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A map of all Sri Lankan Provinces, Districts, and Divisional Secretary's Division. Districts are the second-level administrative divisions. There are 25 districts organized into 9 provinces. [20] Each district is administered under a District Secretary, [21] who is appointed by the central government. [22]
The newest district to be created was the Kilinochchi district in February 1984, [22] and the current constitution states that the territory of Sri Lanka consists of 25 administrative districts. These districts may be subdivided or amalgamated by a resolution of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. [23]
Polling divisions in Sri Lanka are subdivisions of the country's electoral districts. From the 1st parliamentary election in 1947 to the 8th in 1977, members were elected to the parliament using a first-past-the-post system from these polling divisions. This system changed in 1978. [1]
[2] [5] The constitution limited the number of electoral districts to between 20 and 25. [2] The Delimitation Commission was appointed on 29 November 1978. Its decision was published on 15 January 1981. The country was divided into 22 electoral districts. 21 of the 22 electoral districts were conterminous with their namesake administrative ...
The short lived North Eastern Province. The number of provinces remained static until September 1988 when, in accordance with the Indo-Lanka Accord, President J. R. Jayewardene issued proclamations enabling the Northern and Eastern provinces to be one administrative unit administered by one elected council, creating the North Eastern Province. [12]
The districts are further divided into administrative sub-units known as divisional secretariats. They were originally based on the feudal counties , the korales and rata s. Divisional secretariats are the third-level administrative divisions of the country and there are currently [ as of? ] 331 divisional secretariats in Sri Lanka.
Crucially, the accord allowed the Sri Lankan president to postpone the referendum at his discretion. [1] On September 2 and 8 1988 President Jayewardene issued proclamations enabling the Eastern and Northern provinces to be one administrative unit administered by one elected council, creating the North Eastern Province. [ 3 ]
It is also one of the two districts of North Central Province and has an area of 3,293 km 2. [7] The district is administered by a District Secretariat headed by a District Secretary (previously known as a Government Agent) appointed by the central government of Sri Lanka. The capital of the district is the city of Polonnaruwa.