• Akuressa electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Akuressa...
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    The Akuressa Polling Division is a Polling Division in the Matara Electoral District, in the Southern Province, Sri Lanka. The winner of Akuressa has...
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  • services in the Southern Province. He unsuccessfully contested the Akuressa Electoral District in the 1952 general election from the United National Party....
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  • Upenis was born in Welihena village in Athuraliya Divisional Secretariat, Akuressa and his mother Wettasinghe Arachchige Maginona was born in Padukka. Upenis...
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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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    The districts are further divided into administrative sub-units known as divisional secretariats. They were originally based on the feudal counties, the...
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    for Southern Province since 2004 and the Chief Organiser of the UNP in Akuressa Electorate since 2005. Pathirana was elected as a member of the executive...
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  • Wickramasinghe was born in Nasnaranketiya Walawwa, Athuraliya in the Matara district of then British Ceylon in 1900. He received his primary education at Mahinda...
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  • Commissioner to not hold elections in three divisional councils (Akmeemana, Akuressa and Moneragala). This prompted the Election Commissioner to postpone elections...
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    at Polonnaruwa. KAD Saddhatissa, a retired school principal living in Akuressa and supporter of Communist party, was killed while he was sick and in bed...
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