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{{short description|Electoral district of Sri Lanka}}
'''Kopay 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 [[Kopay]] 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> Kopay 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 Kopay 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 ="3"|[[C. Vanniasingam]]
| [[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]
| 1947-1952
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1952 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1952]]
| rowspan ="6"|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]
| 1952-1956
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1956 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1956]]
| 1956-1960
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1960 (March)]]
| rowspan ="2"|[[M. Balasundaram]]
| 1960-1960
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[July 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1960 (July)]]
| 1960-1965
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1965 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1965]]
| rowspan ="3"|[[S. Kathiravelupillai]]
| 1965-1970
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1970]]
| 1970-1977
|-
|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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209231847/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1947%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-12-09 |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1947 |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|[[C. Vanniasingam]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Elephant||9,619||58.90%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|S. Rasaratnam||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Hand||5,266||32.24%
|-
| || align=left|C. Ragunathan||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Cart Wheel||1,447||8.86%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''16,332'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes|||276||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||16,608||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||32,999||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||50.33%
|}

===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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209231904/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1952%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-12-09 |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1952 |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. Vanniasingam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP>Also known as the [[Federal Party (Sri Lanka)|Federal Party]]</ref>||align=left|Key||9,410||44.89%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|[[C. Arulampalam]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Elephant||9,200||43.88%
|-
| || align=left|R. R. Dharmaratnam||||align=left|Star||2,354||11.23%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''20,964'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||283||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||21,247||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||32,903||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||64.57%
|}

===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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209232204/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1956%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-12-09 |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1956 |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. Vanniasingam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||12,804||53.83%
|-
| || align=left|[[C. Arulampalam]]||||align=left|Umbrella||10,983||46.17%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''23,787'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||304||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||24,091||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||34,465||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||69.90%
|}

C. Vanniasingam died on 17 September 1959.

===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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209231748/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1960_03_19%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-12-09 |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1960-03-19 |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|[[M. Balasundaram]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||10,279||48.63%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|T. Gunaratnam||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||4,936||23.35%
|-
| || align=left|S. K. Nallathamby||||align=left|Sun||3,494||16.53%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|K. V. S. Shanmuganathan||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Key||1,777||8.41%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Communist Party of Ceylon}}|  || align=left|S. P. Nadarajah||align=left|[[Communist Party of Ceylon|Communist Party]]||align=left|Star||458||2.17%
|-
| || align=left|S. Sivasubramaniam||||align=left|Cockerel||192||0.91%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''21,136'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||351||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||21,487||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||27,858||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||77.13%
|}

===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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209232020/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1960_07_20%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-12-09 |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1960-07-20 |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|[[M. Balasundaram]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||12,088||67.64%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|T. Gunaratnam||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||5,782||32.36%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''17,870'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||188||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||18,058||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||27,858||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||64.82%
|}

===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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209231813/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1965%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-12-09 |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1965 |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. Kathiravelupillai]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||12,339||51.93%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|T. Gunaratnam||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||8,230||34.64%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|M. Thurairajah||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Key||2,625||11.05%
|-
| || align=left|[[M. Balasundaram]]||||align=left|Umbrella||568||2.39%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''23,762'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||361||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||24,123||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||33,091||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||72.90%
|}

===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 |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1970 |publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka |access-date=2009-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209231958/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1970%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |archive-date=2009-12-09 |url-status=dead }}</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. Kathiravelupillai]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||16,428||55.85%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|T. Gunaratnam||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||11,288||38.38%
|-
| || align=left|M. S. Kanagasundaram||||align=left|Pair of Scales||983||3.34%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Sri Lanka Freedom Party}}|  || align=left|M. Thurairajah||align=left|[[Sri Lanka Freedom Party]]||align=left|Hand||713||2.42%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''29,412'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||189||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||29,601||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||37,464||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||79.01%
|}

===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|[[S. Kathiravelupillai]]||align=left|[[Tamil United Liberation Front]]||align=left|Sun||25,840||77.20%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|V. Nadarajah||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Key||3,487||10.42%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|S. Jeganathan||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Elephant||2,699||8.06%
|-
| || align=left|V. T. Jeyadevan||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Ship||1,444||4.31%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''33,470'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||149||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||33,619||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||41,824||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||80.38%
|}

[[S. Kathiravelupillai]] died on 31 March 1981. His replacement [[M. Alalasundaram]] was sworn in on 23 July 1981.<ref name="Rajasingham27">{{cite web|url=http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/DB16Df06.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020622185747/http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/DB16Df06.html|url-status=unfit|archive-date=22 June 2002|title=Chapter 27 - Horsewhip Amirthalingham |last=KT Rajasingham|date=16 February 2002|work=SRI LANKA: THE UNTOLD STORY|publisher=[[Asia Times]]|access-date=23 March 2010}}</ref>

[[M. Alalasundaram]] 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, Alalasundaram forfeited his seat in Parliament on 5 January 1984.<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>

[[M. Alalasundaram]] was murdered on 2 September 1985.<ref name="Rajasingham33">{{cite web|url=http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/DC30Df04.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020407114337/http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/DC30Df04.html|url-status=unfit|archive-date=7 April 2002|title=Chapter 33: India shows its hand|last=KT Rajasingham|work=SRI LANKA: THE UNTOLD STORY|publisher=[[Asia Times]]|access-date=23 March 2010}}</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]]

Kopay Electoral District - Revision history

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