{"id":9490,"date":"2020-08-07T08:56:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T08:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9490"},"modified":"2020-08-07T08:56:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T08:56:46","slug":"pilleyan-leads-batticaloa-preferential-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/pilleyan-leads-batticaloa-preferential-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilleyan leads Batticaloa preferential votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pilleyan of Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) has secured the highest number of preferential votes in the Batticaloa District.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) managed to claim the victory in the district after polling 79,460 votes (26.66%). The ITAK won 02 seats in the district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The TMVP meanwhile amassed the second highest number of votes in the district with 67,692 (22.71%) and secured one seat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) has come in third with 34,428 votes (11.55%) and won one seat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) received 33,424 votes (11.22%), also managing to secure a parliamentary seat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">United Peace Alliance (UPA) received 31,054 votes (10.42%) and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) 28,362 votes (9.52%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">TMVP \u2013 01<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan &#8211; 54,198<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">ITAK \u2013 02<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Saanakkiya Rahul Rajapuththiran &#8211; 33,332<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Kovinthan Karunakaram &#8211; 26, 382<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">SLMC \u2013 01<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ahamed Zenulabdeen Naseer &#8211; 17,599<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">SLPP \u2013 01<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sathasivam Viyalendiran &#8211; 22,218<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pilleyan of Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) has secured the highest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}