UPFA leads in LG polls [March 18 2011]
The United People’s Freedom Alliance takes a convincing lead in the Local Government elections held on Thursday. The UPFA takes lead in most counting centres at regional level.
Political observers predicted another landslide victory for the UPFA which is set to win almost all the local government bodies they controlled. Even power in some of the pradeshiya saba held by the UNP have now be recaptured by the UPFA as people amply demonstrated their support for the Government.