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The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka provides for the election of members of Parliament from 22 multi-member electoral districts through the proportional representation electoral system. All but two of the electoral districts are conterminous with their namesake administrative district.
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]
The country's 1978 Constitution introduced a new proportional representation electoral system for electing members of Parliament from 1989 onwards. The existing 160 single-member , double-member and triple-member districts were replaced with 22 multi-member electoral districts, similar to the existing administrative districts of Sri Lanka. [ 1 ]
The current Parliament of Sri Lanka has 225 members elected for a five-year term. 196 members are elected from 22 multi-seat constituencies through an open list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold; voters can rank up to three candidates on the party list they vote for. The other 29 seats are elected from a national list ...
The country's 1978 Constitution introduced a new proportional representation electoral system for electing members of Parliament from 1989 onwards. The existing single-member , double-member and triple-member districts were replaced with multi-member electoral districts, similar to the existing administrative districts of Sri Lanka. [ 1 ]
Pages in category "Former electoral districts of Sri Lanka" The following 188 pages are in this category, out of 188 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Electoral districts of Sri Lanka" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Parliament has 225 members, elected for a five-year term, 196 members elected in multi-seat constituencies through proportional representation system where each party is allocated a number of seats from the quota for each district according to the proportion of the total vote that party obtains in the district. The other 29 which is called ...