Passara Electoral District

The Passara electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between March 1960 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Passara in Badulla District, Uva 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] The Passara electoral district was replaced by the Badulla multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the proportional representation system, continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

Members of Parliament

Key

  Independent     Sri Lanka Freedom Party     United National Party  

ElectionMemberPartyTerm
1960 (March) S. A. Peeris United National Party 1960
1960 (July) Amarananda Ratnayake Sri Lanka Freedom Party 1960-1965
1965 S. A. Peeris United National Party 1965-1970
1970 S. A. S. Somapala Sri Lanka Freedom Party 1970-1977
1977 W. M. Karunaratne United National Party 1977-1989

Elections

1960 (March) Parliamentary General Election

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

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
S. A. PeerisUnited National PartyElephant3,28638.02
Amarananda RatnayakeSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand3,21637.21
Doyle KularatneKey1,25314.50
C. B. W. PalagolleCartwheel4184.84
G. Daya GunasekeraUmbrella3083.56
Valid Votes8,48198.14
Rejected Votes1611.86
Total Polled8,642100.00
Registered Electors11,511
Turnout75.08

1960 (July) Parliamentary General Election

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

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
Amarananda RatnayakeSri Lanka Freedom PartyElephant4,70052.90
S. A. PeerisUnited National PartyHand4,09846.13
Valid Votes8,79899.03
Rejected Votes860.97
Total Polled8,884100.00
Registered Electors11,511
Turnout77.18

1965 Parliamentary General Election

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

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
S. A. PeerisUnited National PartyHand6,02250.79
Amarananda RatnayakeSri Lanka Freedom PartyElephant5,69448.03
Valid Votes11,71698.82
Rejected Votes1401.18
Total Polled11,856100.00
Registered Electors14,459
Turnout82.00

1970 Parliamentary General Election

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

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
S. A. S. SomapalaSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand8,38257.44
Lilian PeerisUnited National PartyElephant5,79839.73
Pin Siri FernandoBell1761.21
Ratnam KumaravelSewing Machine1140.78
Valid Votes14,47099.16
Rejected Votes1220.84
Total Polled14,592100.00
Registered Electors16,461
Turnout88.65

1977 Parliamentary General Election
CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
W. M. KarunaratneUnited National PartyElephant10,45159.21
S. SeneviratneSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand5,99333.95
R. B. DissanayakeStar4022.28
A. RatnayakeLamp3622.05
P. WimalasuriyaOmnibus1861.05
R. M. PunchibandaFlower950.54
Valid Votes17,48999.08
Rejected Votes1620.92
Total Polled17,651100.00
Registered Electors19,925
Turnout88.59

References
  1. "The Electoral System". Parliament of Sri Lanka.
  2. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 19 March 1960" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  3. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 20 July 1960" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  4. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1965" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  5. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1970" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 3 July 2018.

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