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His main challenger was Prime Minister Chandrika Kumaratunga of the People's Alliance, whose party had won the parliamentary elections earlier in 1994. [1] On 24 October 1994, during his presidential campaign, Gamini Dissanayake was assassinated by the Tamil Tigers.
CandidatePartyVotes%4,709,20562.282,715,28335.91Hudson SamarasingheIndependent58,8860.7832,6510.43- People's Alliance
- SLFP
- Chandrika Kumaratunga
- 4,709,205
Chandrika won the presidential election in 1994 gaining 62.28% of the vote. Becoming the first female president of Sri Lanka in November 1994, she appointed her mother to succeed her as prime minister.
Nov 11, 1994 · Buoyed by a landslide margin of nearly 2 million votes, President-elect Chandrika Kumaratunga on Thursday claimed a “clear and massive mandate” to press on with her quest for a peaceful end to...
She then won a landslide victory in the presidential election held on November 9 when she defeated Srima Dissanayake, widow of the United National Party (UNP) candidate Gamini Dissanayake, who had been assassinated two weeks earlier.
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On November 9, 1994, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga won a landslide victory in Sri Lanka's presidential poll to com- plete a political earthquake of stunning dimensions.
She then won a landslide victory in the presidential election held on November 9 when she defeated Srima Dissanayake, widow of the United National Party (UNP) candidate Gamini Dissanayake, who had been assassinated two weeks earlier. On November 14 she appointed her mother prime minister.
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Kumaratunga herself was elected Prime Minister of a People's Alliance (PA) government on August 19, 1994, and President in the presidential election held shortly thereafter in November. She won 63 percent of the vote.
