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Provinces of Sri Lanka>ProvinceNorthern Province, Sri Lanka>Northern|polling_divisions = 11WORK=CENSUS OF POPULATION & HOUSING, 2011ACCESS-DATE=2015-01-24ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20170428063924/HTTP://WWW.STATISTICS.GOV.LK/POPHOUSAT/CPH2011/INDEX.PHP?FILENAME=POP42&GP=ACTIVITIES&TPL=3, dead, |electorate = 529,239 (2014)|towns = |future = |year = 1978|abolished_label = |abolished = Member of Parliament>MPsSilvestri Alantine, United People's Freedom Alliance>Murugesu Chandrakumar, United People's Freedom Alliance>Douglas Devananda, United People's Freedom Alliance>Vijayakala Maheswaran, United National Party>Suresh Premachandran, Tamil National Alliance>E. Saravanapavan, Tamil National Alliance>Mavai Senathirajah, Tamil National Alliance>S. Sritharan, Tamil National Alliance>A. Vinayagamoorthy, TNA}}11 (1989–94)9 (2000–present)}}|elects_howmany = |party_label = |party = Provincial councils of Sri Lanka>Provincial CouncilNorthern Provincial Council>Northern|next = Chavakachcheri Electoral District>Jaffna Electoral District (1947–1989)>Kankesanthurai Electoral District>Kayts Electoral District>Kilinochchi Electoral District>Kopay Electoral District>Manipay Electoral District>Nallur Electoral District>Point Pedro Electoral District>Udupiddy Electoral District>Vaddukoddai}}}}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.__TOC__{{clear}}

Election results

Presidential elections

1982 presidential election

Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982:WEB,weblink Result of Presidential Election 1982, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130328184334weblink">weblink 2013-03-28, {| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Candidate!!align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Party!!colspan=11|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiAll Ceylon Tamil Congress}}Kumar Ponnambalam align=leftAll Ceylon Tamil Congress>ACTC 9,742 9,319 6,065 8,353 9,822 4,984 7,514 8,979 5,367 5,779 9,741 1,598 87,263 40.03%Sri Lanka Freedom Party}}Hector Kobbekaduwa align=leftSri Lanka Freedom Party>SLFP 6,128 3,258 9,523 3,393 4,188 13,678 9,008 4,330 6,348 8,155 7,770 1,431 77,300 35.46%United National Party}}Junius Richard Jayewardene >United National Party >44,780 >| 20.54%Lanka Sama Samaja Party}}Colvin R. de Silva align=leftLanka Sama Samaja Party>LSSP 419 134 310 157 171 423 483 332 217 353 257 120 3,376 1.55%Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna}}Rohana Wijeweera align=leftJanatha Vimukthi Peramuna>JVP 204 176 341 119 188 379 559 244 189 208 380 111 3,098 1.42%Nava Sama Samaja Party}}Vasudeva Nanayakkara align=leftNava Sama Samaja Party>NSSP 125 186 184 98 102 182 298 243 150 224 255 129 2,186 1.00%Valid Votes 20,247 19,502 20,194 16,187 18,087 23,282 22,330 18,959 15,469 17,001 22,103 4,642 218,003 100.00%Rejected Votes 1,205 711 1.078 943 1,012 1,023 1,069 894 585 816 1,076 198 10,610 Total Polled 21,452 20,213 21,272 17,130 19,099 24,305 23,399 19,853 16,054 17,817 23,179 4,840 228,613Registered Electors 44,597 42,296 51,681 42,563 39,773 49,577 48,930 49,233 34,859 43,990 46,206 493,705Turnout (%) 48.10% 47.79% 41.16% 40.25% 48.02% 49.02% 47.82% 40.32% 46.05% 40.50% 50.16% 46.31%

1988 presidential election

Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988:WEB,weblink Result of Presidential Election 1988, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, {{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Candidate!!align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Party!!colspan=11|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiSri Lanka Freedom Party}}Sirimavo Bandaranaike align=leftSri Lanka Freedom Party>SLFP 3,704 3,546 3,117 3,264 4,064 5,833 3,491 3,362 3,921 3,400 6,495 44,197 36.82%Ossie Abeygunasekera align=leftSri Lanka People's Party>SLPP 4,023 3,616 3,840 4,503 2,596 4,325 5,089 2,924 2,910 3,120 5,252 42,198 35.15%United National Party}}Ranasinghe Premadasa align=leftUnited National Party>UNP 2,300 3,475 2,364 4,628 3,793 2,493 4,006 2,000 2,620 1,662 4,309 33,650 28.03%Valid Votes 10,027 10,637 9,321 12,395 10,453 12,651 12,586 8,286 9,451 8,182 16,056 120,045 100.00%Rejected Votes 1,035 479 451 596 378 733 891 482 772 303 2,397 8,517 Total Polled 11,062 11,116 9,772 12,991 10,831 13,384 13,477 8,768 10,223 8,485 18,453 128,562Registered Electors 51,595 49,229 60,386 49,481 53,604 56,450 58,320 61,936 40,175 52,084 58,522 591,782Turnout (%) 21.44% 22.58% 16.18% 26.25% 20.21% 23.71% 23.11% 14.16% 25.45% 16.29% 31.53% 21.72%

1994 presidential election

Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994:WEB,weblink Result of Presidential Election 1994, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, {{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Candidate!!align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Party!!colspan=11|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiPeople's Alliance (Sri Lanka)}}Chandrika Kumaratunga align=leftPeople's Alliance (Sri Lanka)>PA 63 1,143 116 14,761 174 11 18 21 8 24 539 56 16,934 96.35%Independent (politician)}}Hudson Samarasinghe align=leftIndependent politician>Ind 2 1 15 3 291 0 0 0 0 0 00 31 0 341 1.94%United National Party}}Srimathi Dissanayake align=leftUnited National Party>UNP 6 108 6 83 9 1 0 2 0 2 6 0 223 1.27%Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya}}Harischandra Wijayatunga align=leftSinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya>SMBP 0 1 1 27 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 36 0.20%Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna}}G. A. Nihal align=left25 >| 0.14%Independent (politician)}}A. J. Ranashinge align=leftIndependent politician>Ind 1 0 1 1 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0.09%Valid Votes 70 1,272 127 15,193 186 12 18 23 8 26 584 56 17,575 100.00%Rejected Votes 3 7 0 120 7 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 141Total Polled 73 1,279 127 15,313 193 12 18 23 8 26 588 56 17,716Registered Electors 51,717 50,045 60,417 49,504 55,995 56,496 58,382 62,372 40,336 52,153 58,949 62 596,366Turnout (%) 0.14% 2.56% 0.21% 30.93% 0.34% 0.02% 0.03% 0.04% 0.02% 0.05% 1.00% 90.32% 2.97%

1999 presidential election

Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999:WEB,weblink Result of Presidential Election 1999, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, {{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Candidate!!align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Party!!colspan=11|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiPeople's Alliance (Sri Lanka)}}Chandrika Kumaratunga align=leftPeople's Alliance (Sri Lanka)>PA 3,430 3,471 5,324 3,377 593 6,607 9,194 5,125 3,062 4,664 6,854 342 52,043 46.65%United National Party}}Ranil Wickremasinghe align=leftUnited National Party>UNP 7,494 3,263 2,271 3,580 1,262 5,941 5,003 4,834 4,270 5,685 4,232 170 48,005 43.03%Vasudeva Nanayakkara align=left3,394 >| 3.04%Independent (politician)}}W. V. M. Ranjith align=leftIndependent politician>Ind 2 127 57 197 108 26 335 311 113 95 210 293 1 1,873 1.68%Rajiva Wijesinha align=leftLiberal Party of Sri Lanka>Liberal 109 28 158 62 22 265 191 95 72 138 228 0 1,368 1.23%Abdul Rasool align=left1,041 >| 0.93%Independent (politician)}}T. Edirisuriya align=leftIndependent politician>Ind 1 84 25 81 45 11 122 104 49 65 118 127 0 831 0.74%Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya}}Harischandra Wijayatunga align=leftSinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya>SMBP 77 22 93 40 12 133 115 54 58 72 139 3 818 0.73%Independent (politician)}}Hudson Samarasinghe align=leftIndependent politician>Ind 3 51 10 49 31 6 111 55 41 32 88 77 1 552 0.49%Kamal Karunadasa align=left487 >| 0.44%Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna}}Nandana Gunathilake align=leftJanatha Vimukthi Peramuna>JVP 68 11 24 50 6 49 57 18 33 44 53 0 413 0.37%A. W. Premawardhana align=leftPeople's Freedom Front>PFF 62 7 25 32 3 78 40 24 31 51 49 1 403 0.36%A. Dissanayaka align=leftDemocratic United National Front>DUNF 49 8 28 20 8 55 36 21 28 41 49 0 340 0.30%Valid Votes 12,098 7,113 8,606 7,617 2,016 14,273 15,691 10,778 8,118 11,669 12,760 829 111,568 100.00%Rejected Votes 1,059 314 321 419 117 577 714 384 453 737 767 119 5,981Total Polled 13,157 7,427 8,927 8,036 2,133 14,850 16,405 11,162 8,571 12,406 13,527 948 117,549Registered Electors 53,247 51,581 61,514 50,885 56,792 58,751 62,002 63,799 42,304 53,545 58,350 612,770Turnout (%) 24.71% 14.40% 14.51% 15.79% 3.76% 25.28% 26.46% 17.50% 20.26% 23.17% 23.18% 19.18%

2005 presidential election

Results of the 5th presidential election held on 17 November 2005:WEB,weblink Result of Presidential Election 2005 (District), Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, {{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Candidate!!align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Party!!colspan=11|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|DisplacedVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiUnited National Party}}Ranil Wickremasinghe align=leftUnited National Party>UNP 33 301 148 98 1 267 256 198 25 52 191 1,405 2,548 5,523 70.20%United People's Freedom Alliance}}Mahinda Rajapaksa align=leftUnited People's Freedom Alliance>UPFA 10 124 97 139 0 54 64 100 9 11 53 327 979 1,967 25.00%Victor Hettigoda align=left120 >| 1.53%United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka)}}Siritunga Jayasuriya align=leftUnited Socialist Party (Sri Lanka)>USP 2 4 2 3 0 14 11 2 0 0 3 5 26 72 0.92%A. A. Suraweera align=left34 >| 0.43%Democratic Unity Alliance}}A. K. J. Arachchige align=leftDemocratic Unity Alliance>DUA 1 1 3 4 0 2 3 4 0 0 0 3 10 31 0.39%Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)}}Wije Dias align=leftSocialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)>SEP 1 1 0 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 10 4 29 0.37%New Left Front}}Chamil Jayaneththi align=leftNew Left Front>NLF 2 1 2 2 0 5 1 0 1 0 2 7 1 24 0.31%Anura De Silva align=left21 >| 0.27%P. Nelson Perera align=left16 >| 0.20%Wimal Geeganage align=left15 >| 0.19%Aruna de Soyza align=left12 >| 0.15%H. S. Dharmadwaja align=left4 >| 0.05%Valid Votes 50 438 260 263 1 362 340 308 35 64 263 1,885 3,599 7,868 100.00%Rejected Votes 3 17 7 13 0 26 17 5 4 1 15 441 107 656 Total Polled 53 455 267 276 1 388 357 313 39 65 278 2,326 3,706 8,524 Registered Electors 62,022 62,089 67,133 52,986 89,454 63,752 68,783 70,251 47,188 55,499 62,781 701,938 Turnout (%) 0.08% 0.73% 0.40% 0.52% 0.00% 0.61% 0.52% 0.45% 0.08% 0.12% 0.44% 1.21%

2010 presidential election

Results of the 6th presidential election held on 26 January 2010:WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100128002311weblink">weblink dead, 2010-01-28, Presidential Election - 2010 Jaffna District, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, {| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Candidate!!align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Party!!colspan=11|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|DisplacedVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiNew Democratic Front (Sri Lanka)}}Sarath Fonseka align=leftNew Democratic Front (Sri Lanka)>NDF 11,599 7,914 8,216 3,976 4,717 13,151 13,390 11,543 8,585 8,974 11,712 3,173 6,927 113,877 63.84%United People's Freedom Alliance}}Mahinda Rajapaksa align=leftUnited People's Freedom Alliance>UPFA 4,567 3,296 4,559 4,611 991 4,538 5,749 3,554 2,361 2,545 4,247 892 2,244 44,154 24.75%M. C. M. Ismail align=leftDemocratic United National Front>DUNF 323 107 254 283 199 528 391 196 223 301 326 6 233 3,370 1.89%C. J. Sugathsiri Gamage align=left3,325 >| 1.86%Independent (politician)}}M. K. Shivajilingam align=leftIndependent politician>Ind 5 348 126 207 284 42 306 231 173 326 334 500 263 65 3,205 1.80%A. A. Suraweera align=left1,310 >| 0.73%Left Front (Sri Lanka)}}Vikramabahu Karunaratne align=leftLeft Front (Sri Lanka)>LF 121 41 88 56 23 151 173 89 100 78 139 49 20 1,128 0.63%United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka)}}Siritunga Jayasuriya align=leftUnited Socialist Party (Sri Lanka)>USP 113 18 68 42 19 146 122 68 47 68 110 1 18 840 0.47%Sarath Manamendra align=leftNew Sinhala Heritage>NSH 94 29 59 32 26 112 106 50 44 68 71 6 35 732 0.41%Lal Perera align=left696 >| 0.39%Independent (politician)}}Ukkubanda Wijekoon align=leftIndependent politician>Ind 3 82 31 70 38 10 93 105 52 34 71 85 1 11 683 0.38%Wije Dias align=leftSocialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)>SEP 92 20 32 94 19 68 62 25 43 58 127 1 16 657 0.37%A. S. P. Liyanage align=leftSri Lanka Labour Party>SLLP 80 31 59 43 23 100 85 54 24 50 75 0 21 645 0.36%Independent (politician)}}W. V. Mahiman Ranjith align=leftIndependent politician>Ind 1 59 27 51 60 27 83 66 31 39 47 63 2 16 571 0.32%Sarath Kongahage align=left518 >| 0.29%Independent (politician)}}Aithurus M. Illias align=leftIndependent politician>Ind 2 85 19 43 36 8 72 48 31 27 41 62 1 12 485 0.27%Independent (politician)}}M. Mohamed Musthaffa align=leftIndependent politician>Ind 4 71 10 49 15 10 84 56 27 35 43 75 0 10 485 0.27%Sanath Pinnaduwa align=left412 >| 0.23%Senaratna de Silva align=left358 >| 0.20%Aruna de Soyza align=left351 >| 0.20%Battaramulla Seelarathana align=left307 >| 0.17%M. B. Thaminimulla align=left260 >| 0.15%Valid Votes 18,590 11,960 14,440 9,983 6,280 20,508 21,594 16,391 12,388 13,355 18,684 4,410 9,786 178,369 100.00%Rejected Votes 860 454 493 338 286 625 881 557 440 600 752 116 361 6,763 Total Polled 19,450 12,414 14,933 10,321 6,566 21,133 22,475 16,948 12,828 13,955 19,436 4,526 10,147 185,132 Registered Electors 65,141 64,714 69,082 53,111 90,811 65,798 71,114 72,558 48,613 56,426 63,991 721,359 Turnout 29.86% 19.18% 21.62% 19.43% 7.23% 32.12% 31.60% 23.36% 26.39% 24.73% 30.37% 25.66%

2015 presidential election

Results of the 7th presidential election held on 8 January 2015:WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150128113056weblink">weblink dead, 2015-01-28, Presidential Election 08-01-2015 Jaffna District, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, {| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Candidate!!align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Party!!colspan=11|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiNew Democratic Front (Sri Lanka)}}Maithripala Sirisena align=leftNew Democratic Front (Sri Lanka)>NDF 23,520 17,994 18,729 8,144 38,856 27,161 26,958 24,929 17,388 18,137 20,873 10,885 253,574 74.42%United People's Freedom Alliance}}Mahinda Rajapaksa align=leftUnited People's Freedom Alliance>UPFA 5,599 4,502 5,705 5,959 13,300 6,211 7,225 5,405 4,213 3,937 7,791 4,607 74,454 21.85%Maulawi Ibrahim Mohanmed Mishlar align=left1,620 >| 0.48%A. S. P. Liyanage align=leftSri Lanka Labour Party>SLLP 142 81 125 70 161 193 178 110 87 108 133 10 1,398 0.41%Namal Ajith Rajapaksa align=left1,150 >| 0.34%Independent (politician)}}Aithurus M. Illias align=leftIndependent politician>Ind 97 41 94 38 123 114 137 74 49 82 107 22 978 0.29%Ratnayake Arachchige Sirisena align=left978 >| 0.29%United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka)}}Siritunga Jayasuriya align=leftUnited Socialist Party (Sri Lanka)>USP 96 66 105 34 115 118 128 79 47 50 122 15 975 0.29%Ruwanthileke Peduru align=left942 >| 0.28%Sarath Manamendra align=leftNew Sinhala Heritage>NSH 76 33 61 30 106 88 71 34 44 59 67 8 677 0.20%Nava Sama Samaja Party}}Sundaram Mahendran align=leftNava Sama Samaja Party>NSSP 56 27 38 22 77 73 69 50 41 47 50 73 623 0.18%Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)}}Pani Wijesiriwardene align=leftSocialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)>SEP 51 24 40 63 92 77 60 35 18 53 90 12 615 0.18%Duminda Nagamuwa align=left610 >| 0.18%Muthu Bandara Theminimulla align=left568 >| 0.17%Independent (politician)}}Anurudha Polgampola align=leftIndependent politician>Ind 51 14 59 18 63 56 63 44 36 44 55 5 508 0.15%Prasanna Priyankara align=left360 >| 0.11%Battaramulle Seelarathana align=left329 >| 0.10%Jayantha Kulathunga align=left214 >| 0.06%Wimal Geeganage align=left178 >| 0.05% style="font-weight:bold"Valid Votes 30,456 23,096 25,616 14,678 53,886 35,074 35,627 31,212 22,320 23,052 29,997 15,737 340,751 100.00%Rejected Votes 953 423 822 495 1,940 1,138 960 660 576 574 1,043 454 10,038 Total Polled 31,409 23,519 26,438 15,173 55,826 36,212 36,587 31,872 22,896 23,626 31,040 16,191 350,789 Registered Electors 51,702 33,050 63,217 22,057 79,093 55,891 54,567 46,699 36,138 39,204 47,621 529,239 Turnout 60.75% 71.16% 41.82% 68.79% 70.58% 64.79% 67.05% 68.25% 63.36% 60.26% 65.18% 66.28%

Parliamentary general elections

1989 parliamentary election

Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989:WEB,weblink Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, {{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party!!colspan=11|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Seats! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiEelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students}}Independent (Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students) >150,340 >| 8Tamil United Liberation Front}}Tamil United Liberation Front (Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front, Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front>EPRLF, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization, Tamil United Liberation Front>TULF) 6,350 5,323 9,073 3,706 8,850 6,717 6,048 4,211 2,428 1,178 5,827 302 60,013 25.02% 3Sri Lanka Muslim Congress}}Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 553 3,387 500 466 669 815 592 410 275 84 682 6 8,439 3.52% 0Democratic People's Liberation Front}}Democratic People's Liberation Front (People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam) >7,993 >| 0All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}All Ceylon Tamil Congress 985 1,410 532 391 565 852 535 1,137 342 127 541 193 7,610 3.17% 0United National Party}}United National Party (Ceylon Workers' Congress, United National Party>UNP) 339 470 388 354 1,522 421 496 320 569 46 470 65 5,460 2.28% 0Valid Votes 16,659 29,687 26,493 22,597 20,922 27,724 27,444 27,732 9,858 3,193 26,384 1,162 239,855 100.00% 11Rejected Votes 3,254 1,649 2,817 2,577 3,603 2,954 2,453 1,375 894 380 3,217 30 25,203 Total Polled 19,913 31,336 29,310 25,174 24,525 30,678 29,897 29,107 10,752 3,573 29,601 1,192 265,058 Registered Electors 51,374 49,068 60,282 49,401 53,421 56,413 58,166 61,624 40,060 51,943 58,770 1,688 592,210 Turnout 38.76% 63.86% 48.62% 50.96% 45.91% 54.38% 51.40% 47.23% 26.84% 6.88% 50.37% 70.62% 44.76% The following candidates were elected: Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy (EROS), 40,947 preference votes (pv); Eliyathamby Pararasasingam (EROS), 36,340 pv; S. Sivamaharajah (EROS), 22,622 pv; K. Navaratnam (EPRLF), 22,255 pv; Arunasalam Ponniah Selliah (EROS), 20,747 pv; Suresh Premachandran (EPRLF), 20,738 pv; G. Yogasangari (EPRLF), 20,223 pv; Thambu Loganathapillai (EROS), 17,616 pv; Sebastiyampillai Edward (EROS), 17,429 pv; Kanapathy Selvanayagam (EROS), 14,440 pv; and Joseph George Rajenthiram (EROS), 13,928 pv.G. Yogasangari (EPRLF) was killed on 19 June 1990.MAGAZINE, Parthasarathy, R., A Massacre in Madras, Tamil Times, 15 July 1990, IX, 8, 9,weblink 0266-4488,

1994 parliamentary election

Results of the 10th parliamentary election held on 16 August 1994:WEB,weblink Result of Parliamentary General Election 1994, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20101006015411weblink">weblink 2010-10-06, {| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party!!colspan=11|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Seats! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiEelam People's Democratic Party}}Independent 2 (Eelam People's Democratic Party) >10,744 >| 9Sri Lanka Muslim Congress}}Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 62 1,914 4 56 56 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 2,098 15.56% 1Independent 1 (Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students, People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam>PLOTE, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization) >374 >| 0Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front}}Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front 2 6 9 232 2 0 0 2 0 1 8 1 263 1.95% 0Valid Votes 79 2,022 121 10,446 66 57 12 19 34 8 612 3 13,479 100.00% 10Rejected Votes 3 8 6 302 0 3 1 1 1 0 27 0 352 Total Polled 82 2,030 127 10,748 66 60 13 20 35 8 639 3 13,831 Registered Electors 51,717 50,045 60,417 49,504 55,995 56,496 58,382 62,372 40,336 52,153 58,949 596,366 Turnout 0.16% 4.06% 0.21% 21.71% 0.12% 0.11% 0.02% 0.03% 0.09% 0.02% 1.08% 2.32% The following candidates were elected: Douglas Devananda (EPDP), 2,091 preference votes (pv); Aithurus M. Illias (SLMC), 1,575 pv; Alagaiah Rasamanickam (EPDP), 1,110 pv; Umapathisivam Baskaran (EPDP), 1,056 pv; Rajendran Ramamoorthy (EPDP), 1,050 pv; Nadarajah "Ramesh" Atputharajah (EPDP), 968 pv; Murugesu Chandrakumar (EPDP), 798 pv; Sangarapillai Sivathasan (EPDP), 456 pv; Sinniah Thangavel (EPDP) 398 pv; and M.A. Ghafoor Zafarullah (EPDP), 351 pv.Nadarajah "Ramesh" Atputharajah (EPDP) was killed on 2 November 1999.NEWS, Thinamurasu chief editor killed,weblink TamilNet, 2 November 1999,

2000 parliamentary election

Results of the 11th parliamentary election held on 10 October 2000:WEB,weblink Parliamentary General Election 10.10.2000 - Jaffna District, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, 2009-01-17,weblink" title="archive.today/20120805190406weblink">weblink 2012-08-05, dead, {| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party!!colspan=11|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|DisplacedVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Seats! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiEelam People's Democratic Party}}Eelam People's Democratic Party 1,256 1,571 4,068 12,311 216 5,044 5,737 2,560 1,862 1,662 4,869 380 135 41,671 35.00% 4Tamil United Liberation Front}}Tamil United Liberation Front 1,284 1,277 4,943 1,327 119 4,248 5,703 3,587 1,540 4,180 4,035 518 91 32,852 27.59% 3United National Party}}United National Party (Democratic Workers' Congress, NWC, Up-Country People's Front>UCPF, United National Party) >11,431 >| 1All Ceylon Tamil Congress}}All Ceylon Tamil Congress 658 394 331 166 43 891 1,160 1,262 2,493 2,024 908 288 30 10,648 8.94% 1Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >4,907 >| 0Democratic People's Liberation Front}}Democratic People's Liberation Front(Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students, People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam>PLOTE) 288 471 254 68 24 867 1,067 295 705 243 447 49 79 4,857 4.08% 0Left & Democratic Alliance 46 15 152 6 0 825 124 83 28 73 1,079 17 4 2,452 2.06% 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >2,234 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >2,190 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >1,657 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >1,649 >| 0Muslim National Unity Alliance}}Muslim National Unity Alliance (Sri Lanka Muslim Congress>SLMC et al.) 5 3 13 17 0 24 39 15 22 22 28 2 825 1,015 0.85% 0Citizen's Front 6 13 27 22 1 44 42 23 29 24 45 0 51 327 0.27% 0Sinhala Heritage 14 7 14 32 0 37 36 18 30 39 38 1 1 267 0.22% 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >187 >| 0Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna}}Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna 7 6 14 18 1 27 20 10 9 17 34 0 9 172 0.14% 0Muslim United Liberation Front 4 3 3 3 1 12 7 4 3 5 9 0 107 161 0.14% 0Ruhuna People's Party 2 3 18 8 1 24 24 8 10 16 27 1 0 142 0.12% 0Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya}}Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya 9 7 13 10 2 21 16 6 12 24 14 0 1 135 0.11% 0Liberal Party of Sri Lanka >115 >| 0Valid Votes 5,681 5,227 11,004 15,397 851 14,935 16,912 10,318 8,138 10,665 14,384 1,413 4,144 119,069 100.00% 9Rejected Votes 1,003 485 1,291 935 163 1,787 2,115 920 1,055 1,600 2,017 13,664 Total Polled 6,684 5,712 12,295 16,332 1,014 16,722 19,027 11,238 9,193 12,265 16,401 132,733 Registered Electors 53,933 53,666 63,000 51,007 57,543 59,419 62,692 65,203 42,781 53,668 59,419 622,331 Turnout (%) 12.39% 10.64% 19.52% 32.02% 1.76% 28.14% 30.35% 17.24% 21.49% 22.85% 27.60% 21.33% The following candidates were elected:WEB,weblink General Election 2000 Preferences, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100826002922weblink">weblink 2010-08-26, V. Anandasangaree (TULF), 12,888 pv; Mavai Senathirajah (TULF), 10,965 pv; Douglas Devananda (EPDP), 7,658 pv; S. Sivamaharajah (TULF), 7,187 pv; T. Maheswaran (UNP), 4,807 pv; Nadarasah Mathanarajah (EPDP), 4,673 pv; Karthigesu Velummylum Kugendran (EPDP), 4,244 pv; A. Vinayagamoorthy (ACTC), 3,825 pv; and Kandiah Sangaran (EPDP), 2,902 pv.

2001 parliamentary election

Results of the 12th parliamentary election held on 5 December 2001:WEB,weblink Parliamentary General Election 2001 Final District Results - Jaffna District, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, 2009-01-17,weblink" title="archive.today/20120805211945weblink">weblink 2012-08-05, dead, WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100407174852weblink">weblink dead, 2010-04-07, Jaffna District Polling Divisions, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, {| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party!!colspan=11|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|DisplacedVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Seats! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiTamil National Alliance}}Tamil National Alliance(All Ceylon Tamil Congress, Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front>EPRLF(S), Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization, Tamil United Liberation Front>TULF) 9,865 7,368 8,898 4,304 1,100 12,539 13,539 11,787 8,525 12,493 9,800 1,496 610 102,324 54.84% 6Eelam People's Democratic Party}}Eelam People's Democratic Party 2,221 3,647 5,580 15,378 431 6,300 7,450 4,565 2,736 3,385 4,609 576 330 57,208 30.66% 2United National Front (Sri Lanka)}}United National Front (Sri Lanka)(Ceylon Workers' Congress>CWC, United National Party, Western People's Front>WPF) 1,218 974 1,231 764 191 1,753 1,999 1,970 1,273 1,022 3,445 172 233 16,245 8.71% 1Sri Lanka Muslim Congress}}Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 27 299 51 23 3 85 95 334 12 36 35 2 2,362 3,364 1.80% 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >2,677 >| 0Democratic Left Front (Sri Lanka)}}Democratic Left Front (Sri Lanka) >2,054 >| 0Democratic People's Liberation Front}}Democratic People's Liberation Front (People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam) >1,454 >| 0United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka)}}United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka) >410 >| 0New Left Front}}New Left Front (Nava Sama Samaja Party et al.) >407 >| 0Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna}}Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna 15 12 30 14 1 40 27 21 14 17 48 2 1 242 0.13% 0Sinhala Heritage 20 13 21 22 2 32 28 21 8 23 20 0 3 213 0.11% 0Valid Votes 14,576 12,954 16,260 20,584 1,811 22,061 23,969 19,229 13,208 17,364 18,650 2,308 3,624 186,598 100.00% 9Rejected Votes 1,264 624 899 777 133 1,354 1,370 547 823 1,084 1,478 46 282 10,681 Total Polled 15,840 13,578 17,159 21,361 1,944 23,415 25,339 19,776 14,031 18,448 20,128 2,354 3,906 197,279 Registered Electors 54,779 55,244 64,119 51,072 57,595 61,334 64,262 67,057 43,087 53,941 60,967 633,457 Turnout (%) 28.92% 24.58% 26.76% 41.83% 3.38% 38.18% 39.43% 29.49% 32.56% 34.20% 33.01% 31.14% The following candidates were elected:WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100304015155weblink">weblink dead, 2010-03-04, General Election 2001 Preferences, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, V. Anandasangaree (TNA-TULF), 36,217 preference votes (pv); Mavai Senathirajah (TNA-TULF), 33,831 pv; Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam (TNA-ACTC), 29,641 pv; A. Vinayagamoorthy (TNA-ACTC), 19,472 pv; Nadarajah Raviraj (TNA-TULF), 19,263 pv; M. K. Shivajilingam (TNA-TELO), 17,859 pv; T. Maheswaran (UNF), 11,598 pv; Douglas Devananda (EPDP), 9,744 pv; and Nadarasah Mathanarajah (EPDP), 7,350 pv.

2004 parliamentary election

Results of the 13th parliamentary election held on 2 April 2004:WEB,weblink Parliamentary General Election 2004 Final District Results - Jaffna District, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, 2009-01-17,weblink" title="archive.today/20120805203839weblink">weblink 2012-08-05, dead, {| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party!!colspan=11|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|DisplacedVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Seats! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiTamil National Alliance}}Tamil National Alliance(All Ceylon Tamil Congress, Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front>EPRLF(S), Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization>TELO) 30,882 16,353 18,499 13,911 29,574 26,805 23,779 22,321 22,400 24,172 24,240 3,175 1,209 257,320 90.60% 8Eelam People's Democratic Party}}Eelam People's Democratic Party 1,252 1,710 2,395 1,406 145 2,108 3,239 2,431 676 874 1,513 420 443 18,612 6.55% 1Tamil United Liberation Front}}Independent 1 (Tamil United Liberation Front) >5,156 >| 0Sri Lanka Muslim Congress}}Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 8 151 7 41 5 16 11 14 2 13 9 1 1,717 1,995 0.70% 0United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka)}}United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka) >291 >| 0New Left Front}}New Left Front (Nava Sama Samaja Party et al.) >266 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >151 >| 0Jathika Hela Urumaya}}Jathika Hela Urumaya 9 4 5 4 8 12 20 5 5 12 9 1 1 95 0.03% 0Swarajya 6 11 8 3 2 9 11 5 1 6 7 1 3 73 0.03% 0Ruhuna People's Party 8 5 7 5 4 9 6 7 3 5 6 0 2 67 0.02% 0Valid Votes 32,724 18,630 21,386 15,454 29,939 29,495 28,158 25,659 23,372 25,507 26,358 3,946 3,398 284,026 100.00% 9Rejected Votes 2,966 1,120 1,631 1,282 2,213 2,445 2,268 1,465 1,028 1,956 2,543 39 277 21,233 Total Polled 35,690 19,750 23,017 16,736 32,152 31,940 30,426 27,124 24,400 27,463 28,901 3,985 3,675 305,259 Registered Electors 57,379 57,460 64,434 51,911 57,975 61,403 65,218 67,672 45,457 54,087 61,283 644,279 Turnout (%) 62.20% 34.37% 35.72% 32.24% 55.46% 52.02% 46.65% 40.08% 53.68% 50.78% 47.16% 47.38% The following candidates were elected:WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100304015514weblink">weblink dead, 2010-03-04, General Election 2004 Preferences, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, Selvarajah Kajendren (TNA), 112,077 preference votes (pv); Pathmini Sithamparanathan (TNA), 68,240 pv; Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam (TNA-ACTC), 60,770 pv; Suresh Premachandran (TNA-EPRLF), 45,786 pv; K. Sivanesan (TNA), 43,730 pv; Nadarajah Raviraj (TNA-ITAK), 42,965 pv; M. K. Shivajilingam (TNA-TELO), 42,193 pv; Mavai Senathirajah (TNA-ITAK), 38,783 pv; and Douglas Devananda (EPDP), 9,405 pv.Nadarajah Raviraj (TNA-ITAK) was killed on 10 November 2006.NEWS, Sri Lankan MP killed in Colombo,weblink BBC News, 10 November 2006, His replacement Nallathamby Srikantha (TNA-TELO) was sworn in on 30 November 2006.NEWS, New TNA parliamentarian takes oath,weblink TamilNet, 30 November 2006, K. Sivanesan (TNA) was killed on 6 March 2008.NEWS, Tamil MP is killed in Sri Lanka,weblink BBC News, 6 March 2008, His replacement Solomon Cyril (TNA) was sworn in on 9 April 2008.NEWS, Two new parliamentarians sworn in,weblink TamilNet, 9 April 2008,

2010 parliamentary election

Results of the 14th parliamentary election held on 8 April 2010:WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100414131326weblink">weblink dead, 2010-04-14, Parliamentary General Election - 2010 Jaffna District, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, {| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party!!colspan=11|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|DisplacedVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Seats! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiTamil National Alliance}}Tamil National Alliance(Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi>ITAK, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization) >65,119 >| 5United People's Freedom Alliance}}United People's Freedom Alliance(All Ceylon Muslim Congress, Eelam People's Democratic Party>EPDP, Sri Lanka Freedom Party et al.) >47,622 >| 3United National Front (Sri Lanka)}}United National Front (Sri Lanka)(Democratic People's Front>DPF, Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress>SLMC, United National Party) >12,624 >| 1Tamil National People's Front (All Ceylon Tamil Congress et al.) >6,362 >| 0Tamil United Liberation Front}}Tamil United Liberation Front 298 130 169 33 497 165 473 188 98 228 388 176 49 2,892 1.95% 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >2,562 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >2,151 >| 0Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front >1,821 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >1,161 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >1,038 >| 0Left Liberation Front}}Left Liberation Front (Left Liberation Front, Tamil National Liberation Alliance>TNLA) 30 56 42 45 3 37 79 47 49 314 125 39 2 868 0.58% 0Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students}}Eelavar Democratic Front (Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students) >858 >| 0Democratic Unity Alliance}}Democratic Unity Alliance 19 28 20 22 255 81 50 70 21 29 91 9 69 764 0.51% 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >437 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >399 >| 0United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka)}}United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka) >280 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >261 >| 0Democratic National Alliance (Sri Lanka)}}Democratic National Alliance (Sri Lanka) (Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna>JVP et al.) 10 12 13 1 9 28 17 17 3 22 19 4 46 201 0.14% 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >183 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >179 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >171 >| 0Janasetha Peramuna 11 16 8 5 0 12 12 16 21 7 24 2 0 134 0.09% 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >109 >| 0Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)}}Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) >101 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >93 >| 0Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal 9 5 6 5 4 6 6 4 7 3 10 0 4 69 0.05% 0All Are Citizens, All Are Kings Organisation 10 0 1 0 1 4 10 5 2 4 7 0 0 44 0.03% 0Valid Votes 14,476 10,163 11,549 8,947 9,212 15,684 16,679 13,757 9,918 10,347 15,108 6,781 5,882 148,503 100.00% 9Rejected Votes 2,180 1,037 1,621 1,326 1,807 2,021 2,239 1,334 1,194 1,485 2,128 314 1,088 19,774 Total Polled 16,656 11,200 13,170 10,273 11,019 17,705 18,918 15,091 11,112 11,832 17,236 7,095 6,970 168,277 Registered Electors 65,141 64,714 69,082 53,111 90,811 65,798 71,114 72,558 48,613 56,426 63,991 721,359 Turnout 25.57% 17.31% 19.06% 19.34% 12.13% 26.91% 26.60% 20.80% 22.86% 20.97% 26.94% 23.33% The following candidates were elected:WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100513035254weblink">weblink dead, 2010-05-13, Parliamentary General Election - 2010 Jaffna Preferences, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, Douglas Devananda (UPFA-EPDP), 28,585 preference votes (pv); Mavai Senathirajah (TNA-ITAK), 20,501 pv; Suresh Premachandran (TNA-EPRLF), 16,425 pv; A. Vinayagamoorthy (TNA), 15,311 pv; E. Saravanapavan (TNA), 14,961 pv; Silvestri Alantine (UPFA-EPDP), 13,128 pv; S. Sritharan (TNA), 10,057; Murugesu Chandrakumar (UPFA-EPDP), 8,105 pv; and Vijayakala Maheswaran (UNF-UNP), 7,160 pv.

Provincial council elections

1988 provincial council election

Results of the 1st North Eastern provincial council election held on 19 November 1988:Jaffna District - The Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front won all 19 seats uncontested.MAGAZINE, December 1988, Election Results, Tamil Times, VIII, 1, 4, 0266-4488,weblink Kilinochchi District - The Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front won all 3 seats uncontested.

2013 provincial council election

Results of the 1st Northern provincial council election held on 21 September 2013:WEB, Provincial Council Elections 2013 : Jaffna District,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130929074803weblink">weblink dead, 2013-09-29, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, WEB, Provincial Council Elections 2013 : Kilinochchi District,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130929075620weblink">weblink dead, 2013-09-29, Department of Elections, Sri Lanka, Jaffna District{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party!!colspan=10|Votes per Polling Division!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50"|%!!align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40"|Seats! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Chavaka-chcheri!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Jaffna!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kankesan-thurai!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kayts!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kopay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Manipay!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Nallur!! align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PointPedro!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Udu-piddy!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Vaddu-koddaiTamil National Alliance}}Tamil National Alliance (Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi>ITAK, People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization>TELO, Tamil United Liberation Front) >213,907 >| 14United People's Freedom Alliance}}United People's Freedom Alliance (All Ceylon Muslim Congress, Eelam People's Democratic Party>EPDP, Sri Lanka Freedom Party et al.) >35,995 >| 2United National Party}}United National Party 89 60 35 17 127 88 148 26 57 173 35 855 0.34% 0Democratic Unity Alliance}}Democratic Unity Alliance 31 21 41 21 53 54 62 162 27 43 10 525 0.21% 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >406 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >356 >| 0Sri Lanka People's Party 61 18 19 16 71 17 22 20 6 38 4 292 0.12% 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >271 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >215 >| 0United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka)}}United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka) >165 >| 0Democratic Party (Sri Lanka)}}Democratic Party (Sri Lanka) >111 >| 0Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)}}Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) >101 >| 0Janasetha Peramuna 11 2 2 2 3 3 3 23 13 6 6 74 0.03% 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >63 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >59 >| 0Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna}}Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna 2 3 4 5 9 9 10 3 1 7 3 56 0.02% 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >28 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >24 >| 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >23 >| 0Sri Lanka Labour Party 3 0 0 1 3 1 5 3 0 0 0 16 0.01% 0 style="font-weight:bold"Valid Votes 27,415 19,063 23,947 13,227 31,411 32,585 26,774 21,038 21,511 27,736 8,835 253,542 100.00% 16Rejected Votes 2,378 1,240 2,074 1,377 3,195 2,531 1,650 1,444 1,755 2,521 114 20,279 Total Polled 29,793 20,303 26,021 14,604 34,606 35,116 28,424 22,482 23,266 30,257 8,949 273,821 Registered Electors 49,479 28,610 61,196 21,548 53,617 51,722 42,466 35,054 37,926 45,195 426,813 Turnout 60.21% 70.96% 42.52% 67.77% 64.54% 67.89% 66.93% 64.14% 61.35% 66.95% 64.15% Kilinochchi District{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:right;"! align=left valign=bottom colspan=2|Party!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Kilino-chchi!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|PostalVotes!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|Total Votes!!align=center valign=bottom width="50"|%!!align=center valign=bottom width="40"|SeatsTamil National Alliance}}Tamil National Alliance (Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi>ITAK, People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization>TELO, Tamil United Liberation Front) >37,079 >| 3United People's Freedom Alliance}}United People's Freedom Alliance (All Ceylon Muslim Congress, Eelam People's Democratic Party>EPDP, Sri Lanka Freedom Party et al.) >7,897 >| 1Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students}}Eelavar Democratic Front (Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students) >300 >| 0Democratic Unity Alliance}}Democratic Unity Alliance 60 1 61 0.13% 0United National Party}}United National Party 53 1 54 0.12% 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >22 >| 0Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna}}Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna 18 0 18 0.04% 0Independent (politician)}}Independent politician >7 >| 0United Lanka Great Council 6 0 6 0.01% 0Democratic Party (Sri Lanka)}}Democratic Party (Sri Lanka) >5 >| 0Nationalities Unity Organisation 4 0 4 0.01% 0Sri Lanka Labour Party 3 1 4 0.01% 0Janasetha Peramuna 2 0 2 0.00% 0 style="font-weight:bold"Valid Votes 44,540 919 45,459 17.93% 4Rejected Votes 4,725 10 4,735 Total Polled 49,265 929 50,194 Registered Electors 68,600 68,600 Turnout 71.81% 73.17%

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