Voting for the presidential election to elect Sri Lanka's Seventh Executive President, concluded at 5 pm today (Nov 16).
The poll, which saw 35 candidates contesting for the top job in the country, had taken place across 12,845 voting centres from 7 am.
More than 25,000 police personnel had been deployed for security during the election.
A 2.2 feet long ballot paper along with plastic and cardboard ballot boxes had been used during the election due to the high number of candidates.
(Pics by Amila Gamage, Indika Handuwala, Deva Athiran, G Krishanthan, SLPP)
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