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and the Western Province. The' officer in charge of the election, while unable, of course, to make any accurate prognostication as to the number of applications which will be rejected as duplicates, or as the result of objections, anticipates that the final number of voters on the register will not fall far short of a million and a half.
5. This figure is of great interest in view of the observations of the Special Commissioners on pages 87 to 89 of their report. The passage to which I would draw Your Lordship's particular attention is that at the bottom of page 87 and the top of page 88, in which the Special Commissioners attach great importance to the desirability of subjecting the voting strength of the electorate to a gradual instead of an immediate increase to the maximum. This object they hoped to attain by laying down that registration should not be compulsory or automatic. Had their desire that only those who actively desired to exercise their privileges should be registered as voters been realized, I venture to express the opinion that the number of voters on the new register would have exceeded by but little, if at all, the total number eligible under the old franchise. In actual fact the exertions of candidates and their agents have frustrated the hopes of the Commission, and the final register will probably contain the names of about 75 per cent. of those now eligible. How many of those registered will be persuaded to vote is another matter, in regard to which I venture no prophecy. But the fact remains that (quite apart from the increase in the electorate owing to the reduction of the age limit for women voters from 30 to 21, an increase which must be to a small extent discounted by the effect of the alteration in the qualifications for Indian voters) the number of voters on the first register will be greater than was either anticipated or desired by the Commission. Whether this enormous increase in the electorate will result in substantial representation in the State Council of classes or interests now unrepresented remains to be seen.
I have, &c.,
NUWARA ELITA DISTRICT
21. Talawakelle 22. Nuwara Eliya GALLE DISTRICT 23. Balapitiya 24. Udugama 25. Galle
MATARA DISTRICT
26. WELIGAMA
28. Matara
24. Hambantota JAFFNA DISTRICT
30. Kayts
31. Kankesanturai
32. Jaffna
33. Point Pedro
MANNAR DISTRICT
34. Mannar-Mullaittivu
BATTICALOA DISTRICT
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Number of Applications.
Electoral District.
Received.
Men.
Women.
Total.
Number Per Rejected. cent.
13,442 5,612 13,890 5,595
19,054 19,485
41 0.23 213 1.00
22,034 22,236 44,270 24,347
194
0.44
19,835 44,182
274
0.62
19,290
15,008
34,298
297
0.87
21,454 22,065
43,519
388
0.89
27. Morawaka
21,112 11,876
32,988
442
1.34
19,970 17,581
37,551
338
0.9
HAMBANTOTA DISTRICT
22,584
14,025
36,609
266
0.72
18,110 16,089
34,199
82
0.24
11,887 16,666 21,938 9,967 31,905 16,534 12,580 29,114
28,553
18
0.06
49
0.15
83 0.28
H. J. STANLEY,
Governor.
9,891
6,643
16,534
35. Batticaloa South
19,856 18,835 38,691
36. Trincomalee-Batticaloa
20,938
12,122
33,060
Enclosure in No. 75.
AND NUMBER REJECTED.
PUTTALAM DISTRICT
NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED FOR REGISTRATION AS VOTERS
Number of Applications.
37. Puttalam
20,542
9,336 29,887
125
KURUNEGALA DISTRICT
38. Kurunegala
24,926
15,014
39. Narammala
17,243
Electoral District.
Received.
Men.
Il'omen.
COLOMBÓ MUNICIPALITY
1. Colombo North
34,663
2. Colombo Central
3. Colombo South
Total.
11,514 46,177 42,345 11,727 54,072 25,618 11,794 37,412
Number Per Rejected. cent
40. Katugampola'
21,971
11,815
39,940 6,898. 24,141 33,786
PUTTALAM-CHILAW DISTRICT
41. Chilaw
27,898
18,789 46,687
2222 222 2
35 0.21
332 0.85
0.35
0.42
123 0.31
123
0.51
132
0.39.
0.06
686 1.49 656 1.21 475
ANURADHAPURA DISTRICT
1.27
42. Anuradhapura
15,966
2,980 18,946 1,396
7.36
COLOMBO DISTRICT
BADULLA DISTRICT
4. Minuwangoda
5. Negombo
6. Gampaha
7. Kelaniya
19,160 14,966 34,126 22,682 19,414 42,096 21,685 16,151 37,836
187
0.55
43. Bandarawela
13,979
140
0.33
295 0.78
44. Badulla ... 45. Bibile
8,002 21,981 9,956 6,064 16,020 11,232 8,279 2,953
267
1.21
161
1,0
91
0.81
19,934 13,773
33,707
133
0.39
8. Veyangoda
18,564
14,369
32,933
KEGALLA DIStrict
122
0.37
9. Avissawella
21,362
13,136
34,498
219
0.63
46. Kegalla..
26,917
10. Moratuwa
24,914
19,465
44,379
315
0.71
47. Dedigama
15,666
17,725 44,642 10,691
278
0.62
26,357
48. Ruwanwella
20,165 12,048
32,213
88 312
0.33
0.97
KALUTARA DISTRICT
11. Panadure
23,797
21,286 45,083
$3
0.18
RATNAPURA DISTRICT
12. Kalutara
19,757
14,924
34,681
114
0.33
49. Ratnapura
18,008
7,338
25,346
336
1.32
13. Horana
23,898 14,645
38,543
14. Matugama
15,873 8,169
24,042
111 0.29 105 0.44
50. Balangoda
15,777
4,776
20,553
391
1.9
1,006,475
612,518 1,618,993
12,457
0.77
MATALE DISTRICT
15. Matale
16,607
6,191
22,798
243 1.07
KANDY DISTRICT
16. Galagedera
15,417
6,785
22,202
143 0.64
17. Kandy
26,410
12,822
38,238
327 0.86
18. Dumbara
20,084
8,790 28,874
19. Gampola
12,737
20. Hatton
22,613
5,946 18,683 10,267 32,880
260 0.9 287 1.54
534 1.62