President Mahinda Rajapaksa won presidential election as the Sixth Executive President of Sri lanka by a massive majority of over 1.8million votes on 26th january 2010.
Mr. Rajapaksa led in 17 out of 22 electoral districts gaining 57.88% of the votes polled.
He had polled 6,015,934 of the votes.Common opposition candidate General Sarath Fonsela obtained 4,173,185 votes.
Mr. Rajapaka was re-electedas President with a majority of 1,842,749 votes.