Jaffna Electoral District
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Electoral District for the Parliament of Sri Lanka |
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| Administrative District |
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| Province | Northern |
| Polling divisions | 11 |
| Population | 696,253 (2011) |
| Electorate | 529,239 (2014) |
| Current Electoral District | |
| Created | 1978 |
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| Provincial Council | Northern |
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Jaffna Electoral District is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district covers the administrative districts of Jaffna and Kilinochchi in the Northern province. The district currently elects 9 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 529,239 registered electors in 2014.
Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982:
Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988:
Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994:
Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999:
Results of the 5th presidential election held on 17 November 2005:
Results of the 6th presidential election held on 26 January 2010:
Results of the 7th presidential election held on 8 January 2015:
Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989:
The following candidates were elected:Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy (EROS), 40,947 preference votes (pv); Eliyathamby Pararasasingam (EROS), 36,340 pv; S. Sivamaharajah (EROS), 22,622 pv; K. Navaratnam (EPRLF), 22,255 pv; Arunasalam Ponniah Selliah (EROS), 20,747 pv; Suresh Premachandran (EPRLF), 20,738 pv; G. Yogasangari (EPRLF), 20,223 pv; Thambu Loganathapillai (EROS), 17,616 pv; Sebastiyampillai Edward (EROS), 17,429 pv; Kanapathy Selvanayagam (EROS), 14,440 pv; and Joseph George Rajenthiram (EROS), 13,928 pv.
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