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The Maharagama Polling Division is a Polling Division in the
Colombo Electoral District Colombo 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 Colombo in the Western province. The dis ...
, in the
Western Province, Sri Lanka The Western Province ( ''Basnāhira Paḷāta''; ''Mael Mākāṇam'') is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the country. The provinces have existed since the 19th century but did not have any l ...
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Presidential Election Results


Summary

The winner of Maharagama has matched the final country result 6 out of 8 times. Hence, Maharagama is a Weak
Bellwether A bellwether is a leader or an indicator of trends.bellwether
" ''Cambridge Dictionary''. Re ...
for Presidential Elections.


2019 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 16 November 2019. Incumbent president Maithripala Sirisena did not run for a second term. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, was the candidate of the Sri Lanka Po ...


2015 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 8 January 2015. The elections took place two years ahead of schedule. Incumbent President of Sri Lanka, President Mahinda Rajapaksa was the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance's candidate, seek ...


2010 Sri Lankan Presidential Election 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...


2005 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 17 November 2005. Nominations were accepted on 7 September 2005 and voter turnout was 74%. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa of the governing United People's Freedom Alliance was elected, receiving ...


1999 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 21 December 1999. Nominations were accepted on 16 November 1999 and voter turnout was 73%. Incumbent President Chandrika Kumaratunga of the governing People's Alliance was re-elected for a second t ...


1994 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 9 November 1994. Nominations were accepted on 7 October 1994 and voter turnout was 70%. Prime Minister Chandrika Kumaratunga of the governing People's Alliance was elected, receiving 62% of the vo ...


1988 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 19 December 1988. Nominations were accepted on 10 November 1988. Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa of the governing United National Party was elected, receiving 50.4% of all votes cast and defeat ...


1982 Sri Lankan Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka for the first time on 20 October 1982. Incumbent president J. R. Jayewardene of the governing United National Party was re-elected, receiving 53% of all valid votes cast, defeating his main opponent H ...


Parliamentary Election Results


Summary

The winner of Maharagama has matched the final country result 6 out of 7 times. Hence, Maharagama is a Strong
Bellwether A bellwether is a leader or an indicator of trends.bellwether
" ''Cambridge Dictionary''. Re ...
for Parliamentary Elections.


2020 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 5 August 2020 to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 16th Parliament. 16,263,885 people were eligible to vote in the election, 31.95% of whom were young voters. The incumbent Sri Lanka People's ...


2015 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 17 August 2015, ten months ahead of schedule, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 15th Parliament. The United National Party (UNP) led United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) won 106 s ...


2010 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 8 and 20 April 2010, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 14th Parliament. 14,088,500 Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election at 11,102 polling stations. It was the first general election ...


2004 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 2 April 2004. The ruling United National Party of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was defeated, winning only eighty two seats in the 225-member Sri Lankan parliament. The opposition United Peo ...


2001 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 5 December 2001, just a little over a year after the previous elections in October 2000. Background The People's Alliance (PA) government faced a blow when most of the SLMC MPs left the coaliti ...


2000 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 10 October 2000. The People's Alliance (PA) government Kumaratunga had led for six years was facing increasing criticism on two fronts: a series of military defeats at the hands of the rebel Lib ...


1994 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 16 August 1994. They marked the decisive end of seventeen years of United National Party rule and a revival of Sri Lankan democracy. Background Democracy in Sri Lanka had seemed doomed as the pre ...


1989 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 15 February 1989, the first since 1977. The elections that should normally have been held by 1983 had been cancelled by the 1982 referendum. Results By province By electoral district Note ...


Demographics


Ethnicity

The Maharagama Polling Division has a Sinhalese majority (95.7%) . In comparison, the
Colombo Electoral District Colombo 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 Colombo in the Western province. The dis ...
(which contains the Maharagama Polling Division) has a Sinhalese majority (76.5%), a significant Moor population (10.7%) and a significant
Sri Lankan Tamil Sri Lankan Tamils ( or ), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka. Today, they constitute a majority in the Northern Province, form the plurality in the Eastern Province a ...
population (10.1%)


Religion

The Maharagama Polling Division has a
Buddhist Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or ...
majority (92.0%) . In comparison, the
Colombo Electoral District Colombo 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 Colombo in the Western province. The dis ...
(which contains the Maharagama Polling Division) has a
Buddhist Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or ...
majority (70.2%) and a significant
Muslim Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...
population (11.8%)


References

{{Reflist Polling Divisions of the Colombo Electoral District