The “Map”
2019 Sri Lankan Presidential Election
There has been some controversy over various maps depicting the results of the 2019 Sri Lankan Presidential Election. The “Eelam”-word has come up several times, and parts of the country have been accused of disloyalty.
I also got “feedback” about the “potentially divisive nature” of the map I used for my “real-time” updates:
“Win” Maps
At the end of the day, only one map actually matters. The SLPP’s Gotabhaya Rajapaksa won with 52.2% of the vote. True — not as much as President Kumaratunga’s 62.28% in 1994. But there’s no such thing as a 52.2% president. A president is a president.
The SLPP “won” (i.e. got more votes) in all but the Northern and Eastern provinces.
At an Electoral District level, it won all but the five electoral districts in the Northern and Eastern provinces and the Nuwara-Eliya…
