Galle Electoral District

This article is about the electoral district in Sri Lanka. For the administrative district, see Galle District.
Galle
Electoral District
for the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Administrative
District		Galle
ProvinceSouthern
Polling divisions10
Population1,063,000[1] (2008)
Electorate761,815[2] (2010)
Area1,652 km2 (638 sq mi)[3]
Current Electoral District
Number of members9
MPs
  NPP (7)
Nalin Hewage
Rathna Gamage
Nayanathara Premathilake
Nishantha Samaraweera
Thilanka Rukmal
Nishantha Perera
T.K. Jayasundara
  SJB (1)
Gayantha Karunathilaka
  SLPP (1)
Chanaka Sampath

Galle 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 Galle in the Southern province. The district currently elects 10 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 761,815 registered electors in 2010.[2] The district is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 07.[4]

  1. ^ "Estimated mid year population by district, 2004 – 2008" (PDF). Statistical Abstract 2009. Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-13.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference 2010pe was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Election Commission". elections.gov.lk. Retrieved 2024-11-15.