Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party

Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party was a political party in Sri Lanka. SLFSP was formed in 1964 by C. P. de Silva when he broke away from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. In the 1965 elections, SLFSP contested in coalition with the United National Party.^[1] In total SLFSP had 32 candidates, who received a total of 130 429 votes (3.2% of the nationwide vote).^[2] Five MPs were elected from the party.^[3] SLFSP joined the coalition government led by UNP.^[4]

Sri Lanka Freedom Socialist Party
Founder	C. P. de Silva
Founded	1964; 61 years ago (1964)
Split from	Sri Lanka Freedom Party
Merged into	United National Party
Ideology	Socialism
Election symbol
Sun
Politics of Sri Lanka Political parties Elections

SLFSP amalgamated the Lanka Prajathanthravadi Pakshaya. Soon thereafter SLFSP merged into UNP.^{[citation needed]}

Electoral history

Sri Lanka Parliamentary Elections

Election year	Votes	Vote %	Seats won	+/–	Government
1965	130,429	3.22%	5 / 151		Government