Hambantota electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and March 1960. The district was named after the city of Hambantota...

Beliatta in Hambantota District, Southern Province. The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka introduced the proportional representation electoral system for...

Parliamentary elections have been held in Sri Lanka since the first in 1947, under three different constitutions: the Soulbury Constitution, the 1972 Constitution...

Hambantota district when Mahinda and his brother Chamal Rajapaksa were elected in the 1989 Parliamentary election to represent Hambantota Electoral District...

This is a list of cabinets of Sri Lanka since 1947. The Executive Council of Ceylon was the Executive Council created in British Ceylon by the British...

collapsed from 145 seats in the previous election, winning 3 seats. Electoral calendar Electoral system Member of the United National Party officially running...

183 electoral districts existed from 1947 to 1989 in Sri Lanka. The country's 1978 Constitution introduced a new proportional representation electoral system...

2018. Of the 225 members of parliament, 196 are elected from 22 electoral districts, which are multi-member. The remaining 29 MPs are elected from National...

was elected to – the House of Representatives from the Attanagalla Electoral District. He was appointed Minister of Health and served as Leader of the House...

fifteen prime ministers of Sri Lanka since the creation of the position in 1947, prior to the independence of the country (then known as Ceylon). The prime...

Sabaragamuwa Southern Uva Western Districts Ampara Anuradhapura Badulla Batticaloa Colombo Galle Gampaha Hambantota Jaffna Kalutara Kandy Kegalle Kilinochchi...

district (Colombo Central). From March 1960 there were 145 electoral districts consisting of 140 single-member districts, four two-member districts (Akurana...

Sabaragamuwa Southern Uva Western Districts Ampara Anuradhapura Badulla Batticaloa Colombo Galle Gampaha Hambantota Jaffna Kalutara Kandy Kegalle Kilinochchi...

the United National Party (UNP) government had Wijeweera arrested at Hambantota on 12 May, days before the general elections in May. The UF won a landslide...

incumbent Minister of Justice as of 20 May 2022. The post was established in 1947 under the Soulbury Constitution as one of two fixed ministerial portfolios...

Sabaragamuwa Southern Uva Western Districts Ampara Anuradhapura Badulla Batticaloa Colombo Galle Gampaha Hambantota Jaffna Kalutara Kandy Kegalle Kilinochchi...

of a legislative body was created as the Speaker of the State Council. In 1947, according to the recommendations of the Soulbury Commission the State Council...

and recreational facilities. It has 48 members elected under the mixed electoral system where 60% of members will be elected using first-past-the-post...

title of chairman of Laksala. At the time of her death, she was visiting Hambantota in order to help the Southern Provincial council elections. She was the...

Galle, and Trincomalee, in addition to the newest port being built at Hambantota. In June 2021, Sri Lanka imposed a nationwide ban on inorganic fertilisers...

March 2010. "The Island". www.island.lk. "General Election 2015 : Hambantota district preferential votes announced". 18 August 2015. "PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS...

will require the eviction of thousands of villagers around Hambantota. Projects on the Hambantota port have led to fears among the local protestors that the...

Stanley". Retrieved 12 April 2016. Wilson, Jeyaratnam (10 June 2010). Electoral Politics in an Emergent State: The Ceylon General Election of May 1970...

on to serve as prime minister on two other occasions, for four months in 1960, and a full term from 1965 to 1970. The 1953 hartal is the central event...

Sabaragamuwa Southern Uva Western Districts Ampara Anuradhapura Badulla Batticaloa Colombo Galle Gampaha Hambantota Jaffna Kalutara Kandy Kegalle Kilinochchi...

Sabaragamuwa Southern Uva Western Districts Ampara Anuradhapura Badulla Batticaloa Colombo Galle Gampaha Hambantota Jaffna Kalutara Kandy Kegalle Kilinochchi...

parliament as an LSSP member of the People's Alliance in the Colombo Electoral District. He was subsequently appointed the Minister of Science and Technology...

hamlet of Godigamuwa in Kalutara District, he received his basic education in the school of his home town, Wethara, and in 1947 entered Ananda College, Colombo...