The Marxist has campaigned on a pro-working class and anti-elite platform, which has proven popular with young people.

In Sri Lanka, counting of votes is underway after the polling for Presidential elections held on Saturday. According to the unofficial results so far, Leftist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake is ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake was leading Sri Lanka’s presidential election after ...

Results will reflect whether the people of Sri Lanka approve of Wickremesinghe's leadership over the country's fragile ...

Colombo: In a historic first, Sri Lanka's presidential election on Sunday went into a second round of counting after no ...

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly COLOMBO (Reuters) -Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake and opposition leader ...

Sri Lanka heads to its first ever presidential run-off between Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Sajith Premadasa after neither secured 50% of the votes. The election follows a severe economic crisis that ...

The election, contested by 38 candidates, was largely a three-way race between Dissanayake, Wickremesinghe and opposition ...

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake is on course to become Sri Lanka’s next president Sunday, according to results ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake from the National People's Power leads Sri Lanka's presidential election with a significant margin, ...

For the first time in Sri Lanka's history, the vote counting has gone into the second round after no single candidate managed ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist-leaning candidate, is leading Sri Lanka's presidential election with 40% of the votes ...