Sri Lankan presidential election, 1982

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Elections were held to the presidency of Sri Lanka on September 17, 1982. Electoral participation was 81.06%.

[edit] Nationwide Results

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Summary of the 1982 Sri Lankan presidential election

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Junius Jayewardene	United National Party	3,450,811	52.9
Hector Cobbekaduwa	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	2,548,438	39.1
Rohana Wijeweera	Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	273,439	4.2
G.G. Ponnambalam	All Ceylon Tamil Congress	173,934	2.7
Colvin R. de Silva	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	57,532	0.9
Vasudeva Nanayakkara	Nava Sama Samaja Party	17,006	0.3
Total		6,441,677	100.0
Invalid votes		80,470
Total cast		6,522,147

Source: [1]

[edit] Best District

Candidate	District	Votes	%
J.R. Jayawardene (UNP)	Nuwara-Eliya	109,017	63.10
H.S.R.B. Kobbekaduwa (SLFP)	Ratnapura	152,506	44.13
Rohana Wijeweera (JVP)	Hambantota	28,835	14.62
G.G. Ponnambalam (ACTC)	Jaffna	87,263	40.03
Dr. Colvin R. De Silva (LSSP)	Kalutara	8,613	2.04
Vasudeva Nanayakakra (NSSP)	Ratnapura	3,494	1.01

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