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class="nickname" lang="ta"><span title="Tamil-language text"><span lang="ta">இலங்கைத் தமிழர்சுக் கட்சி</span></span></div></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Party_leader" title="Party leader">Leader</a></th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/S._Shritharan" title="S. Shritharan">S. Shritharan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">President</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;">S. Shritharan</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Senior Vice Presidents</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/P._Selvarasa" title="P. Selvarasa">P. Selvarasa</a><br />S. Sittampalam</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Deputy General Secretary</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/K._Thurairetnasingam" title="K. Thurairetnasingam">K. Thurairetnasingam</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Treasurer</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;">S. Thiyagarajah</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/S._J._V._Chelvanayakam" title="S. J. V. Chelvanayakam">S. J. V. Chelvanayakam</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/C._Vanniasingam" title="C. Vanniasingam">C. Vanniasingam</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/E._M._V._Naganathan" title="E. M. V. Naganathan">E. M. V. Naganathan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">18 December 1949<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1949-12-18</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Split from</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/All_Ceylon_Tamil_Congress" title="All Ceylon Tamil Congress">All Ceylon Tamil Congress</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label" style="line-height:1.3em;">30 Martin Road, <a href="/wiki/Jaffna" title="Jaffna">Jaffna</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies" title="List of political ideologies">Ideology</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamil_Nationalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism">Tamil nationalism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">National affiliation</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Tamil_National_Alliance" title="Tamil National Alliance">Tamil National Alliance</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2001–2024)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">Tamil United Liberation Front</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1972–2004)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Colors</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#F5EF1D; 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padding-top:0.3em; border-top:2px solid #F5EF1D;"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Politics of Sri Lanka">Politics of Sri Lanka</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Sri_Lanka" title="List of political parties in Sri Lanka">Political parties</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Sri_Lanka" title="Elections in Sri Lanka">Elections</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi</b> (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">Sri Lanka Tamil State Party</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>; <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>: <span lang="ta">இலங்கைத் தமிழரசுக் கட்சி</span>, <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a>: <span lang="si">ඉලංගෙයි තමිළ් අරසු කච්චි</span>; <b>ITAK</b>) is a <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lankan</a> political party which represents the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamil" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Tamil">Sri Lankan Tamil</a> minority in the country. It was originally founded in 1949 as a breakaway faction of the <a href="/wiki/All_Ceylon_Tamil_Congress" title="All Ceylon Tamil Congress">All Ceylon Tamil Congress</a> (ACTC). In 1972, ITAK merged with the ACTC and <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Workers%27_Congress" title="Ceylon Workers' Congress">Ceylon Workers' Congress</a> (CWC) to form the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Front" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamil United Front">Tamil United Front</a>, which later changed its name to the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">Tamil United Liberation Front</a> (TULF). ITAK remained dormant until 2004 when a split in the TULF resulted in ITAK being re-established as an active political party.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ITAK was the main constituent party of the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_National_Alliance" title="Tamil National Alliance">Tamil National Alliance</a> from 2004 until its dissolution in 2024. As of <a href="/wiki/2024_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2024</a>, the party is the largest Tamil party in <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Parliament of Sri Lanka">Parliament</a> and the third-largest party after the <a href="/wiki/National_People%27s_Power" title="National People's Power">National People's Power</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Samagi_Jana_Balawegaya" title="Samagi Jana Balawegaya">Samagi Jana Balawegaya</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Federal_Party">Federal Party</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Federal Party"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">Tamil United Liberation Front</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamil_nationalism" title="Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism">Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism</a></div> <p>ITAK was founded in late 1949 by a group of three <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamil_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Tamil people">Ceylon Tamil</a> parliamentarians, <a href="/wiki/S._J._V._Chelvanayakam" title="S. J. V. Chelvanayakam">S. J. V. Chelvanayakam</a>, <a href="/wiki/C._Vanniasingam" title="C. Vanniasingam">C. Vanniasingam</a> and Senator <a href="/wiki/E._M._V._Naganathan" title="E. M. V. Naganathan">E. M. V. Naganathan</a>, who had withdrawn from <a href="/wiki/G._G._Ponnambalam" title="G. G. Ponnambalam">G. G. Ponnambalam</a>'s ACTC over the latter's decision to enter the <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a> (UNP) government of <a href="/wiki/Don_Stephen_Senanayake" class="mw-redirect" title="Don Stephen Senanayake">D. S. Senanayke</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ITAK was commonly called or known as the <b>Federal Party</b> (FP) in <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Policies adopted by successive Sri Lankan governments, and the 1956 success of the Sinhalese nationalist government under <a href="/wiki/S._W._R._D._Bandaranaike" title="S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike">S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike</a>, made the FP the main voice of Sri Lankan Tamil politics.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Increased racial and political tension between the country's ethnic groups led three political parties representing the ethnic minorities (FP, ACTC and the CWC) to form the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Front" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamil United Front">Tamil United Front</a> (TUF) in 1972. The TUF became increasingly nationalistic and by 1976 it had renamed itself as the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">Tamil United Liberation Front</a> and was advocating an independent <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam" title="Tamil Eelam">Tamil state</a>. The CWC subsequently left the TULF. </p><p>The TULF became the first Tamil nationalist party to run on a separatist platform in the <a href="/wiki/1977_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">1977 election</a>. It gained a majority of the votes in the north and east, won 18 seats, and became the largest opposition party in parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As Tamil nationalism turned violent and <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war" title="Sri Lankan civil war">civil war</a> broke out, the TULF remained the moderate face of Tamil politics. It became the target of nationalists on both sides and many of its leaders were assassinated. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tamil_National_Alliance">Tamil National Alliance</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Tamil National Alliance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tamil_National_Alliance" title="Tamil National Alliance">Tamil National Alliance</a></div> <p>In 2001, the TULF formed a political alliance, the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_National_Alliance" title="Tamil National Alliance">Tamil National Alliance</a> (TNA), with other moderate Tamil parties as well as a number of former <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamil_militant_groups" title="Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups">militant groups</a>. The TNA contested the <a href="/wiki/2001_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2001 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2001 parliamentary election</a> under the TULF name and won 15 seats.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequently, the TNA began to make a more pro–<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Tiger" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamil Tiger">Tamil Tiger</a> stance, recognising the Tigers as the sole representative of the Sri Lankan Tamils. This caused a split within the TULF. This meant some members of the TULF, led by its President <a href="/wiki/Veerasingham_Anandasangaree" class="mw-redirect" title="Veerasingham Anandasangaree">V. Anandasangaree</a>, were opposed to the Tigers. Anandasangaree refused to allow the TNA to use the TULF's name during the <a href="/wiki/2004_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2004 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2004 parliamentary election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This caused the members of TULF who wished to remain with the TNA to resurrect the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi name. ITAK is a registered political party and the TNA has contested all elections since the 2004 parliamentary election under the ITAK name. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Election_results">Election results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Election results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1952_Parliamentary_General_Election">1952 Parliamentary General Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1952 Parliamentary General Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the first general election contested by ITAK, the <a href="/wiki/1952_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1952 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1952 election</a> in which the <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">UNP</a> increased its stranglehold on power, ITAK won 1.9% of the popular vote and 2 out of 95 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliament">Sri Lankan parliament</a>. The ACTC won four seats. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1956_Parliamentary_General_Election">1956 Parliamentary General Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1956 Parliamentary General Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/1956_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1956 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1956 election</a> in which the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">SLFP</a>-led leftist coalition swept to power, ITAK won 5.39% of the popular vote and 10 out of 95 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliament">Sri Lankan parliament</a>. The ACTC won just one seat. ITAK became the dominant party in the Tamil districts and remained so for two decades. </p><p><b>Votes and seats won by ITAK by electoral district</b> </p> <table class="wikitable" border="1"> <tbody><tr> <th>Electoral District </th> <th align="right">Votes </th> <th align="right">% </th> <th align="right">Seats </th> <th align="right">Turnout </th> <th>ITAK MP </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Batticaloa Electoral District (1947-1989)">Batticaloa</a> </td> <td align="right">9,300 </td> <td align="right">52.05% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">61.57% </td> <td>Chelliah Rajadurai </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chavakacheri_Electoral_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Chavakacheri Electoral District">Chavakachcheri</a> </td> <td align="right">15,952 </td> <td align="right">64.77% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">69.14% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._N._Navaratnam" title="V. N. Navaratnam">V. N. Navaratnam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaffna Electoral District (1947-1989)">Jaffna</a> </td> <td align="right">7,173 </td> <td align="right">32.56% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">63.72% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kalkudah_Electoral_District" title="Kalkudah Electoral District">Kalkudah</a> </td> <td align="right">4,555 </td> <td align="right">28.31% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">60.80% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kalmunai_Electoral_District" title="Kalmunai Electoral District">Kalmunai</a> </td> <td align="right">9,464 </td> <td align="right">47.80% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">71.78% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/M._S._Kariapper" title="M. S. Kariapper">M. S. Kariapper</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kankesanthurai_Electoral_District" title="Kankesanthurai Electoral District">Kankesanthurai</a> </td> <td align="right">14,855 </td> <td align="right">54.30% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">67.55% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/S._J._V._Chelvanayakam" title="S. J. V. Chelvanayakam">S. J. V. Chelvanayakam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kayts_Electoral_District" title="Kayts Electoral District">Kayts</a> </td> <td align="right">16,308 </td> <td align="right">71.19% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">71.26% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._A._Kandiah" title="V. A. Kandiah">V. A. Kandiah</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kopay_Electoral_District" title="Kopay Electoral District">Kopay</a> </td> <td align="right">12,804 </td> <td align="right">53.83% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">69.90% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/C._Vanniasingam" title="C. Vanniasingam">C. Vanniasingam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mannar_Electoral_District" title="Mannar Electoral District">Mannar</a> </td> <td align="right">6,726 </td> <td align="right">53.12% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">80.70% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._A._Alegacone" title="V. A. Alegacone">V. A. Alegacone</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Paddiruppu_Electoral_District" title="Paddiruppu Electoral District">Paddirippu</a> </td> <td align="right">9,422 </td> <td align="right">49.72% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">74.17% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Point_Pedro_Electoral_District" title="Point Pedro Electoral District">Point Pedro</a> </td> <td align="right">5,859 </td> <td align="right">20.70% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">64.17% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pottuvil_Electoral_District" title="Pottuvil Electoral District">Pottuvil</a> </td> <td align="right">8,355 </td> <td align="right">52.46% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">63.81% </td> <td>M. M. Mustapha </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trincomalee Electoral District (1947-1989)">Trincomalee</a> </td> <td align="right">7,048 </td> <td align="right">56.88% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">77.36% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/N._R._Rajavarothiam" title="N. R. Rajavarothiam">N. R. Rajavarothiam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Vaddukoddai_Electoral_District" title="Vaddukoddai Electoral District">Vaddukoddai</a> </td> <td align="right">14,937 </td> <td align="right">57.92% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">72.78% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A._Amirthalingam" title="A. Amirthalingam">A. Amirthalingam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>142,758</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>5.39%</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>10</b> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left" colspan="6">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slelections.gov.lk/index.html">Department of Elections</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210211060044/https://www.slelections.gov.lk/index.html">Archived</a> 11 February 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>ITAK's uncompromising stand on Tamil rights earned it the enmity of nationalist <a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_people" title="Sinhalese people">Sinhalese</a>. In response to the <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_Only_Act" title="Sinhala Only Act">Sinhala Only Act</a> of 1956, ITAK MPs staged a <i><a href="/wiki/Satyagraha" title="Satyagraha">satyagraha</a></i> protest, but it was violently broke up by a Sinhalese mob. ITAK was blamed for the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_riots_of_1958" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan riots of 1958">1958 riots</a> and banned briefly. </p><p>Unlike the Left parties, which opposed anything but full parity for the Tamil language, ITAK agreed to compromise and accepted the 1958 the Tamil Language (Special Provisions) Act in accordance with the <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike%E2%80%93Chelvanayakam_Pact" title="Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam Pact">Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam Pact</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960_(March)_Parliamentary_General_Election"><span id="1960_.28March.29_Parliamentary_General_Election"></span>1960 (March) Parliamentary General Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1960 (March) Parliamentary General Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/March_1960_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="March 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election">March 1960 election</a> in which the <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">UNP</a> became the largest party, ITAK won 5.80% of the popular vote and 15 out of 151 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliament">Sri Lankan parliament</a>. </p><p><b>Votes and seats won by ITAK by electoral district</b> </p> <table class="wikitable" border="1"> <tbody><tr> <th>Electoral District </th> <th align="right">Votes </th> <th align="right">% </th> <th align="right">Seats </th> <th align="right">Turnout </th> <th>ITAK MP </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Batticaloa Electoral District (1947-1989)">Batticaloa</a> </td> <td align="right">28,309 </td> <td align="right">47.62% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">159.67% </td> <td>Chelliah Rajadurai </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chavakacheri_Electoral_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Chavakacheri Electoral District">Chavakachcheri</a> </td> <td align="right">13,907 </td> <td align="right">65.26% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">83.20% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._N._Navaratnam" title="V. N. Navaratnam">V. N. Navaratnam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaffna Electoral District (1947-1989)">Jaffna</a> </td> <td align="right">5,101 </td> <td align="right">29.35% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">71.91% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kalkudah_Electoral_District" title="Kalkudah Electoral District">Kalkudah</a> </td> <td align="right">7,318 </td> <td align="right">48.51% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">83.46% </td> <td>P. Manicavasagam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kalmunai_Electoral_District" title="Kalmunai Electoral District">Kalmunai</a> </td> <td align="right">5,520 </td> <td align="right">39.67% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">79.41% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kankesanthurai_Electoral_District" title="Kankesanthurai Electoral District">Kankesanthurai</a> </td> <td align="right">13,545 </td> <td align="right">67.61% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">71.22% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/S._J._V._Chelvanayakam" title="S. J. V. Chelvanayakam">S. J. V. Chelvanayakam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kayts_Electoral_District" title="Kayts Electoral District">Kayts</a> </td> <td align="right">10,820 </td> <td align="right">56.61% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">75.34% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._A._Kandiah" title="V. A. Kandiah">V. A. Kandiah</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kilinochchi_Electoral_District" title="Kilinochchi Electoral District">Kilinochchi</a> </td> <td align="right">3,741 </td> <td align="right">41.76% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">64.89% </td> <td>A. Sivasunderam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kopay_Electoral_District" title="Kopay Electoral District">Kopay</a> </td> <td align="right">10,279 </td> <td align="right">48.63% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">77.13% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/M._Balasundaram" title="M. Balasundaram">M. Balasundaram</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mannar_Electoral_District" title="Mannar Electoral District">Mannar</a> </td> <td align="right">6,463 </td> <td align="right">47.37% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">81.31% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._A._Alegacone" title="V. A. Alegacone">V. A. Alegacone</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mutur_Electoral_District" title="Mutur Electoral District">Mutur</a> </td> <td align="right">10,685 </td> <td align="right">26.73% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">144.20% </td> <td>T. Ahambaram </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nallur_Electoral_District" title="Nallur Electoral District">Nallur</a> </td> <td align="right">9,651 </td> <td align="right">49.36% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">73.12% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/E._M._V._Naganathan" title="E. M. V. Naganathan">E. M. V. Naganathan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Paddiruppu_Electoral_District" title="Paddiruppu Electoral District">Paddirippu</a> </td> <td align="right">10,799 </td> <td align="right">62.36% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">89.91% </td> <td>S. M. Rasamanickam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Point_Pedro_Electoral_District" title="Point Pedro Electoral District">Point Pedro</a> </td> <td align="right">5,679 </td> <td align="right">40.34% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">73.33% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/K._Thurairatnam" title="K. Thurairatnam">K. Thurairatnam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trincomalee Electoral District (1947-1989)">Trincomalee</a> </td> <td align="right">8,872 </td> <td align="right">71.43% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">65.96% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/N._R._Rajavarothiam" title="N. R. Rajavarothiam">N. R. Rajavarothiam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Udupiddy_Electoral_District" title="Udupiddy Electoral District">Udupiddy</a> </td> <td align="right">3,860 </td> <td align="right">18.19% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">74.84% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Uduvil_Electoral_District" title="Uduvil Electoral District">Uduvil</a> </td> <td align="right">9,033 </td> <td align="right">44.07% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">75.92% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._Dharmalingam" title="V. Dharmalingam">V. Dharmalingam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Vaddukoddai_Electoral_District" title="Vaddukoddai Electoral District">Vaddukoddai</a> </td> <td align="right">11,524 </td> <td align="right">53.52% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">75.37% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A._Amirthalingam" title="A. Amirthalingam">A. Amirthalingam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Vavuniya_Electoral_District" title="Vavuniya Electoral District">Vavuniya</a> </td> <td align="right">1,338 </td> <td align="right">10.78% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">67.76% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>176,444</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>5.80%</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>15</b> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left" colspan="6">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slelections.gov.lk/index.html">Department of Elections</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210211060044/https://www.slelections.gov.lk/index.html">Archived</a> 11 February 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960_(July)_Parliamentary_General_Election"><span id="1960_.28July.29_Parliamentary_General_Election"></span>1960 (July) Parliamentary General Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1960 (July) Parliamentary General Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/July_1960_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="July 1960 Ceylonese parliamentary election">July 1960 election</a> in which the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">SLFP</a> became the largest party, ITAK won 7.0% of the popular vote and 16 out of 151 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliament">Sri Lankan parliament</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1965_Parliamentary_General_Election">1965 Parliamentary General Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1965 Parliamentary General Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/1965_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1965 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1965 election</a> in which the <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">UNP</a> became the largest party, ITAK won 5.38% of the popular vote and 14 out of 151 seats in the Sri Lankan parliament. </p><p><b>Votes and seats won by ITAK by electoral district</b> </p> <table class="wikitable" border="1"> <tbody><tr> <th>Electoral District </th> <th align="right">Votes </th> <th align="right">% </th> <th align="right">Seats </th> <th align="right">Turnout </th> <th>ITAK MP </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Batticaloa Electoral District (1947-1989)">Batticaloa</a> </td> <td align="right">29,023 </td> <td align="right">43.47% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">150.59% </td> <td>Chelliah Rajadurai </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chavakacheri_Electoral_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Chavakacheri Electoral District">Chavakachcheri</a> </td> <td align="right">16,316 </td> <td align="right">69.41% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">77.92% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._N._Navaratnam" title="V. N. Navaratnam">V. N. Navaratnam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaffna Electoral District (1947-1989)">Jaffna</a> </td> <td align="right">6,800 </td> <td align="right">30.81% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">77.76% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kalkudah_Electoral_District" title="Kalkudah Electoral District">Kalkudah</a> </td> <td align="right">6,096 </td> <td align="right">35.22% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">72.70% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kalmunai_Electoral_District" title="Kalmunai Electoral District">Kalmunai</a> </td> <td align="right">6,235 </td> <td align="right">32.69% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">86.07% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kankesanthurai_Electoral_District" title="Kankesanthurai Electoral District">Kankesanthurai</a> </td> <td align="right">14,735 </td> <td align="right">58.24% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">72.42% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/S._J._V._Chelvanayakam" title="S. J. V. Chelvanayakam">S. J. V. Chelvanayakam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kayts_Electoral_District" title="Kayts Electoral District">Kayts</a> </td> <td align="right">13,558 </td> <td align="right">69.98% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">61.49% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._Navaratnam" title="V. Navaratnam">V. Navaratnam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kilinochchi_Electoral_District" title="Kilinochchi Electoral District">Kilinochchi</a> </td> <td align="right">5,922 </td> <td align="right">44.69% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">71.33% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/K._P._Ratnam" title="K. P. Ratnam">K. P. Ratnam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kopay_Electoral_District" title="Kopay Electoral District">Kopay</a> </td> <td align="right">12,339 </td> <td align="right">51.93% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">72.90% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/S._Kathiravelupillai" title="S. Kathiravelupillai">S. Kathiravelupillai</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mannar_Electoral_District" title="Mannar Electoral District">Mannar</a> </td> <td align="right">6,896 </td> <td align="right">39.52% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">82.04% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._A._Alegacone" title="V. A. Alegacone">V. A. Alegacone</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mutur_Electoral_District" title="Mutur Electoral District">Mutur</a> </td> <td align="right">20,237 </td> <td align="right">35.64% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">150.92% </td> <td>M. E. H. Mohamed Ali </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nallur_Electoral_District" title="Nallur Electoral District">Nallur</a> </td> <td align="right">10,301 </td> <td align="right">45.05% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">72.03% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/E._M._V._Naganathan" title="E. M. V. Naganathan">E. M. V. Naganathan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Paddiruppu_Electoral_District" title="Paddiruppu Electoral District">Paddirippu</a> </td> <td align="right">11,270 </td> <td align="right">51.50% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">85.23% </td> <td>S. M. Rasamanickam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Point_Pedro_Electoral_District" title="Point Pedro Electoral District">Point Pedro</a> </td> <td align="right">7,564 </td> <td align="right">46.24% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">71.62% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/K._Thurairatnam" title="K. Thurairatnam">K. Thurairatnam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pottuvil_Electoral_District" title="Pottuvil Electoral District">Pottuvil</a> </td> <td align="right">871 </td> <td align="right">4.53% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">82.26% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trincomalee Electoral District (1947-1989)">Trincomalee</a> </td> <td align="right">9,651 </td> <td align="right">48.48% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">73.00% </td> <td>S. M. Manickarajah </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Udupiddy_Electoral_District" title="Udupiddy Electoral District">Udupiddy</a> </td> <td align="right">8,452 </td> <td align="right">32.85% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">75.47% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Uduvil_Electoral_District" title="Uduvil Electoral District">Uduvil</a> </td> <td align="right">11,638 </td> <td align="right">48.61% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">72.80% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._Dharmalingam" title="V. Dharmalingam">V. Dharmalingam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Vaddukoddai_Electoral_District" title="Vaddukoddai Electoral District">Vaddukoddai</a> </td> <td align="right">15,498 </td> <td align="right">60.78% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">69.83% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A._Amirthalingam" title="A. Amirthalingam">A. Amirthalingam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Vavuniya_Electoral_District" title="Vavuniya Electoral District">Vavuniya</a> </td> <td align="right">4,512 </td> <td align="right">25.05% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">73.45% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>217,914</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>5.38%</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>14</b> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left" colspan="6">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slelections.gov.lk/index.html">Department of Elections</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210211060044/https://www.slelections.gov.lk/index.html">Archived</a> 11 February 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970_Parliamentary_General_Election">1970 Parliamentary General Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1970 Parliamentary General Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/1970_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election" title="1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election">1970 election</a> in which the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">SLFP</a>-led <a href="/wiki/United_Front_(Sri_Lanka)" title="United Front (Sri Lanka)">United Front</a> coalition won a landslide, ITAK won 4.92% of the popular vote and 13 out of 151 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliament">Sri Lankan parliament</a>. </p><p><b>Votes and seats won by ITAK by electoral district</b> </p> <table class="wikitable" border="1"> <tbody><tr> <th>Electoral District </th> <th align="right">Votes </th> <th align="right">% </th> <th align="right">Seats </th> <th align="right">Turnout </th> <th>ITAK MP </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Batticaloa Electoral District (1947-1989)">Batticaloa</a> </td> <td align="right">27,661 </td> <td align="right">33.17% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">164.35% </td> <td>Chelliah Rajadurai </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chavakacheri_Electoral_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Chavakacheri Electoral District">Chavakachcheri</a> </td> <td align="right">15,473 </td> <td align="right">54.49% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">86.11% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._N._Navaratnam" title="V. N. Navaratnam">V. N. Navaratnam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaffna Electoral District (1947-1989)">Jaffna</a> </td> <td align="right">8,848 </td> <td align="right">35.59% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">79.89% </td> <td>C. X. Martyn </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kalkudah_Electoral_District" title="Kalkudah Electoral District">Kalkudah</a> </td> <td align="right">8,420 </td> <td align="right">37.97% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">83.59% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kalmunai_Electoral_District" title="Kalmunai Electoral District">Kalmunai</a> </td> <td align="right">4,960 </td> <td align="right">23.00% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">87.77% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kankesanthurai_Electoral_District" title="Kankesanthurai Electoral District">Kankesanthurai</a> </td> <td align="right">13,520 </td> <td align="right">44.29% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">81.03% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/S._J._V._Chelvanayakam" title="S. J. V. Chelvanayakam">S. J. V. Chelvanayakam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kayts_Electoral_District" title="Kayts Electoral District">Kayts</a> </td> <td align="right">13,079 </td> <td align="right">53.35% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">76.88% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/K._P._Ratnam" title="K. P. Ratnam">K. P. Ratnam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kilinochchi_Electoral_District" title="Kilinochchi Electoral District">Kilinochchi</a> </td> <td align="right">8,392 </td> <td align="right">46.55% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">76.03% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kopay_Electoral_District" title="Kopay Electoral District">Kopay</a> </td> <td align="right">16,428 </td> <td align="right">43.92% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">79.01% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/S._Kathiravelupillai" title="S. Kathiravelupillai">S. Kathiravelupillai</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mannar_Electoral_District" title="Mannar Electoral District">Mannar</a> </td> <td align="right">10,697 </td> <td align="right">48.98% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">86.34% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._A._Alegacone" title="V. A. Alegacone">V. A. Alegacone</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mutur_Electoral_District" title="Mutur Electoral District">Mutur</a> </td> <td align="right">19,787 </td> <td align="right">25.87% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">174.73% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A._Thangathurai" title="A. Thangathurai">A. Thangathurai</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nallur_Electoral_District" title="Nallur Electoral District">Nallur</a> </td> <td align="right">12,508 </td> <td align="right">44.61% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">78.69% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Paddiruppu_Electoral_District" title="Paddiruppu Electoral District">Paddirippu</a> </td> <td align="right">12,723 </td> <td align="right">48.76% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">90.45% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Point_Pedro_Electoral_District" title="Point Pedro Electoral District">Point Pedro</a> </td> <td align="right">9,217 </td> <td align="right">48.50% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">79.52% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/K._Thurairatnam" title="K. Thurairatnam">K. Thurairatnam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trincomalee Electoral District (1947-1989)">Trincomalee</a> </td> <td align="right">12,395 </td> <td align="right">45.83% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">76.61% </td> <td>B. Neminathan </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Udupiddy_Electoral_District" title="Udupiddy Electoral District">Udupiddy</a> </td> <td align="right">12,918 </td> <td align="right">46.54% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">80.41% </td> <td>Kandappa Jeyakody </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Uduvil_Electoral_District" title="Uduvil Electoral District">Uduvil</a> </td> <td align="right">14,120 </td> <td align="right">49.27% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">78.43% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._Dharmalingam" title="V. Dharmalingam">V. Dharmalingam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Vaddukoddai_Electoral_District" title="Vaddukoddai Electoral District">Vaddukoddai</a> </td> <td align="right">13,634 </td> <td align="right">48.71% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">78.67% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Vavuniya_Electoral_District" title="Vavuniya Electoral District">Vavuniya</a> </td> <td align="right">10,947 </td> <td align="right">42.99% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">80.82% </td> <td>X. M. Sellathambu </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>245,727</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>4.92%</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>13</b> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left" colspan="6">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slelections.gov.lk/index.html">Department of Elections</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210211060044/https://www.slelections.gov.lk/index.html">Archived</a> 11 February 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1977_Parliamentary_General_Election">1977 Parliamentary General Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 1977 Parliamentary General Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the first general election contested by the TULF, the <a href="/wiki/1977_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">21 July 1977 election</a> in which the <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">UNP</a> won by a landslide, the TULF won 6.40% of the popular vote and 18 out of 168 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliament">Sri Lankan parliament</a>, including all 14 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Northern Province, Sri Lanka">Northern Province</a>. </p><p><b>Votes and seats won by TULF by electoral district</b> </p> <table class="wikitable" border="1"> <tbody><tr> <th>Electoral District </th> <th align="right">Votes </th> <th align="right">% </th> <th align="right">Seats </th> <th align="right">Turnout </th> <th>TULF MP </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Batticaloa Electoral District (1947-1989)">Batticaloa</a> </td> <td align="right">26,648 </td> <td align="right">24.70% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">171.15% </td> <td>Chelliah Rajadurai </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chavakacheri_Electoral_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Chavakacheri Electoral District">Chavakachcheri</a> </td> <td align="right">20,028 </td> <td align="right">63.27% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">85.65% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._N._Navaratnam" title="V. N. Navaratnam">V. N. Navaratnam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaffna Electoral District (1947-1989)">Jaffna</a> </td> <td align="right">16,251 </td> <td align="right">56.62% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">82.32% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._Yogeswaran" title="V. Yogeswaran">V. Yogeswaran</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kalkudah_Electoral_District" title="Kalkudah Electoral District">Kalkudah</a> </td> <td align="right">12,595 </td> <td align="right">43.07% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">86.02% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kalmunai_Electoral_District" title="Kalmunai Electoral District">Kalmunai</a> </td> <td align="right">7,093 </td> <td align="right">27.38% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">89.86% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kankesanthurai_Electoral_District" title="Kankesanthurai Electoral District">Kankesanthurai</a> </td> <td align="right">31,155 </td> <td align="right">85.41% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">83.08% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A._Amirthalingam" title="A. Amirthalingam">A. Amirthalingam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kayts_Electoral_District" title="Kayts Electoral District">Kayts</a> </td> <td align="right">17,640 </td> <td align="right">64.05% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">75.72% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/K._P._Ratnam" title="K. P. Ratnam">K. P. Ratnam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kilinochchi_Electoral_District" title="Kilinochchi Electoral District">Kilinochchi</a> </td> <td align="right">15,607 </td> <td align="right">73.42% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">79.71% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._Anandasangaree" title="V. Anandasangaree">V. Anandasangaree</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kopay_Electoral_District" title="Kopay Electoral District">Kopay</a> </td> <td align="right">25,840 </td> <td align="right">77.20% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">80.03% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/S._Kathiravelupillai" title="S. Kathiravelupillai">S. Kathiravelupillai</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Manipay_Electoral_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Manipay Electoral District">Manipay</a> </td> <td align="right">27,550 </td> <td align="right">83.99% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">79.28% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._Dharmalingam" title="V. Dharmalingam">V. Dharmalingam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mannar_Electoral_District" title="Mannar Electoral District">Mannar</a> </td> <td align="right">15,141 </td> <td align="right">51.58% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">92.40% </td> <td>P. S. Soosaithasan </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mullaitivu_Electoral_District" title="Mullaitivu Electoral District">Mullaitivu</a> </td> <td align="right">10,261 </td> <td align="right">52.36% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">79.34% </td> <td>X. M. Sellathambu </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mutur_Electoral_District" title="Mutur Electoral District">Mutur</a> </td> <td align="right">7,520 </td> <td align="right">27.00% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">91.65% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nallur_Electoral_District" title="Nallur Electoral District">Nallur</a> </td> <td align="right">29,858 </td> <td align="right">89.42% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">83.05% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/M._Sivasithamparam" title="M. Sivasithamparam">M. Sivasithamparam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Paddiruppu_Electoral_District" title="Paddiruppu Electoral District">Paddirippu</a> </td> <td align="right">15,877 </td> <td align="right">49.17% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">89.92% </td> <td>P. Ganeshalingam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Point_Pedro_Electoral_District" title="Point Pedro Electoral District">Point Pedro</a> </td> <td align="right">12,989 </td> <td align="right">55.91% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">81.66% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/K._Thurairatnam" title="K. Thurairatnam">K. Thurairatnam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pottuvil_Electoral_District" title="Pottuvil Electoral District">Pottuvil</a> </td> <td align="right">23,990 </td> <td align="right">26.97% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">179.02% </td> <td>M. Kanagaratnam </td></tr> <tr> <td>Puttalam </td> <td align="right">3,268 </td> <td align="right">10.52% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">83.58% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sammanthurai_Electoral_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Sammanthurai Electoral District">Sammanthurai</a> </td> <td align="right">8,615 </td> <td align="right">34.65% </td> <td align="right">0 </td> <td align="right">91.04% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_Electoral_District_(1947-1989)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trincomalee Electoral District (1947-1989)">Trincomalee</a> </td> <td align="right">15,144 </td> <td align="right">51.76% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">81.78% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/R._Sampanthan" title="R. Sampanthan">R. Sampanthan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Udupiddy_Electoral_District" title="Udupiddy Electoral District">Udupiddy</a> </td> <td align="right">18,768 </td> <td align="right">63.44% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">80.05% </td> <td>T. Rasalingam </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Vaddukoddai_Electoral_District" title="Vaddukoddai Electoral District">Vaddukoddai</a> </td> <td align="right">23,384 </td> <td align="right">70.18% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">81.90% </td> <td>T. Thirunavukarasu </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Vavuniya_Electoral_District" title="Vavuniya Electoral District">Vavuniya</a> </td> <td align="right">13,821 </td> <td align="right">59.02% </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">82.31% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/T._Sivasithamparam" title="T. Sivasithamparam">T. Sivasithamparam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>399,043</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>6.40%</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>18</b> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left" colspan="6">Source:<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The TULF became the official opposition as result of the rout of the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">SLFP</a>. The TULF's success would lead to <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_riots_of_1977" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan riots of 1977">riots</a> in which hundreds of <a href="/wiki/Tamils" title="Tamils">Tamils</a> were murdered by <a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_people" title="Sinhalese people">Sinhalese</a> mobs. </p><p>Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, the TULF was frequently blamed by nationalist <a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_people" title="Sinhalese people">Sinhalese</a> politicians for acts of violence committed by <a href="/wiki/List_of_Tamil_militant_groups" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Tamil militant groups">militant groups</a> such as the <a href="/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam" title="Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam">Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam</a> (LTTE). In fact, the TULF represented an older, more conservative generation of Tamils that felt independence could be achieved without violence, more rival than ally to youth groups like the LTTE who believed in armed conflict. </p><p>In October 1983, all the TULF legislators, numbering sixteen at the time, forfeited their seats in Parliament for refusing to swear an oath unconditionally renouncing support for a separate state in accordance with the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka. </p><p>During the 1980s, the LTTE began to see the TULF as a rival in its desire to be considered the sole representatives of the Tamils of the north and east. Over the next two decades, the LTTE assassinated several TULF leaders, including <a href="/wiki/A._Amirthalingam" title="A. Amirthalingam">A. Amirthalingam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neelan_Thiruchelvam" class="mw-redirect" title="Neelan Thiruchelvam">Neelan Thiruchelvam</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1989_Parliamentary_General_Election">1989 Parliamentary General Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 1989 Parliamentary General Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The TULF formed an alliance with the three <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> backed <a href="/wiki/Paramilitary" title="Paramilitary">paramilitary</a> groups, <a href="/wiki/Eelam_National_Democratic_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front">Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front</a> (ENDLF), <a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front</a> (EPRLF) and <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization</a> (TELO), to contest the <a href="/wiki/1989_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">15 February 1989 election</a>. The alliance won 3.40% of the popular vote and 10 out of 225 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliament">Sri Lankan parliament</a>. </p><p><b>Votes and seats won by TULF / ENDLF / EPRLF / TULF alliance by electoral district</b> </p> <table class="wikitable" border="1"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Electoral_districts_in_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral districts in Sri Lanka">Electoral<br />District</a> </th> <th align="right">Votes </th> <th align="right">% </th> <th align="right">Seats </th> <th align="right">Turnout </th> <th>TULF / ENDLF / EPRLF / TELO MPs </th></tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District" title="Batticaloa Electoral District">Batticaloa</a> </td> <td valign="top" align="right">55,131 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">35.49% </td> <td valign="top" align="right">3 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">71.74% </td> <td>Prince Gunarasa Casinader (<a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">EPRLF</a>)<br />Govinthan Karunakaram (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">TELO</a>)<br />Samuel Pennington Thavarasa Tambimuttu (<a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">EPRLF</a>), murdered 11 May 1990<br /><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Pararajasingham" title="Joseph Pararajasingham">Joseph Pararajasingham</a> (TULF), from 1990 (replaces Sam Tambimuttu (EPRLF)) </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/wiki/Digamadulla_Electoral_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Digamadulla Electoral District">Digamadulla</a> </td> <td valign="top" align="right">43,424 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">20.32% </td> <td valign="top" align="right">1 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">80.41% </td> <td>Jeyaratnam Thiviya Nadan (<a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">EPRLF</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District" title="Jaffna Electoral District">Jaffna</a> </td> <td valign="top" align="right">60,013 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">25.02% </td> <td valign="top" align="right">3 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">40.50% </td> <td>Kandiah Navaratnam (<a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">EPRLF</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Suresh_Premachandran" title="Suresh Premachandran">Suresh Premachandran</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">EPRLF</a>)<br />Ganeshankari Yogasangari (<a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">EPRLF</a>), murdered 19 June 1990 </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/wiki/Vanni_Electoral_District" title="Vanni Electoral District">Vanni</a> </td> <td valign="top" align="right">17,271 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">39.99% </td> <td valign="top" align="right">2 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">30.53% </td> <td>Raja Kuhaneswaran (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">TELO</a>)<br />Anthony Emmanuel Silva (<a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">EPRLF</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td>National List </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A._Amirthalingam" title="A. Amirthalingam">A. Amirthalingam</a> (TULF), murdered 13 July 1989<br /><a href="/wiki/Mavai_Senathirajah" title="Mavai Senathirajah">Mavai Senathirajah</a> (replaces A. Amirthalingam) </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>188,593</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>3.40%</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>10</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>63.6%</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left" colspan="6">Sources:<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1994_Parliamentary_General_Election">1994 Parliamentary General Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 1994 Parliamentary General Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/1994_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="1994 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">16 August 1994 election</a> in which the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Alliance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="People's Alliance (Sri Lanka)">People's Alliance</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">Chandrika Kumaratunga</a> came to power after 17 years of <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">UNP</a> rule, the TULF won 1.60% of the popular vote and 5 out of 225 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliament">Sri Lankan parliament</a>. </p><p><b>Votes and seats won by TULF by electoral district</b> </p> <table class="wikitable" border="1"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Electoral_districts_in_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral districts in Sri Lanka">Electoral<br />District</a> </th> <th align="right">Votes </th> <th align="right">% </th> <th align="right">Seats </th> <th align="right">Turnout </th> <th>TULF MPs </th></tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District" title="Batticaloa Electoral District">Batticaloa</a> </td> <td valign="top" align="right">76,516 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">43.95% </td> <td valign="top" align="right">3 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">66.47% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Pararajasingham" title="Joseph Pararajasingham">Joseph Pararajasingham</a><br /><a href="/wiki/P._Selvarasa" title="P. Selvarasa">P. Selvarasa</a><br />K. Thurairasasingham </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_Electoral_District" title="Trincomalee Electoral District">Trincomalee</a> </td> <td valign="top" align="right">28,380 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">23.66% </td> <td valign="top" align="right">1 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">65.15% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A._Thangathurai" title="A. Thangathurai">A. Thangathurai</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>National List </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Neelan_Tiruchelvam" title="Neelan Tiruchelvam">Neelan Tiruchelvam</a>, murdered 29 July 1999<br /><a href="/wiki/Mavai_Senathirajah" title="Mavai Senathirajah">Mavai Senathirajah</a>, from August 1999 (replaces Neelan Tiruchelvam) </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>132,461</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>1.60%</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>5</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>76.23%</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left" colspan="6">Sources:<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000_Parliamentary_General_Election">2000 Parliamentary General Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 2000 Parliamentary General Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/2000_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2000 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">10 October 2000 election</a> in which the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Alliance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="People's Alliance (Sri Lanka)">People's Alliance</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Ratnasiri_Wickremanayake" title="Ratnasiri Wickremanayake">Ratnasiri Wickremanayake</a> retained to power, the TULF won 1.23% of the popular vote and 5 out of 225 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliament">Sri Lankan parliament</a>. </p><p><b>Votes and seats won by TULF by electoral district</b> </p> <table class="wikitable" border="1"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Electoral_districts_in_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral districts in Sri Lanka">Electoral<br />District</a> </th> <th align="right">Votes </th> <th align="right">% </th> <th align="right">Seats </th> <th align="right">Turnout </th> <th>TULF MPs </th></tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District" title="Batticaloa Electoral District">Batticaloa</a> </td> <td valign="top" align="right">54,448 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">29.20% </td> <td valign="top" align="right">2 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">71.74% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Pararajasingham" title="Joseph Pararajasingham">Joseph Pararajasingham</a><br />Nimalan Soundaranayagam </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District" title="Jaffna Electoral District">Jaffna</a> </td> <td valign="top" align="right">32,852 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">27.59% </td> <td valign="top" align="right">3 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">21.32% </td> <td><a href="/wiki/V._Anandasangaree" title="V. Anandasangaree">V. Anandasangaree</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mavai_Senathirajah" title="Mavai Senathirajah">Mavai Senathirajah</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sinnathamby_Sivamaharajah" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinnathamby Sivamaharajah">Sinnathamby Sivamaharajah</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_Electoral_District" title="Trincomalee Electoral District">Trincomalee</a> </td> <td valign="top" align="right">14,090 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">10.58% </td> <td valign="top" align="right">0 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">68.52% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/wiki/Vanni_Electoral_District" title="Vanni Electoral District">Vanni</a> </td> <td valign="top" align="right">4,643 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">5.58% </td> <td valign="top" align="right">0 </td> <td valign="top" align="right">42.13% </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top">National List </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td valign="top" align="right">0 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>106,033</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>1.23%</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>5</b> </td> <td align="right"><b>75.62%</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left" colspan="6">Sources:<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2001_Parliamentary_General_Election">2001 Parliamentary General Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 2001 Parliamentary General Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the first parliamentary election contested by the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_National_Alliance" title="Tamil National Alliance">Tamil National Alliance</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election,_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2001">5 December 2001 election</a>, the TNA led by <a href="/wiki/Rajavarothiam_Sampanthan" class="mw-redirect" title="Rajavarothiam Sampanthan">Rajavarothiam Sampanthan</a> won 3.88% of the popular vote and 15 out of 225 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliament">Sri Lankan parliament</a>. </p><p><b>Votes and seats won by TNA by electoral district</b> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Electoral_districts_in_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral districts in Sri Lanka">Electoral<br />District</a></th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">Votes</th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">%</th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">Seats</th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">Turnout</th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">TNA MPs </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Ampara_Electoral_District" title="Ampara Electoral District">Ampara</a></td> <td>48,789</td> <td>17.41%</td> <td>1</td> <td>82.51%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/A._Chandranehru" title="A. Chandranehru">A. Chandranehru</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">TULF</a>) </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District" title="Batticaloa Electoral District">Batticaloa</a></td> <td>86,284</td> <td>48.17%</td> <td>3</td> <td>68.20%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/G._Krishnapillai" title="G. Krishnapillai">G. Krishnapillai</a> (<a href="/wiki/All_Ceylon_Tamil_Congress" title="All Ceylon Tamil Congress">ACTC</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Pararajasingham" title="Joseph Pararajasingham">Joseph Pararajasingham</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">TULF</a>)<br />Thambiraja Thangavadivel (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">TELO</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Colombo_Electoral_District" title="Colombo Electoral District">Colombo</a></td> <td>12,696</td> <td>1.20%</td> <td>0</td> <td>76.31%</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District" title="Jaffna Electoral District">Jaffna</a></td> <td>102,324</td> <td>54.84%</td> <td>6</td> <td>31.14%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/V._Anandasangaree" title="V. Anandasangaree">V. Anandasangaree</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">TULF</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Gajendrakumar_Ponnambalam" title="Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam">Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam</a> (<a href="/wiki/All_Ceylon_Tamil_Congress" title="All Ceylon Tamil Congress">ACTC</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Nadarajah_Raviraj" title="Nadarajah Raviraj">Nadarajah Raviraj</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">TULF</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Mavai_Senathirajah" title="Mavai Senathirajah">Mavai Senathirajah</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">TULF</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/M._K._Shivajilingam" title="M. K. Shivajilingam">M. K. Shivajilingam</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">TELO</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/A._Vinayagamoorthy" title="A. Vinayagamoorthy">A. Vinayagamoorthy</a> (<a href="/wiki/All_Ceylon_Tamil_Congress" title="All Ceylon Tamil Congress">ACTC</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_Electoral_District" title="Trincomalee Electoral District">Trincomalee</a></td> <td>56,121</td> <td>34.83%</td> <td>1</td> <td>79.88%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/R._Sampanthan" title="R. Sampanthan">R. Sampanthan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">TULF</a>) </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Vanni_Electoral_District" title="Vanni Electoral District">Vanni</a></td> <td>41,950</td> <td>44.39%</td> <td>3</td> <td>46.77%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Selvam_Adaikalanathan" title="Selvam Adaikalanathan">Selvam Adaikalanathan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">TELO</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Sivasakthy_Ananthan" title="Sivasakthy Ananthan">Sivasakthy Ananthan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">EPRLF</a>)<br />Irasa Kuhaneswaran (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">TELO</a>) </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="text-align:left;">National List</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>1</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/M._Sivasithamparam" title="M. Sivasithamparam">M. Sivasithamparam</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">TULF</a>), died 5 June 2002<br /><a href="/wiki/K._Thurairetnasingam" title="K. Thurairetnasingam">K. Thurairetnasingam</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">TULF</a>) (replaces <a href="/wiki/M._Sivasithamparam" title="M. Sivasithamparam">M. Sivasithamparam</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><b>Total</b></td> <td><b>348,164</b></td> <td><b>3.88%</b></td> <td><b>15</b></td> <td><b>76.03%</b></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;" colspan="6">Source:<small><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slelections.gov.lk/District2001/district2001.html">"Parliamentary General Election 2001, Final District Results"</a>. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Parliamentary+General+Election+2001%2C+Final+District+Results&rft.pub=Department+of+Elections%2C+Sri+Lanka&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slelections.gov.lk%2FDistrict2001%2Fdistrict2001.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIlankai+Tamil+Arasu+Kachchi" class="Z3988"></span></small> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2004_Parliamentary_General_Election">2004 Parliamentary General Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 2004 Parliamentary General Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election,_2004" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2004">2 April 2004 parliamentary election</a> in which the <a href="/wiki/United_People%27s_Freedom_Alliance" title="United People's Freedom Alliance">United People's Freedom Alliance</a> alliance led by <a href="/wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga" title="Chandrika Kumaratunga">President Kumaratunga</a> came to power, the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_National_Alliance" title="Tamil National Alliance">Tamil National Alliance</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Rajavarothiam_Sampanthan" class="mw-redirect" title="Rajavarothiam Sampanthan">Rajavarothiam Sampanthan</a> won 6.84% of the popular vote and 22 out of 225 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliament">Sri Lankan parliament</a>. </p><p><b>Votes and seats won by TNA by electoral district</b> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Electoral_districts_in_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral districts in Sri Lanka">Electoral<br />District</a></th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">Votes</th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">%</th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">Seats</th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">Turnout</th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">TNA MPs </th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Ampara_Electoral_District" title="Ampara Electoral District">Ampara</a></td> <td>55,533</td> <td>19.13%</td> <td>1</td> <td>81.42%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/K._Pathmanathan" title="K. Pathmanathan">K. Pathmanathan</a>, died 21 May 2009<br /><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Thangathurai_William" title="Thomas Thangathurai William">Thomas Thangathurai William</a>, from 12 June 2009 (replaces <a href="/wiki/K._Pathmanathan" title="K. Pathmanathan">K. Pathmanathan</a>) </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District" title="Batticaloa Electoral District">Batticaloa</a></td> <td>161,011</td> <td>66.71%</td> <td>4</td> <td>83.58%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Senathirajah_Jeyanandamoorthy" class="mw-redirect" title="Senathirajah Jeyanandamoorthy">Senathirajah Jeyanandamoorthy</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Thanmanpillai_Kanagasabai" title="Thanmanpillai Kanagasabai">Thanmanpillai Kanagasabai</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Thangeswary_Kathiraman" title="Thangeswary Kathiraman">Thangeswary Kathiraman</a><br />Kingsley Rasanayagam, resigned April 2004<br /><a href="/wiki/P._Ariyanethiran" title="P. Ariyanethiran">P. Ariyanethiran</a>, from 18 May 2004 (replaces Kingsley Rasanayagam) </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District" title="Jaffna Electoral District">Jaffna</a></td> <td>257,320</td> <td>90.60%</td> <td>8</td> <td>47.38%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Selvarajah_Kajendren" class="mw-redirect" title="Selvarajah Kajendren">Selvarajah Kajendren</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Gajendrakumar_Ponnambalam" title="Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam">Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam</a> (<a href="/wiki/All_Ceylon_Tamil_Congress" title="All Ceylon Tamil Congress">ACTC</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Suresh_Premachandran" title="Suresh Premachandran">Suresh Premachandran</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">EPRLF</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Nadarajah_Raviraj" title="Nadarajah Raviraj">Nadarajah Raviraj</a> (<a href="/wiki/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi">ITAK</a>), murdered 10 November 2006<br /><a href="/wiki/Mavai_Senathirajah" title="Mavai Senathirajah">Mavai Senathirajah</a> (<a href="/wiki/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi">ITAK</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/M._K._Shivajilingam" title="M. K. Shivajilingam">M. K. Shivajilingam</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">TELO</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/K._Sivanesan_(member_of_parliament)" class="mw-redirect" title="K. Sivanesan (member of parliament)">K. Sivanesan</a>, murdered 6 March 2008<br /><a href="/wiki/Pathmini_Sithamparanathan" title="Pathmini Sithamparanathan">Pathmini Sithamparanathan</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Nallathamby_Srikantha" class="mw-redirect" title="Nallathamby Srikantha">Nallathamby Srikantha</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">TELO</a>), from 30 November 2006 (replaces <a href="/wiki/Nadarajah_Raviraj" title="Nadarajah Raviraj">Nadarajah Raviraj</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Cyril" title="Solomon Cyril">Solomon Cyril</a>, from 9 April 2008 (replaces <a href="/wiki/K._Sivanesan_(member_of_parliament)" class="mw-redirect" title="K. Sivanesan (member of parliament)">Kidnan Sivanesan</a>) </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_Electoral_District" title="Trincomalee Electoral District">Trincomalee</a></td> <td>68,955</td> <td>37.72%</td> <td>2</td> <td>85.44%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/R._Sampanthan" title="R. Sampanthan">R. Sampanthan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi">ITAK</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/K._Thurairetnasingam" title="K. Thurairetnasingam">K. Thurairetnasingam</a> (<a href="/wiki/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi">ITAK</a>) </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Vanni_Electoral_District" title="Vanni Electoral District">Vanni</a></td> <td>90,835</td> <td>64.71%</td> <td>5</td> <td>66.64%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Selvam_Adaikalanathan" title="Selvam Adaikalanathan">Selvam Adaikalanathan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">TELO</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Sivasakthy_Ananthan" title="Sivasakthy Ananthan">Sivasakthy Ananthan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">EPRLF</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Sathasivam_Kanagaratnam" class="mw-redirect" title="Sathasivam Kanagaratnam">Sathasivam Kanagaratnam</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sivanathan_Kisshor" class="mw-redirect" title="Sivanathan Kisshor">Sivanathan Kisshor</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Vino_Noharathalingam" title="Vino Noharathalingam">Vino Noharathalingam</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">TELO</a>) </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="text-align:left;">National List</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>2</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/M._K._Eelaventhan" title="M. K. Eelaventhan">M. K. Eelaventhan</a>, expelled from Parliament 14 December 2007 for non-attendance<br /><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Pararajasingham" title="Joseph Pararajasingham">Joseph Pararajasingham</a> (<a href="/wiki/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi">ITAK</a>), murdered 24 December 2005<br /><a href="/wiki/Chandra_Nehru_Chandrakanthan" class="mw-redirect" title="Chandra Nehru Chandrakanthan">Chandra Nehru Chandrakanthan</a>, from 27 September 2006 (replaces <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Pararajasingham" title="Joseph Pararajasingham">Joseph Pararajasingham</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Raseen_Mohammed_Imam" title="Raseen Mohammed Imam">Raseen Mohammed Imam</a>, from 5 February 2008 (replaces <a href="/wiki/M._K._Eelaventhan" title="M. K. Eelaventhan">M. K. Eelaventhan</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><b>Total</b></td> <td><b>633,654</b></td> <td><b>6.84%</b></td> <td><b>22</b></td> <td><b>75.96%</b></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;" colspan="6">Source:<small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slelections.gov.lk/District2004/district2004.html">"Parliamentary General Election 2004, Final District Results"</a>. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Parliamentary+General+Election+2004%2C+Final+District+Results&rft.pub=Department+of+Elections%2C+Sri+Lanka&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slelections.gov.lk%2FDistrict2004%2Fdistrict2004.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIlankai+Tamil+Arasu+Kachchi" class="Z3988"></span></small> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010_Parliamentary_General_Election">2010 Parliamentary General Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 2010 Parliamentary General Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election,_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2010">2010 Sri Lankan parliamentary election</a>, in which the <a href="/wiki/United_People%27s_Freedom_Alliance" title="United People's Freedom Alliance">United People's Freedom Alliance</a> , led by <a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a>, retained power, the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_National_Alliance" title="Tamil National Alliance">Tamil National Alliance</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/Rajavarothiam_Sampanthan" class="mw-redirect" title="Rajavarothiam Sampanthan">Rajavarothiam Sampanthan</a>, won 2.9% of the popular vote and 14 out of 225 seats in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan parliament">Sri Lankan parliament</a>. </p><p><b>Votes and seats won by the TNA by electoral district</b> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Electoral_districts_in_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral districts in Sri Lanka">Electoral<br />District</a></th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">Votes</th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">%</th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">Seats</th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">Turnout</th> <th style="vertical-align:bottom;">TNA MPs </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Ampara_Electoral_District" title="Ampara Electoral District">Ampara</a></td> <td>26,895</td> <td>10.47%</td> <td>1</td> <td>64.74%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Podiappuhamy_Piyasena" title="Podiappuhamy Piyasena">Podiappuhamy Piyasena</a> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Batticaloa_Electoral_District" title="Batticaloa Electoral District">Batticaloa</a></td> <td>66,235</td> <td>36.67%</td> <td>3</td> <td>58.56%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/P._Ariyanethiran" title="P. Ariyanethiran">P. Ariyanethiran</a> (<a href="/wiki/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi">ITAK</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/P._Selvarasa" title="P. Selvarasa">P. Selvarasa</a> (<a href="/wiki/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi">ITAK</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/S._Yogeswaran" title="S. Yogeswaran">S. Yogeswaran</a> (<a href="/wiki/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi">ITAK</a>) </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Electoral_District" title="Jaffna Electoral District">Jaffna</a></td> <td>65,119</td> <td>43.85%</td> <td>5</td> <td>23.33%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Suresh_Premachandran" title="Suresh Premachandran">Suresh Premachandran</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">EPRLF</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/E._Saravanapavan" title="E. Saravanapavan">E. Saravanapavan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi">ITAK</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Mavai_Senathirajah" title="Mavai Senathirajah">Mavai Senathirajah</a> (<a href="/wiki/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi">ITAK</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/S._Sritharan" class="mw-redirect" title="S. Sritharan">S. Sritharan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi">ITAK</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/A._Vinayagamoorthy" title="A. Vinayagamoorthy">A. Vinayagamoorthy</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Trincomalee_Electoral_District" title="Trincomalee Electoral District">Trincomalee</a></td> <td>33,268</td> <td>23.81%</td> <td>1</td> <td>62.20%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/R._Sampanthan" title="R. Sampanthan">R. Sampanthan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi">ITAK</a>) </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Vanni_Electoral_District" title="Vanni Electoral District">Vanni</a></td> <td>41,673</td> <td>38.96%</td> <td>3</td> <td>43.89%</td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Selvam_Adaikalanathan" title="Selvam Adaikalanathan">Selvam Adaikalanathan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">TELO</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Sivasakthy_Ananthan" title="Sivasakthy Ananthan">Sivasakthy Ananthan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">EPRLF</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Vino_Noharathalingam" title="Vino Noharathalingam">Vino Noharathalingam</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">TELO</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;">National List</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>1</td> <td></td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/M._A._Sumanthiran" title="M. A. Sumanthiran">M. A. Sumanthiran</a> (<a href="/wiki/Illankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi">ITAK</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><b>Total</b></td> <td><b>233,190</b></td> <td><b>2.90%</b></td> <td><b>14</b></td> <td><b>61.26%</b></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;" colspan="6">Source:<small><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slelections.gov.lk/parliamentary_elections/province.html">"Parliamentary General Election – 2010"</a>. Department of Elections, Sri Lanka.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Parliamentary+General+Election+%E2%80%93+2010&rft.pub=Department+of+Elections%2C+Sri+Lanka&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slelections.gov.lk%2Fparliamentary_elections%2Fprovince.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIlankai+Tamil+Arasu+Kachchi" class="Z3988"></span></small> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2024_parliamentary_election">2024 parliamentary election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 2024 parliamentary election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="sortable wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2" style="background-color:#F5EF1D; color:white;">Election </th> <th rowspan="2" style="background-color:#F5EF1D; color:white;">Leader </th> <th colspan="2" style="background-color:#F5EF1D; color:white;">Votes </th> <th colspan="3" style="background-color:#F5EF1D; color:white;">Seats </th> <th rowspan="2" style="background-color:#F5EF1D; color:white;">Result </th> <th rowspan="2" style="background-color:#F5EF1D; color:white;" class="unsortable">Ref </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color:#F5EF1D; color:white;">No. </th> <th style="background-color:#F5EF1D; color:white;">% </th> <th style="background-color:#F5EF1D; color:white;">No. </th> <th style="background-color:#F5EF1D; color:white;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Net seat gain/loss">+/–</span> </th> <th style="background-color:#F5EF1D; color:white;">% </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/2024_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2024</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/S._Shritharan" title="S. Shritharan">S. Shritharan</a> </td> <td align="center">257,813 </td> <td align="center">2.37% </td> <td><div style="width: 100px;"><span class="nowrap">8 / 225</span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #aaa; height: 1.15em; position: relative;"><div style="background-color: #F5EF1D; width: 4%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 8 </td> <td>24.00% </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-no2">Opposition </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ilankai_Tamil_Arasu_Kachchi&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=11296">"TNA submits nomination lists for NE electoral districts"</a>. <a href="/wiki/TamilNet" title="TamilNet">TamilNet</a>. 23 February 2004<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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href="/wiki/Democratic_People%27s_Front" title="Democratic People's Front">Democratic People's Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Union_of_Workers_(Sri_Lanka)" title="National Union of Workers (Sri Lanka)">National Union of Workers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Up-Country_People%27s_Front" title="Up-Country People's Front">Up-Country People's Front</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Third_party_(politics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Third party (politics)">Third parties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Front_(Sri_Lanka)" title="New Democratic Front (Sri Lanka)">NDF</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Workers%27_Congress" title="Ceylon Workers' Congress">Ceylon Workers' Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahajana_Eksath_Peramuna" title="Mahajana Eksath Peramuna">Mahajana Eksath Peramuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Unity_Alliance" title="National Unity Alliance">National Unity Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Congress_(Sri_Lanka)" title="National Congress (Sri Lanka)">National Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="New Lanka Freedom Party">New Lanka Freedom Party</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Mahajana_Pakshaya" title="Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya">Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a></b></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Podujana_Peramuna" title="Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna">Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Sarvajana_Balaya" class="mw-redirect" title="Sarvajana Balaya">Sarvajana Balaya</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mawbima_Janatha_Pakshaya" title="Mawbima Janatha Pakshaya">Mawbima Janatha Pakshaya</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Tamil_National_Alliance" title="Democratic Tamil National Alliance">DTNA</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Tamil_National_People%27s_Front" title="Tamil National People's Front">TNPF</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_Ceylon_Tamil_Congress" title="All Ceylon Tamil Congress">All Ceylon Tamil Congress</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Labour_Party" title="Sri Lanka Labour Party">Sri Lanka Labour Party</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others outside parliament</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bahujana_Nidahas_Peramuna" title="Bahujana Nidahas Peramuna">Bahujana Nidahas Peramuna</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bodu_Jana_Peramuna&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bodu Jana Peramuna (page does not exist)">Bodu Jana Peramuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Communist_Party_(Maoist)" title="Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)">Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Democratic_Unity_Alliance" title="Ceylon Democratic Unity Alliance">Ceylon Democratic Unity Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Communist Party of Sri Lanka">Communist Party of Sri Lanka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crusaders_for_Democracy" title="Crusaders for Democracy">Crusaders for Democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Left_Front_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Democratic Left Front (Sri Lanka)">Democratic Left Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Democratic Party (Sri Lanka)">Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_United_National_Front" title="Democratic United National Front">Democratic United National Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unity_Alliance" title="Democratic Unity Alliance">Democratic Unity Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eelam_National_Democratic_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front">Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Democratic_Party" title="Eelam People's Democratic Party">Eelam People's Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front</a> (Padmanaba)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_People%27s_Front" title="Freedom People's Front">Freedom People's Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontline_Socialist_Party" title="Frontline Socialist Party">Frontline Socialist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Janatha_Sevaka_Pakshaya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Janatha Sevaka Pakshaya (page does not exist)">Janatha Sevaka Pakshaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jathika_Hela_Urumaya" title="Jathika Hela Urumaya">Jathika Hela Urumaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jathika_Nidahas_Peramuna" title="Jathika Nidahas Peramuna">Jathika Nidahas Peramuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party" title="Lanka Sama Samaja Party">Lanka Sama Samaja Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party_(Alternative_Group)" title="Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Alternative Group)">Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Alternative Group)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Liberal Democratic Party (Sri Lanka)">Liberal Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motherland_People%27s_Party" title="Motherland People's Party">Motherland People's Party</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Democratic_Movement_(Sri_Lanka)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Democratic Movement (Sri Lanka) (page does not exist)">National Democratic Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nava_Sama_Samaja_Party" title="Nava Sama Samaja Party">Nava Sama Samaja Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist_Party" title="New Democratic Marxist–Leninist Party">New Democratic Marxist–Leninist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Sinhala_Heritage" title="New Sinhala Heritage">New Sinhala Heritage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Our_Power_of_People%27s_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Our Power of People's Party">Our Power of People's Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Organisation_of_Tamil_Eelam" title="People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam">People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_People%27s_Liberation_Front" title="Democratic People's Liberation Front">Democratic People's Liberation Front</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Tamil_Congress" title="People's Tamil Congress">People's Tamil Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pivithuru_Hela_Urumaya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (page does not exist)">Pivithuru Hela Urumaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Workers_Party_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Revolutionary Workers Party (Sri Lanka)">Revolutionary Workers Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siva_Senai" title="Siva Senai">Siva Senai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Social Democratic Party of Sri Lanka">Social Democratic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Equality_Party_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka)">Socialist Equality Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Socialist Party of Sri Lanka">Socialist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Makkal_Viduthalai_Pulikal" title="Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal">Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_People%27s_National_Alliance" title="Tamil People's National Alliance">Tamil People's National Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">Tamil United Liberation Front</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=United_Citizen%E2%80%99s_Front&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="United Citizen’s Front (page does not exist)">United Citizen’s Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Republican_Front" title="United Republican Front">United Republican Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Socialist_Party_(Sri_Lanka)" title="United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka)">United Socialist Party</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Former political parties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_Ceylon_Islamic_United_Front" title="All Ceylon Islamic United Front">All Ceylon Islamic United Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/All_Ceylon_Malay_Political_Union" title="All Ceylon Malay Political Union">All Ceylon Malay Political Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aziz_Democratic_Workers_Congress" title="Aziz Democratic Workers Congress">Aziz Democratic Workers Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolshevik_Samasamaja_Party" title="Bolshevik Samasamaja Party">Bolshevik Samasamaja Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_Republican_Party" title="Buddhist Republican Party">Buddhist Republican Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Labour_Party" title="Ceylon Labour Party">Ceylon Labour Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceylon_National_Congress" title="Ceylon National Congress">Ceylon National Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jathika_Vimukthi_Peramuna" title="Jathika Vimukthi Peramuna">Jathika Vimukthi Peramuna</a></li> <li><a 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(2004–2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joint_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Joint Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Joint Opposition</a> (2015–2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_People%27s_Alliance" title="Freedom People's Alliance">Freedom People's Alliance</a> (2023–2024)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">UNP</a>-led alliances <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_National_Front_(Sri_Lanka)" title="United National Front (Sri Lanka)">United National Front</a> (2001–2020)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_National_Alliance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Democratic National Alliance (Sri Lanka)">Democratic National Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Left_Liberation_Front" title="Left Liberation Front">Left Liberation Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Alliance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Socialist Alliance (Sri Lanka)">Socialist Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_National_Alliance" title="Tamil National Alliance">Tamil National 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href="/wiki/Wesleyan_Methodist_Mission,_North_Ceylon" title="Wesleyan Methodist Mission, North Ceylon">Wesleyan Methodist Mission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaffna_Youth_Congress" title="Jaffna Youth Congress">Jaffna Youth Congress</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Post-colonial</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamil_nationalism" title="Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism">Nationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_state_sponsored_colonisation_schemes" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan state sponsored colonisation schemes">Colonisation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinhala_Only_Act" title="Sinhala Only Act">Sinhala Only Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riots_in_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Riots in Sri Lanka">Riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike%E2%80%93Chelvanayakam_Pact" title="Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam Pact">Bandaranaike–Chelvanayakam Pact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Policy_of_standardisation" title="Policy of standardisation">Standardisation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamil_militant_groups" title="Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups">Militancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaddukoddai_Resolution" title="Vaddukoddai Resolution">Vaddukoddai Resolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam" title="Tamil Eelam">Tamil Eelam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burning_of_Jaffna_library" class="mw-redirect" title="Burning of Jaffna library">Burning of Jaffna library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_July" title="Black July">Black July</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war" title="Sri Lankan civil war">Civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Northern_Province_Council_resolution_on_genocide_of_Tamils" title="2015 Northern Province Council resolution on genocide of Tamils">NPC Resolution on Genocide</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Politics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Government</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Provincial_Council" title="Northern Provincial Council">Northern Provincial Council</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_Northern_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of the Northern Province">Government of the Northern Province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Northern_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governors of Northern Province">Governors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Chief_Ministers_of_Northern_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Chief Ministers of Northern Province">Chief Ministers</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Provincial_Council" title="Eastern Provincial Council">Eastern Provincial Council</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Eastern_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governors of Eastern Province">Governors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Chief_Ministers_of_Eastern_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Chief Ministers of Eastern Province">Chief Ministers</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Political parties</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_Ceylon_Tamil_Congress" title="All Ceylon Tamil Congress">All Ceylon Tamil Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Party_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Party (Sri Lanka)">Federal Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_United_Liberation_Front" title="Tamil United Liberation Front">Tamil United Liberation Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_National_Alliance" title="Tamil National Alliance">Tamil National Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Tamil_National_Alliance" title="Democratic Tamil National Alliance">Democratic Tamil National Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_National_People%27s_Front" title="Tamil National People's Front">Tamil National People's Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_People%27s_National_Alliance" title="Tamil People's National Alliance">Tamil People's National Alliance</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Sri_Lankan_Tamil_militant_groups" title="List of Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups">Militant groups</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eelam_National_Democratic_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front">ENDLF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eelam_National_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam National Liberation Front">ENLF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eelam_People%27s_Revolutionary_Liberation_Front" title="Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front">EPRLF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eelam_Revolutionary_Organisation_of_Students" title="Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students">EORS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam" title="Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam">LTTE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Organisation_of_Tamil_Eelam" title="People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam">PLOTE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Eelam_Liberation_Organization" title="Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization">TELO</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Diaspora</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_Tamils_Forum" title="British Tamils Forum">British Tamils Forum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Tamil_Congress" title="Canadian Tamil Congress">Canadian Tamil Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Tamil_Sangams_of_North_America" title="Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America">Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Global_Tamil_Forum" title="Global Tamil Forum">Global Tamil Forum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamils_Against_Genocide" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamils Against Genocide">Tamils Against Genocide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Youth_Organisation" title="Tamil Youth Organisation">Tamil Youth Organisation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transnational_Government_of_Tamil_Eelam" title="Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam">Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Society</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eelam" title="Eelam">Eelam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Sri_Lankan_Tamils" title="Genetic studies on Sri Lankan Tamils">Genetic studies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karaiyar" title="Karaiyar">Karaiyar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koviar" class="mw-redirect" title="Koviar">Koviar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mukkuvar" class="mw-redirect" title="Mukkuvar">Mukkuvar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nalavar" title="Nalavar">Nalavar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paraiyar" title="Paraiyar">Paraiyar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thesavalamai" title="Thesavalamai">Thesavalamai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vellalar_(Sri_Lankan_Tamil)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vellalar (Sri Lankan Tamil)">Vellalar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coast_Veddas" title="Coast Veddas">Vedar</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamil_cinema" title="Sri Lankan Tamil cinema">Cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamils_in_Indian_cinema" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Tamils in Indian cinema">Representations in Indian cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamil_literature" title="Sri Lankan Tamil literature">Literature</a></li> <li>News <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Review_(Sri_Lankan_newspaper)" title="Saturday Review (Sri Lankan newspaper)">Saturday Review</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sudar_Oli" title="Sudar Oli">Sudar Oli</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Guardian" 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