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Sri Lanka's ruling party wins election

By Santosh | 09 April 2010

Sri Lanka's state television has said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa's  coalition has won the country's first post-war parliamentary election.

The television report on Friday, citing the elections department, said Rajapaksa's United People's Freedom Alliance has so far won 117 of the 225 seats contested.

A party must get 113 seats to get a simple majority and form a government.

Its closest rival United National Front won 46 seats.