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15| popular_vote1 = 2,837,961 | percentage1 = 50.7% | swing1 =150x150px)| leader2 = Sirimavo Bandaranaike| leader_since2 = 1960| party2 = Sri Lanka Freedom PartyGampaha Electoral District>Gampaha District| last_election2 = 29.72%, 8 seats| seats2 = 67| seat_change2 = {{increase}} 59| popular_vote2 = 1,780,599 | percentage2 = 31.8%| map_image = Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election 1989.png| map_size = 250px| map_caption = Winners of electoral districts. UNP in green and SLFP in blue.Prime Minister of Sri Lanka>Prime MinisterPrime Minister of Sri Lanka>Prime Minister-designate| before_election = Ranasinghe Premadasa| after_election = Dingiri Banda Wijetunga| before_party = United National Party| after_party = United National Party}}Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 15 February 1989, the first since 1977. The elections that should normally have been held by 1983 had been cancelled by the 1982 referendum.

Results

{{Election resultscenter)seattype2=National|seattype3=TotalUnited National Party{{efn>Including the Ceylon Workers' Congress.}}st1t1=110st3t1=125Sri Lanka Freedom Party>votes2=1785369st2t2=9|st3t2=67Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students{{Efn>Contested as an independent group in Batticaloa Electoral District, Jaffna Electoral District>Jaffna, Trincomalee Electoral District and Vanni Electoral District>Vanni.}}st1t3=12st3t3=13Sri Lanka Muslim Congress>votes4=202016st2t4=1|st3t4=4Tamil United Liberation Front{{efn>Consisting of the Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front, the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization and the Tamil United Liberation Front.}}st1t5=9st3t5=10Consisting of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the Nava Sama Samaja Party and Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya.}}st1t6=2st3t6=3|color6=redMahajana Eksath Peramuna>votes7=91128st2t7=1|st3t7=3votes8=67723st2t8=0|st3t8=0Democratic People's Liberation Front{{efn>Including the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam.}}st1t9=0st3t9=0All Ceylon Tamil Congress>votes10=7610st2t10=0|st3t10=0votes11=7373st2t11=0|st3t11=0|invalid=365563total_st2t=29|total_st3t=225|electorate=9374164|source=weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090304101343weblink">Election Commission}}

By province

{{see|Results of the 1989 Sri Lankan general election by province}}

By electoral district

{{see|Results of the 1989 Sri Lankan general election by electoral district}}

Notes

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References

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• WEB,weblink Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, dead,weblink" title="wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090304101343weblink">weblink 2009-03-04,
• WEB,weblink Table 39 Parliament Election (1989), 10 February 2009, Sri Lanka Statistics, 3 October 2010, 9 October 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111009145556weblink">weblink dead,
• WEB,weblink Sri Lanka Parliamentary Chamber: Parliament Elections Held in 1989, Inter-Parliamentary Union,
• WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20020622185235weblink">weblink unfit, 22 June 2002, Chapter 37: Talking peace, K. T., Rajasingham, 27 April 2002, Sri Lanka: The Untold Story, Asia Times,

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