Claim: The Badulla electoral District in Sri Lanka is one of 22 multi-member electoral districts in Sri Lanka, created by the 1978 Constitution, and it elects eight of the 225 member of parliament; Badulla has matched the final country result  five out of seven times.
Evidence: Badulla electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district currently elects 8 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 574,814 registered electors in 2010. J. R. Jayewardene 52.91% Badulla 58.67% Ranasinghe Premadasa 50.43% 4,968 Ranasinghe Premadasa Chandrika Kumaratunga 62.28% Chandrika Kumaratunga 17,416 Chandrika Kumaratunga 51.12% 16,039 Chandrika Kumaratunga Mahinda Rajapaksa 50.29% 18,624 Ranil Wickremasinghe Mahinda Rajapaksa 57.88% Mahinda Rajapaksa 19,799 12,435 Junius Jayewardene