1911 Ceylonese Legislative Council election

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Governor. The two European seats for registered European rural and urban inhabitants (previously the Governor had appointed three members to represent these areas) were filled without any election as there was only one nomination for each. The Burgher seat was contested by three candidates, whilst the seat for "educated" Ceylonese was contested by two candidates, with both winning candidates elected by large winning margins.[1]

Elections were held on 12 December for the Burgher seat and 13 December for the Ceylonese seat, with the results formally released on 18 December.

Ponnampalam Ramanathan (later Sir) was elected with 1,645 votes with Dr. H. Marcus Fernando (later Sir), receiving 981 votes.[2]
A total of 2,626 (89.5%) of the total 2,934 registered voters casting their vote.

The election results were formalised in the Government Gazette on 22 December. The first meeting of the new Legislative Council was held in the afternoon of 16 January 1912.

References

  1. ^ a b "Outposts Of Empire" The Times, 3 May 1912
  2. ^ a b c Wisumperuma, Dhanesh (12 December 2011). "Cast(e) in Favour - A Century after the first election of the Legislative Council". The Nation. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
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