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1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election

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The UNP won the largest landslide in Sri Lankan history, taking over half the vote and 140 of the 168 seats, five-sixths of the legislature. The size of the landslide was magnified by the first-past-the-post system. The SLFP was decimated, falling from 91 seats to only eight–easily the worst defeat
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The 1977 election was the only one ever held under the 1972 constitution. A year later, the UNP-dominated legislature amended the constitution to replace the parliamentary system with a presidential system. Under the provisions of the new document, Prime Minister Jayewardene became president on 4
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Abeyratne Pilapitiya of the UNP was elected MP for Kalawana, but was subsequently unseated in an election petition. Sarath Muttetuwegama of the Communist Party was returned to Parliament in the ensuing by-election.
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had become extraordinarily unpopular. Her economic policies had led to industrial growth and self-reliance, but were insufficient to overcome unemployment. Constitutionally, she had taken advantage of the
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that a Sri Lankan governing party has ever suffered, and one of the worst ever suffered by a governing party in a Westminster system.
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package. Economically, it proposed opening up the Sri Lankan economy again. Constitutionally, the UNP called for replacing the
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More portentous was the status of the Tamil parties. The old federalist Tamil parties had merged to form the
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it had assiduously built up its ground organization. The UNP promised to solve the ethnic problem with a
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to delay the election until 1977, instead of 1975 as would have been the case under the old
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For the first time, a Tamil party won the second-highest number of seats in
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Winners of polling divisions. UNP in green, TULF in yellow and SLFP in blue.
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coalition Bandaranaike had built for the 1970 elections had disintegrated.
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on 21 July 1977. The result was a landslide victory for the
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Post-poll violence killed 34 people from July 22-25, 1977.
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Soosaithasan 1610:Anura Bandaranaike 1597:Gamini Dissanayake 1107:Bennet Gunasekera 1095:Mahendra Wijeratne 724:Electorate Results 513: 410:state of emergency 262:Popular vote 170:Leader since 18: 3798: 3797: 3494: 3493: 3297:on 9 October 2011 3184: 3183: 3100:Mervyn Kularatne 3076: 3075: 3025:C.R. Beligammana 3003:N.A. Seneviratne 2950: 2949: 2897: 2896: 2889:W.J.M.Lokubandara 2855:R.M. Karunaratne 2822:W.M. Karunaratne 2771: 2770: 2756:A.D.B. Ekanayake 2719: 2718: 2679:K.D.M.C. Bandara 2615: 2614: 2608:S.W. Alawatuwala 2472:H.B. Wanninayake 2461:H.M.A. Lokubanda 2437: 2436: 2365:Puttalam District 2357: 2356: 2287: 2286: 2280:P. Ganeshalingam 2258:K.W. Devanayagam 2234: 2233: 2174: 2173: 2134:V. Anandasangary 2110: 2109: 1972:Northern Province 1969: 1968: 1940:Ranjith Atapattu 1905: 1904: 1806: 1805: 1726:Bentara-Elpitiya 1670:Southern Province 1667: 1666: 1561: 1560: 1482:D.M. 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826:Elephant 743:does not 704:6,667,589 686:6,243,573 566:1,855,331 548:3,179,221 474:, led by 461:kilograms 447:of eight 364:Sri Lanka 266:3,179,221 248:New party 3474:Indirect 3351:cite web 3324:cite web 3189:Violence 3174:Kolonna 3141:Rakwana 3000:Kegalle 2830:Badulla 2819:Passara 2347:Potuvil 2030:Manipay 1840:Hakmana 1759:Rathgma 1551:Gampola 1376:Rattota 1354:Laggala 1128:Gampaha 1056:Negambo 1045:Wattala 999:Kesbewa 970:Eephant 866:Borella 714:Source: 270:421,488 3661:2008–09 3092:Symbol 2971:Symbol 2918:Bibile 2913:Symbol 2792:Symbol 2735:Symbol 2636:Symbol 2453:Symbol 2405:Chilaw 2378:Symbol 2308:Ampara 2303:Symbol 2250:Symbol 2195:Symbol 2142:Mannar 2126:Symbol 2100:Jaffna 2089:Nallur 1990:Symbol 1921:Symbol 1884:Matara 1822:Symbol 1688:Symbol 1660:(Mrs.) 1577:Symbol 1402:Symbol 1365:Matale 1338:Symbol 1248:Horana 1221:Symbol 1154:Mahara 1141:Ja-ela 1067:Katana 1040:Symbol 813:Symbol 764:removed 749:sources 672:353,014 620:123,856 602:225,317 584:421,488 486:Results 457:eta 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Index

1970
1989
elected members
National State Assembly



J. R. Jayewardene
A. Amirthalingam
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
UNP
TULF
SLFP
Colombo West
Kankesanthurai
Attanagalla

Prime Minister
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
SLFP
Prime Minister
Junius Richard Jayewardene
UNP
Sri Lanka
United National Party
National State Assembly
Prime Minister
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
1972 constitution
Soulbury constitution

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