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22: 588: 1270: 399: 202: 256:. They secured 3 & 2 seats of North western and Central Provincial councils obtaining 46,114 and 45,239 votes form respective provinces. They surprisingly emerged as third in both councils over JVP. However, they were unable to garner any support from North Provincial council where they obtained only 170 votes. 303:
scheduled on 17 August 2015. Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka contested from the Colombo district. Surprisingly DP faced a massive slide in the election in which they could garner only 28,587 votes across the country, resulting in no representation in the 8th parliament of Sri Lanka.
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held on 29 March 2014 and secured 12 seats of two councils. In Southern council 75,532 votes obtaining 3 seats while in western province they got 203,767 votes obtaining 9 seats.
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held on 20 September 2014. They could garner only 6076 votes from whole province which was 0.89%. This was a biggest setback for the newly established party.
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On 30 July Sarath Fonseka obtained membership of United National Party and Democratic party was dissolved accordingly.
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The Democratic Party contested for Provincial council elections held on 21 September 2013 for
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The Democratic Party has declared its support for the opposition common candidate
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Party leader field marshal Sarath Fonseka announced he would contest alone for
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North, North Western & Central Provincial councils
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This article about a Sri Lankan political party is a
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Sarath Fonseka
Sarath Fonseka
United National Party
Kelaniya
Ideology
Liberalism
Political position
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Politics of Sri Lanka
Political parties
Elections
Sri Lanka
Sarath Fonseka
North, North Western & Central Provincial councils
provincial council elections
Uva Provisional council election
Maithripala Sirisena
Jayantha Ketagoda
parliamentary election
United National Front for Good Governance
Prime Minister
Ranil Wickramasinghe
Sarath Fonseka
member of parliament

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