• Jaffna Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the city of Jaffna...
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    allocated to Vanni Electoral District, the other electoral district in the Northern Province, remained unchanged at 6. Jaffna Electoral District's problems were...
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  • Lanka Jaffna Electoral District, a multi-member electoral district of Sri Lanka Jaffna Electoral District (19471989), a former single-member electoral district...
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  • Chavakachcheri Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the town...
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    List of Polling divisions of Sri Lanka (category Electoral districts of Sri Lanka)
    Sri Lanka are subdivisions of the country's electoral districts. From the 1st parliamentary election in 1947 to the 8th in 1977, members were elected to...
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  • Kayts Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the island of Kayts...
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  • Point Pedro Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of...
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  • Kankesanthurai Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the town...
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  • Vaddukoddai Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of...
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  • Jaffna International Airport (Tamil: யாழ்ப்பாணம் சர்வதேச விமான நிலையம், romanized: Yāḻppāṇam Carvatēca Vimāṉa Nilaiyam; Sinhala: යාපනය ජාත්‍යන්තර ගුවන්තොටුපළ...
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  • Kopay Electoral District was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Kopay...
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    2000, Final District Results". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. "EPDP gets four seats in Jaffna". TamilNet...
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    single party managed to achieve a supermajority and the first time the Jaffna District was won by a non-Tamil political party. This election also saw a record...
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  • Kankesanthurai (category Towns in Jaffna District)
    fishing division and resort hub of the Jaffna District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka. Formerly an electoral district, Kankesanthurai is home to the Kankesanthurai...
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  • 183 electoral districts existed from 1947 to 1989 in Sri Lanka. The country's 1978 Constitution introduced a new proportional representation electoral system...
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  • Parliamentary elections have been held in Sri Lanka since the first in 1947, under three different constitutions: the Soulbury Constitution, the 1972 Constitution...
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    1977, 1981 and 1983 anti-Tamil pogroms, as well as the 1981 burning of the Jaffna Public Library. These were carried out by the majority Sinhalese mobs often...
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  • 1993 Sri Lankan presidential election (category Elections using electoral votes)
    Sabaragamuwa Southern Uva Western Districts Ampara Anuradhapura Badulla Batticaloa Colombo Galle Gampaha Hambantota Jaffna Kalutara Kandy Kegalle Kilinochchi...
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    Matugama (category Electoral divisions in Sri Lanka)
    1960 by the creation of Bulathsinhala). Since 1989 it has been an electoral division of the Kalutara District, not a constituency sending a member to parliament...
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  • Uduvil (category Towns in Jaffna District)
    multi-member electoral districts.[1] Manipay electoral district was replaced by the Jaffna multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections...
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    Elections September 21, 2024" (PDF). ifes.org. International Foundation for Electoral Systems. 2024. p. 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 September...
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    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...
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  • collapsed from 145 seats in the previous election, winning 3 seats. Electoral calendar Electoral system Member of the United National Party officially running...
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    Cakravarti who established the Jaffna kingdom. Also known as the Aryacakravarti dynasty, was a northern kingdom centred around the Jaffna Peninsula. In 1247, the...
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    Sabaragamuwa Southern Uva Western Districts Ampara Anuradhapura Badulla Batticaloa Colombo Galle Gampaha Hambantota Jaffna Kalutara Kandy Kegalle Kilinochchi...
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    Koneswaram Temple (category Hindu temples in Trincomalee District)
    of the Vannimai districts of the ascending Jaffna kingdom to the Koneswaram shrine. The Tamil Aryacakravarti dynasty kings of the Jaffna kingdom paid homage...
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    The 1987–1989 JVP insurrection, also known as the 1988–1989 revolt or the JVP troubles, was an armed revolt in Sri Lanka, led by the Marxist–Leninist Janatha...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Dambadeniya. The north, in the meanwhile, eventually evolved into the Jaffna kingdom. The Jaffna kingdom never came under the rule of any kingdom of the south...
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