2010 Parliamentary General Election
Results of the 14th parliamentary election held on 8 April 2010:
| Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Displaced Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chavaka -chcheri |
Jaffna | Kankesan -thurai |
Kayts | Kilino -chchi |
Kopay | Manipay | Nallur | Point Pedro |
Udupiddy | Vaddu -koddai |
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| Tamil National Alliance (EPRLF(S), ITAK, TELO) |
7,664 | 4,713 | 5,018 | 1,671 | 4,192 | 7,467 | 7,194 | 7,490 | 3,783 | 4,630 | 5,341 | 3,813 | 2,143 | 65,119 | 43.85% | 5 | |
| United People's Freedom Alliance (ACMC, EPDP, SLFP et al.) |
2,777 | 3,479 | 4,518 | 6,441 | 3,367 | 4,377 | 5,643 | 3,467 | 3,402 | 2,533 | 3,286 | 1,529 | 2,803 | 47,622 | 32.07% | 3 | |
| United National Front (DPF, SLFP(P), SLMC, UNP) |
1,248 | 616 | 584 | 392 | 386 | 1,122 | 1,424 | 896 | 697 | 717 | 3,438 | 461 | 643 | 12,624 | 8.50% | 1 | |
| Tamil National People's Front (ACTC et al.) | 445 | 688 | 337 | 104 | 85 | 370 | 397 | 730 | 1,123 | 760 | 831 | 474 | 18 | 6,362 | 4.28% | 0 | |
| Tamil United Liberation Front | 298 | 130 | 169 | 33 | 497 | 165 | 473 | 188 | 98 | 228 | 388 | 176 | 49 | 2,892 | 1.95% | 0 | |
| Independent 11 | 315 | 41 | 206 | 72 | 25 | 410 | 296 | 141 | 264 | 261 | 505 | 26 | 0 | 2,562 | 1.73% | 0 | |
| Independent 4 | 574 | 39 | 144 | 9 | 11 | 215 | 332 | 194 | 79 | 257 | 252 | 41 | 4 | 2,151 | 1.45% | 0 | |
| Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (Padmanaba) | 563 | 92 | 112 | 25 | 201 | 311 | 268 | 62 | 9 | 34 | 115 | 27 | 2 | 1,821 | 1.23% | 0 | |
| Independent 3 | 112 | 22 | 57 | 12 | 9 | 223 | 115 | 98 | 214 | 171 | 57 | 69 | 2 | 1,161 | 0.78% | 0 | |
| Independent 6 | 15 | 4 | 168 | 2 | 7 | 451 | 59 | 46 | 19 | 75 | 171 | 21 | 0 | 1,038 | 0.70% | 0 | |
| Left Liberation Front (LLF, TNLA) | 30 | 56 | 42 | 45 | 3 | 37 | 79 | 47 | 49 | 314 | 125 | 39 | 2 | 868 | 0.58% | 0 | |
| Eelavar Democratic Front (EROS) | 79 | 92 | 54 | 27 | 57 | 104 | 96 | 67 | 37 | 43 | 161 | 7 | 34 | 858 | 0.58% | 0 | |
| Democratic Unity Alliance | 19 | 28 | 20 | 22 | 255 | 81 | 50 | 70 | 21 | 29 | 91 | 9 | 69 | 764 | 0.51% | 0 | |
| Independent 5 | 17 | 36 | 30 | 18 | 6 | 64 | 66 | 73 | 16 | 53 | 46 | 11 | 1 | 437 | 0.29% | 0 | |
| Independent 10 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 60 | 33 | 37 | 52 | 6 | 9 | 82 | 36 | 20 | 399 | 0.27% | 0 | |
| United Socialist Party | 100 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 28 | 21 | 23 | 9 | 10 | 40 | 7 | 3 | 280 | 0.19% | 0 | |
| Independent 7 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 75 | 15 | 6 | 15 | 109 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 261 | 0.18% | 0 | |
| Democratic National Alliance (JVP et al.) | 10 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 28 | 17 | 17 | 3 | 22 | 19 | 4 | 46 | 201 | 0.14% | 0 | |
| Independent 1 | 17 | 29 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 9 | 30 | 18 | 34 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 183 | 0.12% | 0 | |
| Independent 2 | 72 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 19 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 179 | 0.12% | 0 | |
| Independent 9 | 37 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 31 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 3 | 10 | 171 | 0.12% | 0 | |
| Janasetha Peramuna | 11 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 21 | 7 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 134 | 0.09% | 0 | |
| Independent 12 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 22 | 109 | 0.07% | 0 | |
| Socialist Equality Party | 5 | 8 | 5 | 27 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 101 | 0.07% | 0 | |
| Independent 8 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 93 | 0.06% | 0 | |
| Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal | 9 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 69 | 0.05% | 0 | |
| All Are Citizens, All Are Kings Organisation | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 0.03% | 0 | |
| Valid Votes | 14,476 | 10,163 | 11,549 | 8,947 | 9,212 | 15,684 | 16,679 | 13,757 | 9,918 | 10,347 | 15,108 | 6,781 | 5,882 | 148,503 | 100.00% | 9 | |
| Rejected Votes | 2,180 | 1,037 | 1,621 | 1,326 | 1,807 | 2,021 | 2,239 | 1,334 | 1,194 | 1,485 | 2,128 | 314 | 1,088 | 19,774 | |||
| Total Polled | 16,656 | 11,200 | 13,170 | 10,273 | 11,019 | 17,705 | 18,918 | 15,091 | 11,112 | 11,832 | 17,236 | 7,095 | 6,970 | 168,277 | |||
| Registered Electors | 65,141 | 64,714 | 69,082 | 53,111 | 90,811 | 65,798 | 71,114 | 72,558 | 48,613 | 56,426 | 63,991 | 721,359 | |||||
| Turnout | 25.57% | 17.31% | 19.06% | 19.34% | 12.13% | 26.91% | 26.60% | 20.80% | 22.86% | 20.97% | 26.94% | 23.33% | |||||
The following candidates were elected: Douglas Devananda (UPFA-EPDP), 28,585 preference votes (pv); Mavai Senathirajah (TNA-ITAK), 20,501 pv; Suresh Premachandran (TNA-EPRLF), 16,425 pv; A. Vinayagamoorthy (TNA), 15,311 pv; E. Saravanapavan (TNA), 14,961 pv; Silvestri "Uthayan" Alantine (UPFA-EPDP), 13,128 pv; S. Sritharan (TNA), 10,057; Murugesu "Aosk" Chandrakumar (UPFA-EPDP), 8,105 pv; and Vijayakala Maheswaran (UNF-UNP), 7,160 pv;
Read more about this topic: Jaffna Electoral District, Election Results
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