SLFP leader Sirimavo Bandaranaike had come to the conclusion that her party's best hope of power was forming a permanent alliance with Ceylon's Marxist parties. She assembled the SLFP, the Trotskyist LSSP, and the Communists into the United Front coalition. The UF's platform was called the Common Programme; it featured extensive nationalization, a non-aligned foreign policy, expanded social programmes, and replacement of the British-imposed, monarchicalSoulbury constitution with a republican constitution.
The UNP government of Dudley Senanayake had not made much headway with Ceylon's twin problems of inflation and unemployment, nor had it attempted solving the linked problems of feudal property relations and adverse terms of trade by agrarian reform and industrialisation. The UNP had become widely perceived as a party of the rich, out of touch with the concerns of ordinary people. The UF's socialist platform had much greater appeal.
Resultsedit
The UF (with 49% of the vote) won an overwhelming majority, despite the UNP's plurality of the popular vote, due to the member parties running in different constituencies. The Tamil majority constituencies voted mainly for the two Tamil parties, one of which (the All Ceylon Tamil Congress), later joined the UF.[citation needed]
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1970, ceylonese, parliamentary, election, parliamentary, elections, were, held, ceylon, 1970, 1965, 1970, 1977, seats, house, representatives, ceylon, seats, were, needed, majority, first, party, second, party, third, party, leader, sirimavo, bandaranaike, per. Parliamentary elections were held in Ceylon in 1970 1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election 1965 27 May 1970 1977 151 seats in the House of Representatives of Ceylon 76 seats were needed for a majority First party Second party Third party Leader Sirimavo Bandaranaike N M Perera Dudley SenanayakeParty SLFP LSSP UNPAlliance United Front United Front Leader since 1960 1945 1957Leader s seat Attanagalla Yatiyantota DedigamaLast election 30 18 41 seats 7 47 10 seats 39 31 66 seatsSeats won 91 19 17Seat change 50 9 49Popular vote 1 839 979 433 224 1 892 525Percentage 36 86 8 68 37 91 Prime Minister before electionDudley SenanayakeUNP Prime Minister designate Sirimavo BandaranaikeSLFPBackground editSLFP leader Sirimavo Bandaranaike had come to the conclusion that her party s best hope of power was forming a permanent alliance with Ceylon s Marxist parties She assembled the SLFP the Trotskyist LSSP and the Communists into the United Front coalition The UF s platform was called the Common Programme it featured extensive nationalization a non aligned foreign policy expanded social programmes and replacement of the British imposed monarchical Soulbury constitution with a republican constitution The UNP government of Dudley Senanayake had not made much headway with Ceylon s twin problems of inflation and unemployment nor had it attempted solving the linked problems of feudal property relations and adverse terms of trade by agrarian reform and industrialisation The UNP had become widely perceived as a party of the rich out of touch with the concerns of ordinary people The UF s socialist platform had much greater appeal Results editThe UF with 49 of the vote won an overwhelming majority despite the UNP s plurality of the popular vote due to the member parties running in different constituencies The Tamil majority constituencies voted mainly for the two Tamil parties one of which the All Ceylon Tamil Congress later joined the UF citation needed The 1970 election was the last held under the Soulbury constitution The UF Government established the free sovereign and independent Republic of Sri Lanka in 1972 breaking the last ties of colonialism The British owned plantations were nationalised and there was land reform giving poor rural people land Industrial democracy was instituted in the transport and manufacturing sectors A National pharmaceuticals policy was established allowing for affordable drugs A new education policy was followed aimed at making education more relevant Increased protection led to growth in the manufacturing sector particularly in textiles and garments electronics and industrial machinery PartyVotes SeatsUnited National Party1 892 52537 9117Sri Lanka Freedom Party1 839 97936 8691Lanka Sama Samaja Party433 2248 6819Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi245 7274 9213Communist Party of Ceylon169 1993 396All Ceylon Tamil Congress115 5672 323Mahajana Eksath Peramuna46 5710 930Independents249 0064 992Total4 991 798100 00151Registered voters turnout5 505 028 Source Kusaka Research InstituteReferences edit Result of Parliamentary General Election 1970 PDF Department of Elections Sri Lanka Archived from the original PDF on 9 December 2009 1970 General Election Results LankaNewspapers com Archived from the original on 10 March 2012 Table 37 Parliament Election 1970 Sri Lanka Statistics 10 February 2009 Archived from the original on 9 October 2011 Retrieved 3 October 2010 Sri Lanka Parliamentary Chamber Parliament Elections Held in 1970 PDF Inter Parliamentary Union Rajasingham K T 5 January 2002 Chapter 21 A further lack of perspicuity Sri Lanka The Untold Story Asia Times Archived from the original on 27 January 2002 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1970 Ceylonese parliamentary election amp oldid 1182266131, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
