evidence: On Saturday, September 21, 2024, Sri Lanka will hold presidential elections. The 2024 presidential election will be the first election in which people will go to the polls since the nationwide protest movement (Aragalaya) in 2022. A historic number of candidates will be contesting in this presidential election. [...] Sri Lanka will hold its presidential election on September 21, 2024. The Election Commission of Sri Lanka will set up 13,134 polling centers and 45 counting centers across 160 polling divisions in 22 electoral districts. No more than 1,245 voters will be assigned to each polling station. [...] The presidential election is governed by the Constitution and the Presidential Elections Act (No. 15 of 1981). Additionally, the Election Commission of Sri Lanka issues circulars throughout the electoral period with directives on the conduct of elections.