Badulla Municipal Council | |
Native Name: | බදුල්ල මහ නගර සභාව |
Native Name Lang: | si |
Coa Pic: | Badulla Municipal Council.jpg |
House Type: | Local authority |
Leader1 Type: | Mayor |
Leader1: | Priyantha Amarasiri since 8 February 2018(UNP) U. N. Gunasekara |
Party1: | (UPFA) 8 October 2011 to 7 February 2018 |
Members: | 25 |
The Badulla Municipal Council is the local council for Badulla, the capital city of Uva Province. The council was first formed as a Town Council which was established in the 1933 and was upgraded to Municipal Council status in 1963.[1] Badulla Municipal Council is considered one of the oldest Municipal Councils in the Sri Lanka.[2]
The Badulla Municipal Council is divided into 13 wards and is represented by 15 councillors, elected using an open list proportional representation system. Wards those belong to the Badulla Municipal Council are listed below.
Results of the local government election held on 8 October 2011.[3]
valign=bottom align=left colspan=2 | Alliances and parties ! | valign=bottom align=center width="60" | Votes ! | valign=bottom align=center width="50" | % ! | valign=bottom align=center | Seats |
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bgcolor= | United People's Freedom Alliance (NC, ACMC, SLFP et al.) | 13,337 | 63.25% | 10 | |||
bgcolor= | United National Party | 6,982 | 33.11% | 5 | |||
bgcolor= | Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 453 | 2.15% | 0 | |||
bgcolor= | Up-Country People's Front | 293 | 1.39% | 0 | |||
Eksath Lanka Maha Sabha | 7 | 0.03% | 0 | ||||
Patriotic National Front | 4 | 0.02% | 0 | ||||
Independent Group 1 | 4 | 0.02% | 0 | ||||
Independent Group 2 | 4 | 0.02% | 0 | ||||
Jana Setha Peramuna | 2 | 0.01% | 0 | ||||
Ruhunu Janatha Party | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | ||||
Valid Votes | 21,086 | 97.38% | 15 | ||||
Rejected Votes | 567 | ||||||
Total Polled | 21,653 | ||||||
Registered Electors | 29,312 | ||||||
Turnout | 73.87 |