Colombo East Electoral District

This article is about the former electoral district in Sri Lanka. For other uses, see Colombo (disambiguation).

Colombo East electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between July 1977 and February 1989. The district was named after the city of Colombo in Colombo District, Western Province. The district was created by the division of the Colombo South Electoral District into Colombo East and Colombo West electoral districts in July 1977. The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka introduced the proportional representation electoral system for electing members of Parliament. The existing 160 mainly single-member electoral districts were replaced with 22 multi-member electoral districts.[1] Colombo East electoral district was replaced by the Colombo multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Colombo East continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

Members of Parliament

Key

  Independent   UNP

Election Member Party Term
1977 Edmund Samarawickrema United National Party 1977-1989

Elections

1977 Parliamentary general election

Results of the 8th parliamentary election held on 21 July 1977 for the district:[2]

Candidate Party Symbol Votes %
Edmund Samarawickrema United National Party Elephant 19,721 58.52
Vivian S. Kodikara Sri Lanka Freedom Party Hand 7,678 22.78
Bernard Soysa Lanka Sama Samaja Party Key 5,951 17.66
Gunasena Subasinghe Umbrella 103 0.31
M.H. Jayaratne Peiris Clock 57 0.17
M.P. Ariyadasa Flower 56 0.17
Valid Votes 33,566 99.60
Rejected Votes 136 0.40
Total Polled 33,702 100.00
Registered Electors 43,574
Turnout 77.34

References

  1. ^ "The Electoral System". Parliament of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2010-11-27.
  2. ^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17.