List of political parties in Sri Lanka
This article lists political parties in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka has a multi-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party. In the last decades, the United National Party and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party have been the largest parties by far. The general rule, however, has become coalition politics, since neither SLFP nor UNP are able to gather parliamentary majorities. Tamil areas are generally dominated by Tamil parties.
As at 27 September 2019 there are 70 registered parties.Alliances
Extra-parliamentary alliances
Defunct/dormant alliances
Parties
Parliamentary parties
Other registered parties
Unregistered parties
