Colombo East electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between July 1977 and February 1989. The district was named after the city of Colombo in Colombo District, Western Province. The district was created by the division of the Colombo South Electoral District into Colombo East and Colombo West electoral districts in July 1977. 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] Colombo East electoral district was replaced by the Colombo multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Colombo East continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

Members of Parliament

Key

  Independent   UNP

ElectionMemberPartyTerm
1977 Edmund Samarawickrema United National Party 1977-1989

Elections

1977 Parliamentary general election

Results of the 8th parliamentary election held on 21 July 1977 for the district:[2]

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
Edmund SamarawickremaUnited National PartyElephant19,72158.52
Vivian S. KodikaraSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand7,67822.78
Bernard SoysaLanka Sama Samaja PartyKey5,95117.66
Gunasena SubasingheUmbrella1030.31
M.H. Jayaratne PeirisClock570.17
M.P. AriyadasaFlower560.17
Valid Votes33,56699.60
Rejected Votes1360.40
Total Polled33,702100.00
Registered Electors43,574
Turnout77.34

References

  1. ↑ "The Electoral System". Parliament of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2010-11-27.
  2. ↑ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17.

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