• Parliamentary elections were held in Ceylon on 19 March 1960. By 1960, Ceylon's governing Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) coalition was falling apart....
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  • Snap parliamentary elections were held in Ceylon in July 1960. The March 1960 election had left neither of Ceylon's two major parties with a majority...
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  • Parliamentary elections were held in Ceylon in March 1965. The SLFP government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike lost its majority in December 1964 when some MPs...
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  • Parliamentary elections were held in Ceylon in 1970. SLFP leader Sirimavo Bandaranaike had come to the conclusion that her party's best hope of power...
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  • Parliamentary elections were held in Ceylon in 1956. They were a watershed in the country's political history, and were the first elections fought to...
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  • following elections occurred in 1960. 1960 Cameroonian parliamentary election 1960 Belgian Congo general election 1960 Dahomeyan parliamentary election 1960 Dahomeyan...
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    Stephen Senanayake, who had been voted in by the people at the first parliamentary election in August 1947. Ceylon has now achieved independence as a fully...
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  • disbandment that year. During the March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary elections, the MEP obtained 10 parliamentary seats. In the 1960s the group joined...
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  • July 1960: Results of the Ceylonese parliamentary by-election, held on 18 January 1964: Results of the 6th parliamentary election held on 22 March 1965:...
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  • of the Ceylonese parliamentary by-election, held on 11 November 1977: "The Electoral System". Parliament of Sri Lanka. "Result of Parliamentary General...
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  • Robert Gunawardena (category EngvarB from March 2017)
    Parliamentary General Election 19 March 1960" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 20 July 1960" (PDF). Department...
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  • the 1952 parliamentary election. He won the election and entered Parliament. He was re-elected at the 1956 and March 1960 parliamentary elections as an independent...
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    contested the March 1960 general election winning ten parliamentary seats, however this number was reduced to three in the July 1960 general election. Gunawardena...
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  • was a Ceylonese politician. He was a Cabinet Minister and Chief Government Whip. He served as Member of Parliament from the Minuwangoda from 1960 to 1977...
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  • for the newly created seat of Habaraduwa, at the 4th parliamentary elections held on 19 March 1960. However, as neither of the major political parties...
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    Sirimavo Bandaranaike (category Candidates in the 1988 Sri Lankan presidential election)
    2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2009. Retrieved 6 November 2018. "Parliamentary Election – 1994" (PDF). slelections.gov.lk. Colombo,...
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  • defeated the Prime Minister, Dahanayake, at the Ceylonese parliamentary election held on 19 March 1960. Abeygoonawardena received 10,480 votes (49% of...
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  • force. The Communist parties did their best to avoid suggesting that the Ceylonese "mases" were united with Indian workers against the brown and white capitalists...
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  • the March 1960 parliamentary elections. She then unsuccessfully contested the seat of Dehiowita Electoral District in the July 1960 parliamentary elections...
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  • C. A. Dharmapala (category Ceylonese Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    List of Sri Lankan non-career Permanent Secretaries March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election Fernando, Lalin (28 August 2011). "Correcting a response"...
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    J. R. Jayewardene (category Ceylonese people of World War II)
    United National Party, which achieved a narrow win in the March 1960 parliamentary election, forming a government under Dudley Senanayake. Jayewardene...
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  • the United National Party, by 214 votes. At the 4th parliamentary election, held on 19 March 1960, he ran this time as a member of the Mahajana Eksath...
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  • November 1906) was a Ceylonese politician. Mahadiulwewa was elected to the first Parliament of Ceylon at the parliamentary election held in 1947, as the...
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  • Mohammed Ali at the 1952 parliamentary election. He tried to re-enter Parliament at the March 1960 parliamentary election as a Lanka Democratic Party candidate...
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  • November 1910 - 23 March 1983) was a Ceylonese businessman, landholder and politician. Dissanayake contested the 3rd parliamentary election, held between 5...
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  • District unsuccessfully in the March 1960 parliamentary election, July 1960 parliamentary election and a by election in 1961. However, he successfully...
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    BLPI. Through the BLPI, the Ceylonese trotskyists attained their formal membership in the Fourth International. The Ceylonese Samasamajists who went to...
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  • the 4th parliamentary election, held on 19 March 1960, defeating Dassanayake by 2,722 votes and at the subsequent 5th parliamentary election, held on...
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  • Ivan Dassanayake (category Ceylonese Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    OBE (10 March 1910 - ??) was a Ceylonese politician. In 1947 Dassanayake was elected to the Parliament of Ceylon at the 1st parliamentary election, in the...
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  • 3rd parliamentary election held in April 1956, defeating Gladwin Kotelawala by 3,281, securing 7,416 votes (634% of the total vote). At the March 1960 elections...
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