Ampara (Digamadulla) Electoral District (Tamil: அம்பாறை தேர்தல் மாவட்டம், romanized: Ampāṟai Tērtal Māvaṭṭam; Sinhala: අම්පාර මැතිවරණ දිස්ත්රික්කය, romanized: Ampāra Mætivaraṇa Distrikkaya) is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka.
The district currently elects 7 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 436,148 registered electors in 2010.
[4] The Ampara Electoral District consists of the following polling divisions:[4] A: Ampara B: Sammanthurai C: Kalmunai D: Pothuvil Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982 for the district:[5] Results of the 1st North Eastern provincial council election held on 19 November 1988:[6] Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988:[7] Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989:[8] The following candidates were elected:[8] M. H. M. Ashraff (SLMC), 56,464 preference votes (pv); P. Dayaratna (UNP), 37,996 pv; Ahangama Polwatte Galappaththige Chandradasa (UNP), 28,075 pv; Nihal Yasendra Bakmeewewa (UNP), 24,752 pv; Thewarapperuma Arachchilage Karunasinghe Thewarapperuma (SLFP), 21,751 pv; and J. Thiviyanathan (EPRLF), 17,880 pv.
Results of the 13th parliamentary election held on 2 April 2004:[17] The following candidates were elected:[18] Rauff Hakeem (SLMC), 68,627 preference votes (pv); Ferial Ismail Ashraff (UPFA-NUA), 52,223 pv; L.G.
Rauff Hakeem (SLMC) resigned on 2 April 2008 to contest the Eastern provincial council elections.