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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]
A referendum on extending the term of parliament by six years was held in Sri Lanka on 22 December 1982. It was the first and so far only national referendum to be held in the country. [3] The referendum was called for by President J. R. Jayawardene, who had been elected to a fresh six-year term as President in October 1982.
The annual updating of the electoral register in Sri Lanka is done by house-to-house enumeration. The civil war prevented house-to-house enumeration from taking place in most of the Northern Province from the mid-1980s onwards. For these areas the Department of Elections instead took the previous year's register and added anyone who had since ...
Electoral District Province UNF PA JVP TNA SLMC EPDP SU NLF Ind DPLF USP NDP DLF Others Valid Votes Rejected Votes Total Polled Registered Electors Turnout % Ampara: NE: 58,468
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 .
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Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-03-04. "2004 General Election Results". LankaNewspapers.com. "Table 43 Parliamentary General Election (Electoral District) (2004)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009. "Sri Lanka Parliamentary Chamber: Parliament Elections Held in 2004". Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Results of the 2011 Sri Lankan local government elections by province, district and local authority. ... Department of Elections, Sri Lanka.