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| Hambantota | |
|---|---|
| Electoral District for the Parliament of Sri Lanka | |
| Administrative District | Hambantota |
| Province | Southern |
| Polling divisions | 4 |
| Population | 558,000[1] (2008) |
| Electorate | 421,186[2] (2010) |
| Area | 2,609 km2 (1,007 sq mi)[3] |
| Current Electoral District | |
| Number of members | 7 |
| MPs | Mahinda Amaraweera, UPFA P. K. Indika, UPFA Sajith Premadasa, UNF Chamal Rajapaksa, UPFA Namal Rajapaksa, UPFA Nirupama Rajapaksa, UPFA Dilip Wedaarachchi, UNF |
Hambantota electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Hambantota in the Southern province. The district currently elects 7 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 421,186 registered electors in 2010.[2]
1982 Presidential Election
Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982 for the district:
| Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beli- atta |
Mulkiri -gala |
Tan- galla |
Tissama -harama | |||||
| Junius Jayewardene | UNP | 21,056 | 18,964 | 23,196 | 25,656 | 1,673 | 90,545 | 45.90% |
| Hector Kobbekaduwa | SLFP | 18,150 | 19,605 | 17,253 | 20,624 | 770 | 76,402 | 38.73% |
| Rohana Wijeweera | JVP | 5,957 | 5,966 | 8,966 | 7,724 | 222 | 28,835 | 14.62% |
| Colvin R. de Silva | LSSP | 227 | 247 | 183 | 212 | 8 | 877 | 0.44% |
| Vasudeva Nanayakkara | NSSP | 78 | 114 | 78 | 65 | 9 | 344 | 0.17% |
| Kumar Ponnambalam | ACTC | 63 | 97 | 57 | 58 | 0 | 275 | 0.14% |
| Valid Votes | 45,531 | 44,993 | 49,733 | 54,339 | 2,682 | 197,278 | 100.00% | |
| Rejected Votes | 378 | 484 | 397 | 523 | 22 | 1,804 | ||
| Total Polled | 45,909 | 45,477 | 50,130 | 54,862 | 2,704 | 199,082 | ||
| Registered Electors | 56,254 | 57,491 | 58,690 | 69,521 | 241,956 | |||
| Turnout | 81.61% | 79.10% | 85.41% | 78.91% | 82.28% | |||
| Source:[4] | ||||||||
1988 Presidential Election
Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988 for the district:
| Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beli- atta |
Mulkiri -gala |
Tan- galla |
Tissama -harama | |||||
| Ranasinghe Premadasa | UNP | 6,793 | 5,952 | 8,292 | 20,020 | 141 | 41,198 | 49.62% |
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | SLFP | 5,733 | 5,740 | 8,026 | 19,665 | 179 | 39,343 | 47.39% |
| Oswin Abeygunasekara | SLMP | 326 | 382 | 569 | 1,192 | 9 | 2,478 | 2.98% |
| Valid Votes | 12,852 | 12,074 | 16,887 | 40,877 | 329 | 83,019 | 100.00% | |
| Rejected Votes | 491 | 663 | 1,007 | 1,667 | 27 | 3,855 | ||
| Total Polled | 13,343 | 12,737 | 17,894 | 42,544 | 356 | 86,874 | ||
| Registered Electors | 62,773 | 66,740 | 70,422 | 95,245 | 295,180 | |||
| Turnout | 21.26% | 19.08% | 25.41% | 44.67% | 29.43% | |||
| Source:[5] | ||||||||
1989 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989 for the district:
| Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beli- atta |
Mulkiri -gala |
Tan- galla |
Tissama -harama | ||||||
| United National Party | 6,235 | 8,653 | 1,640 | 13,406 | 1,705 | 31,639 | 55.92% | 5 | |
| Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 4,418 | 5,581 | 1,948 | 9,273 | 1,239 | 22,459 | 39.70% | 2 | |
| United Socialist Alliance (CPSL, LSSP, NSSP, SLMP) |
18 | 111 | 25 | 1,492 | 40 | 1,686 | 2.98% | 0 | |
| Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 242 | 85 | 29 | 224 | 68 | 648 | 1.15% | 0 | |
| Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 3 | 24 | 5 | 105 | 6 | 143 | 0.25% | 0 | |
| Valid Votes | 10,916 | 14,454 | 3,647 | 24,500 | 3,058 | 56,575 | 100.00% | 7 | |
| Rejected Votes | 204 | 404 | 961 | 2,589 | 181 | 4,339 | |||
| Total Polled | 11,120 | 14,858 | 4,608 | 27,089 | 3,239 | 60,914 | |||
| Registered Electors | 61,466 | 66,111 | 69,327 | 94,234 | 3,982 | 295,120 | |||
| Turnout | 18.09% | 22.47% | 6.65% | 28.75% | 81.34% | 20.64% | |||
| Source:[6] | |||||||||
The following candidates were elected:[6] Mahinda Rajapaksa (SLFP), 13,073 preference votes (pv); Ranjit Atapattu (UNP), 10,381 pv; Chamal Rajapaksa (SLFP), 10,342 pv; Kadukannage Ananda Kularatne (UNP), 9,470 pv; Patabandi Madduma Baduge Cyril (UNP), 5,911 pv; Abeydheera Hary (UNP), 5,699 pv; and Gunapala Tissakuttiarachchi (UNP), 3,600 pv.
1993 Provincial Council Election
Results of the 2nd Southern provincial council election held on 17 May 1993 for the district:
| Party | Votes | % | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| United National Party | 102,841 | 49.85% | |
| People's Alliance (SLFP et al.) | 63,919 | 30.98% | |
| Democratic United National Front | 32,882 | 15.94% | |
| Independent 1 | 4,266 | 2.07% | |
| Nava Sama Samaja Party | 1,859 | 0.90% | |
| Others | 533 | 0.26% | |
| Valid Votes | 206,300 | 100.00% | |
| Rejected Votes | 17,789 | ||
| Total Polled | 224,089 | ||
| Registered Electors | 323,653 | ||
| Turnout | 69.24% | ||
| Source: | |||
1994 Provincial Council Election
Results of the 3rd Southern provincial council election held on 24 March 1994 for the district:
| Party | Votes | % | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| People's Alliance (SLFP et al.) | 118,889 | 53.95% | |
| United National Party | 96,118 | 43.62% | |
| Nava Sama Samaja Party | 2,703 | 1.23% | |
| Independent | 2,650 | 1.20% | |
| Valid Votes | 220,360 | 100.00% | |
| Rejected Votes | 14,828 | ||
| Total Polled | 235,188 | ||
| Registered Electors | 323,653 | ||
| Turnout | 72.67% | ||
| Source: | |||
1994 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the 10th parliamentary election held on 16 August 1994 for the district:
| Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beli- atta |
Mulkiri -gala |
Tan- galla |
Tissama -harama | ||||||
| People's Alliance (SLFP et al.) | 25,501 | 28,181 | 33,090 | 41,739 | 3,497 | 132,008 | 53.51% | 4 | |
| United National Party | 18,643 | 22,078 | 22,882 | 30,056 | 1,723 | 95,382 | 38.67% | 2 | |
| Sri Lanka Progressive Front (JVP) | 3,169 | 2,679 | 4,054 | 5,151 | 256 | 15,309 | 6.21% | 1 | |
| Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 680 | 288 | 443 | 554 | 115 | 2,080 | 0.84% | 0 | |
| Independent 1 | 154 | 298 | 230 | 315 | 0 | 997 | 0.40% | 0 | |
| Independent 2 | 112 | 117 | 113 | 126 | 0 | 468 | 0.19% | 0 | |
| Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 49 | 32 | 32 | 149 | 5 | 267 | 0.11% | 0 | |
| People's Freedom Front | 23 | 47 | 51 | 46 | 1 | 168 | 0.07% | 0 | |
| Valid Votes | 48,331 | 53,720 | 60,895 | 78,136 | 5,597 | 246,679 | 100.00% | 7 | |
| Rejected Votes | 2,333 | 3,763 | 3,239 | 4,116 | 88 | 13,539 | |||
| Total Polled | 50,664 | 57,483 | 64,134 | 82,252 | 5,685 | 260,218 | |||
| Registered Electors | 66,091 | 73,236 | 80,917 | 106,669 | 326,913 | ||||
| Turnout | 76.66% | 78.49% | 79.26% | 77.11% | 79.60% | ||||
| Source:[7] | |||||||||
The following candidates were elected:[7] Mahinda Rajapaksa (PA), 78,977 preference votes (pv); Chamal Rajapaksa (PA), 63,698 pv; Nirupama Rajapaksa (PA), 46,034 pv; Mahinda Amaraweera (PA), 39,376 pv; Ananda Kularatne K. (UNP), 36,965 pv; Mervyn Silva (UNP), 36,338 pv; and Janith Priyantha Vidyathilaka Vipulaguna (SLPF-JVP), 1,791 pv.
Janith Vipulaguna (SLPF-JVP) resigned and was replaced by Nihal Galappaththi (SLPF-JVP).[8]
1994 Presidential Election
Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994 for the district: