Ampara Electoral District (1960–1989)
Introduction '''Ampara Electoral District''' (Amparai Electoral District) was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between March 1960 and February 1989.The district was named after the town of Ampara in Ampara District, Eastern Province. 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. Ampara electoral district was replaced by the Ampara (Amparai) multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Ampara continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.
Members of Parliament '''Key'''   ElectionMemberPartyTerm 1960 (March) Wijayabahu WijayasinhaSri Lanka Freedom Party 1960-1960 1960 (July) Indrasena de Zoysa 1960-1965 1965Senerath Somaratne1965-1977 1970 1977 Petikirige Dayaratna United National Party 1977-1989
Elections ===1960 (March) Parliamentary General Election===Results of the 4th parliamentary election held on 19 March 1960:CandidatePartySymbolVotes%  Wijayabahu WijayasinhaSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand4,23732.09%  M. S. BakmiwewaMahajana Eksath PeramunaCart Wheel3,82929.00%  D. P. GoonatilakeUnited National PartyElephant2,96222.43%  A. S. de SilvaLanka Sama Samaja PartyKey1,57711.94%  K. P. Augo SinghoIndependentSun2461.86%  D. WickramaarachchigeLanka Democratic PartyUmbrella1841.39%  H. M. Appuhamy Cockerel880.67%  Indradasa Samaranayake Orange800.61%'''Valid Votes''''''13,203''''''100.00%'''Rejected Votes188Total Polled13,391Registered Electors19,535Turnout68.55%===1960 (July) Parliamentary General Election===Results of the 5th parliamentary election held on 20 July 1960:CandidatePartySymbolVotes%  Indrasena de ZoysaSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand5,71044.79%  D. P. GoonatilakeUnited National PartyElephant3,71329.13%  M. S. BakmiwewaMahajana Eksath PeramunaCart Wheel3,32526.08%'''Valid Votes''''''12,748''''''100.00%'''Rejected Votes79Total Polled12,827Registered Electors19,535Turnout65.66%===1965 Parliamentary General Election===Results of the 6th parliamentary election held on 22 March 1965:CandidatePartySymbolVotes%  Senerath SomaratneSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand10,07741.20%  Kalanasiri SundasingheUnited National PartyElephant7,85732.12%  M. S. BakmiwewaMahajana Eksath PeramunaCart Wheel6,52426.67%'''Valid Votes''''''24,458''''''100.00%'''Rejected Votes290Total Polled24,748Registered Electors32,914Turnout75.19%===1970 Parliamentary General Election===Results of the 7th parliamentary election held on 27 May 1970:CandidatePartySymbolVotes%  Senerath SomaratneSri Lanka Freedom PartyHand18,57055.97%  Petikirige DayaratnaUnited National PartyElephant14,19442.78%  Y. S. Minoris Chair4141.25%'''Valid Votes''''''33,178''''''100.00%'''Rejected Votes220Total Polled33,398Registered Electors42,029Turnout79.46%===1977 Parliamentary General Election===Results of the 8th parliamentary election held on 21 July 1977:CandidatePartySymbolVotes%  Petikirige Dayaratna Elephant24,58159.18%  Senerath Somaratne Hand16,00938.54%  A. Seelaratne De Silva Key9452.28%'''Valid Votes''''''41,535''''''100.00%'''Rejected Votes161Total Polled41,696Registered Electors49,006Turnout85.08%
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