Nuwara Eliya Electoral District

This article is about the electoral district in Sri Lanka. For the administrative district, see Nuwara Eliya District.
Nuwara Eliya
Electoral District
for the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Administrative
District		Nuwara Eliya
ProvinceCentral
Polling divisions4
Population749,000[1] (2008)
Electorate605,292[2] (2024)
Area1,741 km2 (672 sq mi)[3]
Current Electoral District
Seats8
MPs
  NPP (5)
Manjula Suraweera Arachchi
Madhura Senevirathna
R .G. Wijerathne
Anushka Thilakarathna
Krishnan Kaleychelvi
  SJB (2)
Palani Digambaran
Velusami Radhakrishnan
  UNP (1)
Jeewan Thondaman

Nuwara Eliya 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 Nuwara Eliya in the Central province. The district currently elects 7 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 457,137 registered electors in 2010.[4] The district is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 06.[5]

  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. ^ "Parliamentary General Election - 2024 Nuwara-Eliya District" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka.
  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. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2010pe was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Election Commission". elections.gov.lk. Retrieved 2024-11-15.