Director General Elections Saman Sri Ratnayaka announced that the voter turnout in the presidential election is expected to be 75 per cent, which would be lower than the 83 per cent voter turnout recorded in the previous presidential election held in November 2019.
The polls were held from 7 am to 4 pm local time at over 13,400 polling stations at 22 electoral districts.
Over 17 million registered voters were expected to vote in the election which had the highest number of candidates with 38 in the fray.
