Upul Mahendra

Rajapaksha Pathirannehelage Upul Mahendra Rajapaksha (born 25 September 1971) is a Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament.[1]

Hon.
Upul Mahendra
MP
උපුල් මහේන්ද්‍ර
உபுல் மகேந்திரா
Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Assumed office
20 August 2020
ConstituencyGampaha District
Member of the Western Provincial Council
In office
21 April 2014 – 21 April 2019
ConstituencyGampaha District
Personal details
Born
Rajapaksha Pathirannehelage Upul Mahendra Rajapaksha

(1971-09-25) 25 September 1971
Gampaha, Sri Lanka
Political partySri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
Other political
affiliations		Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance

Political career

Upul Mahendra was born on 25 September 1971.[1] He entered politics in 2002 by contesting to the local government election and lost the election. But in 2004 he was selected to the divisional council because one member lost his seat due to disciplinary reason. In 2006 and 2011 local government elections he got the highest number of votes in the division and become a chairperson of the divisional council. He was a chairperson of the Attanagalla Divisional Council from 2006 to 2014. In 2014 He contested to the provincial council election and won. He was a member of the Western Provincial Council from 2014 to 2019.[2] He contested the 2015 parliamentary election as one of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) electoral alliance's candidates in Gampaha District but failed to get elected after coming 10th amongst the UPFA candidates.[3][4][5][6] He contested the 2020 parliamentary election as a Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance electoral alliance candidate in Gampaha District and was elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka.[7][8][9]

Electoral history
Electoral history of Upul Mahendra
Election Constituency Party Alliance Votes Result
2014 provincial[10]Gampaha DistrictSri Lanka Freedom PartyUnited People's Freedom Alliance37,674Elected
2015 parliamentary[6]Gampaha DistrictSri Lanka Freedom PartyUnited People's Freedom Alliance54,763Not elected
2020 parliamentary[8]Gampaha DistrictSri Lanka Podujana PeramunaSri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance67,756Elected

References
  1. "Directory of Members: Upul Mahendra Rajapaksha". Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka: Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  2. "Meet your new parliamentarians". The Sunday Times. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 16 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  3. "Part I : Section (I) — General - Government Notifications - The Parliamentary Elections Act, No. 1 of 1981" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. No. 1923/3. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 13 July 2015. p. 48A. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  4. "Ranil tops with over 500,000 votes in Colombo". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 19 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  5. "Preferential Votes". Daily News. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 19 August 2015. Archived from the original on 20 August 2015.
  6. "Preferential Votes" (PDF). srilankanelections.com.
  7. "Part I : Section (I) — General - Government Notifications - Parliamentary Elections Act, No. 1 of 1981" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary. No. 2187/26. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 8 August 2020. p. 2A. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  8. "Nalaka Godahewa tops in Gampaha". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 7 August 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  9. Parasuraman, Lakshme (9 August 2020). "Over 60 new faces in Parliament". Sunday Observer. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  10. "Full list of preferential votes". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 31 March 2014. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014.


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