The Kalmunai Polling Division is a Polling Division in the

Ampara Electoral District Ampara (Digamadulla) Electoral District ( ta, அம்பாறை தேர்தல் மாவட்டம், translit=Ampāṟai Tērtal Māvaṭṭam; si, අම්පාර මැතිවරණ දිස්ත්‍රික්කය, t ...

, in the

Eastern Province, Sri Lanka The Eastern Province ( ta, கிழக்கு மாகாணம் ''Kiḻakku Mākāṇam''; si, නැගෙනහිර පළාත ''Næ̆gĕnahira Paḷāta'') is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative di ...

Presidential Election Results

Summary

The winner of Kalmunai has matched the final country result 5 out of 8 times. Hence, Kalmunai is a Weak

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for Presidential Elections.

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2015 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 8 January 2015, two years ahead of schedule. The incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa was the United People's Freedom Alliance's candidate, seeking a third term in office. The United National Par ...

2010 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 26 January 2010. The elections were announced on 23 November 2009 when incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa decided to seek a fresh mandate prior to the expiration of his term in 2011. Nominatio ...

2005 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 17 November 2005. Nominations were accepted on 7 September 2005 and electoral participation was 73.73%. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa of the governing United People's Freedom Alliance was electe ...

1999 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 21 December 1999. Nominations were accepted on 16 November 1999 and electoral participation was 73.31%. Incumbent President Chandrika Kumaratunga of the governing People's Alliance was re-elected ...

1994 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 9 November 1994. Nominations were accepted on 7 October 1994 and electoral participation was 70.47%. Prime Minister Chandrika Kumaratunga of the governing People's Alliance was elected, receiving ...

1988 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 19 December 1988. Nominations were accepted on 10 November 1988 and electoral participation was 55.32%. Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa of the governing United National Party was elected, recei ...

1982 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka for the first time on 20 October 1982. Nominations were accepted on 17 September 1982 and electoral participation was 81.06%. The election was described as a fight between capitalism and socialism, Hec ...

Parliamentary Election Results

Summary

The winner of Kalmunai has matched the final country result 2 out of 7 times.

2015 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 17 August 2015, ten months ahead of schedule, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 15th Parliament. The United National Party (UNP) led United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) won 106 se ...

2010 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 8 and 20 April 2010, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 14th Parliament. 14,088,500 Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election at 11,102 polling stations. It was the first general election ...

2004 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 2 April 2004. The ruling United National Party of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was defeated, winning only eighty two seats in the 225-member Sri Lankan parliament. The opposition United Peo ...

2001 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 5 December 2001, just a little over a year after the last elections in October 2000. Background The People's Alliance (PA) government faced a blow when most of the SLMC MPs left the coalition ...

2000 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 10 October 2000. The People's Alliance (PA) government Kumaratunga had led for six years was facing increasing criticism on two fronts: a series of military defeats at the hands of the rebel Lib ...

1994 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 16 August 1994. They marked the decisive end of seventeen years of United National Party rule and a revival of Sri Lankan democracy. Background Democracy in Sri Lanka had seemed doomed as the pres ...

1989 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 15 February 1989, the first since 1977. The elections that should normally have been held by 1983 had been cancelled by the 1982 referendum. Results By province By electoral district Elect ...

Demographics

Ethnicity

The Kalmunai Polling Division has a

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majority (72.8%) and a significant

Sri Lankan Tamil Sri Lankan Tamils ( or ), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka. Today, they constitute a majority in the Northern Province, live in significant numbers in the Eastern Pr ...

population (26.2%) . In comparison, the

(which contains the Kalmunai Polling Division) has a

plurality (43.4%), a significant

Sinhalese Sinhala may refer to: * Something of or related to the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka * Sinhalese people * Sinhala language, one of the three official languages used in Sri Lanka * Sinhala script, a writing system for the Sinhala language ** Sinha ...

population (38.9%) and a significant

population (17.3%)

Religion

The Kalmunai Polling Division has a

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majority (72.8%) and a significant

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population (24.4%) . In comparison, the

(which contains the Kalmunai Polling Division) has a

plurality (43.4%), a significant

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population (38.7%) and a significant

population (15.8%)

References

{{Reflist Polling Divisions of Sri Lanka Polling Divisions of the Digamadulla Electoral District