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The 2029 Sri Lankan presidential election will be the 10th presidential election and is scheduled to be held between 21 July – 21 August 2029. Elections may be held earlier under exceptional circumstances if the incumbent president, after completing four years of his first term, issues a proclamation requesting a fresh mandate from the electorate to seek a second term.

According to Article 30 of the Constitution of Sri Lanka, the President of Sri Lanka is elected for a five-year term. Article 31 states that a person who has been elected president twice is ineligible to contest for a third term due to term limits.

The article also specifies that the presidential election must be held no less than one month and no more than two months before the incumbent president's term expires.

However, if the incumbent president wishes to seek a fresh mandate and a second term, they may issue a proclamation calling for early elections. This can be done any time after completing four years of their first term. By doing so, the president requests a new election before the full five-year term is completed, allowing the electorate to decide whether the president should continue for a second term.

The president is elected through a system of limited ranked voting. Voters can express up to three ranked preferences for the presidency. If no candidate receives more than 50% of all valid votes in the first count, all candidates except the two who received the highest number of votes are eliminated. The second and third preference votes of the eliminated candidates are then redistributed to the remaining two candidates until one of them secures an outright majority.^[1][2]

This system remained unused until 2024. Since the first presidential election in 1982, a candidate from one of the major parties or alliances consistently secured an outright majority in the first count.^[3]

• Election Commission of Sri Lanka official website