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Badulla | |
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Electoral District for the Parliament of Sri Lanka | |
Administrative District | Badulla |
Province | Uva |
Polling divisions | 9 |
Population | 861,000[1] (2008) |
Electorate | 574,814[2] (2010) |
Area | 2,861 km2 (1,105 sq mi)[3] |
Current Electoral District | |
Number of members | 8 |
MPs | Lal Chamika Buddhadasa, UPFA Nimal Siripala De Silva, UPFA Lakshman Senewiratne, UPFA K. Velayudam, UNP Amith Thenuka Vidanagamage, UPFA |
Badulla electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Badulla in the Uva province. The district currently elects 8 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 574,814 registered electors in 2010.[2]
1982 Presidential Election
Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982 for the district:
Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Badulla | Bandara -wela |
Hali Ela |
Hapu- tale |
Mahi- yanga -naya |
Passara | Uva Parana -gama |
Weli- mada |
Wiya- luwa | |||||
Junius Jayewardene | UNP | 12,435 | 15,718 | 14,196 | 11,822 | 21,340 | 14,400 | 17,564 | 18,673 | 12,251 | 2,663 | 141,062 | 58.67% |
Hector Kobbekaduwa | SLFP | 8,485 | 12,755 | 10,249 | 9,257 | 7,076 | 8,830 | 9,251 | 10,078 | 10,836 | 1,645 | 88,462 | 36.79% |
Rohana Wijeweera | JVP | 717 | 652 | 1,011 | 482 | 443 | 379 | 1,851 | 1,745 | 242 | 191 | 7,713 | 3.21% |
Colvin R. de Silva | LSSP | 253 | 245 | 212 | 242 | 229 | 230 | 206 | 199 | 237 | 62 | 2,115 | 0.88% |
Kumar Ponnambalam | ACTC | 76 | 97 | 69 | 55 | 27 | 118 | 54 | 61 | 62 | 6 | 625 | 0.26% |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara | NSSP | 37 | 55 | 41 | 55 | 33 | 61 | 67 | 35 | 75 | 4 | 463 | 0.19% |
Valid Votes | 22,003 | 29,522 | 25,778 | 21,913 | 29,148 | 24,018 | 28,993 | 30,791 | 23,703 | 4,571 | 240,440 | 100.00% | |
Rejected Votes | 228 | 375 | 351 | 242 | 287 | 395 | 335 | 437 | 289 | 43 | 2,982 | ||
Total Polled | 22,231 | 29,897 | 26,129 | 22,155 | 29,435 | 24,413 | 29,328 | 31,228 | 23,992 | 4,614 | 243,422 | ||
Registered Electors | 27,419 | 35,570 | 30,598 | 27,756 | 33,514 | 28,077 | 33,670 | 36,128 | 27,455 | 280,187 | |||
Turnout | 81.08% | 84.05% | 85.39% | 79.82% | 87.83% | 86.95% | 87.10% | 86.44% | 87.39% | 86.88% | |||
Source:[4] |
1988 Presidential Election
Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988 for the district:
Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Badulla | Bandara -wela |
Hali Ela |
Hapu- tale |
Mahi- yanga -naya |
Passara | Uva Parana -gama |
Weli- mada |
Wiya- luwa | |||||
Ranasinghe Premadasa | UNP | 4,968 | 14,191 | 10,005 | 10,426 | 16,990 | 7,056 | 3,255 | 7,491 | 6,397 | 80,779 | 60.09% | |
Sirimavo Bandaranaike | SLFP | 3,160 | 11,182 | 6,585 | 8,003 | 7,682 | 3,500 | 956 | 3,580 | 5,575 | 50,223 | 37.36% | |
Oswin Abeygunasekara | SLMP | 464 | 776 | 543 | 412 | 499 | 230 | 52 | 232 | 214 | 3,422 | 2.55% | |
Valid Votes | 8,592 | 26,149 | 17,133 | 18,841 | 25,171 | 10,786 | 4,263 | 11,303 | 12,186 | 134,424 | 100.00% | ||
Rejected Votes | 185 | 717 | 466 | 401 | 435 | 425 | 130 | 232 | 285 | 3,276 | |||
Total Polled | 8,777 | 26,866 | 17,599 | 19,242 | 25,606 | 11,211 | 4,393 | 11,535 | 12,471 | 137,700 | |||
Registered Electors | 31,924 | 42,467 | 35,367 | 30,645 | 46,724 | 31,509 | 38,520 | 41,846 | 30,460 | 329,462 | |||
Turnout | 27.49% | 63.26% | 49.76% | 62.79% | 54.80% | 35.58% | 11.40% | 27.57% | 40.94% | 41.80% | |||
Source:[5] |
1989 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989 for the district:
Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Badulla | Bandara -wela |
Hali Ela |
Hapu- tale |
Mahi- yanga -naya |
Passara | Uva Parana -gama |
Weli- mada |
Wiya- luwa | ||||||
United National Party / Ceylon Workers' Congress |
10,874 | 14,078 | 14,240 | 11,495 | 25,158 | 13,791 | 15,835 | 14,743 | 12,581 | 2,294 | 135,089 | 58.97% | 5 | |
Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 7,154 | 10,444 | 8,454 | 7,444 | 9,120 | 8,475 | 9,739 | 10,521 | 8,067 | 1,593 | 81,011 | 35.36% | 3 | |
United Socialist Alliance (CPSL, LSSP, NSSP, SLMP) |
1,704 | 493 | 1,122 | 333 | 124 | 583 | 171 | 380 | 673 | 129 | 5,712 | 2.49% | 0 | |
United Lanka People's Party | 716 | 432 | 673 | 398 | 360 | 559 | 344 | 1,828 | 244 | 35 | 5,589 | 2.44% | 0 | |
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 171 | 363 | 223 | 93 | 75 | 112 | 337 | 135 | 86 | 98 | 1,693 | 0.74% | 0 | |
Valid Votes | 20,619 | 25,810 | 24,712 | 19,763 | 34,837 | 23,520 | 26,426 | 27,607 | 21,651 | 4,149 | 229,094 | 100.00% | 8 | |
Rejected Votes | 1,360 | 1,958 | 2,228 | 1,509 | 2,341 | 2,079 | 3,429 | 2,424 | 2,248 | 128 | 19,704 | |||
Total Polled | 21,979 | 27,768 | 26,940 | 21,272 | 37,178 | 25,599 | 29,855 | 30,031 | 23,899 | 4,277 | 248,798 | |||
Registered Electors | 30,982 | 41,805 | 34,666 | 30,052 | 46,406 | 31,156 | 38,268 | 41,334 | 30,170 | 4,482 | 329,321 | |||
Turnout | 70.94% | 66.42% | 77.71% | 70.78% | 80.11% | 82.16% | 78.02% | 72.65% | 79.21% | 95.43% | 75.55% | |||
Sources:[6] |
The following candidates were elected:[6] W. J. M. Lokubandara (UNP), 52,559 preference votes (pv); Samaraweera Weerawanni (UNP), 35,210 pv; Lakshman Senewiratne (UNP), 32,427 pv; Hema Ratnayake (SLFP), 28,635 pv; Edwin Wickremarathne Dodangodage Don (SLFP), 28,385 pv; Ravindra Samaraweera (UNP), 26,348 pv; Madduma Bandara Sethapenage Appuhamy Ralalage (SLFP), 23,066 pv; and Amarakone Chandra Karunaratne (UNP), 20,026 pv.
1994 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the 10th parliamentary election held on 16 August 1994 for the district:
Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Badulla | Bandara -wela |
Hali Ela |
Hapu- tale |
Mahi- yanga -naya |
Passara | Uva Parana -gama |
Weli- mada |
Wiya- luwa | |||||
United National Party / Ceylon Workers' Congress |
14,147 | 21,713 | 20,677 | 19,574 | 27,956 | 21,180 | 19,310 | 19,935 | 14,340 | 3,299 | 182,131 | 54.04% | 5 |
People's Alliance (SLFP et al.) | 14,070 | 19,545 | 15,341 | 14,491 | 16,702 | 13,012 | 16,792 | 18,811 | 12,646 | 5,136 | 146,546 | 43.48% | 3 |
Sri Lanka Progressive Front (JVP) | 340 | 396 | 465 | 311 | 319 | 243 | 520 | 612 | 195 | 154 | 3,555 | 1.05% | 0 |
Independent 2 | 116 | 466 | 167 | 349 | 75 | 151 | 192 | 992 | 80 | 13 | 2,601 | 0.77% | 0 |
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 258 | 172 | 168 | 92 | 242 | 62 | 211 | 154 | 93 | 89 | 1,541 | 0.46% | 0 |
Independent 1 | 30 | 112 | 76 | 75 | 86 | 64 | 77 | 65 | 87 | 13 | 685 | 0.20% | 0 |
Valid Votes | 28,961 | 42,404 | 36,894 | 34,892 | 45,380 | 34,712 | 37,102 | 40,569 | 27,441 | 8,704 | 337,059 | 100.00% | 8 |