Borella electoral district was an
electoral district
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of
Sri Lanka
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between
March 1960 and
February 1989. The district was named after the town of
Borella
Borella is the largest suburb in Colombo, Sri Lanka represented by divisional code 8.
Demographic
Borella is a multi-religious and multi-ethnic area. The major ethnic communities in Borella are Sinhalese people, Sinhalese and Tamils. There are a ...
in
Colombo District
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,
Western Province
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. The
1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka introduced the
proportional representation
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electoral system for
electing members
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of
Parliament
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. The existing 160 mainly
single-member electoral districts were replaced with 22
multi-member
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electoral district
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s. Borella electoral district was replaced by the
Colombo multi-member electoral district at the
1989 general elections.
Members of Parliament
Key
Elections
1960 (March) Parliamentary General Election
Results of the
4th parliamentary election held on 19 March 1960:
1960 (July) Parliamentary General Election
Results of the
5th parliamentary election held on 20 July 1960:
1964 Parliamentary By Election
Results of the Ceylonese parliamentary by-election, held on 18 January 1964:
1965 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the
6th parliamentary election held on 22 March 1965:
1970 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the
7th parliamentary election held on 27 May 1970:
1977 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the
8th parliamentary election held on 21 July 1977:
References
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Former electoral districts of Sri Lanka
Politics of Colombo District