">Sirimavo Bandaranaike</a> offered ministerial posts to LSSP and the CP. </p><p>In the mid-1960s the <a href="/wiki/U.S._State_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. State Department">U.S. State Department</a> estimated the party membership to be approximately 1900.<sup id="cite_ref-1900pc_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1900pc-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1968, the CP joined the LSSP and the SLFP in the <a href="/wiki/United_Front_(Sri_Lanka)" title="United Front (Sri Lanka)">United Front</a>. In the 1970 government, <a href="/wiki/Pieter_Keuneman" title="Pieter Keuneman">Pieter Keuneman</a> became Minister of Housing and Construction and <a href="/wiki/B._Y._Tudawe" title="B. Y. Tudawe">B. Y. Tudawe</a>, Deputy Minister of Education. However, one faction of the party, led by S. A. Wickremasinghe and Indika Gunawardena, maintained a line of critical support for the government. </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/General_election" title="General election">general election</a> of 1977, for the first time in half a century, the CPSL found itself without parliamentary representation, receiving about 2% of the vote. However, after a subsequent election petition, <a href="/wiki/Sarath_Muttetuwegama" title="Sarath Muttetuwegama">Sarath Muttetuwegama</a> was elected to the Kalawana seat in a <a href="/wiki/By-election" title="By-election">by-election</a>. </p><p>Later CPSL joined the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Alliance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="People's Alliance (Sri Lanka)">People's Alliance</a>, the front led by the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a>. When SLFP shelved the PA and formed the <a href="/wiki/United_People%27s_Freedom_Alliance" title="United People's Freedom Alliance">United People's Freedom Alliance</a> together with <a href="/wiki/Janatha_Vimukthi_Peramuna" title="Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna">Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna</a> ahead of the <a href="/wiki/2004_Sri_Lankan_legislative_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2004 Sri Lankan legislative election">2004 elections</a>, CPSL and LSSP initially stayed out. They did, however, sign a memorandum with the UPFA at a later stage and contested the elections on the UPFA platform. CPSL does not, however, consider itself a member of UPFA. </p><p>The CPSL had one member of parliament in 2004, party general secretary D.E.W. Gunasekara. Gunasekara contested the Sri Lankan parliament speaker election but lost by a handful of votes. Gunasekara was then sworn in as the Minister for Constitutional Affairs.<sup id="cite_ref-CP-bolshevik_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CP-bolshevik-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CPSL-marxist_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CPSL-marxist-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 2020 Parliamentary elections, the CPSL put forward two candidates, Mahesh Almedia in Colombo and Weerasumana Weerasinghe in Matara, under the SLPP's Pohottuwa symbol. Dr G. Weerasinghe was nominated for the party's National List. Weerasumana was the only candidate to successfully enter Parliament with 77,968 preferential votes. </p><p>Gunasekera stepped down as General Secretary of the CPSL on 30 August 2020. Dr G. Weerasinghe was unanimously elected as the new General Secretary by the Central Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Party_organization">Party organization</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communist_Party_of_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Party organization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The youth wing of CPSL is the Communist Youth Federation. CYF is a member organization of the <a href="/wiki/World_Federation_of_Democratic_Youth" title="World Federation of Democratic Youth">World Federation of Democratic Youth</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Allegations">Allegations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communist_Party_of_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Allegations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Black_July" title="Black July">Black July</a> and <a href="/wiki/Second_JVP_insurrection" class="mw-redirect" title="Second JVP insurrection">Second JVP insurrection</a></div> <p>The CPSL and other Leftist parties were framed by the J R Jayawardane government for instigating 1983 <a href="/wiki/Black_July" title="Black July">Black July</a> pogroms against the Tamil people. The party was banned and leaders including D.E.W. Gunasekera were imprisoned for over a year. The ban was lifted due to the lack of evidence for the charges and intervention from the Soviet embassy. The ban on the JVP and NSSP stayed the same. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communist_Party_of_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Aththa" title="Aththa">Aththa</a></i> (Truth) is the CPSL's flagship <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a> newspaper,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was renowned for its high standard of journalism, progressive editorials and Sinhala prose. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> organ of the CPSL was the <i><a href="/wiki/Forward_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Forward (Sri Lanka)">Forward</a></i> weekly.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Mawbima_(1950)" title="Mawbima (1950)">Mawbima (1950)</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communist_Party_of_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Electoral history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Presidential">Presidential</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communist_Party_of_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Presidential"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="sortable wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Election year </th> <th>Candidate </th> <th>Votes </th> <th>Vote % </th> <th>Result </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2024_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2024 Sri Lankan presidential election">2024</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Dilith_Jayaweera" title="Dilith Jayaweera">Dilith Jayaweera</a> </td> <td align="center">122,396 </td> <td align="center">0.92% </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">6th </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parliamentary">Parliamentary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communist_Party_of_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Parliamentary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="sortable wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Election year </th> <th>Votes </th> <th>Vote % </th> <th>Seats won </th> <th>+/– </th> <th>Result for the party </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/1947_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1947 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1947</a> </th> <td align="center">70,331 </td> <td align="center">3.73% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">3 / 95</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 3%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 3 </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/1952_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1952 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1952</a> </th> <td align="center">134,528 </td> <td align="center">5.78% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">3 / 95</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 3%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/1956_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1956 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1956</a> </th> <td align="center">119,715 </td> <td align="center">4.52% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">3 / 95</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 3%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/March_1960_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1960 (March)</a> </th> <td align="center">147,612 </td> <td align="center">4.85% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">3 / 151</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 2%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/July_1960_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="July 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1960 (July)</a> </th> <td align="center">90,219 </td> <td align="center">2.93% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">4 / 151</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 3%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/1965_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1965 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1965</a> </th> <td align="center">109,754 </td> <td align="center">2.71% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">4 / 151</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 3%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/1970_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1970</a> </th> <td align="center">169,199 </td> <td align="center">3.39% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">6 / 151</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 4%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 2 </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Government </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/1977_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">1977</a> </th> <td align="center">123,856 </td> <td align="center">1.98% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">0 / 168</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 0%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 6 </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Extra parliamentary </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/1989_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">1989</a> </th> <td colspan="2" align="center">Part of <a href="/wiki/United_Socialist_Alliance_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="United Socialist Alliance (Sri Lanka)">USA</a> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">0 / 225</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 0%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Extra parliamentary </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/1994_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="1994 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">1994</a> </th> <td rowspan="3" colspan="2" align="center">Part of <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Alliance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="People's Alliance (Sri Lanka)">PA</a> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">0 / 225</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 0%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Extra parliamentary </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2000_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2000 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2000</a> </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 225</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 0.4%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Government </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2001_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2001 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2001</a> </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 225</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 0.4%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2004_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2004 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2004</a> </th> <td rowspan="3" colspan="2" align="center">Part of <a href="/wiki/United_People%27s_Freedom_Alliance" title="United People's Freedom Alliance">UPFA</a> </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">2 / 225</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 0.9%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Government </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2010_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2010 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2010</a> </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">2 / 225</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 0.9%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Steady"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </td> <td style="background:#bfd; color:black; vertical-align:middle; text-align:center;" class="table-yes2">Government </td></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2015</a> </th> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 225</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #FF0000; width: 0.4%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 1 </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2020_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2020</a> </th> <td rowspan="2" colspan="2" align="center">Part of <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_People%27s_Freedom_Alliance" title="Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance">SLPFA</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">1 / 225</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; 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href="/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Organisation_of_Tamil_Eelam" title="People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam">People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam</a> (<a href="/wiki/Democratic_People%27s_Liberation_Front" title="Democratic People's Liberation Front">Democratic People's Liberation Front</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Tamil_National_People%27s_Front" title="Tamil National People's Front">TNPF</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_Ceylon_Tamil_Congress" title="All Ceylon Tamil Congress">All Ceylon Tamil Congress</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Labour_Party" title="Sri Lanka Labour Party">Sri Lanka Labour Party</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others outside parliament</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bahujana_Nidahas_Peramuna" title="Bahujana Nidahas Peramuna">Bahujana Nidahas Peramuna</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bodu_Jana_Peramuna&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bodu Jana Peramuna (page does not exist)">Bodu Jana Peramuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Communist_Party_(Maoist)" title="Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)">Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Democratic_Unity_Alliance" title="Ceylon Democratic Unity Alliance">Ceylon Democratic Unity Alliance</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Communist Party of Sri Lanka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crusaders_for_Democracy" title="Crusaders for Democracy">Crusaders for Democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Left_Front_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Democratic Left Front (Sri Lanka)">Democratic Left Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Democratic Party (Sri Lanka)">Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_United_National_Front" title="Democratic United National Front">Democratic United National Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unity_Alliance" title="Democratic Unity Alliance">Democratic Unity Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eelam_National_Democratic_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front">Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Democratic_Party" title="Eelam People's Democratic Party">Eelam People's Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front</a> (Padmanaba)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_People%27s_Front" title="Freedom People's Front">Freedom People's Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontline_Socialist_Party" title="Frontline Socialist Party">Frontline Socialist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Janatha_Sevaka_Pakshaya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Janatha Sevaka Pakshaya (page does not exist)">Janatha Sevaka Pakshaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jathika_Hela_Urumaya" title="Jathika Hela Urumaya">Jathika Hela Urumaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jathika_Nidahas_Peramuna" title="Jathika Nidahas Peramuna">Jathika Nidahas Peramuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party" title="Lanka Sama Samaja Party">Lanka Sama Samaja Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party_(Alternative_Group)" title="Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Alternative Group)">Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Alternative Group)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Liberal Democratic Party (Sri Lanka)">Liberal Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motherland_People%27s_Party" title="Motherland People's Party">Motherland People's Party</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Democratic_Movement_(Sri_Lanka)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Democratic Movement (Sri Lanka) (page does not exist)">National Democratic Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nava_Sama_Samaja_Party" title="Nava Sama Samaja Party">Nava Sama Samaja Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="New Democratic Party (Sri Lanka)">New Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Sinhala_Heritage" title="New Sinhala Heritage">New Sinhala Heritage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Our_Power_of_People%27s_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Our Power of People's Party">Our Power of People's Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Tamil_Congress" title="People's Tamil Congress">People's Tamil Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pivithuru_Hela_Urumaya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (page does not exist)">Pivithuru Hela Urumaya</a></li> <li><a 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