{"id":53536,"date":"2017-06-09T23:19:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T03:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=53536"},"modified":"2017-06-09T23:27:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T03:27:36","slug":"31-year-old-ranil-jayawardena-of-sri-lankan-origin-retains-north-east-hampshire-constituency-for-the-conservatives-polling-37754-votes-in-uk-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=53536","title":{"rendered":"31 Year old Ranil Jayawardena of Sri Lankan Origin  Retains North East Hampshire Constituency for the Conservatives Polling 37,754 Votes  in UK Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thirty -one year old Ranil Jayawardena of Sri Lankan origin was re-elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for  the North East Hampshire Constituency in the current elections to the UK House of Commons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53548\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53548\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/image-3-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-large wp-image-53548\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TellRanil\/status\/873198394470055936\">Thank you to all 37,754 local people who voted for me yesterday, giving me the privilege of representing North East Hampshire in the House of Commons once again.<\/a>@TellRanil<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jayawardena  who polled 37,754(66%) votes obtained a majority of 27,772 over his nearest contender Barry Jones from the Labour party who obtained 9982(17%)votes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FTellRanil%2Fvideos%2F10158668458710161%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jayawardena&#8217;s majority amounted to 48.19% in terms of percentage. The overall voter turnout in North East Hampshire was 76.35%<\/p>\n<p>Among Other candidates at the hustings were Graham Cockerill of the Liberal Democrats who got 6,987 votes(12%)  and the Green Party&#8217;s Chas Spradbery who polled 1476 votes(3%).<\/p>\n<p>Mike Gascoigne of the United Kingdom Independence Party polled 1061 votes(2%) while Independent candidate Robert Blay got 367 votes.<\/p>\n<p> Ranil Jayawrdene was first elected to the British parliament in the 2015 elections when he contested North East Hampshire as a 29 year old.He polled 35,573 votes. His closest rival Graham Cockerill of the Liberal Democratic party got only 5657 votes in 2015.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton53536\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D53536&amp;text=31%20Year%20old%20Ranil%20Jayawardena%20of%20Sri%20Lankan%20Origin%20%20Retains%20North%20East%20Hampshire%20Constituency%20for%20the...%20&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>Thirty -one year old Ranil Jayawardena of Sri Lankan origin was re-elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for the North East Hampshire Constituency in the current elections to the UK House of Commons. Jayawardena who polled 37,754(66%) votes obtained a majority of 27,772 over his nearest contender Barry Jones from the Labour party who obtained &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=53536\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;31 Year old Ranil Jayawardena of Sri Lankan Origin  Retains North East Hampshire Constituency for the Conservatives Polling 37,754 Votes  in UK Elections&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\/53536"}],"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=53536"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53569,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53536\/revisions\/53569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}