Electorates
- The Delimitation Commission shall divide Sri Lanka into not less than twenty and not more than *(twenty five) electoral districts, and shall assign names thereto.
- Each Province of Sri Lanka may itself constitute an electoral district or may be divided into two or more electoral districts.
- Where a Province is divided into a number of electoral districts the Delimitation Commission shall have regard to the existing administrative districts so as to ensure as far as is practicable that each electoral district shall be an administrative district or a combination of two or more administrative districts or two or more electoral districts together constitute an administrative district.
- The electoral districts of each Province shall together be entitled to return four members, (independently of the number of members which they are entitled to return by reference to the number of electors whose names appear in the registers of electors of such electoral districts), and the Delimitation Commission shall apportion such entitlement equitably among such electoral districts.
Selection of Voters is done by according to the 1976-1978 Proportional Representation System.
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