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{{short description|Electoral district of Sri Lanka}}
'''Kilinochchi Electoral District''' was an [[electoral district]] of [[Sri Lanka]] between [[March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|March 1960]] and [[1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|February 1989]]. The district was named after the town of [[Kilinochchi]] in [[Kilinochchi District]], [[Northern Province, Sri Lanka|Northern Province]]. The district was carved out of the southern part of [[Chavakacheri Electoral 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> Kilinochchi 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 Kilinochchi 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|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1960 (March)]]
| rowspan ="2"|[[A. Sivasunderam]]
| rowspan ="3"|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]
| rowspan ="2"|1960-1965
|-
|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]]
| [[K. P. Ratnam]]
| 1965-1970
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}" |
| [[1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1970]]
| rowspan ="2"|[[V. Anandasangaree]]
| [[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]
| 1970-1977
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Tamil United Liberation Front}}" |
| [[1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|1977]]
| [[Tamil United Liberation Front]]
| 1977-1989
|}

==Elections==
===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|[[A. Sivasunderam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP>Also known as the [[Federal Party (Sri Lanka)|Federal Party]]</ref>||align=left|House||3,741||41.76%
|-
| || align=left|Anton C. Ponnampalam||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Sewing Machine||2,582||28.82%
|-
| || align=left|P. Arumugam||||align=left|Cockerel||1,386||15.47%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|[[V. Anandasangaree]]||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Key||1,114||12.43%
|-
| || align=left|C. Saravanamuttu||||align=left|Sun||136||1.52%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''8,959'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||120||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||9,079||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||13,991||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||64.89%
|}

===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|[[A. Sivasunderam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||5,338||72.64%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|[[V. Anandasangaree]]||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Key||2,011||27.36%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''7,349'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||88||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||7,437||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||13,991||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||53.16%
|}

===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|[[K. P. Ratnam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||5,922||44.69%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|V. Coomaraswamy||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||4,076||30.76%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|[[V. Anandasangaree]]||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Key||1,804||13.62%
|-
| || align=left|C. Saravanamuttu||||align=left|Tree||831||6.27%
|-
| || align=left|K. Selvanayagam||||align=left|Pair of Scales||390||2.94%
|-
| || align=left|N. S. Sethukavalar||||align=left|Omnibus||130||0.98%
|-
| || align=left|R. Vethanayagam||||align=left|Umbrella||97||0.73%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''13,250'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||116||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||13,366||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||18,738||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||71.33%
|}

===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|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|[[V. Anandasangaree]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||9,049||50.19%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[M. Alalasundaram]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||8,392||46.55%
|-
| || align=left|K. A. Jerome||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Pair of Scales||253||1.40%
|-
| || align=left|[[A. Sivasunderam]]||||align=left|Eye||196||1.09%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|K. Kanagaratnam||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Key||139||0.77%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''18,029'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||60||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||18,089||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||23,793||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||76.03%
|}

===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|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[V. Anandasangaree]]||align=left|[[Tamil United Liberation Front]]||align=left|Sun||15,607||73.42%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Sri Lanka Freedom Party}}|  || align=left|C. Kumarasuriar||align=left|[[Sri Lanka Freedom Party]]||align=left|Hand||4,006||18.84%
|-
| || align=left|N. Kanagasuriar||||align=left|Elephant||1,497||7.04%
|-
| || align=left|I. Gnanasangary||||align=left|Pair of Scales||76||0.36%
|-
| || align=left|Sinnathamby Ganesu||||align=left|Eye||72||0.34%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''21,258'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||56||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||21,314||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||26,670||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||79.92%
|}

[[V. Anandasangaree]] 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, Anandasangaree 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 extension of Parliament|url=http://www.island.lk/2008/01/18/features11.html|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 Kilinochchi District]]

Kilinochchi Electoral District - Revision history

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