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{{short description|Electoral district of Sri Lanka}}
'''Jaffna 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 [[Jaffna]] in [[Jaffna District]], [[Northern Province, Sri Lanka|Northern Province]]. 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> Jaffna 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 Jaffna continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

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

{{Party index link|Independent (politician)}} {{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 ="3"|[[G. G. Ponnambalam]]
| rowspan ="3"|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]
| rowspan ="3"|1947-1960
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}" |
| [[1952 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1952]]
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}" |
| [[1956 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1956]]
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Independent}}" |
| [[March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1960 (March)]]
| rowspan ="2"|[[Alfred Duraiappah]]
| rowspan ="2"|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
| rowspan ="2"|1960-1965
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Independent}}" |
| [[July 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1960 (July)]]
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}" |
| [[1965 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1965]]
| [[G. G. Ponnambalam]]
| [[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]
| 1965-1970
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1970]]
| [[C. X. Martyn]]
| [[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]
| 1970-1977
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Tamil United Liberation Front}}" |
| [[1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|1977]]
| [[V. Yogeswaran]]
| [[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|[[G. G. Ponnambalam]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||14,324||73.28%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|[[Arunachalam Mahadeva]]||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Elephant||5,224||26.72%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''19,548'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes|||133||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||19,681||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||42,546||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||46.26%
|}

===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|[[G. G. Ponnambalam]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Umbrella||12,726||60.48%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[E. M. V. Naganathan]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP>Also known as the [[Federal Party (Sri Lanka)|Federal Party]]</ref>||align=left|Hand||8,317||39.52%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''21,043'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||88||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||21,131||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||29,489||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||71.66%
|}

===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|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|[[G. G. Ponnambalam]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||8,914||40.46%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[E. M. V. Naganathan]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||7,173||32.56%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Communist Party of Ceylon}}|  || align=left|M. Karthigasan||align=left|[[Communist Party of Ceylon|Communist Party]]||align=left|Star||3,239||14.70%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|Arulambalam Visuvanathan||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Key||2,703||12.27%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''22,029'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||149||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||22,178||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||34,804||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||63.72%
|}

===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"|%
|-
| || align=left|[[Alfred Duraiappah]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Sun||6,201||35.68%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|[[G. G. Ponnambalam]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||5,312||30.56%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[S. Kathiravelupillai]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||5,101||29.35%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|Arulambalam Visuvanathan||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Key||767||4.41%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''17,381'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||92||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||17,473||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||24,299||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||71.91%
|}

===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"|%
|-
| || align=left|[[Alfred Duraiappah]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Bicycle||6,313||35.13%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|[[G. G. Ponnambalam]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Eye||6,015||33.47%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[S. Kathiravelupillai]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||5,644||31.40%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''17,972'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||84||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||18,056||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||25,299||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||74.31%
|}

===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|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|[[G. G. Ponnambalam]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||9,350||42.37%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[C. X. Martyn]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||6,800||30.81%
|-
| || align=left|[[Alfred Duraiappah]]||||align=left|Pair of Scales||5,918||26.82%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''22,068'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||73||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||22,141||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||28,473||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||77.76%
|}

===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. X. Martyn]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||8,848||35.59%
|-
| || align=left|[[Alfred Duraiappah]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Umbrella||8,792||35.36%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|[[G. G. Ponnambalam]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||7,222||29.05%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''24,862'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||76||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||24,938||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||31,214||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||79.89%
|}

===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. Yogeswaran]]||align=left|[[Tamil United Liberation Front]]||align=left|Sun||16,251||51.26%
|-
| || align=left|[[Kumar Ponnambalam]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Tree||6,960||24.25%
|-
| || align=left|A. L. Abraham||||align=left|Pair of Scales||4,349||15.15%
|-
| || align=left|[[C. X. Martyn]]||||align=left|Umbrella||900||3.14%
|-
| || align=left|A. G. Rajasooriar||||align=left|Chair||164||0..57%
|-
| || align=left|A. Tharmalingham||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Ship||77||0.27%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''28,701'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||78||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||28,779||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||34,865||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||82.54%
|}

[[V. Yogeswaran]] 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, Yogeswaran 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|newspaper=The Island, Sri Lanka|date=18 January 2008|access-date=24 April 2011|archive-date=17 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617063609/http://www.island.lk/2008/01/18/features11.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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

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[[Category:Politics of Jaffna District]]

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