Nallur Electoral District

Nallur Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between March 1960 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Nallur in Jaffna District, Northern Province. The district was carved out of the eastern part of Jaffna Electoral District in March 1960. 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] Nallur electoral district was replaced by the Jaffna multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Nallur continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

Members of Parliament

Key

  Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi   All Ceylon Tamil Congress   TULF

Election		Member	Party	Term
	1960 (March)	E. M. V. Naganathan	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi	1960-1960
	1960 (July)			1960-1965
	1965			1965-1970
	1970	C. Arulampalam	All Ceylon Tamil Congress	1970-1977
	1977	M. Sivasithamparam	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	%
	E. M. V. Naganathan	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi [3]	House	9,651	49.24%
	C. Arulampalam	All Ceylon Tamil Congress	Bicycle	6,808	34.73%
	A. Thurairajasingam	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	Key	1,870	9.54%
	M. Karthigesan	Communist Party	Star	757	3.86%
	Chelvarayan Manmatharayan		Sun	291	1.48%
	Sinnappu Sinnadurai		Ladder	224	1.14%
Valid Votes				19,601	100.00%
Rejected Votes				166
Total Polled				19,767
Registered Electors				26,966
Turnout				73.30%

1960 (July) Parliamentary General Election

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

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	E. M. V. Naganathan	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi [3]	House	11,728	65.44%
	C. Arulampalam	All Ceylon Tamil Congress	Chair	6,195	34.56%
Valid Votes				17,923	100.00%
Rejected Votes				142
Total Polled				18,065
Registered Electors				26,966
Turnout				66.99%

1965 Parliamentary General Election

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

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	E. M. V. Naganathan	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi [3]	House	10,301	45.04%
	C. Arulampalam	All Ceylon Tamil Congress	Bicycle	9,860	43.11%
	Arulambalam Visuvanathan	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	Key	2,709	11.85%
Valid Votes				22,870	100.00%
Rejected Votes				86
Total Polled				22,956
Registered Electors				31,864
Turnout				72.04%

1970 Parliamentary General Election

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

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	C. Arulampalam	All Ceylon Tamil Congress	Bicycle	13,116	46.78%
	E. M. V. Naganathan	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi [3]	House	12,508	44.61%
	A. Ratnam		Pair of Scales	1,593	5.68%
	V. Satchithanandam	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	Key	484	1.73%
	C. Thanabalasingham		Cockerel	223	0.80%
	S. Srinivasan	Independent	Umbrella	114	0.41%
Valid Votes				28,038	100.00%
Rejected Votes				92
Total Polled				28,130
Registered Electors				35,747
Turnout				78.69%

C. Arulampalam defected to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.

1977 Parliamentary General Election

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

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	M. Sivasithamparam	Tamil United Liberation Front	Sun	29,858	89.42%
	K. Ramanathan	Independent	Omnibus	1,721	5.15%
	C. Arulampalam	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	Hand	1,042	3.12%
	Rajah Rajeswaram Thangarajah	Independent	Pair of Scales	667	2.00%
	Sivakolunthu Subramaniuam	Independent	Umbrella	104	0.31%
Valid Votes				33,392	100.00%
Rejected Votes				137
Total Polled				33,529
Registered Electors				40,205
Turnout				83.40%

M. Sivasithamparam 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, Sivasithamparam forfeited his seat in Parliament on 22 October 1983. ^[8]

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.^{[ dead link ]}