Kilinochchi Electoral District

Kilinochchi Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between March 1960 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Kilinochchi in Kilinochchi District, Northern Province. The district was carved out of the southern part of Chavakacheri Electoral District in March 1960. The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka introduced the proportional representation electoral system for electing members of Parliament. The existing 160 mainly single-member electoral districts were replaced with 22 multi-member electoral districts.^[1] Kilinochchi electoral district was replaced by the Jaffna multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Kilinochchi continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

Members of Parliament

Key

  ACTC   ITAK   TULF

Election		Member	Party	Term
	1960 (March)	A. Sivasunderam	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi	1960-1965
	1960 (July)
	1965	K. P. Ratnam		1965-1970
	1970	V. Anandasangaree	All Ceylon Tamil Congress	1970-1977
	1977		Tamil United Liberation Front	1977-1989

Elections

1960 (March) Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 4th parliamentary election held on 19 March 1960:^[2]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	A. Sivasunderam	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi[3]	House	3,741	41.76%
	Anton C. Ponnampalam	Independent	Sewing Machine	2,582	28.82%
	P. Arumugam		Cockerel	1,386	15.47%
	V. Anandasangaree	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	Key	1,114	12.43%
	C. Saravanamuttu		Sun	136	1.52%
Valid Votes				8,959	100.00%
Rejected Votes				120
Total Polled				9,079
Registered Electors				13,991
Turnout				64.89%

1960 (July) Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 5th parliamentary election held on 20 July 1960:^[4]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	A. Sivasunderam	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi[3]	House	5,338	72.64%
	V. Anandasangaree	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	Key	2,011	27.36%
Valid Votes				7,349	100.00%
Rejected Votes				88
Total Polled				7,437
Registered Electors				13,991
Turnout				53.16%

1965 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 6th parliamentary election held on 22 March 1965:^[5]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	K. P. Ratnam	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi[3]	House	5,922	44.69%
	V. Coomaraswamy	All Ceylon Tamil Congress	Bicycle	4,076	30.76%
	V. Anandasangaree	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	Key	1,804	13.62%
	C. Saravanamuttu		Tree	831	6.27%
	K. Selvanayagam		Pair of Scales	390	2.94%
	N. S. Sethukavalar		Omnibus	130	0.98%
	R. Vethanayagam		Umbrella	97	0.73%
Valid Votes				13,250	100.00%
Rejected Votes				116
Total Polled				13,366
Registered Electors				18,738
Turnout				71.33%

1970 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 7th parliamentary election held on 27 May 1970:^[6]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	V. Anandasangaree	All Ceylon Tamil Congress	Bicycle	9,049	50.19%
	M. Alalasundaram	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi[3]	House	8,392	46.55%
	K. A. Jerome	Independent	Pair of Scales	253	1.40%
	A. Sivasunderam		Eye	196	1.09%
	K. Kanagaratnam	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	Key	139	0.77%
Valid Votes				18,029	100.00%
Rejected Votes				60
Total Polled				18,089
Registered Electors				23,793
Turnout				76.03%

1977 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 8th parliamentary election held on 21 July 1977:^[7]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	V. Anandasangaree	Tamil United Liberation Front	Sun	15,607	73.42%
	C. Kumarasuriar	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	Hand	4,006	18.84%
	N. Kanagasuriar		Elephant	1,497	7.04%
	I. Gnanasangary		Pair of Scales	76	0.36%
	Sinnathamby Ganesu		Eye	72	0.34%
Valid Votes				21,258	100.00%
Rejected Votes				56
Total Polled				21,314
Registered Electors				26,670
Turnout				79.92%

V. Anandasangaree 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 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 separate state; and the Black July riots in which up to 3,000 Tamils were murdered by Sinhalese mobs. After three months of absence, Anandasangaree forfeited his seat in Parliament on 22 October 1983.^[8]

References & footnotes

1. "The Electoral System". Parliament of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2010-11-27.
2. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1960-03-19" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-12.
3. Also known as the Federal Party
4. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1960-07-20" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24.
5. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1965" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-13.
6. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1970" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-09.
7. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17.
8. Wickramasinghe, Wimal (18 January 2008). "Saga of crossovers, expulsions and resignations etc. Referendum for extension of Parliament". The Island, Sri Lanka.