This article lists political parties in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka has a two-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. In the LTTE-controlled northern areas, the two main parties are non-existent.

The parties

The general rule on naming applies. That means: the parties are named in the English translation and the original native name is placed on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the English form. Rationale and specifics: See: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English).

• Democratic People's Liberation Front
• Eelam People's Democratic Party
• Jathika Hela Urumaya (launched by Sinhala Urumaya )
• New Left Front
  • Democratic Left Front
  • National Democratic Movement
  • Nava Sama Samaja Pakshaya (English: New Equal Society Party)
  • New Democratic Party
• Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (has split into three groups)
• Tamil National Alliance
  • All Ceylon Tamil Congress
  • Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (Suresh)
  • Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization
  • Tamil United Liberation Front (formerly the Federal Party)
• United National Front
  • United National Party
  • Ceylon Workers Congress
  •  ???
• United People's Freedom Alliance (formerly the People's Alliance without the JVP) - holds plurality in Parliament
  • Communist Party of Sri Lanka
  • Democratic United National Front
  • Desha Vimukthi Janatha Party
  • Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (English: Peoples' Liberation Front)
  • Lanka Sama Samaja Party (English: Lanka Equal Society Party)
  • Sri Lanka Freedom Party - holds Presidency
  • Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya
• Up-Country Peoples' Front
• Liberal Party of Sri Lanka

See also

• Index of political parties to browse parties by name
• List of political parties to browse parties by country
• List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
• Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals

References

http://www.broadleft.org/lk.htm