Nuwara Eliya Electoral District

Nuwara Eliya
Electoral District for the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Administrative District	Nuwara Eliya
Province	Central
Polling divisions	4
Population	749,000(2008)
Electorate	457,137(2010)
Area	1,741 km2 (672 sq mi)
Current Electoral District
Number of members	7
MPs	Palani Digambaran, NUW Navin Dissanayake, UPFA Sri Ranga Jeyaratnam, CF Velusami Radhakrishnan, UCPF Perumal Rajadurai, UNP C. B. Rathnayake, UPFA Arumugan Thondaman, UPFA

Nuwara Eliya 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 Nuwara Eliya in the Central province. The district currently elects 7 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 457,137 registered electors in 2010.

Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982 for the district:

Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988 for the district:

Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989 for the district:

The following candidates were elected:Gamini Dissanayake (UNP), 73,790 preference votes (pv); Dilshard Rohan Tissa Abhayagunasekera (UNP), 35,375 pv; Renuka Herath (UNP), 31,271 pv; Wijesundara Bandara Ranatunga (UNP), 29,067 pv; Ananda Dassanayake Dasanayake Mudiyanselage (SLFP), 23,418 pv; and S. B. Dissanayake (SLFP), 18,986 pv.

Results of the 2nd Central provincial council election held on 17 May 1993 for the district:

Results of the 10th parliamentary election held on 16 August 1994 for the district:

The following candidates were elected:Muthu Sivalingam (CWC), 85,490 preference votes (pv); Suppaiah Sathasivam (CWC), 83,368 pv; Arumugam Thondaman (CWC), 75,297 pv; Renuka Herath (UNP), 49,473 pv; Abhayagunasekara Dilshard Rohan Tissa (UNP), 40,513 pv; S. B. Dissanayake (PA), 38,372 pv, C. B. Rathnayake (PA), 38,092 pv; and Periyasamy Chandrasekaran (Ind), 23,453 pv.

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