Maharagama Electoral District

Maharagama Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between July 1977 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Maharagama in Colombo District, Western 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] Maharagama electoral district was replaced by the Colombo multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Maharagama continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

Members of Parliament

Key

  Independent     Sri Lanka Freedom Party     United National Party  

ElectionMemberPartyTerm
1977 Premaratne Gunasekera United National Party 1977-1983
By-Election 1983 Dinesh Gunawardena Mahajana Eksath Peramuna 1983-1989

Elections

1977 Parliamentary General Election

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

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
Premarathne GunasekeraUnited National PartyElephant24,95051.69%
Stanley TillekeratneSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand18,23337.78%
D.L.PathirageLanka Sama Samaja PartyKey4,5369.40%
Victor Bandara SenaratneIndependentEye4790.99%
Don Edussoriyage WiplulasenaIndependentLamp660.14%
Valid Votes48,264100.00%
Rejected Votes124
Total Polled48,388
Registered Electors57,858
Turnout83.63%

1983 Parliamentary By Election
CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
Dinesh GunawardenaMahajana Eksath PeramunaCart Wheel27,05455.46%
Gamini WijesekeraUnited National PartyElephant21,26343.59%
W. Y. JayawardeneIndependentChair4610.95%
Valid Votes48,778100.00%
Rejected Votes152
Total Polled48,930
Registered Electors71,597
Turnout68.34%

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.

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