Paddiruppu Electoral District

Paddiruppu electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Paddiruppu in Batticaloa 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] Paddiruppu electoral district was replaced by the Batticaloa multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the PR system, though Paddiruppu continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.

Members of Parliament

Key

Independent ITAK UNP

	Member	Party	Term
1947	S. U. Ethiramanasingham		1947–1952
1952	S. M. Rasamanickam	Independent	1952–1956
1956	S. U. Ethiramanasingham		1956–1960
1960 (March)	S. M. Rasamanickam	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi	1960-1970
1960 (July)
1965
1970	S. Thambirajah	United National Party	1970–1977
1977	P. Ganeshalingam	Tamil United Liberation Front	1977–1989

Results of the 1st parliamentary election held between 23 August 1947 and 20 September 1947 for the district:^[2]

Candidate	Party	Symbol	Votes	%
S. U. Ethiramanasingham		Bird	5,672	37.63%
S. M. Rasamanickam	Independent	Pair of Spectacles	4,784	31.74%
V.O. Gurugulasinghe		Hand	4,617	30.63%
Valid Votes			15,073	100.00%
Rejected Votes			274
Total Polled			15,347
Registered Electors			22,358
Turnout			68.64%

Results of the 2nd parliamentary election held between 24 May 1952 and 30 May 1952 for the district:^[3]

Candidate	Party	Symbol	Votes	%
S. M. Rasamanickam	Independent	Pair of Spectacles	7,672	39.92%
S. U. Ethiramanasingham		Bird	7,198	37.45%
K. Arulambalam		Star	4,350	22.63%
Valid Votes			19,220	100.00%
Rejected Votes			198
Total Polled			19,418
Registered Electors			23,440
Turnout			82.84%

Results of the 3rd parliamentary election held between 5 April 1956 and 10 April 1956 for the district:^[4]

Candidate	Party	Symbol	Votes	%
S. U. Ethiramanasingham		Lamp	9,528	50.28%
S. M. Rasamanickam	Federal Party	House	9,422	49.72%
Valid Votes			18,950	100.00%
Rejected Votes			222
Total Polled			19,172
Registered Electors			25,849
Turnout			74.17%

Results of the 4th parliamentary election held on 19 March 1960 for the district:^[5]

Candidate	Party	Symbol	Votes	%
S. M. Rasamanickam	Federal Party	House	10,799	62.36%
S. U. Ethiramanasingham		Cup	6,517	37.64%
Valid Votes			17,316	100.00%
Rejected Votes			153
Total Polled			17,469
Registered Electors			19,429
Turnout			89.91%

Results of the 5th parliamentary election held on 20 July 1960 for the district:^[6]

Candidate	Party	Symbol	Votes	%
S. M. Rasamanickam	Federal Party	House	10,948	66.44%
S. U. Ethiramanasingham	All Ceylon Tamil Congress	Bicycle	5,283	32.06%
E. Ponniah		Ladder	247	1.50%
Valid Votes			16,478	100.00%
Rejected Votes			98
Total Polled			16,576
Registered Electors			19,429
Turnout			85.32%

Results of the 6th parliamentary election held on 22 March 1965 for the district:^[7]

Candidate	Party	Symbol	Votes	%
S. M. Rasamanickam	Federal Party	House	11,270	51.50%
S. U. Ethiramanasingham	Independent	Bird	9,140	41.77%
V. Sinnadurai		Elephant	1,472	6.73%
Valid Votes			21,882	100.00%
Rejected Votes			155
Total Polled			22,037
Registered Electors			25,855
Turnout			85.23%

Results of the 7th parliamentary election held on 27 May 1970 for the district:^[8]

Candidate	Party	Symbol	Votes	%
S. Thambirajah	United National Party	Elephant	13,370	51.24%
S. M. Rasamanickam	Federal Party	House	12,723	48.76%
Valid Votes			26,093	100.00%
Rejected Votes			129
Total Polled			26,222
Registered Electors			28,992
Turnout			90.45%

Results of the 8th parliamentary election held on 21 July 1977 for the district:^[9]

Candidate	Party	Symbol	Votes	%
P. Ganeshalingam	Tamil United Liberation Front	Sun	15,877	49.17%
S. Sivagurunathan	Lanka Sama Samaja Party	Key	5,633	17.45%
S. Thambirajah		Hand	5,590	17.31%
P. Retnasingham		Elephant	5,189	16.07%
Valid Votes			32,289	100.00%
Rejected Votes			243
Total Polled			32,532
Registered Electors			35,909
Turnout			90.60%

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^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1956" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24.
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^ "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.