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Vanni Electoral District is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district covers the administrative districts of Mannar, Mullaitivu and Vavuniya in the Northern province. The district currently elects 6 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 253,058 registered electors in 2014. The district is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 11.
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Vavuniya Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Vavuniya in Vavuniya 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. Vavuniya electoral district was replaced by the Vanni multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Vavuniya continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.
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- ↑ "Vanni District preferential vote results". Sri Lanka Mirror – Right to Know. Power to Change -. 15 November 2024. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ↑ "BREAKING – Sri Lanka's NPP secures 'super majority' in parliament as it secures biggest ever win". Tamil Guardian. 15 November 2024. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ↑ "Vanni District Preference Results Announced". Colombo Times – 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗿𝗶 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗮. 15 November 2024. Retrieved 15 November 2024.