evidence: Since 2019, the JVP has contested elections under its own national coalition, the National People's Power (NPP) and has since been a prominent party in Sri Lankan politics.[17][18] In the 2024 presidential election, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected President of Sri Lanka.[19] [...] 2019 presidential elections [edit]The party went to the elections as National People's Power, and its candidate was Anura Kumara Dissanayake. He received 418,553 votes, which accounted for 3.16% of valid votes in the presidential election. Since then, the party has been called the NPP or JJB (Jathika Jana Balavegaya), but is still referred to as JVP casually.[79] [...] 2024 presidential election [edit]Anura Kumara Dissanayake ran for a second time under the banner of the NPP.The election was a three-way contest between Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe,Incumbent Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa and Dissanayake. The first vote count concluded with no candidate winning a majority. Dissanayake won a plurality of the vote with 42.31%, followed by Premadasa with 32.76%. Incumbent president Wickremesinghe finished third, winning only 17.27% of the vote. Since no candidate won a majority, a second round of vote counting was held for the first time in Sri Lanka's history under its limited ranked voting system.The following day, Dissanayake was declared the winner, winning 55.89% of the vote in the second round. He took office the following day.[80]