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| Table 37 (Gov., Parlia. ) | ||||||
| Parliament Election (1970) | ||||||
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| Party | Candidates | Total Votes Polled | Percentage Polled | |||
| Contested | Elected | Defeated | ||||
| Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 108 | 91 | 17 | 1,839,979 | 36.9 | |
| Lanka Sama Samaja Party | 23 | 19 | 4 | 433,224 | 8.7 | |
| United National Party | 130 | 17 | 113 | 1,892,525 | 37.9 | |
| Federal Party | 19 | 13 | 6 | 245,727 | 4.9 | |
| Communist Party (Moscow) | 9 | 6 | 3 | 169,199 | 3.4 | |
| Tamil Congress | 12 | 3 | 9 | 115,567 | 2.3 | |
| Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 4 | 0 | 4 | 46,571 | 0.9 | |
| Independents | 136 | 2 | 134 | 249,006 | 5.0 | |
| Total | 441 | 151 | 290 | 4,991,798 | 100.0 | |
| © 2009, KRI (Kusaka Research Institute) | ||||||
| Source: | ||||||
| The Tenth Parliament of Sri Lanka, | ||||||
| The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd., Lake House, Colombo. | ||||||
| Revised: 2009(y)/02(m)/10(d) | ||||||
| Chief Editor: | ||||||
| Dr. Milton Rajaratne (B.Com., M.Sc., Ph.D) | ||||||
| The Head, Department of Management Studies | ||||||
| University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. | ||||||