| 词条 | 1917 Ceylonese Legislative Council election |
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| election_name = 2nd Ceylonese Legislative Council election | country = British Ceylon | type = parliamentary | ongoing = no | previous_election = Ceylonese Legislative Council election, 1911 | previous_year = 1911 | previous_mps= | next_election = Ceylonese Legislative Council election, 1921 | next_year = 1921 | next_mps= | seats_for_election = | election_date = 9-20 January 1917 }} The second election to the Legislative Council of Ceylon was held 20 January 1917[1][2]. BackgroundIn 1833 the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission created the Legislative Council of Ceylon, the first step in representative government in British Ceylon. Initially the Legislative Council consisted of 16 members: the British Governor, the five appointed members of the Executive Council of Ceylon, four other government officials and six appointed unofficial members (three Europeans, one Sinhalese, one Tamil and one Burgher). In 1889 the number of appointed unofficial members was increased to eight (three Europeans, one Low Country Sinhalese, one Kandyan Sinhalese, one Tamil, one Muslim and one Burgher).[3] The Legislative Council was reformed in 1910 by the McCallum Reforms. Membership was increased to 21 of which 11 were officially appointed and 10 were unofficial (two elected Europeans, one elected Burgher, one elected educated Ceylonese, two appointed Low Country Sinhalese, two appointed Tamils, one appointed Kandyan Sinhalese and one appointed Muslim).[4] Less than 3,000 Ceylonese were eligible to vote for the four elected unofficial members.[4] Unofficial membersThe following were the elected unofficial members :
References1. ^http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/CI01Df03.html {{Sri Lankan elections}}{{SriLanka-stub}}2. ^http://www.nation.lk/2011/12/11/eyefea6.htm 3. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2005/12/25/fea104.html|title=People and State Power|last=Wijesinghe|first=Sam|date=25 December 2005|publisher=Sunday Observer, Sri Lanka|accessdate=7 February 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605111144/http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2005/12/25/fea104.html|archivedate=5 June 2011|df=dmy-all}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/CH18Df04.html|title=Chapter 2: Beginning of British Rule |last=K T Rajasingham |date=18 August 2001|work=SRI LANKA: THE UNTOLD STORY|publisher=Asia Times|accessdate=7 February 2010}} 5. ^http://www.nation.lk/2011/12/11/eyefea6.htm 6. ^http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/CI01Df03.html 7. ^1 2 3 {{London Gazette |issue=29972 |date=6 March 1917 |page=2252}} 3 : Parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka|1917 elections in Asia|1917 in Ceylon |
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