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1924 Ceylonese Legislative Council election information


4th Ceylonese Legislative Council election
1924 Ceylonese Legislative Council election
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34 seats to the Legislative Council of Ceylon
18 seats were needed for a majority

The fourth election to the Legislative Council of Ceylon was held in 1924.

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1924 Ceylonese Legislative Council election

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fourth election to the Legislative Council of Ceylon was held in 1924. In 1833 the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission created the Legislative Council of Ceylon...

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Ponnambalam Arunachalam

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September 1853 – 9 January 1924) was a Ceylonese civil servant and a member of the Executive Council of Ceylon and Legislative Council of Ceylon. Arunachalam...

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1921 Ceylonese Legislative Council election

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List of elections in 1924

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African general election Southern Rhodesian general election Ceylonese Legislative Council election Dutch East Indies Volksraad election Hong Kong sanitary...

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Legislative Council of Ceylon

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The Legislative Council of Ceylon was the legislative body of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) established in 1833, along with the Executive Council of Ceylon, on...

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Ponnambalam Ramanathan

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contested the 1911 legislative council election as a candidate for the Educated Ceylonese seat and was elected to the Legislative Council, defeating physician...

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1931 Ceylonese State Council election

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Constitution replaced the Legislative Council of Ceylon with the State Council of Ceylon as the legislature of British Ceylon. The State Council was to consist of...

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Godfrey Edward Madawala

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in the 1924 Ceylonese Legislative Council election. He was thereafter elected to the State Council in the 1931 Ceylonese State Council election from North...

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Arunachalam Mahadeva

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from 1917 to 1924 and remained a member of the CNC even after his father left in 1921. Mahadeva contested the 1924 legislative council election as a candidate...

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Arthur Hamilton Ekneligoda Molamure

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Sinhalese-Muslim riots. Molamure was elected to the Legislative Council in the 1924 Ceylonese Legislative Council election from the Ratnapura Revenue District. He...

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Alexander Francis Molamure

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the 1924 legislative council election and was elected to the Legislative Council of Ceylon from the Kegalle District. In the legislative council he was...

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Henry De Mel

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1877 – 8 May 1936) was a Ceylonese industrialist, lawyer, philanthropist and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Council and founder of the H.L...

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Arthur Alvis

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Arthur Alvis (16 June 1856 – ??) was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon. Educated at S. Thomas' College...

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Wilfred Martin Rajapakse

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Rajapakse (1864 – ????) was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon from 1921 to 1924. Born in Colombo to Mudaliar...

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James Peiris

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nomination to the Legislative Council of Ceylon. On two occasions when nominations had to be made for the position of "an educated Ceylonese" James Peiris...

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Eugene Wilfred Jayewardene

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Jayewardene to the Colombo Municipal Council with the death of the latter. He contested the 1924 Legislative Council election and lost to Victor Corea, a distant...

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Marcus Fernando

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British Ceylon

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Intermittent warfare continued through the 16th century. Many Lowland Ceylonese were forced to convert to Christianity while the coastal Moors were religiously...

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Waithilingam Duraiswamy

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1921 Legislative Council election as a candidate in Northern Province and was elected to the Legislative Council. He contested the 1924 Legislative Council...

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Hermann Albert Loos

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flowers on this day, the proceeds of which were devoted to helping needy Ceylonese ex-servicemen.[citation needed] In 1933 a British teacher Doreen Young...

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Forester Augustus Obeyesekere

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Central (Matara) to the Legislative Council in the 1924 Legislative Council election and retained his seat till the Legislative Council was dissolved and replaced...

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