Jaffna Electoral District

Jaffna
Electoral District
for the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Administrative
District
ProvinceNorthern
Polling divisions11
Population696,253 (2011)[1]
Electorate529,239 (2014)[2]
Current Electoral District
Created1978
Seats
  • 11 (1989–94)
  • 10 (1994–00)
  • 9 (2000–2024)
  • 6 (2024–present)
MPs
  NPP (3)
Karunananthan Ilankumaran
Sri Bhavanandaraja Shanmuganathan
Rajeewan Jayachandramurthy
  ITAK (1)
S. Sritharan
  ACTC (1)
Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam
  IND (1)
Ramanathan Archuna
Provincial CouncilNorthern
Created from

Jaffna Electoral District is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district covers the administrative districts of Jaffna and Kilinochchi in the Northern province. The district currently elects 9 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 529,239 registered electors in 2014.[2] The district is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 10.[3]

  1. ^ "A2 : Population by ethnic group according to districts, 2012". Census of Population & Housing, 2011. Department of Census & Statistics, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2017-04-28. Retrieved 2015-01-24.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference pe2015 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Election Commission". elections.gov.lk. Retrieved 2024-11-15.