Uduvil Electoral District

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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.

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Members of Parliament

Key

   Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi      Tamil United Liberation Front   

ElectionMemberPartyTerm
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]

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
  V. Dharmalingam Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi [3] House9,03344.07%
  Ponnambalam Nagalingam Lanka Sama Samaja Party Key3,81118.59%
  V. Ponnampalam Communist Party Star3,54117.27%
J. D. Asservatham Independent Book1,5527.57%
S. Handy Perimbanayagam Independent Pair of Spectacles1,2416.05%
N. Sivanesan Independent Sun1,0084.92%
V. Veerasingham Independent Cockerel3121.52%
Valid Votes20,498100.00%
Rejected Votes212
Total Polled20,710
Registered Electors27,278
Turnout75.92%

1960 (July) Parliamentary General Election

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

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
  V. Dharmalingam Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi [3] House11,47563.12%
  Ponnambalam Nagalingam Lanka Sama Samaja Party Key6,70436.88%
Valid Votes18,179100.00%
Rejected Votes195
Total Polled18,374
Registered Electors27,278
Turnout67.36%

1965 Parliamentary General Election

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

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
  V. Dharmalingam Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi [3] House11,63848.61%
  Ponnambalam Nagalingam Lanka Sama Samaja Party Key6,72628.09%
 N. Sivaneson All Ceylon Tamil Congress Bicycle5,57723.29%
Valid Votes23,941100.00%
Rejected Votes287
Total Polled24,228
Registered Electors33,280
Turnout72.80%

1970 Parliamentary General Election

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

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
  V. Dharmalingam Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi [3] House14,12049.27%
 N. Sivaneson All Ceylon Tamil Congress Bicycle11,65640.68%
Kumaraswami Vinodhan Independent Pair of Scales1,3624.75%
  V. Karalasingham Lanka Sama Samaja Party Key1,2644.41%
P. V. M. K. M. Sinnathurai Independent Umbrella2540.89%
Valid Votes28,656100.00%
Rejected Votes119
Total Polled28,775
Registered Electors36,690
Turnout78.43%

1977 Parliamentary General Election

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

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
  V. Dharmalingam Tamil United Liberation Front Sun27,55083.99%
 R. S. Aloysious United National Party Elephant3,30010.06%
C. P. V. M. K. Muthaliar Independent Umbrella1,0653.25%
K. N. Ratnavel Independent Ladder8872.70%
Valid Votes32,802100.00%
Rejected Votes199
Total Polled33,001
Registered Electors41,373
Turnout79.76%

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. 1 2 3 4 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. Archived from the original on 7 April 2002. Retrieved 23 March 2010.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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