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{{Short description|Former electoral district of Sri Lanka}}
'''Chavakachcheri 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 town of [[Chavakachcheri]] in [[Jaffna District]], [[Northern Province, Sri Lanka|Northern Province]]. [[Kilinochchi Electoral District]] was carved out of the southern part of the district in [[March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|March 1960]]. 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> Chavakachcheri electoral district was replaced by the [[Jaffna Electoral District|Jaffna multi-member electoral district]] at the [[1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|1989 general elections]], the first under the PR system, though Chavakachcheri continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

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

{{Party index link|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}} {{Party index link|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}} {{Party index link|Tamil United Liberation Front}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="2"|Election!!Member!!Party!!Term
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}" |
| [[1947 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1947]]
| rowspan ="2"|[[V. Kumaraswamy]]
| rowspan ="2"|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]
| rowspan ="2"|1947-1956
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}" |
| [[1952 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1952]]
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1956 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1956]]
| rowspan ="6"|[[V. N. Navaratnam]]
| rowspan ="5"|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]
| rowspan ="5"|1956-1977
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1960 (March)]]
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[July 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1960 (July)]]
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1965 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1965]]
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1970]]
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Tamil United Liberation Front}}" |
| [[1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|1977]]
| [[Tamil United Liberation Front]]
| 1977-1989
|}

==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|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|[[V. Kumaraswamy]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Pair of Scales||11,813||85.51%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|C. R. Thambiah||align=left|[[United National Party]] ||align=left|House||2,002||14.49%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''13,815'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes|||186||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||14,001||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||28,377||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||49.34%
|}

===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"|%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|[[V. Kumaraswamy]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Pair of Scales||14,801||72.33%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|Arunachalam Namasivayam||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP>Also known as the [[Federal Party (Sri Lanka)|Federal Party]]</ref>||align=left|Bicycle||5,663||27.67%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''20,464'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||168||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||20,632||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||30,692||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||67.22%
|}

===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|[[V. N. Navaratnam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||15,952||64.77%
|-
| || align=left|V. Kumarasamy||||align=left|Pair of Scales||8,677||35.23%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''24,629'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||206||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||24,835||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||35,922||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||66.14%
|}

===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|[[V. N. Navaratnam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||13,907||65.26%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|[[V. Kumaraswamy]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||6,930||32.52%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|A. S. Kanagaratnam||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Key||473||2.22%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''21,310'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||173||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||21,483||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||25,822||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||83.20%
|}

===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|[[V. N. Navaratnam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||14,799||86.00%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|S. K. Thiravianayagam||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||2,410||14.00%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''17,209'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||135||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||17,344||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||25,822||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||67.17%
|}

===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|[[V. N. Navaratnam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||16,316||69.41%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|M. Sivananthan||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||7,191||30.59%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''23,507'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||220||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||23,727||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||30,452||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||77.92%
|}

===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|[[V. N. Navaratnam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||15,473||54.49%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|[[V. Kumaraswamy]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||12,921||45.51%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''28,394'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||84||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||28,478||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||33,072||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||86.11%
|}

===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|[[V. N. Navaratnam]]||align=left|[[Tamil United Liberation Front]]||align=left|Sun||20,028||63.27%
|-
| || align=left|[[V. Kumaraswamy]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Pair of Scales||10,810||34.15%
|-
| || align=left|S. P. Mailvaganam||||align=left|Eye||419||1.32%
|-
| || align=left|Kandiah Asai Jerome||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Omnibus||289||0.91%
|-
| || align=left|Sathasivam Nadarajah||||align=left|Lamp||111||0.35%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''31,657'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||91||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||31,748||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||36,959||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||85.90%
|}

[[V. N. Navaratnam]] and all other TULF MPs boycotted Parliament from the middle of 1983 for a number of reasons: they were under pressure from [[Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups|Sri Lankan Tamil militants]] not to stay in Parliament beyond their normal six-year term; the Sixth Amendment to the [[Constitution of Sri Lanka]] required them to swear an oath unconditionally renouncing support for a [[Tamil Eelam|separate state]]; and the [[Black July]] riots in which up to 3,000 Tamils were murdered by [[Sinhalese people|Sinhalese]] mobs. After three months of absence, Navaratnam forfeited his seat in Parliament on 22 October 1983.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wickramasinghe|first=Wimal|title=Saga of crossovers, expulsions and resignations etc. Referendum for {{sic|exten|tion|nolink=y}} of Parliament|url=http://www.island.lk/2008/01/18/features11.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080122123208/http://www.island.lk/2008/01/18/features11.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 22, 2008|newspaper=The Island, Sri Lanka|date=18 January 2008}}</ref>

==References & footnotes==
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{{Former Electoral Districts of Sri Lanka}}

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

Chavakachcheri Electoral District - Revision history

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