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2nd Ceylonese parliamentary election





← 1947
24-30 May 1952
1956 →

95 seats to the House of Representatives of Ceylon
48 seats were needed for a majority














































 
First party
Second party
Third party
 

Dudley Shelton Senanayaka (1911-1973).jpg
Official Photographic Portrait of S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka (1899-1959).jpg
Leader

Dudley Senanayake

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

N.M. Perera
Party

United National Party

Sri Lanka Freedom Party

Lanka Sama Samaja Party
Leader since
1952
1951
1945
Leader's seat

Dedigama

Attanagalla

Ruwanwella
Last election
42 Seats, 39.81%

New Party
10 Seats, 10.81%
Seats won
54
9
9
Seat change

Increase12


Decrease1
Popular vote
1,026,005
361,250
305,133
Percentage
44.08%
15.52%
13.11%




Prime Minister before election

Dudley Senanayake
United National Party



Prime Minister-designate

Dudley Senanayake
United National Party


General elections were held in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1952. It is notable for being the second and final election overseen and administered by the Department of Parliamentary Elections before its merger in 1955.[1]




Contents





  • 1 Background


  • 2 Results


  • 3 Notes


  • 4 References




Background[edit]


Prime Minister D.S. Senanayake died in March 1952, and was succeeded by his son, Dudley. The national wave of mourning for Ceylon's first prime minister greatly boosted the UNP's fortunes.


The 1952 election was the first contested by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, which had broken away from the UNP on a platform of Sinhala nationalism, and the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (Federal Party), which split from the All Ceylon Tamil Congress over joining the UNP government.



Results[edit]


Because the estate Tamils had been stripped of their citizenship by the Senanayake government, the Ceylon Indian Congress, which most of them had supported, was eliminated from Parliament and the Lanka Sama Samaja Party lost seats. The UNP won a majority, mainly at the cost of the CIC and the LSSP.[citation needed]



























































































e • d Summary of the 1952 Ceylonese parliamentary election[2]
PartyCandidatesVotes%Seats
 United National Party811,026,00544.08%
54
 Sri Lanka Freedom Party48361,25015.52%
9
 Lanka Sama Samaja Party39305,13313.11%
9
 
Communist Party of Ceylon /
Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party
19134,5285.78%
4
 All Ceylon Tamil Congress764,5122.77%
4
 Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi745,3311.95%
2
 Ceylon Labour Party527,0961.16%
1
Republican Party933,0011.42%
0
Buddhist Republican Party33,9870.17%
0
 Independents88326,78314.04%
12
Valid Votes3062,327,626100.00%95
Rejected Votes
Total Votes Polled
Total Electors Polled[a]2,114,615
Registered Electors2,990,912
Turnout70.70%


Notes[edit]




  1. ^ Total electors polled is less than total votes polled due to multiple-member seats where electors can cast more than one vote.




References[edit]




  1. ^ "Elections Department in the limelight". ft.lk. Daily Financial Times. 3 Oct 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2018..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  2. ^ "Table 32 Parliament Election (1952)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009.




  • "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1952" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2016.


  • "1952 General Election Results". LankaNewspapers.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012.


  • "Table 32 Parliament Election (1952)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009.


  • Rajasingham, K. T. (10 November 2001). "Chapter 14: Post-colonial realignment of political forces". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story. Asia Times.









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