Eheliyagoda Electoral District

Eheliyagoda electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between July 1977 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Eheliyagoda in Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa 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] Eheliyagoda electoral district was replaced by the Ratnapura multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the proportional representation system.

Members of Parliament

Key

  Independent     Sri Lanka Freedom Party     United National Party  

ElectionMemberPartyTerm
1977 Mervyn Kularatne United National Party

Elections

1977 Parliamentary General Election

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

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
Mervyn KularatneElephant21,77650.54
Vasudeva NanayakkaraUmbrella14,80434.36
Dharmaprema JayawardenaHand6,12814.22
T. DharmapalaTree2110.49
Rohana WijesigheLamp1030.24
Wickremasinghe JayasekeraBell420.10
Valid Votes43,06499.94
Rejected Votes250.06
Total Polled43,089100.00
Registered Electors48,447
Turnout88.94

References
  1. "The Electoral System". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
  2. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka.

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