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{{short description|Electoral district of Sri Lanka}}
'''Kankesanthurai 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 [[Kankesanthurai]] 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> Kankesanthurai 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 Kankesanthurai 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}} {{Party index link|United National Party}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="2"|Election!!Member!!Party!!Term
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}" |
| [[1947 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1947]]
| [[S. J. V. Chelvanayakam]]
| [[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]
| 1947–1952
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|United National Party}}" |
| [[1952 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1952]]
| [[S. Natesan]]
| [[United National Party]]
| 1952–1956
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1956 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1956]]
| rowspan ="6"|[[S. J. V. Chelvanayakam]]
| rowspan ="5"|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]
| rowspan ="6"|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}}" |
| [[1975 Kankesanthurai Electoral District by-election|1975 by]]
| [[Tamil United Front]]
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Tamil United Liberation Front}}" |
| [[1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|1977]]
| [[A. Amirthalingam]]
| [[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|[[S. J. V. Chelvanayakam]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Key||12,126||55.39%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|[[Ponnambalam Nagalingam]]||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Hand||5,160||23.57%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|[[S. Natesan]]||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Pair of Scales||4,605||21.04%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''21,891'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes|||534||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||22,425||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||38,871||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||57.69%
|}

===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|United National Party}}|  || align=left|[[S. Natesan]]||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Key||15,337||57.00%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[S. J. V. Chelvanayakam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP>Also known as the [[Federal Party (Sri Lanka)|Federal Party]]</ref>||align=left|Bicycle||11,571||43.00%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''26,908'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||355||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||27,263||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||38,439||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||70.93%
|}

===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|[[S. J. V. Chelvanayakam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||14,855||54.30%
|-
| || align=left|[[S. Natesan]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Umbrella||8,188||29.39%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Communist Party of Ceylon}}|  || align=left|[[V. Ponnampalam]]||align=left|[[Communist Party of Ceylon|Communist Party]]||align=left|Star||4,313||15.77%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''27,356'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||317||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||27,673||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||40,964||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||67.55%
|}

===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|[[S. J. V. Chelvanayakam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||13,545||67.61%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|[[V. Karalasingham]]||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Key||5,042||25.17%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|R. N. Sivapirakasam||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||1,448||7.23%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''20,035'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||244||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||20,279||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||28,473||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||71.22%
|}

===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|[[S. J. V. Chelvanayakam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||15,668||88.63%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|R. N. Sivapirakasam||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Pair of Spectacles||2,009||11.37%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''17,677'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||131||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||17,808||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||28,473||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||62.54%
|}

===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|[[S. J. V. Chelvanayakam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||14,735||58.24%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|S. Sri Bhaskaran||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||6,611||26.13%
|-
| || align=left|[[V. Karalasingham]]||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary)|Lanka Sama Samaja Party (R)]]||align=left|Lamp||2,257||8.92%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Communist Party of Ceylon}}|  || align=left|K. Vaikunthavasan||align=left|[[Communist Party of Ceylon|Communist Party (Moscow)]]||align=left|Star||958||3.79%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)}}|  || align=left|V. Seenivasagam||align=left|[[Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)|Communist Party (Peking)]]||align=left|Umbrella||741||2.93%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''25,302'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||269||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||25,571||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||35,309||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||72.42%
|}

===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|[[S. J. V. Chelvanayakam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||13,520||44.29%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Communist Party of Ceylon}}|  || align=left|[[V. Ponnampalam]]||align=left|[[Communist Party of Ceylon|Communist Party]]||align=left|Star||8,164||26.75%
|-
| || align=left|[[C. Suntharalingam]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Cockerel||5,788||18.96%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|[[T. Thirunavukarasu]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||3,051||10.00%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''30,523'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||140||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||30,663||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||37,804||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||81.11%
|}

===1975 by-election===
{{main|1975 Kankesanthurai Electoral District by-election}}
{| 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|[[S.J.V. Chelvanayakam]]||align=left|[[Tamil United Front]]||align=left|House||25,927||72.55%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Communist Party of Ceylon}}|  || align=left|[[V. Ponnampalam]]||align=left|[[Communist Party of Ceylon|Communist Party]]||align=left|Star||9,457||26.46%
|-
| || align=left|M. Ambalavanar||||align=left|Ship||185||0.52%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''35,569'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||168||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||35,737||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||41,227||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||86.68%
|}
<ref name="e">{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/ByElections1947-1988.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209231939/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/ByElections1947-1988.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-12-09 |title=Summary of By-Elections 1947 to 1988 |publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka }}</ref>

===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|[[A. Amirthalingam]]||align=left|[[Tamil United Liberation Front]]||align=left|Sun||31,155||85.41%
|-
| || align=left|Sivapiragasam Sritharan||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Pair of Scales||5,322||14.59%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''36,477'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||218||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||36,695||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||43,907||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||83.57%
|}

[[A. Amirthalingam]] 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, Amirthalingam 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==
{{reflist|2}}

{{Former Electoral Districts of Sri Lanka}}

{{coord missing|Sri Lanka}}

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

Kankesanthurai Electoral District - Revision history

imported>AllCatsAreGrey: clean up, typo(s) fixed: 1947-1952 → 1947–1952 (3)