Rattota Electoral District

Rattota electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between March 1960 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Rattota in Matale District, Central 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] Rattota electoral district was replaced by the Matale multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections.

Members of Parliament

Key

  Independent   SLFP   UNP

ElectionMemberPartyTerm
1960 (March) Chandrasena Munaweera Sri Lanka Freedom Party 1960
1960 (July) 1960-1965
1965 S. B. Yalegama 1965-1970
1970 1970-1977
1977 P. B. Kaviratne United National Party 1977-1989

Elections

1960 (March) Parliamentary General Election

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

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
Chandrasena MunaweeraSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand6,19836.39
V. T. NanayakkaraUnited National PartyElephant4,93728.99
Nimal KarunatilakeMahajana Eksath PeramunaCartwheel1,58717.78
Thomas JayatungaBell1,3397.86
G.S. AbeyawardenaClock8034.72
Tikiri Banda ElkaduwaSaw6643.90
G. M. M. SeneviratneUmbrella3952.32
Charles AmunugamaEye3191.87
G.H. DharmapalaBook2881.69
T.B. WegodapolaLadder2671.57
Valid Votes16,79798.62
Rejected Votes2351.38
Total Polled17,032100.00
Registered Electors21,601
Turnout78.85

1960 (July) Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 5th parliamentary election held on 20 July 1960:[3]

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
Chandrasena MunaweeraSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand8,58950.14
V. T. NanayakkaraUnited National PartyElephant6,71039.17
A. BindusaraMahajana Eksath PeramunaCartwheel1,2887.52
D. Piyumasinghe YapaLadder4102.39
Valid Votes16,99799.22
Rejected Votes1330.78
Total Polled17,130100.00
Registered Electors21,601
Turnout79.30

1965 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 6th parliamentary election held on 22 March 1965:[4]

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
S. B. YalegamaSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand10,48144.56
Chandrasena MunaweeraSri Lanka Freedom Socialist PartySun9,36339.81
S. W. AlawathuwalaEye3,32214.12
Valid Votes23,16698.49
Rejected Votes3561.51
Total Polled23,522100.00
Registered Electors27,939
Turnout84.19

1970 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 7th parliamentary election held on 27 May 1970:[5]

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
S. B. YalegamaSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand16,03957.71
Chandrasena MunaweeraUnited National PartyElephant11,53641.51
Valid Votes27,57599.21
Rejected Votes2190.79
Total Polled27,794100.00
Registered Electors31,422
Turnout88.45

1977 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 8th parliamentary election held on 21 July 1977:[6]

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
P. B. KaviratneUnited National PartyElephant22,51366.37
S. B. YalegamaSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand10,47830.89
Senaka EllawalaStar4371.29
L. M. PereraLamp2530.75
Ukkubanda TennakoonMahajana Eksath PeramunaCartwheel1590.47
I. G. Jayawickrema RupasingheFlower780.23
Valid Votes33,73199.45
Rejected Votes1870.55
Total Polled33,918100.00
Registered Electors38,740
Turnout87.55

References
  1. "The Electoral System". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
  2. "Result of Parliamentary General Election March 1960" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  3. "Result of Parliamentary General Election July 1960" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  4. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1965" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  5. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1970" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  6. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 10 February 2020.

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