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    Parliamentary elections were held in Ceylon in 1970. SLFP leader Sirimavo Bandaranaike had come to the conclusion that her party's best hope of power...
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    Parliamentary elections were held in Ceylon in March 1965. The SLFP government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike lost its majority in December 1964 when some MPs...
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  • Tanzanian general election 1970 Upper Volta parliamentary election 1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election 1970 Pakistani general election 1970 Philippine Constitutional...
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  • from 1960 to 1970. He unsuccessfully contested the 1965 Ceylonese parliamentary election and the 1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election "Hon. Dassanayake...
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  • Parliament) with the unicameral National State Assembly. The members elected in 1970, continued to hold their seats in the new National State Assembly. The ruling...
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  • Party of Ceylon (CPC) in 1968, it came to power in the 1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election. The United Front established the Socialist Republic of...
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    Albert F. Peries (1965–67) Shirley Corea (1967–70) Stanley Tillekeratne (1970–72) R. A. de Mel (1947–48) H. W. Amarasuriya (1948) Albert F. Peries (1948–51)...
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  • the parliamentary elections in 1965 he ran as an independent, successfully regaining the Habaraduwa electorate. At the 1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election...
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  • He was denied the LSSP nomination for Katana at the 1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election due to a deal between the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and...
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  • Leaders of the LSSP – notably Philip Gunawardena who was seen as 'father of Ceylonese Socialism' – denounced the war between the Allies and Axies, who he regarded...
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  • (1975). Electoral politics in an emergent state: the Ceylon general election of May 1970. Cambridge University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-00-132712-9. K T Rajasingham...
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  • July 1960: Results of the Ceylonese parliamentary by-election, held on 18 January 1964: Results of the 6th parliamentary election held on 22 March 1965:...
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  • subsequently defeated the Prime Minister, Dahanayake, at the Ceylonese parliamentary election held on 19 March 1960. Abeygoonawardena received 10,480 votes...
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    young people. He was apparently expelled from the Maoist wing of the Ceylonese Communist Party the following year and brought his Marxist ideology to...
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  • as an independent artist. Ceylon Pavilion, 1970 World Expo, Osaka, Japan - bronze Bodhi-leaf (1970) Ceylonese currency - bank note design - endemic flora...
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  • "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1970" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 7 January 2018. "Parliamentary Election - 1977" (PDF)...
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  • The 1966 alleged Ceylonese coup d'état attempt (also known as the Bathroom coup or the Lavatory coup ) was an alleged military coup planned in Sri Lanka...
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  • of the Ceylonese parliamentary by-election, held on 11 November 1977: "The Electoral System". Parliament of Sri Lanka. "Result of Parliamentary General...
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    Sirimavo Bandaranaike (category Candidates in the 1988 Sri Lankan presidential election)
    towards Tamils in the civil war, as a relevant force in the first parliamentary election after 12 years and served a second time as Leader of the Opposition...
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  • candidate in Mutur at the 1970 parliamentary election but failed to get re-elected. Mohamed Ali later served as Ceylonese ambassador to Maldives, and...
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  • force. The Communist parties did their best to avoid suggesting that the Ceylonese "mases" were united with Indian workers against the brown and white capitalists...
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  • Seetha "Sita" Seneviratne (née Molamure) (1914–1998) was a Ceylonese politician. She was a member of the Senate of Ceylon and member of the Parliament...
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  • Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake (category 1970 deaths)
    News. Retrieved 11 October 2019. "RESULTS OF PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL ELECTION - May 27, 1970" (PDF). elections.gov.lk. Retrieved 9 October 2020. Gregory's...
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    Tyre Corporations and Steel Corporation. He lost his parliamentary seat in the 1970 general election to Bonnie Jayasuriya of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party...
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  • The 1962 Ceylonese coup d'état attempt (also known as the Colonels' coup ) was a failed military coup d'état planned in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). A group of...
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    Weekly. 43 (18): 8–10. JSTOR 40277655. 2010 Sri Lankan parliamentary election "PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION – 2010 Official Results". Archived from the original...
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  • Government Whip. He was re-elected in the Parliamentary elections in 1965 and Parliamentary elections in 1970. He was a cousin of Stanley de Zoysa, Minister...
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  • Montague Jayawickrama (category Parliamentary secretaries of Ceylon)
    war, Jayewickreme left the Ceylon Light Infantry, having been one few Ceylonese officers to reach the rank of Major. Jayewickreme entered politics when...
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  • T. M. Sabaratnam (category Ceylonese proctors)
    parliamentary election as well. Sabaratnam was a member of the Board of Management of the Ramakrishna Mission Ceylonese branch. He died in 1970. Arumugam...
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  • his father's false arrest for allegedly being an agitator in the 1915 Ceylonese riots the family decided to withdraw the brothers from the school and...
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