Chavakacheri Urban Council

Chavakacheri Urban Council
Type
Type Local authority
Leadership
Chairman Rapiyel Thevasagayampillai, TNA
since July 2011
Deputy Chairman Kumarasamy Sathasivamoorthy, TNA
since July 2011
Members 11
Elections
Last election Sri Lankan local government elections, 2011

Chavakacheri Urban Council (CUC) is the local authority for the town of Chavakacheri in northern Sri Lanka.[1] CUC is responsible for providing a variety of local public services including roads, sanitation, drains, housing, libraries, public parks and recreational facilities. It has 11 members elected using the open list proportional representation system.

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Election results

1983 local government election

Results of the local government election held on 18 May 1983:[2]

Alliances and parties Votes % Seats
  Tamil United Liberation Front 1,718 92.12% 11
  All Ceylon Tamil Congress 109 5.84% 0
  United National Party 38 2.04% 0
Valid Votes 1,865 100.00% 11
Rejected Votes 20
Total Polled 1,885
Registered Electors 12,050
Turnout 15.64%

The Sri Lankan government suspended all local government in the north and east of the country, including CUC, in 1983 using Emergency Regulations.[3] As a result Chavakacheri didn't have elected local government for the next 15 years.

1998 local government election

Results of the local government election held on 29 January 1998:[4][5]

Alliances and parties Votes % Seats
  Democratic People's Liberation Front (PLOTE) 1,146 41.52% 6
  Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front 835 30.25% 3
  Eelam People's Democratic Party 680 24.64% 2
  Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization 99 3.59% 0
Valid Votes 2,760 100.00% 11
Rejected Votes 527
Total Polled 3,287
Registered Electors 14,802
Turnout 22.21%

The normal life term of Sri Lankan local government bodies is four years. The life term of CUC expired in February 2002 but the central government extended this by another year, as the law allows. Elections should have been held when the extension expired in February 2003 but in January 2003, following a request from the Tamil National Alliance, the central government instead dissolved CUC and instead put in place special commissions to administer the local areas.[6] CUC continued to be administered by these special commissions until the 2011 elections.

2011 local government election

Results of the local government election held on 23 July 2011:[7]

Alliances and parties Votes % Seats
  Tamil National Alliance (ITAK, EPRLF (S), TELO, PLOTE, TULF) 4,307 76.84% 9
  United People's Freedom Alliance (EPDP, SLFP et al.) 1,232 21.98% 2
United Socialist Party 38 0.68% 0
  United National Party 28 0.50% 0
Valid Votes 5,605 100.00% 11
Rejected Votes 347
Total Polled 5,952
Registered Electors 10,987
Turnout 54.17%

The following candidates were elected:[8] Soosaimuthu Alexander (UPFA); Arunachalam Balamayuran (TNA); Gnanapirakasam Kishor (TNA); Kandiah Mylvaganam (TNA); Kumarasamy Sathasivamoorthy (TNA); Kasilingam Satkunadevan (TNA); Ponnuthurai Selvaratnam (TNA); Paramasami Sritharan (TNA); Thanapalasingam Sutharshan (TNA); Rapiyel Thevasagayampillai (TNA); and Nadarasa Thirukumaran (UPFA).

Rapiyel Thevasagayampillai (TNA) and Kumarasamy Sathasivamoorthy (TNA) were appointed Chairman and Deputy Chairman respectively.

References

  1. ^ "Chavakacheri Urban Council". Government of Sri Lanka. http://www.gov.lk/gov/index.php?option=com_org&id=1008&task=showdetails&Itemid=0&lang=en. 
  2. ^ Sarveswaran, K. (2005). The Tamil United Liberation Front: Rise and Decline of a Moderate Ethnic Party in Sri Lanka (1976-2000). Jawaharal Nehru University. 
  3. ^ "TNA urges PM to put off NE local polls". TamilNet. 11 September 2002. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=7457. Retrieved 4 July 2009. 
  4. ^ "Election commissioner releases results". TamilNet. 30 January 1998. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=814. 
  5. ^ D.B.S. Jeyaraj (15 February 1998). "The Jaffna Elections". Tamil Times XVII (2): 12–15. ISSN 0266-4488. 
  6. ^ "Jaffna local bodies to be administered by special commissioners". TamilNet. 14 January 2003. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=8158. Retrieved 4 July 2009. 
  7. ^ "Local Authorities Election - 23.07.2011 Jaffna District Chavakachcheri Urban Council". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. http://www.slelections.gov.lk/2local_authorities2011_2/Chavakachcheri_UC.html. 
  8. ^ "PART IV (B) — LOCAL GOVERNMENT Notices under the Local Authorities Elections Ordinance LOCAL AUTHORITIES ELECTIONS ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 262) Notice under Section 66(2)". The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka 1716/32. 30 July 2011. http://www.documents.gov.lk/Extgzt/2011/PDF/July/1716_32/G%2014853%20IV%20B%20(E)%20Election.pdf. 
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