Colombo West Electoral District

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

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.

1977 parliamentary general election

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

Candidate	Party	Symbol	Votes	%
Junius Richard Jayewardene		Elephant	21,707	79.22%
M. Chandralal Salgado		Hand	3,769	13.75%
S.D. Wijesinghe		Key	1,803	6.58%
H. Navaratne Banda		Chair	70	0.26%
K.A. Thabrew		Butterfly	53	0.19%
Valid Votes			27,402	100.00%
Rejected Votes			107
Total Polled			27,509
Registered Electors			37,983
Turnout			72.42%

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.