Sri Lanka's former strongman leader Mahinda Rajapaksa's narrowly leads in early parliamentary elections results released earlier today  as he awaits a verdict on his come-back bid eight months after being unseated in a shocking election loss.

Mahinda Rajapaksa's United People's Freedom Alliance has won twenty one of the two hundred and twenty five  seats in results released so far from yesterday’s vote's vote, while his closest rival sitting Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's United National Party has won only twenty .

., Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya said the election was incident-free other than some minor complaints. Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said thirty five people