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| Polonnaruwa | |
|---|---|
| Electoral District for the Parliament of Sri Lanka | |
| Administrative District | Polonnaruwa |
| Province | North Central |
| Polling divisions | Polonnaruwa, Minneriya, Medirigiriya |
| Population | 400,000[1] (2008) |
| Electorate | 280,337[2] (2010) |
| Area | 3,293 km2 (1,271 sq mi)[3] |
| Current Electoral District | |
| Number of members | 5 |
| MPs | Maithripala Sirisena, SLPP Roshan Ranasinghe, SLPP Siripala Gamalath, SLPP Amarakeerthi Athukorala, SLPP Kins Nelson, SJP |
Polonnaruwa 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 Polonnaruwa in the North Central province. The district currently elects 5 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 280,337 registered electors in 2010.[2]
Presidential Elections
1982 Presidential Election
Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982 for the district:[4]
| Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junius Jayewardene | UNP | 20,324 | 17,728 | 20,616 | 746 | 59,414 | 56.26% | |
| Hector Kobbekaduwa | SLFP | 11,777 | 12,818 | 12,286 | 362 | 37,243 | 35.26% | |
| Rohana Wijeweera | JVP | 2,736 | 3,181 | 2,161 | 60 | 8,138 | 7.71% | |
| Colvin R. de Silva | LSSP | 140 | 169 | 133 | 9 | 451 | 0.43% | |
| Kumar Ponnambalam | ACTC | 24 | 35 | 166 | 3 | 228 | 0.22% | |
| Vasudeva Nanayakkara | NSSP | 22 | 58 | 54 | 7 | 141 | 0.13% | |
| Valid Votes | 35,023 | 33,989 | 35,416 | 1,187 | 105,615 | 100.00% | ||
| Rejected Votes | 312 | 315 | 426 | 11 | 1,064 | |||
| Total Polled | 35,335 | 34,304 | 35,842 | 1,198 | 106,679 | |||
| Registered Electors | 43,240 | 40,329 | 44,055 | 127,624 | ||||
| Turnout | 81.72% | 85.06% | 81.36% | 83.59% | ||||
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 | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranasinghe Premadasa | UNP | 6,592 | 2,433 | 17,179 | 188 | 26,392 | 55.54% | |
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | SLFP | 3,497 | 2,123 | 14,320 | 233 | 20,173 | 42.45% | |
| Ossie Abeygunasekara | SLMP | 161 | 125 | 651 | 20 | 957 | 2.01% | |
| Valid Votes | 10,250 | 4,681 | 32,150 | 441 | 47,522 | 100.00% | ||
| Rejected Votes | 448 | 44 | 634 | 31 | 1,157 | |||
| Total Polled | 10,698 | 4,725 | 32,784 | 472 | 48,679 | |||
| Registered Electors | 48,728 | 50,128 | 64,885 | 163,741 | ||||
| Turnout | 21.95% | 9.43% | 50.53% | 29.73% | ||||
| Source:[5] | ||||||||
1994 Presidential Election
Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994 for the district:[6]
| Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chandrika Kumaratunga | PA | 23,977 | 25,779 | 36,865 | 2,286 | 88,907 | 59.08% | |
| Srima Dissanayake | UNP | 17,588 | 15,079 | 25,284 | 1,336 | 59,287 | 39.40% | |
| Hudson Samarasinghe | Ind 2 | 313 | 279 | 527 | 7 | 1,126 | 0.75% | |
| Nihal Galappaththi | SLPF | 111 | 169 | 173 | 16 | 469 | 0.31% | |
| Harischandra Wijayatunga | SMBP | 112 | 134 | 169 | 13 | 428 | 0.28% | |
| A. J. Ranasinghe | Ind 1 | 67 | 64 | 118 | 9 | 258 | 0.17% | |
| Valid Votes | 42,168 | 41,504 | 63,136 | 3,667 | 150,475 | 100.00% | ||
| Rejected Votes | 965 | 1,204 | 1,716 | 81 | 3,966 | |||
| Total Polled | 43,133 | 42,708 | 64,852 | 3,748 | 154,441 | |||
| Registered Electors | 55,264 | 57,393 | 87,535 | 200,192 | ||||
| Turnout | 78.05% | 74.41% | 74.09% | 77.15% | ||||
1999 Presidential Election
Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999 for the district:
| Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medirigiriya | Minneriya | Polonnaruwa | |||||
| Chandrika Kumaratunga | PA | 23,395 | 24,141 | 39,372 | 1,755 | 88,663 | 51.55% |
| Ranil Wickremasinghe | UNP | 20,345 | 18,627 | 32,472 | 1,154 | 72,598 | 42.21% |
| Nandana Gunathilake | JVP | 1,709 | 2,849 | 3,165 | 297 | 8,020 | 4.66% |
| Rajiva Wijesinha | Liberal | 132 | 140 | 269 | 1 | 542 | 0.32% |
| W.V.M. Ranjith | Ind 2 | 135 | 149 | 257 | 0 | 541 | 0.31% |
| T. Edirisuriya | Ind 1 | 94 | 107 | 189 | 2 | 392 | 0.23% |
| Harischandra Wijayatunga | SMBP | 95 | 119 | 146 | 21 | 381 | 0.22% |
| Kamal Karunadasa | PLSF | 86 | 66 | 92 | 3 | 247 | 0.14% |
| Abdul Rasool | SLMP | 55 | 60 | 125 | 0 | 240 | 0.14% |
| Vasudeva Nanayakkara | LDA | 33 | 51 | 65 | 16 | 165 | 0.10% |
| Hudson Samarasinghe | Ind 3 | 32 | 28 | 55 | 1 | 116 | 0.07% |
| A. Dissanayaka | DUNF | 10 | 26 | 26 | 3 | 65 | 0.04% |
| A.W. Premawardhana | PFF | 8 | 13 | 16 | 0 | 37 | 0.02% |
| Valid Votes | 46,129 | 46,376 | 76,249 | 3,253 | 172,007 | 100.00% | |
| Rejected Votes | 736 | 859 | 1,473 | 83 | 3,151 | ||
| Total Polled | 46,865 | 47,235 | 77,722 | 3,336 | 175,158 | ||
| Registered Electors | 60,171 | 61,803 | 98,929 | 220,903 | |||
| Turnout | 77.89% | 76.43% | 78.56% | 79.29% | |||
| Source:[7] | |||||||
2005 Presidential Election
Results of the 5th presidential election held on 17 November 2005 for the district: