Colombo East Electoral District

This article is about the former electoral district in Sri Lanka. For other uses, see Colombo (disambiguation).

Colombo East 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 East electoral district was replaced by the Colombo multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Colombo East continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

1977 Parliamentary general election

Results of the 8th parliamentary election held on 21 July 1977 for the district:^[2]

Candidate	Party	Symbol	Votes	%
Edmund Samarawickrema		Elephant	19,721	58.75%
Vivian S. Kodikara		Hand	7,678	22.87%
Bernard Soysa		Key	5,951	17.73%
Gunasena Subasinghe		Umbrella	103	0.31%
M.H. Jayaratne Peiris		Clock	57	0.17%
M.P. Ariyadasa		Flower	56	0.17%
Valid Votes			33,566	100.00%
Rejected Votes			136
Total Polled			33,702
Registered Electors			43,574
Turnout			77.34%

References

1. ^ "The Electoral System". Parliament of Sri Lanka. http://www.parliament.lk/about_us/electoral_system.jsp. 
2. ^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/General%20Election%201977.PDF.