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Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the

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Kalutara Kalutara ( si, කළුතර, ta, களுத்துறை) or Kalutota is a major city in Kalutara District, Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is also the administrative capital of Kalutara District. It is located approximately south o ...

in the

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. The district currently elects 10 of the 225 members of the

Sri Lankan Parliament The Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ''Shri Lanka Parlimenthuwa'', Tamil: இலங்கை நாடாளுமன்றம் ''Ila� ...

and had 813,233 registered electors in 2010.

1982 Presidential Election

Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982 for the district:

1988 Provincial Council Election

Results of the 1st Western provincial council election held on 2 June 1988 for the district:

1988 Presidential Election

Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988 for the district:

1989 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989 for the district: The following candidates were elected: Thilak Karunaratne (SLFP), 54,339 preference votes (pv); Indradasa Hettiarachchi (UNP), 54,099 pv; Sumitha Priyanganie Abeyweera (SLFP), 51,494 pv; Neville Fernando (SLFP), 40,977 pv;

Anil Moonesinghe Anil Moonesinghe (15 February 1927 – 8 December 2002) was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist revolutionary politician and trade unionist. He became a member of parliament, a Cabinet Minister of Transport in 1964, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament from 199 ...

(SLFP), 40,320 pv; Punsiri Senaraja Perera Samaranayake (UNP), 36,150 pv; Abdul Bakeer Makar Imtiyas (UNP), 35,433 pv; Pathirage Don Abeyratne (UNP), 30,292 pv; Mangala Moonesinghe (SLFP), 28,522 pv; Manna Marakkalage Mervin Joseph Cooray (UNP), 27,991 pv; and Jayasiri Sarath Kumara Ranawaka (UNP), 20,983 pv.

1993 Provincial Council Election

Results of the 2nd Western provincial council election held on 17 May 1993 for the district:

1994 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 10th parliamentary election held on 16 August 1994 for the district: The following candidates were elected:

Ratnasiri Wickremanayake Ratnasiri Wickremanayake ( si, රත්නසිරි වික්‍රමනායක, ta, ரத்னசிறி விக்கிரமநாயக்க; 5 May 1933 – 27 December 2016) was a Sri Lankan politician who was Prime Mi ...

(PA), 88,213 preference votes (pv); Abeyweera Sumithra Priyanganie (PA), 85,661 pv;

Reginald Cooray Reginald Cooray (12 November 1947 – 13 January 2023) was a Sri Lankan teacher and politician. He was a provincial chief minister, a government minister, and governor of the Northern Province. He was briefly governor of the Central Province ...

(PA), 85,297 pv;

Kumara Welgama Kumara Welgama ( si, කුමාර වෙල්ගම) (born 5 April 1950) is a Sri Lankan politician and a current member of parliament for the Kalutara District. Welgama had been a minister of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in the past. Since 20 ...

(PA), 79,056 pv; Ediriweera Premarathna (PA), 70,041 pv; Abdul Bakeer Markar Imthiyas (UNP), 68,519 pv; Thilak Karunarathna (UNP), 63,206 pv; Jayasiri Sarath Kumara Ranawaka (UNP), 60,506 pv;

Mahinda Samarasinghe His Excellency Mahinda Buddhadasa Samarasinghe ( si, මහින්ද සමරසිංහ), (born 30 January 1956) is a former MP and the current Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United States of America, Mexico and High Commissioner to Tri ...

(UNP), 59,150 pv; and

(PA), 56,071 pv.

1994 Presidential Election

Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994 for the district:

1999 Provincial Council Election

Results of the 3rd Western provincial council election held on 6 April 1999 for the district:

1999 Presidential Election

Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999 for the district:

2000 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 11th parliamentary election held on 10 October 2000 for the district: The following candidates were elected:

(PA), 148,705 preference votes (pv);

(UNP), 82,511 pv; Imtiaz Bakeer Markar (UNP), 74,555 pv; Rajitha Senaratne (UNP), 73,382 pv;

(PA), 67,945 pv; Tudor Dayaratne (PA), 63,636 pv;

(PA), 60,394 pv; Ediriweera Premaratne (PA), 53,690 pv; Pathirage Don (UNP), 47,271 pv; and

Nandana Gunathilake M. D. Nandana Gunathilake (born 7 September 1962) is a Sri Lankan politician and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka The Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාර ...

(JVP), 5,628 pv.

2001 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 12th parliamentary election held on 5 December 2001 for the district: The following candidates were elected:

(PA), 120,432 preference votes (pv);

(UNF), 108,583 pv; Rajitha Senaratne (UNF), 102,919 pv; Imtiaz Bakeer Markar (UNF), 89,147 pv;

(PA), 81,507 pv; Tudor Dayaratne (PA), 55,181 pv; Pathirage Don Abeyratne (UNF), 52,414 pv;

Rohitha Abeygunawardena Pahalage Rohitha Piyatissa Abeygunawardena (රෝහිත අබේගුණවර්ධන) (born 21 September 1966) is a Sri Lankan politician and businessman. He was the Minister of Nation Building. He is a representative of Kalutara Distric ...

(PA), 46,571 pv; Ananda Lakshman Wijemanne (UNF), 45,766; and

(JVP), 8,312 pv.

2004 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 13th parliamentary election held on 2 April 2004 for the district: The following candidates were elected:

(UPFA-JVP), 135,743 preference votes (pv); Rajitha Senaratne (UNF-UNP), 97,001 pv; S. A. Jayantha Samaraweera (UPFA-JVP), 95,461 pv;

(UNF-UNP), 93,758 pv;

(UPFA-SLFP), 78,693 pv; Piyasiri Wijenayake (UPFA-JVP), 75,982 pv;

(UPFA-SLFP), 73,350 pv;

(UPFA-SLFP), 62,598 pv;

Sarath Ranawaka Jayasiri Sarath Kumara Ranawaka (15 July 1951 – 25 July 2009) was a Member of Parliament representing Kalutara Electoral District. He was educated at Nalanda College Colombo. Ranawaka was first elected to parliament as the United National Pa ...

(UNF-UNP), 48,380 pv; and Athuraliye Rathana (JHU), 10,772 pv.

(UPFA-SLFP) resigned on 28 May 2004 to contest the Western provincial council elections. His replacement Nirmala Kotalawala was sworn in on 20 July 2004.

(UNF-UNP) died on 25 July 2009. His replacement Ananda Lakshman Wijemanna (UNF-UNP) was sworn in on 6 August 2009.

2004 Provincial Council Election

Results of the 4th Western provincial council election held on 10 July 2004 for the district: The following candidates were elected:

(UPFA), 94,316 preference votes (pv); M.A. Janak Chaminda Wijegunawardhana (UNP), 50,013 pv; Ajith Anura Thalangama Arachchige (UPFA), 34,826 pv; Andaravass Patabendige Vass Gunawardhana (UPFA), 34,165 pv; A. Ankanath Ranjith Somawansa (UPFA), 32,515 pv; Athula Priyantha Bellana (UPFA), 32,206 pv; Angage Jagath (UPFA), 30,661 pv; Nimal Chandraratna (UPFA), 29,441 pv; Palitha Kumara Thewarapperuma (UNP), 29,167 pv; Chandrasiri Karunaratna (UPFA), 28,862 pv; Ananda Karunadhara (UPFA), 28,624 pv; H. Jagath Pushpakumara Perera (UPFA), 28,499 pv; Adikaramge Chandrabhanu (UPFA), 26,620 pv; M.A. Janak Chaminda Wijegunawardhana (UPFA), 23,261 pv; Athakoralage Sirima Ramani Kariyawasam (UNP), 21,287 pv; Ameer Mohamed Yusuf (UNP), 19,105 pv; Anil Kumara Wijesingha (UNP), 17,306 pv; Abeygunawardhana Pahalage Piyal Jayantha (UNP), 17,058 pv; Amarasekara Prasanna Palihakkara (UNP), 15,442 pv; and Aslam Mohamed Salim Mohamed (SLMC), 9,477 pv.

2005 Presidential Election

Results of the 5th presidential election held on 17 November 2005 for the district:

2009 Provincial Council Election

Results of the 5th Western provincial council election held on 25 April 2009 for the district: The following candidates were elected:

(UPFA), 72,951 preference votes (pv); Vidura Wickramanayake (UPFA), 63,385 pv; Wikum Gunasekara (UPFA), 55,338 pv; A. Ankanath Ranjith Somawansa (UPFA), 54,099 pv; Ellawala Liyanage Lalith Ellawala (UPFA), 48,453 pv; H.M. Piyal Nishantha de Silva (UPFA), 47,540 pv; Yasapala Koralage (UPFA), 46,146 pv; Nimal Chandraratna (UPFA), 41,982 pv; Angage Jagath Thilakasiri Perera (UPFA), 38,090 pv; Adikaramge Chandrabhanu (UPFA), 34,929 pv; Wadduwage Lalith Warnakumara (UPFA), 31,791 pv; Akanadura Sumithlal Mendis (UPFA), 31,702 pv; Keerthi Kariyawasam (UPFA), 30,475 pv; Chandrasiri Karunaratna (UPFA), 28,870 pv; Ajith Perera (UNP), 28,567 pv; Palitha Kumara Thewarapperuma (UNP), 28,450 pv; Ananda Lakshman Wijemanna (UNP), 27,797 pv; Kahatapitiyage Chandra Kithsiri (UNP), 20,147 pv; Abayratne Pathirage Don (UNP), 16,656 pv; and W.A. Nalinda Wajiramal Jayatissa (JVP), 1,393 pv.

2010 Presidential Election

Results of the 6th presidential election held on 26 January 2010 for the district:

2010 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 14th parliamentary election held on 8 April 2010 for the district: The following candidates were elected:

(UPFA-SLFP), 124,766 preference votes (pv);

(UPFA), 97,778 pv; Nirmala Kotalawala (UPFA), 82,044 pv;

(UPFA-SLFP), 77,205 pv; Rajitha Senaratne (UPFA), 66,710 pv;

(UPFA-SLFP), 60,196 pv; Palitha Thewarapperuma (UNF), 51,153 pv; Vidura Wickremenayake (UPFA), 50,114 pv; Ajith Perera (UNF), 48,588 pv; and Arjuna Ranatunga (DNA), 27,796 pv.

References

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