Colombo East Electoral District
Appearance
Colombo East electoral district was an
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
Election | Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|---|
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]
Candidate | Party | Symbol | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Edmund Samarawickrema | United National Party | Elephant | 19,721 | 58.52 |
Vivian S. Kodikara | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | Hand | 7,678 | 22.78 |
Bernard Soysa | Lanka Sama Samaja Party | Key | 5,951 | 17.66 |
Gunasena Subasinghe | Umbrella | 103 | 0.31 | |
M.H. Jayaratne Peiris | Clock | 57 | 0.17 | |
M.P. Ariyadasa | Flower | 56 | 0.17 | |
Valid Votes | 33,566 | 99.60 | ||
Rejected Votes | 136 | 0.40 | ||
Total Polled | 33,702 | 100.00 | ||
Registered Electors | 43,574 | |||
Turnout | 77.34 |
References
- ^ "The Electoral System". Parliament of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2010-11-27.
- ^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17.