The Passara electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between March 1960 and February 1989. The district was named after the town of Passara in Badulla District, Uva 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] The Passara electoral district was replaced by the Badulla multi-member electoral district at the 1989 general elections, the first under the proportional representation system, continues to be a polling division of the multi-member electoral district.
Key
| Election | Member | Party | Term | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 (March) | S. A. Peeris | United National Party | 1960 | ||
| 1960 (July) | Amarananda Ratnayake | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 1960-1965 | ||
| 1965 | S. A. Peeris | United National Party | 1965-1970 | ||
| 1970 | S. A. S. Somapala | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 1970-1977 | ||
| 1977 | W. M. Karunaratne | United National Party | 1977-1989 | ||
Results of the 4th parliamentary election held on 19 March 1960:[2]
| align=left width="180" | Candidate! | align=left width="180" | Party! | align=left width="120" | Symbol! | align=left width="60" | Votes! | align=left width="60" | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elephant | 3,286 | 38.02 | |||||||
| Hand | 3,216 | 37.21 | |||||||
| Doyle Kularatne | Key | 1,253 | 14.50 | ||||||
| C. B. W. Palagolle | Cartwheel | 418 | 4.84 | ||||||
| G. Daya Gunasekera | Umbrella | 308 | 3.56 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Valid Votes | 8,481 | 98.14 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Rejected Votes | 161 | 1.86 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Total Polled | 8,642 | 100.00 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Registered Electors | 11,511 | |||||||
| align=left colspan=4 | Turnout | 75.08 |
Results of the 5th parliamentary election held on 20 July 1960:[3]
| align=left width="180" | Candidate! | align=left width="180" | Party! | align=left width="120" | Symbol! | align=left width="60" | Votes! | align=left width="60" | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elephant | 4,700 | 52.90 | |||||||
| Hand | 4,098 | 46.13 | |||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Valid Votes | 8,798 | 99.03 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Rejected Votes | 86 | 0.97 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Total Polled | 8,884 | 100.00 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Registered Electors | 11,511 | |||||||
| align=left colspan=4 | Turnout | 77.18 |
Results of the 6th parliamentary election held on 22 March 1965:[4]
| align=left width="180" | Candidate! | align=left width="180" | Party! | align=left width="120" | Symbol! | align=left width="60" | Votes! | align=left width="60" | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | 6,022 | 50.79 | |||||||
| Elephant | 5,694 | 48.03 | |||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Valid Votes | 11,716 | 98.82 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Rejected Votes | 140 | 1.18 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Total Polled | 11,856 | 100.00 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Registered Electors | 14,459 | |||||||
| align=left colspan=4 | Turnout | 82.00 |
Results of the 7th parliamentary election held on 27 May 1970:[5]
| align=left width="180" | Candidate! | align=left width="180" | Party! | align=left width="120" | Symbol! | align=left width="60" | Votes! | align=left width="60" | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | 8,382 | 57.44 | |||||||
| Lilian Peeris | Elephant | 5,798 | 39.73 | ||||||
| Pin Siri Fernando | Bell | 176 | 1.21 | ||||||
| Ratnam Kumaravel | Sewing Machine | 114 | 0.78 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Valid Votes | 14,470 | 99.16 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Rejected Votes | 122 | 0.84 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Total Polled | 14,592 | 100.00 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Registered Electors | 16,461 | |||||||
| align=left colspan=4 | Turnout | 88.65 |
| align=left width="180" | Candidate! | align=left width="180" | Party! | align=left width="120" | Symbol! | align=left width="60" | Votes! | align=left width="60" | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elephant | 10,451 | 59.21 | |||||||
| S. Seneviratne | Hand | 5,993 | 33.95 | ||||||
| R. B. Dissanayake | Star | 402 | 2.28 | ||||||
| A. Ratnayake | Lamp | 362 | 2.05 | ||||||
| P. Wimalasuriya | Omnibus | 186 | 1.05 | ||||||
| R. M. Punchibanda | Flower | 95 | 0.54 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Valid Votes | 17,489 | 99.08 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Rejected Votes | 162 | 0.92 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Total Polled | 17,651 | 100.00 | ||||||
| align=left colspan=3 | Registered Electors | 19,925 | |||||||
| align=left colspan=4 | Turnout | 88.59 |