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Province: Eastern: Polling divisions: 3: Population: 537,000 [1] ... Sri Lankan Parliament and had 449,686 registered electors in 2024. The district is Sri Lanka's ...
Polling divisions in Sri Lanka are subdivisions of the country's electoral districts. From the 1st parliamentary election in 1947 to the 8th in 1977, members were elected to the parliament using a first-past-the-post system from these polling divisions. This system changed in 1978. [1]
Eastern Province - Ampara 2; Batticaloa 1; Trincomalee 1. Northern Province - Jaffna 1, Vanni 3. North Central Province - Anuradhapura 2, Polonnaruwa 2. North Western Province - Kurunegala 2, Puttalam 2. Sabaragamuwa Province - Kegalla 2; Ratnapura 2. Southern Province - Galle 1, Matara 1; Hambantota 2. Uva Province - Badulla 2; Monaragala 2.
The district currently elects 19 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 1,765,351 registered electors in 2024. [1] The district is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 01. [ 2 ]
Name Capital Type Country Inhabitants Area km 2 People per km 2 Year Uttar Pradesh: Lucknow: State India 228,959,599 240,928 950 2023 [1]: Punjab: Lahore: Province Pakistan 127,688,922
Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 21 September 2024. [1] [2] Incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe ran for re-election as an independent candidate, making him the first sitting president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015.
Sri Lanka has 25 districts organized into 9 provinces. [1] Districts are further divided into a number of divisional secretariats (commonly known as D.S. divisions), which are in turn subdivided into 14,022 grama niladhari divisions. [2] There are 331 DS divisions in Sri Lanka. [3]
The short lived North Eastern Province. The number of provinces remained static until September 1988 when, in accordance with the Indo-Lanka Accord, President J. R. Jayewardene issued proclamations enabling the Northern and Eastern provinces to be one administrative unit administered by one elected council, creating the North Eastern Province. [12]