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{{short description|Electoral district of Sri Lanka}}
'''Batticaloa Electoral District''' was an [[electoral district]] of [[Sri Lanka]] between [[1947 Ceylonese parliamentary election|August 1947]] and [[1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|February 1989]]. The district was named after the city of [[Batticaloa]] in [[Batticaloa District]], [[Eastern Province, Sri Lanka|Eastern Province]]. The district was a two-member [[constituency]] between [[March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|March 1960]] and [[1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|February 1989]]. The [[Constitution of Sri Lanka|1978 Constitution]] of Sri Lanka introduced the [[proportional representation]] electoral system for [[Elections in Sri Lanka|electing]] [[Member of Parliament|members]] of [[Parliament of Sri Lanka|Parliament]]. The existing 160 mainly [[Plurality voting system|single-member]] electoral districts were replaced with 22 [[multi-member]] [[electoral district]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.lk/about_us/electoral_system.jsp |title=The Electoral System |publisher=[[Parliament of Sri Lanka]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127041829/http://parliament.lk/about_us/electoral_system.jsp |archive-date=2010-11-27 }}</ref> Batticaloa electoral district was replaced by the [[Batticaloa Electoral District|Batticaloa multi-member electoral district]] at the [[1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|1989 general elections]], the first under the PR system, though Batticaloa continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

==Members of Parliament==
'''Key'''

{{Party index link|Independent (politician)}} {{Party index link|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}} {{Party index link|Tamil United Liberation Front}} {{Party index link|United National Party}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="2"|Election!!Member!!Party!!Term
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|United National Party}}" |
| [[1947 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1947]]
| [[Ahamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe]]
| [[United National Party|UNP]]
| 1947-1952
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Independent}}" |
| [[1952 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1952]]
| [[R. B. Kadramer]]
| [[Independent (politician)|Ind.]]
| 1952-1956
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1956 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1956]]
| [[C. Rajadurai]]
| |[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi|ITAK]]
| 1956-1960
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="2"|Election!!Member 1!!Party!!Term!!colspan="2"|Member 2!!Party!!Term
|-

|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1960 (March)]]
| rowspan=6|[[C. Rajadurai]]
| rowspan=4|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi|ITAK]]
| 1960

|style="background-color: {{party color|Independent}}" |
| rowspan=2|[[Ahmed Hussain Macan Markar]]
| [[Independent (politician)|Ind.]]
| 1960
|-

|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[July 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1960 (July)]]
| 1960-1965

|style="background-color: {{party color|United National Party}}" |
|rowspan=2|[[United National Party|UNP]]
| 1960-1965
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1965 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1965]]
| 1965-1970

|style="background-color: {{party color|United National Party}}" |
|[[Abdul Lathiff Sinnalebbe]]
| 1965-1970
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1970]]
| 1970-1977

|style="background-color: {{party color|Independent}}" |
| [[P. R. Selvanayagam]]
| [[Independent (politician)|Ind.]]
| 1970-1977
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Tamil United Liberation Front}}" |
|rowspan=2| [[1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|1977]]
|rowspan=2| [[Tamil United Liberation Front|TULF]]
|rowspan=2| 1977-1989

|style="background-color: {{party color|United National Party}}" |
| [[M. L. Ahamed Fareeth]]
|rowspan=2| [[United National Party|UNP]]
| 1977-1985
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Tamil United Liberation Front}}" |

|style="background-color: {{party color|United National Party}}" |
| [[Ahamed Rizvi Sinnalebbe]]
| 1985-1989
|}

==Elections==

===1947 Parliamentary General Election===
Results of the [[1947 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1st parliamentary election]] held between 23 August 1947 and 20 September 1947:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1947%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1947 |publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924115557/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1947%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |archive-date=2015-09-24 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"
! align=left colspan=2 width="180"|Candidate!!align=left width="180"|Party!!align=left width="120"|Symbol!!align=left width="60"|Votes!!align=left width="60"|%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|[[Ahamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe]]||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Tree||4,740||35.40%
|-
| || align=left|K. V. M. Subramaniam||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Key||3,395||25.36%
|-
| || align=left|[[R. B. Kadramer]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Umbrella||2,313||17.28%
|-
| || align=left|N. S. Rasiah||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Cup||2,226||16.63%
|-
| || align=left|E. Rasiah||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Hand||714||5.33%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''13,388'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||324||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||13,712||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||27,409||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||50.03%||
|}

===1952 Parliamentary General Election===
Results of the [[1952 Ceylonese parliamentary election|2nd parliamentary election]] held between 24 May 1952 and 30 May 1952:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1952%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1952 |publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924115603/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1952%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |archive-date=2015-09-24 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"
! align=left colspan=2 width="180"|Candidate!!align=left width="180"|Party!!align=left width="120"|Symbol!!align=left width="60"|Votes!!align=left width="60"|%
|-
| || align=left|[[R. B. Kadramer]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Elephant||11,420||58.93%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|[[Ahamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe]]||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Tree||7,960||41.07%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''19,380'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||260||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||19,640||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||24,947||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||78.73%||
|}

===1956 Parliamentary General Election===
Results of the [[1956 Ceylonese parliamentary election|3rd parliamentary election]] held between 5 April 1956 and 10 April 1956:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1956%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1956 |publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924115606/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1956%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |archive-date=2015-09-24 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"
! align=left colspan=2 width="180"|Candidate!!align=left width="180"|Party!!align=left width="120"|Symbol!!align=left width="60"|Votes!!align=left width="60"|%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[C. Rajadurai]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP>Also known as the [[Federal Party (Sri Lanka)|Federal Party]]</ref>||align=left|House||9,300||52.05%
|-
| || align=left|S. Ahamathulebbe||||align=left|Tree||7,124||39.87%
|-
| || align=left|[[R. B. Kadramer]]|| align=left|Batticaloa Tamil Speakers Front ||align=left|Pair of Scales||1,296||7.25%
|-
| || align=left|A. Thavarajah||||align=left|Bicycle||148||0.83%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''17,868'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||288||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||18,156||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||29,486||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||61.57%||
|}

===1960 (March) Parliamentary General Election===
Results of the [[March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|4th parliamentary election]] held on 19 March 1960:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1960_03_19%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1960-03-19 |publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712194326/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1960_03_19%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |archive-date=2015-07-12 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"
! align=left colspan=2 width="180"|Candidate!!align=left width="180"|Party!!align=left width="120"|Symbol!!align=left width="60"|Votes!!align=left width="60"|%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[C. Rajadurai]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||28,309||47.62%
|-
| || align=left|[[Ahmed Hussain Macan Markar]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Cockerel||22,893||38.51%
|-
| || align=left|T. Mylvaganam||||align=left|Ladder||8,242||13.87%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''59,444'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||964||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||60,408||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||37,832||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||159.67%||
|}

===1960 (July) Parliamentary General Election===
Results of the [[July 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|5th parliamentary election]] held on 20 July 1960:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1960_07_20%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1960-07-20 |publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924115611/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1960_07_20%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |archive-date=2015-09-24 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"
! align=left colspan=2 width="180"|Candidate!!align=left width="180"|Party!!align=left width="120"|Symbol!!align=left width="60"|Votes!!align=left width="60"|%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[C. Rajadurai]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||29,853||52.68%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|[[Ahmed Hussain Macan Markar]]||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Elephant||22,031||38.88%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|Abdul Lathiff Sinnalebbe||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|Pair of Spectacles||2,484||4.38%
|-
| || align=left|K. N. Kumaraswamy||||align=left|Cockerel||2,300||4.06%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''56,668'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||954||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||57,622||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||37,832||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||152.31%||
|}

===1965 Parliamentary General Election===
Results of the [[1965 Ceylonese parliamentary election|6th parliamentary election]] held on 22 March 1965:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1965%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1965 |publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713003440/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1965%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |archive-date=2015-07-13 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"
! align=left colspan=2 width="180"|Candidate!!align=left width="180"|Party!!align=left width="120"|Symbol!!align=left width="60"|Votes!!align=left width="60"|%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[C. Rajadurai]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||29,023||43.47%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|[[Abdul Lathiff Sinnalebbe]]||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Elephant||12,010||17.99%
|-
| || align=left|[[Ahmed Hussain Macan Markar]]||||align=left|Cockerel||9,915||14.85%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|J. L. Tissaveerasinghe||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||8,107||12.14%
|-
| || align=left|A. Ahamed Lebbe||||align=left|Umbrella||4,572||6.85%
|-
| || align=left|S. Nadarajah||||align=left|Chair||2,298||3.44%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Communist Party of Ceylon}}|  || align=left|S. Vinayagamani||align=left|[[Communist Party of Ceylon|Communist Party]]||align=left|Star||833||1.25%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''66,758'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||1,124||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||67,882||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||45,078||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||150.59%||
|}

===1970 Parliamentary General Election===
Results of the [[1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election|7th parliamentary election]] held on 27 May 1970:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1970%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209231958/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1970%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-12-09 |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1970 |publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"
! align=left colspan=2 width="180"|Candidate!!align=left width="180"|Party!!align=left width="120"|Symbol!!align=left width="60"|Votes!!align=left width="60"|%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[C. Rajadurai]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||27,661||33.17%
|-
| || align=left|[[P. R. Selvanayagam]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Lamp||23,082||27.68%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|[[Ahmed Hussain Macan Markar]]||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Elephant||17,015||20.41%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Sri Lanka Freedom Party}}|  || align=left|M. A. C. A. Rahuman||align=left|[[Sri Lanka Freedom Party]]||align=left|Hand||14,805||17.76%
|-
| || align=left|S. J. Arasaratnam||||align=left|Cockerel||624||0.75%
|-
| || align=left|T. Francis Xavier||||align=left|Pair of Scales||196||0.24%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''83,383'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||1,298||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||84,681||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||51,524||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||164.35%||
|}

===1977 Parliamentary General Election===
Results of the [[1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|8th parliamentary election]] held on 21 July 1977:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/General%20Election%201977.PDF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717002624/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/General%20Election%201977.PDF |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-07-17 |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977 |publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"
! align=left colspan=2 width="180"|Candidate!!align=left width="180"|Party!!align=left width="120"|Symbol!!align=left width="60"|Votes!!align=left width="60"|%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Tamil United Liberation Front}}|  || align=left|[[C. Rajadurai]]||align=left|[[Tamil United Liberation Front]]||align=left|Sun||26,648||24.70%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|[[M. L. Ahamed Fareeth]]||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Elephant||25,345||23.49%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Tamil United Liberation Front}}|  || align=left|Kasi Ananthan||align=left|[[Tamil United Liberation Front]]||align=left|House||22,443||20.80%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Sri Lanka Freedom Party}}|  || align=left|Badiudin Mahmud||align=left|[[Sri Lanka Freedom Party]]||align=left|Hand||21,275||19.72%
|-
| || align=left|[[P. R. Selvanayagam]]||||align=left|Lamp||11,797||10.93%
|-
| || align=left|Vinayagamoorthy Vettivel||||align=left|Umbrella||383||0.35%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''107,891'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||1,618||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||109,509||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||63,039||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||173.72%||
|}

M. L. Ahamed Fareeth died on 10 September 1985. His replacement [[Ahamed Rizvi Sinnalebbe]] was nominated on 25 October 1985.

==References & footnotes==
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{{Members of Parliament from Batticaloa (1947–1989)}}
{{Former Electoral Districts of Sri Lanka}}

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[[Category:Former electoral districts of Sri Lanka]]
[[Category:Politics of Batticaloa District]]

Batticaloa Electoral District (1947–1989) - Revision history

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