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| Table 38(Gov., Parlia. ) | ||||||
| Parliament Election (1977) | ||||||
| gov 38e | ||||||
| Party | Candidates | Total Votes Polled |
Percentage Polled |
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| Contested | Elected | Defeated | ||||
| United National Party | 154 | 140 | 14 | 3,179,221 | 50.9 | |
| Tamil United Liberation Front | 23 | 18 | 5 | 421,488 | 6.8 | |
| Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 147 | 8 | 139 | 1,855,331 | 29.7 | |
| Ceylon Workers` Congress | 2 | 1 | 1 | 62,707 | 1.0 | |
| Lanka Sama Samaja Party | 82 | 0 | 82 | 225,317 | 3.6 | |
| Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 27 | 0 | 27 | 22,639 | 0.4 | |
| Communist Party | 25 | 0 | 25 | 123,856 | 2.0 | |
| Independents (non party candidates) | 295 | 1 | 294 | 353,014 | 5.7 | |
| Total | 755 | 168 | 587 | 6,243,573 | 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. | ||||||