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{{Short description|Former electoral district of Sri Lanka}}
'''Mannar 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 [[Mannar, Sri Lanka|Mannar]] in [[Mannar 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> Mannar electoral district was replaced by the [[Vanni Electoral District|Vanni multi-member electoral district]] at the [[1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|1989 general elections]], the first under the PR system, though Mannar continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

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

{{Party index link|Independent (politician)}} {{Party index link|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}} {{Party index link|United National Party}} {{Party index link|Tamil United Liberation Front}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="2"|Election!!Member!!Party!!Term
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Independent}}" |
| [[1947 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1947]]
| rowspan ="2"|[[C. Sittampalam]]
| rowspan ="2"|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
| 1947-1952
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Independent}}" |
| [[1952 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1952]]
| 1952-1956
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1956 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1956]]
| rowspan ="5"|[[V. A. Alegacone]]
| rowspan ="5"|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]
| 1956-1960
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1960 (March)]]
| 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]]
| 1965-1970
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1970]]
| 1970-1977
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|United National Party}}" |
| [[1974 Mannar Electoral District By-election|1974]]
| [[S. A. Raheem]]
| [[United National Party]]
| 1970-1977
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Tamil United Liberation Front}}" |
| [[1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|1977]]
| [[P. S. Soosaithasan]]
| [[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"|%
|-
| || align=left|[[C. Sittampalam]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Key||5,877||59.97%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|[[J. Tyagaraja]]||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Umbrella||3,381||34.50%
|-
| || align=left|S. Viraspillai||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Hand||542||5.53%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''9,800'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes|||71||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||9,871||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||14,587||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||67.67%
|}

===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"|%
|-
| || align=left|[[C. Sittampalam]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Key||5,876||52.62%
|-
| || align=left|[[V. A. Alegacone]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Star||5,290||47.38%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''11,166'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||113||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||11,279||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||14,959||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||75.40%
|}

===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. A. Alegacone]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP>Also known as the [[Federal Party (Sri Lanka)|Federal Party]]</ref>||align=left|House||6,726||53.12%
|-
| || align=left|[[Kanthiah Vaithianathan|Sir Kanthiah Vaithianathan]]||||align=left|Umbrella||4,857||38.36%
|-
| || align=left|[[C. Sittampalam]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Bicycle||1,078||8.51%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''12,661'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||105||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||12,766||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||15,819||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||80.70%
|}

===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. A. Alegacone]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||6,463||47.37%
|-
| || align=left|S. H. Mohamed||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Pot||4,587||33.62%
|-
| || align=left|Sabamalai John Mark||||align=left|Cockerel||2,155||15.79%
|-
| || align=left|N. M. Abdul Caffoor||||align=left|Pair of Spectacles||440||3.22%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''13,645'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||126||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||13,771||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||16,936||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||81.31%
|}

===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. A. Alegacone]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||7,307||55.79%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|S. H. Mohamed||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Elephant||5,790||44.21%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''13,097'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||72||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||13,169||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||16,936||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||77.76%
|}

===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. A. Alegacone]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||6,896||39.52%
|-
| || align=left|M. S. Abdul Raheem||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Umbrella||6,040||34.61%
|-
| || align=left|Sabamalai John Mark||||align=left|Pair of Spectacles||4,514||25.87%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''17,450'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||121||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||17,571||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||21,418||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||82.04%
|}

===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. A. Alegacone]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||10,697||48.98%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|United National Party}}|  || align=left|[[S. A. Raheem]]||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Elephant||10,628||48.67%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Sri Lanka Freedom Party}}|  || align=left|N. M. Abdul Cader||align=left|[[Sri Lanka Freedom Party]]||align=left|Hand||513||2.35%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''21,838'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||127||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||21,965||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||25,441||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||86.34%
|}

V. A. Alegacone died on 25 November 1973.

====1974 Parliamentary by-Election====
Results of the parliamentary by-election held on 25 February 1974:<ref>{{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=Results of the Parliamentary By-Elections Held Between 1947-1988 |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|United National Party}}|  || align=left|[[S. A. Raheem]]||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Elephant||12,974||49.05%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|S. M. Johan Mark||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||12,899||48.77%
|-
| || align=left|S. A. Cader||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Sun||469||1.77%
|-
| || align=left|S. Percy Emmanuel||||align=left|lamp||108||0.41%
|-
| align=left colspan=3|'''Valid Votes'''||'''26,450'''||'''100%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=3|Rejected Votes||130||
|-
| align=left colspan=3|Total Polled||26,580||
|-
| align=left colspan=3|Registered Electors||29,596||
|-
| align=left colspan=3|Turnout||89.81%||
|}

===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|[[P. S. Soosaithasan]]||align=left|[[Tamil United Liberation Front]]||align=left|Sun||15,141||51.58%
|-
| || align=left|M. S. Abdul Raheem||align=left|[[United National Party]]||align=left|Elephant||12,929||44.05%
|-
| || align=left|Sabamalai John Mark||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Lamp||663||2.26%
|-
| || align=left|H. S. Dawood||||align=left|Hand||478||1.63%
|-
| || align=left|M. Kanthasamy||||align=left|Pair of Scales||141||0.48%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''29,352'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||84||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||29,436||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||31,767||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||92.66%
|}

[[P. S. Soosaithasan]] 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, Soosaithasan 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 Mannar District]]

Mannar Electoral District - Revision history

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