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{{Short description|Sri Lankan electoral district (1947-1989)}}
'''Point Pedro 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 [[Point Pedro]] in [[Jaffna District]], [[Northern Province, Sri Lanka|Northern Province]]. [[Udupiddy Electoral District]] was carved out of the western part of the 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> Point Pedro 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 Point Pedro 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|Communist Party of Ceylon}} {{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 ="2"|[[T. Ramalingam]]
| rowspan ="2"|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]
| 1947-1952
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}" |
| [[1952 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1952]]
| 1952-1956
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of Ceylon}}" |
| [[1956 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1956]]
| [[P. Kandiah]]
| [[Communist Party of Ceylon]]
| 1956-1960
|-
|style="background-color: {{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}" |
| [[March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1960 (March)]]
| rowspan ="5"|[[K. Thurairatnam]]
| rowspan ="4"|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]
| 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|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|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|[[T. Ramalingam]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Pair of Scales||10,396||43.51%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|S. "Jeyam" Tharamakulasingham||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Eye||6,108||25.56%
|-
| || align=left|V. Suppiah||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Spoon||3,897||16.31%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Communist Party of Ceylon}}|  || align=left|[[P. Kandiah]]||align=left|[[Communist Party of Ceylon|Communist Party]]||align=left|Hand||3,492||14.62%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''23,893'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes|||446||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||24,339||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||41,682||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||58.39%
|}

===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|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|[[T. Ramalingam]]||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Eye||11,609||41.54%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Communist Party of Ceylon}}|  || align=left|[[P. Kandiah]]||align=left|[[Communist Party of Ceylon|Communist Party]]||align=left|Bicycle||8,617||30.83%
|-
| || align=left|K. C. Nadarajah||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Hand||5,512||19.72%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|Coomaraswamy Balasingham||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Wheel||2,208||7.90%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''27,946'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||494||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||28,440||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||43,219||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||65.80%
|}

===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|Communist Party of Ceylon}}|  || align=left|[[P. Kandiah]]||align=left|[[Communist Party of Ceylon|Communist Party]]||align=left|Star||14,381||50.81%
|-
| || align=left|[[Murugesu Sivasithamparam]]||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Umbrella||8,064||28.49%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi}}|  || align=left|[[K. Thurairatnam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP>Also known as the [[Federal Party (Sri Lanka)|Federal Party]]</ref>||align=left|House||5,859||20.70%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''28,304'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||317||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||28,621||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||44,603||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||64.17%
|}

===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|[[K. Thurairatnam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||5,679||40.34%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|N. Nadarajah||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||2,521||17.91%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}|  || align=left|T. Jayadevan||align=left|[[Lanka Sama Samaja Party]]||align=left|Key||2,101||14.92%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Communist Party of Ceylon}}|  || align=left|K. Senathirajah||align=left|[[Communist Party of Ceylon|Communist Party]]||align=left|Star||1,552||11.02%
|-
| || align=left|S. Sundaralingam||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Ship||1,226||8.71%
|-
| || align=left|S. Kandiah||||align=left|Sun||1,000||7.10%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''14,079'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||152||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||14,231||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||19,408||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||73.33%
|}

===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|[[K. Thurairatnam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||8,226||67.46%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|N. Nadarajah||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||3,968||32.54%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''12,194'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||129||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||12,323||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||19,408||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||63.49%
|}

===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. Thurairatnam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||7,564||46.24%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|N. Nadarajah||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||6,614||40.43%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|Communist Party of Ceylon}}|  || align=left|K. Motilal Nehru||align=left|[[Communist Party of Ceylon|Communist Party]]||align=left|Star||2,180||13.33%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''16,358'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||94||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||16,452||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||22,972||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||71.62%
|}

===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|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209231958/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1970%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF|archive-date=2009-12-09}}</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. Thurairatnam]]||align=left|[[Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi]]<ref name=FP/>||align=left|House||9,217||48.50%
|-
| bgcolor={{party color|All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}|  || align=left|N. Nadarajah||align=left|[[All Ceylon Tamil Congress]]||align=left|Bicycle||8,902||46.85%
|-
| || align=left|P. Kanagarasa||||align=left|Pair of Scales||579||3.05%
|-
| || align=left|A. Visagaratnam||||align=left|Cockerel||305||1.61%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''19,003'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||86||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||19,089||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||24,006||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||79.52%
|}

===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|title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977|publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717002624/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/General%20Election%201977.PDF|archive-date=2011-07-17}}</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|[[K. Thurairatnam]]||align=left|[[Tamil United Liberation Front]]||align=left|Sun||12,989||55.77%
|-
| || align=left|N. Nadarajah||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Umbrella||6,419||27.56%
|-
| || align=left|M. P. Veeravagu||align=left|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||align=left|Pair of Scales||3,065||13.16%
|-
| || align=left|K. T. Rajasingham||||align=left|Eye||614||2.64%
|-
| || align=left|K. S. Muthukumarasamy||||align=left|Ship||204||0.88%
|-
| align=left colspan=4|'''Valid Votes'''||'''23,291'''||'''100.00%'''
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Rejected Votes||75||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Total Polled||23,366||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Registered Electors||28,447||
|-
| align=left colspan=4|Turnout||82.14%
|}

[[K. Thurairatnam]] 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, Thurairatnam 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|newspaper=The Island, Sri Lanka|date=18 January 2008|access-date=25 April 2011|archive-date=17 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617063609/http://www.island.lk/2008/01/18/features11.html|url-status=dead}}</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]]

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