{"id":42724,"date":"2015-08-18T00:54:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T04:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=42724"},"modified":"2015-08-18T00:56:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T04:56:55","slug":"tna-with-69-votes-wins-five-of-seven-seats-in-jaffna-epdp-1unp-1-tnpf-backed-by-diaspora-tigers-routed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=42724","title":{"rendered":"TNA  With 69% Votes Wins Five of Seven Seats in Jaffna: EPDP \u2013 1;UNP -1; TNPF Backed by Diaspora Tigers Routed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Tamil National Alliance(TNA) contesting under the house symbol of the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi(ITAK) has  registered a significant victory in the Jaffna electoral district at  Sri Lanka\u2019s  15th  Parliamentary elections held on August 17th 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The TNA polling 207,577 votes amounting to 69.12% of the votes  cast has  won five of the seven MP seats allocated to the Jaffna electoral district comprising the administrative districts of Jaffna and Kilinochchi.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) contesting on its own  veena symbol polled 30,232 votes(10.07%) and won one seat.<\/p>\n<p>The United National Front for Good governance(UNFGG) contesting on the United  National Party symbol of elephant obtained 20,025 votes (6.67%) and won a seat.<\/p>\n<p>The United Peoples Freedom Alliance(UPFA) contesting on the betel symbol polled 17,309 (5.76%) votes but failed to win a seat.<\/p>\n<p>The Tamil National Peoples Front(TNPF) contesting under the Tamil Congress symbol of cycle  failed to win a single seat in Jaffna. The TNPF strongly supported by LTTE and pro \u2013 LTTE elements in the Tamil Diaspora polled only 15,022 votes amounting to 5.00%.Media organs controlled and\/or influenced by the tigers had promoted the TNPF extensively during the election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Former members of the LTTE contesting under the spider symbol as independent group no 4 also fared badly  polling only 19790.66%) votes.<\/p>\n<p>Though the number of voters in Jaffna district was 529,239 only 325,805 0r 61.56% voted at the elections. Of these 25,496 (7.83%) botes were rejected. Only 300,309 or 92.17% votes were valid votes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton42724\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D42724&amp;text=TNA%20%20With%2069%25%20Votes%20Wins%20Five%20of%20Seven%20Seats%20in%20Jaffna%3A%20EPDP%20%E2%80%93%201%3BUNP%20-1%3B%20TNPF%20Backed%20by%20Diaspora%20Tigers%20Routed&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil National Alliance(TNA) contesting under the house symbol of the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi(ITAK) has registered a significant victory in the Jaffna electoral district at Sri Lanka\u2019s 15th Parliamentary elections held on August 17th 2015. The TNA polling 207,577 votes amounting to 69.12% of the votes cast has won five of the seven MP &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=42724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;TNA  With 69% Votes Wins Five of Seven Seats in Jaffna: EPDP \u2013 1;UNP -1; TNPF Backed by Diaspora Tigers Routed&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42725,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42724\/revisions\/42725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}