The National People's Power (NPP), led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, clinched a historic victory in the Sri Lankan parliamentary elections on Friday, securing a two-thirds majority and dominating the Jaffna electoral district, which is the heartland of the country's Tamil minority, news agency PTI reported.

Contesting under the Malimawa (compass) symbol, the NPP won 159 out of 225 seats in parliament. This is the first time that any party has achieved a two-thirds majority under Sri Lanka's proportional representation system, introduced in 1978. The NPP secured more than 6.8 million votes (61 per cent) in the Sri Lanka elections, the poll body of the country said.