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{{short description|Electoral district of Sri Lanka}}
'''Mullaitivu Electoral District''' was an [[electoral district]] of [[Sri Lanka]] between [[1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|July 1977]] and [[1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|February 1989]]. The district was named after the town of [[Mullaitivu]] in [[Mullaitivu 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> Mullaitivu 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 Mullaitivu continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

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

{{Party index link|Tamil United Liberation Front}}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="2"|Election!!Member!!Party!!Term
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Tamil United Liberation Front}}" |
| [[1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|1977]]
| [[X. M. Sellathambu]]
| [[Tamil United Liberation Front]]
| 1977-1989
|}

==Elections==
===1977 Parliamentary General Election===
Results of the [[1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election|8th parliamentary election]] held on 21 July 1977 for the district:<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|[[X. M. Sellathambu]]||align=left|[[Tamil United Liberation Front]]||align=left|Sun||10,261||52.36%
|-
| || align=left|P. Chandrasekar||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Pair of Scales||7,632||38.95%
|-
| || align=left|R. Vickkinarasa||||align=left|Ladder||977||4.99%
|-
| || align=left|V. Santhirasenan||||align=left|Bell||726||3.70%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''19,596'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||76||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||19,672||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||24,698||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||79.65%
|}

[[X. M. Sellathambu]] 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, Sellathambu forfeited his seat in Parliament on 21 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==
{{reflist}}

{{Former Electoral Districts of Sri Lanka}}

{{coord missing|Sri Lanka}}

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

Mullaitivu Electoral District - Revision history

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