Colombo West Electoral District

This article is about the former electoral district in Sri Lanka. For other uses, see Colombo (disambiguation).

Colombo West electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between July 1977 and February 1989. The district was named after the city of Colombo in Colombo District, Western Province. The district was created by the division of the Colombo South Electoral District into Colombo East and Colombo West electoral districts in July 1977. 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] Colombo West electoral district was replaced by the Colombo multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Colombo West continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

Members of Parliament

Key

 Independent    United National Party  

ElectionMemberPartyTerm
1977 J. R. Jayewardene United National Party 1977-1978
1978 By-Election Anura Bastian United National Party 1978-1989

Elections

1977 parliamentary general election

Results of the 8th parliamentary election held on 21 July 1977 for the district:[2]

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
Junius Richard Jayewardene Elephant21,70779.22%
M. Chandralal Salgado Hand3,76913.75%
S.D. Wijesinghe Key1,8036.58%
H. Navaratne Banda Chair700.26%
K.A. Thabrew Butterfly530.19%
Valid Votes27,402100.00%
Rejected Votes107
Total Polled27,509
Registered Electors37,983
Turnout72.42%

References