Jaffna Electoral District
Template:Short description Template:Infobox constituency Jaffna Electoral District is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district covers the administrative districts of Jaffna and Kilinochchi in the Northern province. The district currently elects 9 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 529,239 registered electors in 2014.[1] The district is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 10.[2]
Polling Divisions
The Jaffna Electoral District consists of the following polling divisions:[2]
A: Kayts
B: Vaddukoddai
D: Manipay
E: Kopay
F: Udupiddy
G: Point Pedro
I: Nallur
J: Jaffna
K: Kilinochchi
Election results
Presidential elections
1982 presidential election
Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982:[3]
| Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | ||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Kumar Ponnambalam | ACTC | 9,742 | 9,319 | 6,065 | 8,353 | 9,822 | 4,984 | 7,514 | 8,979 | 5,367 | 5,779 | 9,741 | 1,598 | 87,263 | 40.03% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Hector Kobbekaduwa | SLFP | 6,128 | 3,258 | 9,523 | 3,393 | 4,188 | 13,678 | 9,008 | 4,330 | 6,348 | 8,155 | 7,770 | 1,431 | 77,300 | 35.46% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | J. R. Jayewardene | UNP | 3,629 | 6,419 | 3,771 | 4,067 | 3,616 | 3,546 | 4,463 | 4,831 | 3,198 | 2,282 | 3,700 | 1,253 | 44,780 | 20.54% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Colvin R. de Silva | LSSP | 419 | 134 | 310 | 157 | 171 | 423 | 483 | 332 | 217 | 353 | 257 | 120 | 3,376 | 1.55% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Rohana Wijeweera | JVP | 204 | 176 | 341 | 119 | 188 | 379 | 559 | 244 | 189 | 208 | 380 | 111 | 3,098 | 1.42% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Vasudeva Nanayakkara | NSSP | 125 | 186 | 184 | 98 | 102 | 182 | 298 | 243 | 150 | 224 | 255 | 129 | 2,186 | 1.00% |
| Valid Votes | 20,247 | 19,502 | 20,194 | 16,187 | 18,087 | 23,282 | 22,330 | 18,959 | 15,469 | 17,001 | 22,103 | 4,642 | 218,003 | 100.00% | ||
| Rejected Votes | 1,205 | 711 | 1.078 | 943 | 1,012 | 1,023 | 1,069 | 894 | 585 | 816 | 1,076 | 198 | 10,610 | |||
| Total Polled | 21,452 | 20,213 | 21,272 | 17,130 | 19,099 | 24,305 | 23,399 | 19,853 | 16,054 | 17,817 | 23,179 | 4,840 | 228,613 | |||
| Registered Electors | 44,597 | 42,296 | 51,681 | 42,563 | 39,773 | 49,577 | 48,930 | 49,233 | 34,859 | 43,990 | 46,206 | 493,705 | ||||
| Turnout (%) | 48.10% | 47.79% | 41.16% | 40.25% | 48.02% | 49.02% | 47.82% | 40.32% | 46.05% | 40.50% | 50.16% | 46.31% | ||||
1988 presidential election
Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988:[4]
| Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Total Votes | % | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | |||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | SLFP | 3,704 | 3,546 | 3,117 | 3,264 | 4,064 | 5,833 | 3,491 | 3,362 | 3,921 | 3,400 | 6,495 | 44,197 | 36.82% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Ossie Abeygunasekera | SLMP | 4,023 | 3,616 | 3,840 | 4,503 | 2,596 | 4,325 | 5,089 | 2,924 | 2,910 | 3,120 | 5,252 | 42,198 | 35.15% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Ranasinghe Premadasa | UNP | 2,300 | 3,475 | 2,364 | 4,628 | 3,793 | 2,493 | 4,006 | 2,000 | 2,620 | 1,662 | 4,309 | 33,650 | 28.03% |
| Valid Votes | 10,027 | 10,637 | 9,321 | 12,395 | 10,453 | 12,651 | 12,586 | 8,286 | 9,451 | 8,182 | 16,056 | 120,045 | 100.00% | ||
| Rejected Votes | 1,035 | 479 | 451 | 596 | 378 | 733 | 891 | 482 | 772 | 303 | 2,397 | 8,517 | |||
| Total Polled | 11,062 | 11,116 | 9,772 | 12,991 | 10,831 | 13,384 | 13,477 | 8,768 | 10,223 | 8,485 | 18,453 | 128,562 | |||
| Registered Electors | 51,595 | 49,229 | 60,386 | 49,481 | 53,604 | 56,450 | 58,320 | 61,936 | 40,175 | 52,084 | 58,522 | 591,782 | |||
| Turnout (%) | 21.44% | 22.58% | 16.18% | 26.25% | 20.21% | 23.71% | 23.11% | 14.16% | 25.45% | 16.29% | 31.53% | 21.72% | |||
1994 presidential election
Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994:[5]
| Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | ||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Chandrika Kumaratunga | PA | 63 | 1,143 | 116 | 14,761 | 174 | 11 | 18 | 21 | 8 | 24 | 539 | 56 | 16,934 | 96.35% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Hudson Samarasinghe | Ind 2 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 291 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00 | 31 | 0 | 341 | 1.94% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Srimathi Dissanayake | UNP | 6 | 108 | 6 | 83 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 223 | 1.27% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Harischandra Wijayatunga | SMBP | 0 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 36 | 0.20% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | G. A. Nihal | SLPF | 0 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 0.14% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | A. J. Ranashinge | Ind 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0.09% |
| Valid Votes | 70 | 1,272 | 127 | 15,193 | 186 | 12 | 18 | 23 | 8 | 26 | 584 | 56 | 17,575 | 100.00% | ||
| Rejected Votes | 3 | 7 | 0 | 120 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 141 | |||
| Total Polled | 73 | 1,279 | 127 | 15,313 | 193 | 12 | 18 | 23 | 8 | 26 | 588 | 56 | 17,716 | |||
| Registered Electors | 51,717 | 50,045 | 60,417 | 49,504 | 55,995 | 56,496 | 58,382 | 62,372 | 40,336 | 52,153 | 58,949 | 62 | 596,366 | |||
| Turnout (%) | 0.14% | 2.56% | 0.21% | 30.93% | 0.34% | 0.02% | 0.03% | 0.04% | 0.02% | 0.05% | 1.00% | 90.32% | 2.97% | |||
1999 presidential election
Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999:[6]
| Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | ||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Chandrika Kumaratunga | PA | 3,430 | 3,471 | 5,324 | 3,377 | 593 | 6,607 | 9,194 | 5,125 | 3,062 | 4,664 | 6,854 | 342 | 52,043 | 46.65% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Ranil Wickremasinghe | UNP | 7,494 | 3,263 | 2,271 | 3,580 | 1,262 | 5,941 | 5,003 | 4,834 | 4,270 | 5,685 | 4,232 | 170 | 48,005 | 43.03% |
| Vasudeva Nanayakkara | LDA | 356 | 151 | 208 | 154 | 33 | 332 | 386 | 328 | 258 | 417 | 466 | 305 | 3,394 | 3.04% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | W. V. M. Ranjith | Ind 2 | 127 | 57 | 197 | 108 | 26 | 335 | 311 | 113 | 95 | 210 | 293 | 1 | 1,873 | 1.68% |
| Rajiva Wijesinha | Liberal | 109 | 28 | 158 | 62 | 22 | 265 | 191 | 95 | 72 | 138 | 228 | 0 | 1,368 | 1.23% | |
| Abdul Rasool | SLMP | 158 | 46 | 90 | 84 | 31 | 161 | 126 | 47 | 80 | 88 | 125 | 5 | 1,041 | 0.93% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | T. Edirisuriya | Ind 1 | 84 | 25 | 81 | 45 | 11 | 122 | 104 | 49 | 65 | 118 | 127 | 0 | 831 | 0.74% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Harischandra Wijayatunga | SMBP | 77 | 22 | 93 | 40 | 12 | 133 | 115 | 54 | 58 | 72 | 139 | 3 | 818 | 0.73% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Hudson Samarasinghe | Ind 3 | 51 | 10 | 49 | 31 | 6 | 111 | 55 | 41 | 32 | 88 | 77 | 1 | 552 | 0.49% |
| Kamal Karunadasa | PLSF | 33 | 14 | 58 | 34 | 3 | 84 | 73 | 29 | 34 | 53 | 71 | 1 | 487 | 0.44% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Nandana Gunathilake | JVP | 68 | 11 | 24 | 50 | 6 | 49 | 57 | 18 | 33 | 44 | 53 | 0 | 413 | 0.37% |
| A. W. Premawardhana | PFF | 62 | 7 | 25 | 32 | 3 | 78 | 40 | 24 | 31 | 51 | 49 | 1 | 403 | 0.36% | |
| A. Dissanayaka | DUNF | 49 | 8 | 28 | 20 | 8 | 55 | 36 | 21 | 28 | 41 | 49 | 0 | 340 | 0.30% | |
| Valid Votes | 12,098 | 7,113 | 8,606 | 7,617 | 2,016 | 14,273 | 15,691 | 10,778 | 8,118 | 11,669 | 12,760 | 829 | 111,568 | 100.00% | ||
| Rejected Votes | 1,059 | 314 | 321 | 419 | 117 | 577 | 714 | 384 | 453 | 737 | 767 | 119 | 5,981 | |||
| Total Polled | 13,157 | 7,427 | 8,927 | 8,036 | 2,133 | 14,850 | 16,405 | 11,162 | 8,571 | 12,406 | 13,527 | 948 | 117,549 | |||
| Registered Electors | 53,247 | 51,581 | 61,514 | 50,885 | 56,792 | 58,751 | 62,002 | 63,799 | 42,304 | 53,545 | 58,350 | 612,770 | ||||
| Turnout (%) | 24.71% | 14.40% | 14.51% | 15.79% | 3.76% | 25.28% | 26.46% | 17.50% | 20.26% | 23.17% | 23.18% | 19.18% | ||||
2005 presidential election
Results of the 5th presidential election held on 17 November 2005:[7]
| Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Displaced Votes |
Total Votes | % | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | |||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Ranil Wickremasinghe | UNP | 33 | 301 | 148 | 98 | 1 | 267 | 256 | 198 | 25 | 52 | 191 | 1,405 | 2,548 | 5,523 | 70.20% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Mahinda Rajapaksa | UPFA | 10 | 124 | 97 | 139 | 0 | 54 | 64 | 100 | 9 | 11 | 53 | 327 | 979 | 1,967 | 25.00% |
| Victor Hettigoda | ULPP | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 109 | 1 | 120 | 1.53% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Siritunga Jayasuriya | USP | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 26 | 72 | 0.92% |
| A. A. Suraweera | NDF | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 34 | 0.43% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | A. K. J. Arachchige | DUA | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 31 | 0.39% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Wije Dias | SEP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 29 | 0.37% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Chamil Jayaneththi | NLF | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 24 | 0.31% |
| Anura De Silva | ULF | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 0.27% | |
| P. Nelson Perera | SLPF | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 0.20% | |
| Wimal Geeganage | SLNF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 0.19% | |
| Aruna de Soyza | RPP | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 0.15% | |
| H. S. Dharmadwaja | UNAF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.05% | |
| Valid Votes | 50 | 438 | 260 | 263 | 1 | 362 | 340 | 308 | 35 | 64 | 263 | 1,885 | 3,599 | 7,868 | 100.00% | ||
| Rejected Votes | 3 | 17 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 26 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 441 | 107 | 656 | |||
| Total Polled | 53 | 455 | 267 | 276 | 1 | 388 | 357 | 313 | 39 | 65 | 278 | 2,326 | 3,706 | 8,524 | |||
| Registered Electors | 62,022 | 62,089 | 67,133 | 52,986 | 89,454 | 63,752 | 68,783 | 70,251 | 47,188 | 55,499 | 62,781 | 701,938 | |||||
| Turnout (%) | 0.08% | 0.73% | 0.40% | 0.52% | 0.00% | 0.61% | 0.52% | 0.45% | 0.08% | 0.12% | 0.44% | 1.21% | |||||
2010 presidential election
Results of the 6th presidential election held on 26 January 2010:[8]
| Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Displaced Votes |
Total Votes | % | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | |||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Sarath Fonseka | NDF | 11,599 | 7,914 | 8,216 | 3,976 | 4,717 | 13,151 | 13,390 | 11,543 | 8,585 | 8,974 | 11,712 | 3,173 | 6,927 | 113,877 | 63.84% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Mahinda Rajapaksa | UPFA | 4,567 | 3,296 | 4,559 | 4,611 | 991 | 4,538 | 5,749 | 3,554 | 2,361 | 2,545 | 4,247 | 892 | 2,244 | 44,154 | 24.75% |
| M. C. M. Ismail | DUNF | 323 | 107 | 254 | 283 | 199 | 528 | 391 | 196 | 223 | 301 | 326 | 6 | 233 | 3,370 | 1.89% | |
| C. J. Sugathsiri Gamage | UDF | 493 | 139 | 283 | 144 | 45 | 471 | 447 | 231 | 227 | 314 | 486 | 4 | 41 | 3,325 | 1.86% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | M. K. Shivajilingam | Ind 5 | 348 | 126 | 207 | 284 | 42 | 306 | 231 | 173 | 326 | 334 | 500 | 263 | 65 | 3,205 | 1.80% |
| A. A. Suraweera | NDF | 141 | 50 | 169 | 136 | 28 | 160 | 189 | 73 | 73 | 97 | 164 | 2 | 28 | 1,310 | 0.73% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Vikramabahu Karunaratne | LF | 121 | 41 | 88 | 56 | 23 | 151 | 173 | 89 | 100 | 78 | 139 | 49 | 20 | 1,128 | 0.63% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Siritunga Jayasuriya | USP | 113 | 18 | 68 | 42 | 19 | 146 | 122 | 68 | 47 | 68 | 110 | 1 | 18 | 840 | 0.47% |
| Sarath Manamendra | NSH | 94 | 29 | 59 | 32 | 26 | 112 | 106 | 50 | 44 | 68 | 71 | 6 | 35 | 732 | 0.41% | |
| Lal Perera | ONF | 55 | 30 | 56 | 30 | 32 | 98 | 101 | 52 | 43 | 61 | 106 | 0 | 32 | 696 | 0.39% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Ukkubanda Wijekoon | Ind 3 | 82 | 31 | 70 | 38 | 10 | 93 | 105 | 52 | 34 | 71 | 85 | 1 | 11 | 683 | 0.38% |
| Wije Dias | SEP | 92 | 20 | 32 | 94 | 19 | 68 | 62 | 25 | 43 | 58 | 127 | 1 | 16 | 657 | 0.37% | |
| A. S. P. Liyanage | SLLP | 80 | 31 | 59 | 43 | 23 | 100 | 85 | 54 | 24 | 50 | 75 | 0 | 21 | 645 | 0.36% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | W. V. Mahiman Ranjith | Ind 1 | 59 | 27 | 51 | 60 | 27 | 83 | 66 | 31 | 39 | 47 | 63 | 2 | 16 | 571 | 0.32% |
| Sarath Kongahage | UNAF | 67 | 23 | 35 | 33 | 12 | 64 | 63 | 37 | 41 | 57 | 71 | 3 | 12 | 518 | 0.29% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Aithurus M. Illias | Ind 2 | 85 | 19 | 43 | 36 | 8 | 72 | 48 | 31 | 27 | 41 | 62 | 1 | 12 | 485 | 0.27% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | M. Mohamed Musthaffa | Ind 4 | 71 | 10 | 49 | 15 | 10 | 84 | 56 | 27 | 35 | 43 | 75 | 0 | 10 | 485 | 0.27% |
| Sanath Pinnaduwa | NA | 47 | 8 | 35 | 18 | 13 | 67 | 45 | 36 | 24 | 38 | 63 | 0 | 18 | 412 | 0.23% | |
| Senaratna de Silva | PNF | 45 | 11 | 37 | 15 | 8 | 65 | 51 | 13 | 20 | 31 | 51 | 1 | 10 | 358 | 0.20% | |
| Aruna de Soyza | RPP | 41 | 12 | 19 | 12 | 8 | 64 | 35 | 16 | 30 | 38 | 70 | 2 | 4 | 351 | 0.20% | |
| Battaramulla Seelarathana | JP | 36 | 7 | 28 | 16 | 11 | 53 | 41 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 46 | 2 | 6 | 307 | 0.17% | |
| M. B. Thaminimulla | ACAKO | 31 | 11 | 23 | 9 | 9 | 34 | 38 | 20 | 22 | 20 | 35 | 1 | 7 | 260 | 0.15% | |
| Valid Votes | 18,590 | 11,960 | 14,440 | 9,983 | 6,280 | 20,508 | 21,594 | 16,391 | 12,388 | 13,355 | 18,684 | 4,410 | 9,786 | 178,369 | 100.00% | ||
| Rejected Votes | 860 | 454 | 493 | 338 | 286 | 625 | 881 | 557 | 440 | 600 | 752 | 116 | 361 | 6,763 | |||
| Total Polled | 19,450 | 12,414 | 14,933 | 10,321 | 6,566 | 21,133 | 22,475 | 16,948 | 12,828 | 13,955 | 19,436 | 4,526 | 10,147 | 185,132 | |||
| Registered Electors | 65,141 | 64,714 | 69,082 | 53,111 | 90,811 | 65,798 | 71,114 | 72,558 | 48,613 | 56,426 | 63,991 | 721,359 | |||||
| Turnout | 29.86% | 19.18% | 21.62% | 19.43% | 7.23% | 32.12% | 31.60% | 23.36% | 26.39% | 24.73% | 30.37% | 25.66% | |||||
2015 presidential election
Results of the 7th presidential election held on 8 January 2015:[1]
| Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | ||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Maithripala Sirisena | NDF | 23,520 | 17,994 | 18,729 | 8,144 | 38,856 | 27,161 | 26,958 | 24,929 | 17,388 | 18,137 | 20,873 | 10,885 | 253,574 | 74.42% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Mahinda Rajapaksa | UPFA | 5,599 | 4,502 | 5,705 | 5,959 | 13,300 | 6,211 | 7,225 | 5,405 | 4,213 | 3,937 | 7,791 | 4,607 | 74,454 | 21.85% |
| Maulawi Ibrahim Mohanmed Mishlar | UPF | 215 | 71 | 169 | 67 | 215 | 213 | 155 | 112 | 96 | 125 | 163 | 19 | 1,620 | 0.48% | |
| A. S. P. Liyanage | SLLP | 142 | 81 | 125 | 70 | 161 | 193 | 178 | 110 | 87 | 108 | 133 | 10 | 1,398 | 0.41% | |
| Namal Ajith Rajapaksa | ONF | 123 | 41 | 102 | 55 | 184 | 180 | 123 | 52 | 65 | 93 | 108 | 24 | 1,150 | 0.34% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Aithurus M. Illias | Ind | 97 | 41 | 94 | 38 | 123 | 114 | 137 | 74 | 49 | 82 | 107 | 22 | 978 | 0.29% |
| Ratnayake Arachchige Sirisena | PNF | 127 | 52 | 87 | 51 | 180 | 105 | 96 | 55 | 59 | 79 | 78 | 9 | 978 | 0.29% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Siritunga Jayasuriya | USP | 96 | 66 | 105 | 34 | 115 | 118 | 128 | 79 | 47 | 50 | 122 | 15 | 975 | 0.29% |
| Ruwanthileke Peduru | ULPP | 81 | 40 | 77 | 33 | 149 | 156 | 103 | 67 | 59 | 65 | 102 | 10 | 942 | 0.28% | |
| Sarath Manamendra | NSH | 76 | 33 | 61 | 30 | 106 | 88 | 71 | 34 | 44 | 59 | 67 | 8 | 677 | 0.20% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Sundaram Mahendran | NSSP | 56 | 27 | 38 | 22 | 77 | 73 | 69 | 50 | 41 | 47 | 50 | 73 | 623 | 0.18% |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Pani Wijesiriwardene | SEP | 51 | 24 | 40 | 63 | 92 | 77 | 60 | 35 | 18 | 53 | 90 | 12 | 615 | 0.18% |
| Duminda Nagamuwa | FSP | 69 | 31 | 51 | 26 | 66 | 89 | 69 | 40 | 38 | 43 | 78 | 10 | 610 | 0.18% | |
| Muthu Bandara Theminimulla | AACAAK | 62 | 33 | 58 | 11 | 56 | 93 | 69 | 44 | 28 | 45 | 66 | 3 | 568 | 0.17% | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Anurudha Polgampola | Ind | 51 | 14 | 59 | 18 | 63 | 56 | 63 | 44 | 36 | 44 | 55 | 5 | 508 | 0.15% |
| Prasanna Priyankara | DNM | 29 | 15 | 40 | 16 | 39 | 51 | 44 | 34 | 22 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 360 | 0.11% | |
| Battaramulle Seelarathana | JSP | 29 | 11 | 42 | 19 | 41 | 41 | 43 | 22 | 11 | 24 | 39 | 7 | 329 | 0.10% | |
| Jayantha Kulathunga | ULGC | 19 | 12 | 19 | 14 | 37 | 22 | 20 | 15 | 12 | 17 | 23 | 4 | 214 | 0.06% | |
| Wimal Geeganage | SLNF | 14 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 26 | 33 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 22 | 4 | 178 | 0.05% | |
| Valid Votes | 30,456 | 23,096 | 25,616 | 14,678 | 53,886 | 35,074 | 35,627 | 31,212 | 22,320 | 23,052 | 29,997 | 15,737 | 340,751 | 100.00% | ||
| Rejected Votes | 953 | 423 | 822 | 495 | 1,940 | 1,138 | 960 | 660 | 576 | 574 | 1,043 | 454 | 10,038 | |||
| Total Polled | 31,409 | 23,519 | 26,438 | 15,173 | 55,826 | 36,212 | 36,587 | 31,872 | 22,896 | 23,626 | 31,040 | 16,191 | 350,789 | |||
| Registered Electors | 51,702 | 33,050 | 63,217 | 22,057 | 79,093 | 55,891 | 54,567 | 46,699 | 36,138 | 39,204 | 47,621 | 529,239 | ||||
| Turnout | 60.75% | 71.16% | 41.82% | 68.79% | 70.58% | 64.79% | 67.05% | 68.25% | 63.36% | 60.26% | 65.18% | 66.28% | ||||
Parliamentary general elections
1989 parliamentary election
Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989:[9]
| Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | ||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent (EROS) | 7,851 | 18,688 | 14,801 | 17,108 | 8,576 | 17,846 | 18,521 | 21,123 | 5,860 | 1,587 | 17,814 | 565 | 150,340 | 62.68% | 8 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Tamil United Liberation Front (ENDLF, EPRLF, TELO, TULF) | 6,350 | 5,323 | 9,073 | 3,706 | 8,850 | 6,717 | 6,048 | 4,211 | 2,428 | 1,178 | 5,827 | 302 | 60,013 | 25.02% | 3 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 553 | 3,387 | 500 | 466 | 669 | 815 | 592 | 410 | 275 | 84 | 682 | 6 | 8,439 | 3.52% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Democratic People's Liberation Front (PLOTE) | 581 | 409 | 1,199 | 572 | 740 | 1,073 | 1,252 | 531 | 384 | 171 | 1,050 | 31 | 7,993 | 3.33% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | All Ceylon Tamil Congress | 985 | 1,410 | 532 | 391 | 565 | 852 | 535 | 1,137 | 342 | 127 | 541 | 193 | 7,610 | 3.17% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | United National Party (CWC, UNP) | 339 | 470 | 388 | 354 | 1,522 | 421 | 496 | 320 | 569 | 46 | 470 | 65 | 5,460 | 2.28% | 0 |
| Valid Votes | 16,659 | 29,687 | 26,493 | 22,597 | 20,922 | 27,724 | 27,444 | 27,732 | 9,858 | 3,193 | 26,384 | 1,162 | 239,855 | 100.00% | 11 | |
| Rejected Votes | 3,254 | 1,649 | 2,817 | 2,577 | 3,603 | 2,954 | 2,453 | 1,375 | 894 | 380 | 3,217 | 30 | 25,203 | |||
| Total Polled | 19,913 | 31,336 | 29,310 | 25,174 | 24,525 | 30,678 | 29,897 | 29,107 | 10,752 | 3,573 | 29,601 | 1,192 | 265,058 | |||
| Registered Electors | 51,374 | 49,068 | 60,282 | 49,401 | 53,421 | 56,413 | 58,166 | 61,624 | 40,060 | 51,943 | 58,770 | 1,688 | 592,210 | |||
| Turnout | 38.76% | 63.86% | 48.62% | 50.96% | 45.91% | 54.38% | 51.40% | 47.23% | 26.84% | 6.88% | 50.37% | 70.62% | 44.76% | |||
The following candidates were elected:[9] Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy (EROS), 40,947 preference votes (pv); Eliyathamby Pararasasingam (EROS), 36,340 pv; S. Sivamaharajah (EROS), 22,622 pv; K. Navaratnam (EPRLF), 22,255 pv; Arunasalam Ponniah Selliah (EROS), 20,747 pv; Suresh Premachandran (EPRLF), 20,738 pv; G. Yogasangari (EPRLF), 20,223 pv; Thambu Loganathapillai (EROS), 17,616 pv; Sebastiyampillai Edward (EROS), 17,429 pv; Kanapathy Selvanayagam (EROS), 14,440 pv; and Joseph George Rajenthiram (EROS), 13,928 pv.
G. Yogasangari (EPRLF) was killed on 19 June 1990.[10]
1994 parliamentary election
Results of the 10th parliamentary election held on 16 August 1994:[11]
| Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | ||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 2 (EPDP) | 13 | 76 | 93 | 9,944 | 2 | 40 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 556 | 0 | 10,744 | 79.71% | 9 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 62 | 1,914 | 4 | 56 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2,098 | 15.56% | 1 |
| Independent 1 (EROS, PLOTE, TELO) | 2 | 26 | 15 | 214 | 6 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 31 | 1 | 43 | 2 | 374 | 2.77% | 0 | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front | 2 | 6 | 9 | 232 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 263 | 1.95% | 0 |
| Valid Votes | 79 | 2,022 | 121 | 10,446 | 66 | 57 | 12 | 19 | 34 | 8 | 612 | 3 | 13,479 | 100.00% | 10 | |
| Rejected Votes | 3 | 8 | 6 | 302 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 352 | |||
| Total Polled | 82 | 2,030 | 127 | 10,748 | 66 | 60 | 13 | 20 | 35 | 8 | 639 | 3 | 13,831 | |||
| Registered Electors | 51,717 | 50,045 | 60,417 | 49,504 | 55,995 | 56,496 | 58,382 | 62,372 | 40,336 | 52,153 | 58,949 | 596,366 | ||||
| Turnout | 0.16% | 4.06% | 0.21% | 21.71% | 0.12% | 0.11% | 0.02% | 0.03% | 0.09% | 0.02% | 1.08% | 2.32% | ||||
The following candidates were elected:[11] Douglas Devananda (EPDP), 2,091 preference votes (pv); Aithurus M. Illias (SLMC), 1,575 pv; Alagaiah Rasamanickam (EPDP), 1,110 pv; Umapathisivam Baskaran (EPDP), 1,056 pv; Rajendran Ramamoorthy (EPDP), 1,050 pv; Nadarajah "Ramesh" Atputharajah (EPDP), 968 pv; Murugesu Chandrakumar (EPDP), 798 pv; Sangarapillai Sivathasan (EPDP), 456 pv; Sinniah Thangavel (EPDP) 398 pv; and M.A. Ghafoor Zafarullah (EPDP), 351 pv.
Nadarajah "Ramesh" Atputharajah (EPDP) was killed on 2 November 1999.[12]
2000 parliamentary election
Results of the 11th parliamentary election held on 10 October 2000:[13]
| Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Displaced Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | |||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Eelam People's Democratic Party | 1,256 | 1,571 | 4,068 | 12,311 | 216 | 5,044 | 5,737 | 2,560 | 1,862 | 1,662 | 4,869 | 380 | 135 | 41,671 | 35.00% | 4 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Tamil United Liberation Front | 1,284 | 1,277 | 4,943 | 1,327 | 119 | 4,248 | 5,703 | 3,587 | 1,540 | 4,180 | 4,035 | 518 | 91 | 32,852 | 27.59% | 3 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | United National Party (DWC, NWC, UCPF, UNP) | 913 | 581 | 524 | 820 | 278 | 1,051 | 955 | 1,523 | 978 | 1,046 | 2,153 | 74 | 535 | 11,431 | 9.60% | 1 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | All Ceylon Tamil Congress | 658 | 394 | 331 | 166 | 43 | 891 | 1,160 | 1,262 | 2,493 | 2,024 | 908 | 288 | 30 | 10,648 | 8.94% | 1 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 2 | 1,043 | 406 | 304 | 223 | 138 | 829 | 872 | 342 | 180 | 328 | 208 | 32 | 2 | 4,907 | 4.12% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Democratic People's Liberation Front (EROS, PLOTE) |
288 | 471 | 254 | 68 | 24 | 867 | 1,067 | 295 | 705 | 243 | 447 | 49 | 79 | 4,857 | 4.08% | 0 |
| Left & Democratic Alliance | 46 | 15 | 152 | 6 | 0 | 825 | 124 | 83 | 28 | 73 | 1,079 | 17 | 4 | 2,452 | 2.06% | 0 | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 5 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 25 | 2 | 51 | 32 | 24 | 20 | 30 | 29 | 1 | 1,992 | 2,234 | 1.88% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 6 | 56 | 120 | 43 | 275 | 18 | 110 | 164 | 98 | 123 | 782 | 241 | 28 | 132 | 2,190 | 1.84% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 1 | 13 | 114 | 174 | 26 | 1 | 548 | 634 | 38 | 19 | 22 | 50 | 2 | 16 | 1,657 | 1.39% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 3 | 66 | 226 | 77 | 28 | 1 | 241 | 256 | 406 | 59 | 110 | 143 | 20 | 16 | 1,649 | 1.38% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | National Unity Alliance (SLMC et al.) | 5 | 3 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 24 | 39 | 15 | 22 | 22 | 28 | 2 | 825 | 1,015 | 0.85% | 0 |
| Citizen's Front | 6 | 13 | 27 | 22 | 1 | 44 | 42 | 23 | 29 | 24 | 45 | 0 | 51 | 327 | 0.27% | 0 | |
| Sinhala Heritage | 14 | 7 | 14 | 32 | 0 | 37 | 36 | 18 | 30 | 39 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 267 | 0.22% | 0 | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 116 | 187 | 0.16% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 7 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 1 | 27 | 20 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 34 | 0 | 9 | 172 | 0.14% | 0 |
| Muslim United Liberation Front | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 107 | 161 | 0.14% | 0 | |
| Ruhuna People's Party | 2 | 3 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 24 | 24 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 142 | 0.12% | 0 | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 9 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 21 | 16 | 6 | 12 | 24 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 135 | 0.11% | 0 |
| Liberal Party | 3 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 24 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 115 | 0.10% | 0 | |
| Valid Votes | 5,681 | 5,227 | 11,004 | 15,397 | 851 | 14,935 | 16,912 | 10,318 | 8,138 | 10,665 | 14,384 | 1,413 | 4,144 | 119,069 | 100.00% | 9 | |
| Rejected Votes | 1,003 | 485 | 1,291 | 935 | 163 | 1,787 | 2,115 | 920 | 1,055 | 1,600 | 2,017 | 13,664 | |||||
| Total Polled | 6,684 | 5,712 | 12,295 | 16,332 | 1,014 | 16,722 | 19,027 | 11,238 | 9,193 | 12,265 | 16,401 | 132,733 | |||||
| Registered Electors | 53,933 | 53,666 | 63,000 | 51,007 | 57,543 | 59,419 | 62,692 | 65,203 | 42,781 | 53,668 | 59,419 | 622,331 | |||||
| Turnout (%) | 12.39% | 10.64% | 19.52% | 32.02% | 1.76% | 28.14% | 30.35% | 17.24% | 21.49% | 22.85% | 27.60% | 21.33% | |||||
The following candidates were elected:[14] V. Anandasangaree (TULF), 12,888 pv; Mavai Senathirajah (TULF), 10,965 pv; Douglas Devananda (EPDP), 7,658 pv; S. Sivamaharajah (TULF), 7,187 pv; T. Maheswaran (UNP), 4,807 pv; Nadarasah Mathanarajah (EPDP), 4,673 pv; Karthigesu Velummylum Kugendran (EPDP), 4,244 pv; A. Vinayagamoorthy (ACTC), 3,825 pv; and Kandiah Sangaran (EPDP), 2,902 pv.
2001 parliamentary election
Results of the 12th parliamentary election held on 5 December 2001:[15][16]
| Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Displaced Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | |||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Tamil National Alliance (ACTC, EPRLF(S), TELO, TULF) |
9,865 | 7,368 | 8,898 | 4,304 | 1,100 | 12,539 | 13,539 | 11,787 | 8,525 | 12,493 | 9,800 | 1,496 | 610 | 102,324 | 54.84% | 6 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Eelam People's Democratic Party | 2,221 | 3,647 | 5,580 | 15,378 | 431 | 6,300 | 7,450 | 4,565 | 2,736 | 3,385 | 4,609 | 576 | 330 | 57,208 | 30.66% | 2 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | United National Front (CWC, UNP, WPF) |
1,218 | 974 | 1,231 | 764 | 191 | 1,753 | 1,999 | 1,970 | 1,273 | 1,022 | 3,445 | 172 | 233 | 16,245 | 8.71% | 1 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 27 | 299 | 51 | 23 | 3 | 85 | 95 | 334 | 12 | 36 | 35 | 2 | 2,362 | 3,364 | 1.80% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent | 1,045 | 311 | 234 | 24 | 68 | 181 | 349 | 217 | 34 | 126 | 60 | 20 | 8 | 2,677 | 1.43% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Democratic Left Front | 28 | 20 | 75 | 4 | 0 | 689 | 127 | 82 | 429 | 121 | 461 | 16 | 2 | 2,054 | 1.10% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Democratic People's Liberation Front (PLOTE) | 79 | 274 | 77 | 19 | 2 | 326 | 215 | 159 | 121 | 55 | 44 | 24 | 59 | 1,454 | 0.78% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | United Socialist Party | 27 | 15 | 29 | 23 | 9 | 46 | 68 | 44 | 30 | 39 | 73 | 0 | 7 | 410 | 0.22% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | New Left Front (NSSP et al.) | 31 | 21 | 34 | 9 | 4 | 70 | 72 | 29 | 26 | 47 | 55 | 0 | 9 | 407 | 0.22% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 15 | 12 | 30 | 14 | 1 | 40 | 27 | 21 | 14 | 17 | 48 | 2 | 1 | 242 | 0.13% | 0 |
| Sinhala Heritage | 20 | 13 | 21 | 22 | 2 | 32 | 28 | 21 | 8 | 23 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 213 | 0.11% | 0 | |
| Valid Votes | 14,576 | 12,954 | 16,260 | 20,584 | 1,811 | 22,061 | 23,969 | 19,229 | 13,208 | 17,364 | 18,650 | 2,308 | 3,624 | 186,598 | 100.00% | 9 | |
| Rejected Votes | 1,264 | 624 | 899 | 777 | 133 | 1,354 | 1,370 | 547 | 823 | 1,084 | 1,478 | 46 | 282 | 10,681 | |||
| Total Polled | 15,840 | 13,578 | 17,159 | 21,361 | 1,944 | 23,415 | 25,339 | 19,776 | 14,031 | 18,448 | 20,128 | 2,354 | 3,906 | 197,279 | |||
| Registered Electors | 54,779 | 55,244 | 64,119 | 51,072 | 57,595 | 61,334 | 64,262 | 67,057 | 43,087 | 53,941 | 60,967 | 633,457 | |||||
| Turnout (%) | 28.92% | 24.58% | 26.76% | 41.83% | 3.38% | 38.18% | 39.43% | 29.49% | 32.56% | 34.20% | 33.01% | 31.14% | |||||
The following candidates were elected:[17] V. Anandasangaree (TNA-TULF), 36,217 preference votes (pv); Mavai Senathirajah (TNA-TULF), 33,831 pv; Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam (TNA-ACTC), 29,641 pv; A. Vinayagamoorthy (TNA-ACTC), 19,472 pv; Nadarajah Raviraj (TNA-TULF), 19,263 pv; M. K. Shivajilingam (TNA-TELO), 17,859 pv; T. Maheswaran (UNF), 11,598 pv; Douglas Devananda (EPDP), 9,744 pv; and Nadarasah Mathanarajah (EPDP), 7,350 pv.
2004 parliamentary election
Results of the 13th parliamentary election held on 2 April 2004:[18]
| Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Displaced Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | |||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Tamil National Alliance (ACTC, EPRLF(S), ITAK, TELO) |
30,882 | 16,353 | 18,499 | 13,911 | 29,574 | 26,805 | 23,779 | 22,321 | 22,400 | 24,172 | 24,240 | 3,175 | 1,209 | 257,320 | 90.60% | 8 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Eelam People's Democratic Party | 1,252 | 1,710 | 2,395 | 1,406 | 145 | 2,108 | 3,239 | 2,431 | 676 | 874 | 1,513 | 420 | 443 | 18,612 | 6.55% | 1 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 1 (TULF) | 492 | 360 | 405 | 51 | 171 | 453 | 980 | 800 | 248 | 362 | 485 | 340 | 9 | 5,156 | 1.82% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 8 | 151 | 7 | 41 | 5 | 16 | 11 | 14 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 1,717 | 1,995 | 0.70% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | United Socialist Party | 24 | 6 | 27 | 14 | 18 | 32 | 36 | 32 | 22 | 25 | 42 | 1 | 12 | 291 | 0.10% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | New Left Front (NSSP et al.) | 19 | 13 | 25 | 11 | 6 | 36 | 54 | 30 | 9 | 23 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 266 | 0.09% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 2 | 24 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 14 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 151 | 0.05% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Jathika Hela Urumaya | 9 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 95 | 0.03% | 0 |
| Swarajya | 6 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 73 | 0.03% | 0 | |
| Ruhuna People's Party | 8 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 67 | 0.02% | 0 | |
| Valid Votes | 32,724 | 18,630 | 21,386 | 15,454 | 29,939 | 29,495 | 28,158 | 25,659 | 23,372 | 25,507 | 26,358 | 3,946 | 3,398 | 284,026 | 100.00% | 9 | |
| Rejected Votes | 2,966 | 1,120 | 1,631 | 1,282 | 2,213 | 2,445 | 2,268 | 1,465 | 1,028 | 1,956 | 2,543 | 39 | 277 | 21,233 | |||
| Total Polled | 35,690 | 19,750 | 23,017 | 16,736 | 32,152 | 31,940 | 30,426 | 27,124 | 24,400 | 27,463 | 28,901 | 3,985 | 3,675 | 305,259 | |||
| Registered Electors | 57,379 | 57,460 | 64,434 | 51,911 | 57,975 | 61,403 | 65,218 | 67,672 | 45,457 | 54,087 | 61,283 | 644,279 | |||||
| Turnout (%) | 62.20% | 34.37% | 35.72% | 32.24% | 55.46% | 52.02% | 46.65% | 40.08% | 53.68% | 50.78% | 47.16% | 47.38% | |||||
The following candidates were elected:[19] Selvarajah Kajendren (TNA), 112,077 preference votes (pv); Pathmini Sithamparanathan (TNA), 68,240 pv; Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam (TNA-ACTC), 60,770 pv; Suresh Premachandran (TNA-EPRLF), 45,786 pv; K. Sivanesan (TNA), 43,730 pv; Nadarajah Raviraj (TNA-ITAK), 42,965 pv; M. K. Shivajilingam (TNA-TELO), 42,193 pv; Mavai Senathirajah (TNA-ITAK), 38,783 pv; and Douglas Devananda (EPDP), 9,405 pv.
Nadarajah Raviraj (TNA-ITAK) was killed on 10 November 2006.[20] His replacement Nallathamby Srikantha (TNA-TELO) was sworn in on 30 November 2006.[21]
K. Sivanesan (TNA) was killed on 6 March 2008.[22] His replacement Solomon Cyril (TNA) was sworn in on 9 April 2008.[23]
2010 parliamentary election
Results of the 14th parliamentary election held on 8 April 2010:[24]
| Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Displaced Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | |||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Tamil National Alliance (EPRLF(S), ITAK, TELO) |
7,664 | 4,713 | 5,018 | 1,671 | 4,192 | 7,467 | 7,194 | 7,490 | 3,783 | 4,630 | 5,341 | 3,813 | 2,143 | 65,119 | 43.85% | 5 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | United People's Freedom Alliance (ACMC, EPDP, SLFP et al.) |
2,777 | 3,479 | 4,518 | 6,441 | 3,367 | 4,377 | 5,643 | 3,467 | 3,402 | 2,533 | 3,286 | 1,529 | 2,803 | 47,622 | 32.07% | 3 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | United National Front (DPF, SLFP(P), SLMC, UNP) |
1,248 | 616 | 584 | 392 | 386 | 1,122 | 1,424 | 896 | 697 | 717 | 3,438 | 461 | 643 | 12,624 | 8.50% | 1 |
| Tamil National People's Front (ACTC et al.) | 445 | 688 | 337 | 104 | 85 | 370 | 397 | 730 | 1,123 | 760 | 831 | 474 | 18 | 6,362 | 4.28% | 0 | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Tamil United Liberation Front | 298 | 130 | 169 | 33 | 497 | 165 | 473 | 188 | 98 | 228 | 388 | 176 | 49 | 2,892 | 1.95% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 11 | 315 | 41 | 206 | 72 | 25 | 410 | 296 | 141 | 264 | 261 | 505 | 26 | 0 | 2,562 | 1.73% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 4 | 574 | 39 | 144 | 9 | 11 | 215 | 332 | 194 | 79 | 257 | 252 | 41 | 4 | 2,151 | 1.45% | 0 |
| Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (Padmanaba) | 563 | 92 | 112 | 25 | 201 | 311 | 268 | 62 | 9 | 34 | 115 | 27 | 2 | 1,821 | 1.23% | 0 | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 3 | 112 | 22 | 57 | 12 | 9 | 223 | 115 | 98 | 214 | 171 | 57 | 69 | 2 | 1,161 | 0.78% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 6 | 15 | 4 | 168 | 2 | 7 | 451 | 59 | 46 | 19 | 75 | 171 | 21 | 0 | 1,038 | 0.70% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Left Liberation Front (LLF, TNLA) | 30 | 56 | 42 | 45 | 3 | 37 | 79 | 47 | 49 | 314 | 125 | 39 | 2 | 868 | 0.58% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Eelavar Democratic Front (EROS) | 79 | 92 | 54 | 27 | 57 | 104 | 96 | 67 | 37 | 43 | 161 | 7 | 34 | 858 | 0.58% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Democratic Unity Alliance | 19 | 28 | 20 | 22 | 255 | 81 | 50 | 70 | 21 | 29 | 91 | 9 | 69 | 764 | 0.51% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 5 | 17 | 36 | 30 | 18 | 6 | 64 | 66 | 73 | 16 | 53 | 46 | 11 | 1 | 437 | 0.29% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 10 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 60 | 33 | 37 | 52 | 6 | 9 | 82 | 36 | 20 | 399 | 0.27% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | United Socialist Party | 100 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 28 | 21 | 23 | 9 | 10 | 40 | 7 | 3 | 280 | 0.19% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 7 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 75 | 15 | 6 | 15 | 109 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 261 | 0.18% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Democratic National Alliance (JVP et al.) | 10 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 28 | 17 | 17 | 3 | 22 | 19 | 4 | 46 | 201 | 0.14% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 1 | 17 | 29 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 9 | 30 | 18 | 34 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 183 | 0.12% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 2 | 72 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 19 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 179 | 0.12% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 9 | 37 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 31 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 3 | 10 | 171 | 0.12% | 0 |
| Janasetha Peramuna | 11 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 21 | 7 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 134 | 0.09% | 0 | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 12 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 22 | 109 | 0.07% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Socialist Equality Party | 5 | 8 | 5 | 27 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 101 | 0.07% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 8 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 93 | 0.06% | 0 |
| Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal | 9 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 69 | 0.05% | 0 | |
| All Are Citizens, All Are Kings Organisation | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 0.03% | 0 | |
| Valid Votes | 14,476 | 10,163 | 11,549 | 8,947 | 9,212 | 15,684 | 16,679 | 13,757 | 9,918 | 10,347 | 15,108 | 6,781 | 5,882 | 148,503 | 100.00% | 9 | |
| Rejected Votes | 2,180 | 1,037 | 1,621 | 1,326 | 1,807 | 2,021 | 2,239 | 1,334 | 1,194 | 1,485 | 2,128 | 314 | 1,088 | 19,774 | |||
| Total Polled | 16,656 | 11,200 | 13,170 | 10,273 | 11,019 | 17,705 | 18,918 | 15,091 | 11,112 | 11,832 | 17,236 | 7,095 | 6,970 | 168,277 | |||
| Registered Electors | 65,141 | 64,714 | 69,082 | 53,111 | 90,811 | 65,798 | 71,114 | 72,558 | 48,613 | 56,426 | 63,991 | 721,359 | |||||
| Turnout | 25.57% | 17.31% | 19.06% | 19.34% | 12.13% | 26.91% | 26.60% | 20.80% | 22.86% | 20.97% | 26.94% | 23.33% | |||||
The following candidates were elected:[25] Douglas Devananda (UPFA-EPDP), 28,585 preference votes (pv); Mavai Senathirajah (TNA-ITAK), 20,501 pv; Suresh Premachandran (TNA-EPRLF), 16,425 pv; A. Vinayagamoorthy (TNA), 15,311 pv; E. Saravanapavan (TNA), 14,961 pv; Silvestri Alantine (UPFA-EPDP), 13,128 pv; S. Sritharan (TNA), 10,057; Murugesu Chandrakumar (UPFA-EPDP), 8,105 pv; and Vijayakala Maheswaran (UNF-UNP), 7,160 pv.
Provincial council elections
1988 provincial council election
Results of the 1st North Eastern provincial council election held on 19 November 1988:
Jaffna District - The Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front won all 19 seats uncontested.[26]
Kilinochchi District - The Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front won all 3 seats uncontested.[26]
2013 provincial council election
Results of the 1st Northern provincial council election held on 21 September 2013:[27][28]
Jaffna District
| Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udu- piddy |
Vaddu -koddai | ||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Tamil National Alliance (EPRLF (S), ITAK, PLOTE, TELO, TULF) | 22,922 | 16,421 | 19,596 | 8,917 | 26,467 | 28,210 | 23,733 | 17,719 | 18,855 | 23,442 | 7,625 | 213,907 | 84.37% | 14 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | United People's Freedom Alliance (ACMC, EPDP, SLFP et al.) | 4,193 | 2,416 | 4,048 | 4,164 | 4,386 | 3,898 | 2,651 | 2,953 | 2,424 | 3,763 | 1,099 | 35,995 | 14.20% | 2 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | United National Party | 89 | 60 | 35 | 17 | 127 | 88 | 148 | 26 | 57 | 173 | 35 | 855 | 0.34% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Democratic Unity Alliance | 31 | 21 | 41 | 21 | 53 | 54 | 62 | 162 | 27 | 43 | 10 | 525 | 0.21% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 1 | 25 | 40 | 24 | 3 | 80 | 33 | 38 | 80 | 54 | 19 | 10 | 406 | 0.16% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 6 | 7 | 7 | 42 | 1 | 88 | 109 | 22 | 2 | 35 | 27 | 16 | 356 | 0.14% | 0 |
| Sri Lanka People's Party | 61 | 18 | 19 | 16 | 71 | 17 | 22 | 20 | 6 | 38 | 4 | 292 | 0.12% | 0 | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 7 | 10 | 34 | 62 | 8 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 86 | 12 | 271 | 0.11% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 3 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 15 | 20 | 62 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 50 | 5 | 215 | 0.08% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | United Socialist Party | 27 | 6 | 20 | 11 | 34 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 18 | 0 | 165 | 0.07% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Democratic Party | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 35 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 111 | 0.04% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Socialist Equality Party | 4 | 5 | 7 | 29 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 5 | 101 | 0.04% | 0 |
| Janasetha Peramuna | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 74 | 0.03% | 0 | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 9 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 63 | 0.02% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 8 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 59 | 0.02% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 56 | 0.02% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 0.01% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 24 | 0.01% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 0.01% | 0 |
| Sri Lanka Labour Party | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0.01% | 0 | |
| Valid Votes | 27,415 | 19,063 | 23,947 | 13,227 | 31,411 | 32,585 | 26,774 | 21,038 | 21,511 | 27,736 | 8,835 | 253,542 | 100.00% | 16 | |
| Rejected Votes | 2,378 | 1,240 | 2,074 | 1,377 | 3,195 | 2,531 | 1,650 | 1,444 | 1,755 | 2,521 | 114 | 20,279 | |||
| Total Polled | 29,793 | 20,303 | 26,021 | 14,604 | 34,606 | 35,116 | 28,424 | 22,482 | 23,266 | 30,257 | 8,949 | 273,821 | |||
| Registered Electors | 49,479 | 28,610 | 61,196 | 21,548 | 53,617 | 51,722 | 42,466 | 35,054 | 37,926 | 45,195 | 426,813 | ||||
| Turnout | 60.21% | 70.96% | 42.52% | 67.77% | 64.54% | 67.89% | 66.93% | 64.14% | 61.35% | 66.95% | 64.15% | ||||
Kilinochchi District
| Party | Kilino -chchi |
Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Tamil National Alliance (EPRLF (S), ITAK, PLOTE, TELO, TULF) | 36,323 | 756 | 37,079 | 81.57% | 3 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | United People's Freedom Alliance (ACMC, EPDP, SLFP et al.) | 7,737 | 160 | 7,897 | 17.37% | 1 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Eelavar Democratic Front (EROS) | 300 | 0 | 300 | 0.66% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Democratic Unity Alliance | 60 | 1 | 61 | 0.13% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | United National Party | 53 | 1 | 54 | 0.12% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 2 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 0.05% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 18 | 0 | 18 | 0.04% | 0 |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Independent 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0.02% | 0 |
| United Lanka Great Council | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0.01% | 0 | |
| bgcolor=Template:Party color| | Democratic Party | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0.01% | 0 |
| Nationalities Unity Organisation | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0.01% | 0 | |
| Sri Lanka Labour Party | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0.01% | 0 | |
| Janasetha Peramuna | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.00% | 0 | |
| Valid Votes | 44,540 | 919 | 45,459 | 17.93% | 4 | |
| Rejected Votes | 4,725 | 10 | 4,735 | |||
| Total Polled | 49,265 | 929 | 50,194 | |||
| Registered Electors | 68,600 | 68,600 | ||||
| Turnout | 71.81% | 73.17% | ||||
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