Unconfirmed reports say that the UNP is leading in all polling divisions in the Badulla District.

According to unconfirmed reports, the UNP has taken the lead in the UPFA bastion of Gampaha District.

According to unofficial results, the UNP is ahead in 10 districts while the UPFA is in the lead in 09 districts, reports say.

The postal vote result of the Galle district is to be released next.

Thirteen including former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga have been appointed to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Central Committee.

President Maithripala Sirisena has reportedly sacked 25 members of the Central Committee of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party with immediate effect, sources say.

Sri Lankan voters will decide if August 17 will be a day of reckoning -or not. Pre-poll predictions have widely varied, but none of the pub lished ones seem to favour a return of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa -but then, he had held his course against such predictions in the past in all but the crucial January 8 polls that he ended up losing, and conclusively so.

Voting is underway in Sri Lanka's general election, with the poll viewed as a referendum on the political future of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.