Upul Mahendra Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Hon.
Upul Mahendra
Native Name:උපුල් මහේන්ද්‍ර
உபுல் மகேந்திரா
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Office1:Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Constituency1:Gampaha District
Term Start1:20 August 2020
Office2:Member of the Western Provincial Council
Constituency2:Gampaha District
Term Start2:21 April 2014
Term End2:21 April 2019
Birth Name:Rajapaksha Pathirannehelage Upul Mahendra Rajapaksha
Birth Date:25 September 1971
Party:Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
Otherparty:Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance

Rajapaksha Pathirannehelage Upul Mahendra Rajapaksha (born 25 September 1971) is a Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament.[1]

Political career

Upul Mahendra was born on 25 September 1971.[1] He entered politics in 2002 by contesting to the local government election and lost the election. But in 2004 he was selected to the divisional council because one member lost his seat due to disciplinary reason. In 2006 and 2011 local government elections he got the highest number of votes in the division and become a chairperson of the divisional council. He was a chairperson of the Attanagalla Divisional Council from 2006 to 2014. In 2014 He contested to the provincial council election and won. He was a member of the Western Provincial Council from 2014 to 2019.[2] He contested the 2015 parliamentary election as one of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) electoral alliance's candidates in Gampaha District but failed to get elected after coming 10th amongst the UPFA candidates.[3] [4] [5] [6] He contested the 2020 parliamentary election as a Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance electoral alliance candidate in Gampaha District and was elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka.[7] [8] [9]

Electoral history

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Constituencyscope=col colspan="2"Partyscope=col colspan="2"Alliancescope=colVotesscope=colResult
2014 provincial[10] Elected
Not elected
Elected

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Directory of Members: Upul Mahendra Rajapaksha . . 25 August 2020 . Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka.
  2. News: Meet your new parliamentarians . 25 August 2020 . . 16 August 2020 . Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  3. Part I : Section (I) — General - Government Notifications - The Parliamentary Elections Act, No. 1 of 1981 . The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary . 13 July 2015 . 1923/3 . 48A . 11 August 2015 . Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  4. News: Ranil tops with over 500,000 votes in Colombo . 25 August 2020 . . 19 August 2015 . Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  5. News: Preferential Votes . . 19 August 2015 . https://archive.today/20150820025307/http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=political/preferential-votes-2 . 20 August 2015 . Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  6. Web site: Preferential Votes . srilankanelections.com.
  7. Part I : Section (I) — General - Government Notifications - Parliamentary Elections Act, No. 1 of 1981 . The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Extraordinary . 8 August 2020 . 2187/26 . 2A . 9 August 2020 . Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  8. News: Nalaka Godahewa tops in Gampaha . 25 August 2020 . . 7 August 2020 . Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  9. News: Parasuraman . Lakshme . Over 60 new faces in Parliament . 25 August 2020 . . 9 August 2020 . Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  10. News: Full list of preferential votes . . 31 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140331191352/http://www.dailymirror.lk/caption-story/45236-full-list-of-preferential-votes.html . 31 March 2014 . Colombo, Sri Lanka.