Ampara Electoral District (1960–1989)

Ampara Electoral District (Amparai Electoral District) was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between March 1960 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Ampara in Ampara District, Eastern Province. The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka introduced the proportional representation electoral system for electing members of Parliament. The existing 160 mainly single-member electoral districts were replaced with 22 multi-member electoral districts.^[1] Ampara electoral district was replaced by the Ampara (Amparai) multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Ampara continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

Members of Parliament

Key

Independent SLFP UNP

	Member	Party	Term
1960 (March)	Wijayabahu Wijayasinha	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	1960-1960
1960 (July)	Indrasena de Zoysa		1960-1965
1965	Senerath Somaratne		1965-1977
1970	Senerath Somaratne		1965-1977
1977	Petikirige Dayaratna	United National Party	1977-1989

Results of the 4th parliamentary election held on 19 March 1960:^[2]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	Wijayabahu Wijayasinha	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	Hand	4,237	32.09%
	M. S. Bakmiwewa	Mahajana Eksath Peramuna	Cart Wheel	3,829	29.00%
	D. P. Goonatilake	United National Party	Elephant	2,962	22.43%
	A. S. de Silva	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	Key	1,577	11.94%
	K. P. Augo Singho	Independent	Sun	246	1.86%
	D. Wickramaarachchige	Lanka Democratic Party^[3]	Umbrella	184	1.39%
	H. M. Appuhamy		Cockerel	88	0.67%
	Indradasa Samaranayake		Orange	80	0.61%
Valid Votes				13,203	100.00%
Rejected Votes				188
Total Polled				13,391
Registered Electors				19,535
Turnout				68.55%

Results of the 5th parliamentary election held on 20 July 1960:^[4]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	Indrasena de Zoysa	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	Hand	5,710	44.79%
	D. P. Goonatilake	United National Party	Elephant	3,713	29.13%
	M. S. Bakmiwewa	Mahajana Eksath Peramuna	Cart Wheel	3,325	26.08%
Valid Votes				12,748	100.00%
Rejected Votes				79
Total Polled				12,827
Registered Electors				19,535
Turnout				65.66%

Results of the 6th parliamentary election held on 22 March 1965:^[5]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	Senerath Somaratne	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	Hand	10,077	41.20%
	Kalanasiri Sundasinghe	United National Party	Elephant	7,857	32.12%
	M. S. Bakmiwewa	Mahajana Eksath Peramuna	Cart Wheel	6,524	26.67%
Valid Votes				24,458	100.00%
Rejected Votes				290
Total Polled				24,748
Registered Electors				32,914
Turnout				75.19%

Results of the 7th parliamentary election held on 27 May 1970:^[6]

Candidate		Party	Symbol	Votes	%
	Senerath Somaratne	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	Hand	18,570	55.97%
	Petikirige Dayaratna	United National Party	Elephant	14,194	42.78%
	Y. S. Minoris		Chair	414	1.25%
Valid Votes				33,178	100.00%
Rejected Votes				220
Total Polled				33,398
Registered Electors				42,029
Turnout				79.46%

Results of the 8th parliamentary election held on 21 July 1977:^[7]

^ "The Electoral System". Parliament of Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2010-11-27.
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1960-03-19" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-12.
^ Also known as the Lanka Prajathanthravadi Pakshaya
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1960-07-20" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24.
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1965" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-13.
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1970" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-09.
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17.