Uduvil Electoral District

Uduvil Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between March 1960 and February 1989. The district was renamed Manipay Electoral District in July 1977. The district was named after the towns of Uduvil and Manipay in Jaffna District, Northern Province. 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] Manipay electoral district was replaced by the Jaffna multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Manipay continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

Members of Parliament

Key

  Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi     Tamil United Liberation Front  

Election		Member	Party	Term
	1960 (March)	V. Dharmalingam	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi	1960-1960
	1960 (July)			1960-1965
	1965			1965-1970
	1970			1970-1977
	1977		Tamil United Liberation Front	1977-1989

Elections

1960 (March) Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 4th parliamentary election held on 19 March 1960:[2]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	V. Dharmalingam	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi[3]	House	9,033	44.07%
	Ponnambalam Nagalingam	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	Key	3,811	18.59%
	V. Ponnampalam	Communist Party	Star	3,541	17.27%
	J. D. Asservatham	Independent	Book	1,552	7.57%
	S. Handy Perimbanayagam	Independent	Pair of Spectacles	1,241	6.05%
	N. Sivanesan	Independent	Sun	1,008	4.92%
	V. Veerasingham	Independent	Cockerel	312	1.52%
Valid Votes				20,498	100.00%
Rejected Votes				212
Total Polled				20,710
Registered Electors				27,278
Turnout				75.92%

1960 (July) Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 5th parliamentary election held on 20 July 1960:[4]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	V. Dharmalingam	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi[3]	House	11,475	63.12%
	Ponnambalam Nagalingam	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	Key	6,704	36.88%
Valid Votes				18,179	100.00%
Rejected Votes				195
Total Polled				18,374
Registered Electors				27,278
Turnout				67.36%

1965 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 6th parliamentary election held on 22 March 1965:[5]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	V. Dharmalingam	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi[3]	House	11,638	48.61%
	Ponnambalam Nagalingam	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	Key	6,726	28.09%
	N. Sivaneson	All Ceylon Tamil Congress	Bicycle	5,577	23.29%
Valid Votes				23,941	100.00%
Rejected Votes				287
Total Polled				24,228
Registered Electors				33,280
Turnout				72.80%

1970 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 7th parliamentary election held on 27 May 1970:[6]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	V. Dharmalingam	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi[3]	House	14,120	49.27%
	N. Sivaneson	All Ceylon Tamil Congress	Bicycle	11,656	40.68%
	Kumaraswami Vinodhan	Independent	Pair of Scales	1,362	4.75%
	V. Karalasingham	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	Key	1,264	4.41%
	P. V. M. K. M. Sinnathurai	Independent	Umbrella	254	0.89%
Valid Votes				28,656	100.00%
Rejected Votes				119
Total Polled				28,775
Registered Electors				36,690
Turnout				78.43%

1977 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 8th parliamentary election held on 21 July 1977:[7]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	V. Dharmalingam	Tamil United Liberation Front	Sun	27,550	83.99%
	R. S. Aloysious	United National Party	Elephant	3,300	10.06%
	C. P. V. M. K. Muthaliar	Independent	Umbrella	1,065	3.25%
	K. N. Ratnavel	Independent	Ladder	887	2.70%
Valid Votes				32,802	100.00%
Rejected Votes				199
Total Polled				33,001
Registered Electors				41,373
Turnout				79.76%

Visvanathan Dharmalingam and all other TULF MPs boycotted Parliament from the middle of 1983 for a number of reasons: they were under pressure from Sri Lankan Tamil militants not to stay in Parliament beyond their normal six-year term; the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka required them to swear an oath unconditionally renouncing support for a separate state; and the Black July riots in which up to 3,000 Tamils were murdered by Sinhalese mobs. After three months of absence, Dharmalingam forfeited his seat in Parliament on 8 October 1983.[8]

Visvanathan Dharmalingam was murdered on 2 September 1985.[9]

References & footnotes

1. "The Electoral System". Parliament of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2010-11-27.
2. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1960-03-19" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-12.
3. Also known as the Federal Party
4. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1960-07-20" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24.
5. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1965" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-13.
6. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1970" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-09.
7. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17.
8. Wickramasinghe, Wimal (18 January 2008). "Saga of crossovers, expulsions and resignations etc. Referendum for extention [sic] of Parliament". The Island, Sri Lanka.
9. KT Rajasingham. "Chapter 33: India shows its hand". SRI LANKA: THE UNTOLD STORY. Asia Times. Retrieved 23 March 2010.