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   UNP

ElectionMemberPartyTerm
1977 J. R. Jayewardene UNP 1977-1978
1978 (by-election) Anura Bastian 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 JayewardeneUnited National PartyElephant21,70778.91
M. Chandralal SalgadoSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand3,76913.65
S.D. WijesingheKey1,8036.55
H. Navaratne BandaChair700.26
K.A. ThabrewButterfly530.19
Valid Votes27,40299.61
Rejected Votes1070.39
Total Polled27,509100.00
Registered Electors37,983
Turnout72.42

1978 parliamentary by election

Results of the parliamentary by-election held on 21 March 1978 for the district:[3]

CandidatePartySymbolVotes%
Anura BastianUnited National PartyElephant13,15659.31
D. W. AbeyakoonSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand3,02413.63
Bernard SoysaLanka Sama Samaja PartyKey3,01913.61
Navindra GooneratnaChair2,49711.26
R. Wijaya IndraEye3341.51
S. A. KarunanayakaBell710.32
N. P. PereraLamp300.14
G. K. S. WijeyawardeneUmbrella260.12
Valid Votes22,11099.68
Rejected Votes710.32
Total Polled22,181100.00
Registered Electors37,983
Turnout58.40

References

  1. ↑ "The Electoral System". Parliament of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2010-11-27.
  2. ↑ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Results of the Parliamentary By-Elections between 1947-1988" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 20 June 2017.

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