Gampaha Electoral District

This article is about the electoral district in Sri Lanka. For other uses, see Gampaha (disambiguation).
Gampaha
Electoral District
for the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Administrative
District		Gampaha
ProvinceWestern
Polling divisions13
Population2,443,000 (2021)
Electorate1,785,964 (2020)
Area1,387 km2 (536 sq mi)[1]
Current Electoral District
Number of members19
MPs
  NPP (16)
Vijitha Herath
Anil Jayantha
Mahinda Jayasinghe
Krishantha Abeysena
Muneer Mulafar
Ashoka Ranwala
Dharmappriya Wijesinghe
Ruwan Mapalagama
Lasith Bashana
Prageeth Maduranga
Champika Hettiarachchi
Ruwanthilake Jayakodi
Hemali Weerasekara
Upali Abeywickrama
Stephani Fernando
Chaminda Lalith Kumara
  SJB (3)
Harshana Rajakaruna
Kavinda Jayawardena
Amila Prasad

Gampaha electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Gampaha in the Western province. The district currently elects 19 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 1,785,964 registered electors in 2020.[2] The district is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 02.[3]

  1. ^ "Area of Sri Lanka by province and district" (PDF). Statistical Abstract 2009. Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-13.
  2. ^ "Parliamentary Election 2020- Gampaha District Votes".
  3. ^ "Election Commission". elections.gov.lk. Retrieved 2024-11-15.