Panadura Electoral District
Introduction


**Panadura electoral district** was an [electoral district](/wiki/Electoral_district "Electoral district") of [Sri Lanka](/wiki/Sri_Lanka "Sri Lanka") between [August 1947](/wiki/1947_Ceylonese_parliamentary_election "1947 Ceylonese parliamentary election") and [February 1989](/wiki/1989_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election "1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election"). The district was named after the town of [Panadura](/wiki/Panadura "Panadura") in [Kalutara District](/wiki/Kalutara_District "Kalutara District"), [Western Province](/wiki/Western_Province%2C_Sri_Lanka "Western Province, Sri Lanka"). The [1978 Constitution](/wiki/Constitution_of_Sri_Lanka "Constitution of Sri Lanka") of Sri Lanka introduced the [proportional representation](/wiki/Proportional_representation "Proportional representation") electoral system for [electing](/wiki/Elections_in_Sri_Lanka "Elections in Sri Lanka") [members](/wiki/Member_of_Parliament "Member of Parliament") of [Parliament](/wiki/Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka "Parliament of Sri Lanka"). The existing 160 mainly [single\-member](/wiki/Plurality_voting_system "Plurality voting system") electoral districts were replaced with 22 [multi\-member](/wiki/Multi-member "Multi-member") [electoral districts](/wiki/Electoral_district "Electoral district"). Panadura electoral district was replaced by the [Kalutara multi\-member electoral district](/wiki/Kalutara_Electoral_District "Kalutara Electoral District") at the [1989 general elections](/wiki/1989_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election "1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election"), the first under the PR system, though Panadura continues to be a polling division of the multi\-member electoral district.


When did the Kalutara multi-member electoral district exist?