| Valvettithurai Urban Council | |
|---|---|
| Type | |
| Type | Local authority |
| Leadership | |
| Chairman | Nadarasa Anantharaj, TNA since July 2011 |
| Deputy Chairman | Kanagalingam Sivagilingam, TNA since July 2011 |
| Members | 9 |
| Elections | |
| Last election | Sri Lankan local government elections, 2011 |
Valvettithurai Urban Council (VUC) is the local authority for the town of Valvettithurai in northern Sri Lanka. VUC is responsible for providing a variety of local public services including roads, sanitation, drains, housing, libraries, public parks and recreational facilities. It has 9 members elected using the open list proportional representation system.
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Results of the local government election held on 18 May 1983:[1]
| Alliances and parties | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil United Liberation Front | 173 | 94.02% | 9 | |
| All Ceylon Tamil Congress | 7 | 3.80% | 0 | |
| United National Party | 4 | 2.17% | 0 | |
| Valid Votes | 184 | 100.00% | 11 | |
| Rejected Votes | 0 | |||
| Total Polled | 184 | |||
| Registered Electors | 8,954 | |||
| Turnout | 2.05% | |||
Valvettithurai didn't have an elected local government for sporadic periods, this was due to various reasons[2]. Aljazeera, the Asiafoundation and the Daily Mirror attribute this to civil war [3][4]; Reuters and the US State Department attribute this to calls for election boycotts by the LTTE (enforced with brutal reprisals for non compliance)[5][6]; the Taipei Times and the BBC attribute this to area coming under LTTE control[7][8] and the Tamilnet attribute it to The Sri Lankan government's suspension of all local government in the north and east of the country in 1983 using Emergency Regulations.[9]
Results of the local government election held on 29 January 1998:[10][11]
| Alliances and parties | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization | 736 | 60.13% | 6 | |
| Eelam People's Democratic Party | 283 | 23.12% | 2 | |
| Democratic People's Liberation Front (PLOTE) | 151 | 12.34% | 1 | |
| Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front | 54 | 4.41% | 0 | |
| Valid Votes | 1,224 | 100.00% | 9 | |
| Rejected Votes | 255 | |||
| Total Polled | 1,479 | |||
| Registered Electors | 11,128 | |||
| Turnout | 13.29% | |||
The normal life term of Sri Lankan local government bodies is four years. The life term of VUC 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 VUC and instead put in place special commissions to administer the local areas.[12] VUC continued to be administered by these special commissions until the 2011 elections.
Results of the local government election held on 23 July 2011:[13]
| Alliances and parties | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil National Alliance (ITAK, EPRLF (S), TELO, PLOTE, TULF) | 2,416 | 76.36% | 7 | |
| United People's Freedom Alliance (EPDP, SLFP et al.) | 653 | 20.64% | 2 | |
| United National Party | 93 | 2.94% | 0 | |
| Independent | 2 | 0.06% | 0 | |
| Valid Votes | 3,164 | 100.00% | 9 | |
| Rejected Votes | 230 | |||
| Total Polled | 3,394 | |||
| Registered Electors | 5,550 | |||
| Turnout | 61.15% | |||
The following candidates were elected:[14] Nadarasa Anantharaj (TNA); Thillaiyampathy Jegathees (TNA); Kanagarajah Jeyarajah (TNA); Inthiran Kailajini (UPFA); Soosaippillai Xaviyar Kulanayagam (TNA); Mahalingam Mayuran (TNA); Kandasamy Sathees (TNA); M. K. Shivajilingam (TNA-TELO); and Ponnuthurai Theiventhiran (UPFA).
Nadarasa Anantharaj of TNA and M. K. Shivajilingam of TNA-TELO were appointed Chairman and Deputy Chairman respectively.
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