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 of Ceylon (redirect from Ceylonese Parliament)
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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Bolshevik–Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma (section Ceylonese activism implications for India)
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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