Ratmalana Electoral District

Ratmalana Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between July 1977 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Ratmalana in Colombo District, Western 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] Ratmalana electoral district was replaced by the Colombo multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Ratmalana 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
1977 Lalith Athulathmudali 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%
Lalith AthulathmudaliUnited National PartyElephant19,97256.62%
C. V. GunaratneSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand12,14134.42%
Vivienne GoonewardenaLanka Sama Samaja PartyKey3,0558.66%
U.G. Gunadasa PereraChair1080.31%
Valid Votes35,276100.00%
Rejected Votes110
Total Polled35,386
Registered Electors43,379
Turnout81%

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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