Template:Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 1947
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| Party | Candidates nominated |
Candidates elected |
Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United National Party | 98 | 42* | 751,432 | 39.81 |
| Lanka Sama Samaja Party | 28 | 10 | 204,020 | 10.81 |
| Bolshevik-Leninist Party | 10 | 5 | 113,193 | 6.00 |
| All Ceylon Tamil Congress | 9 | 7 | 82,499 | 4.37 |
| Ceylon Indian Congress | 7 | 6 | 72,230 | 3.83 |
| Communist Party of Ceylon | 13 | 3 | 70,331 | 3.73 |
| Labour Party | 9 | 1 | 38,932 | 2.06 |
| United Lanka Congress | 2 | 0 | 3,953 | 0.21 |
| Swaraj Party | 3 | 0 | 1,393 | 0.07 |
| Independents | 181 | 21 | 549,381 | 29.10 |
| Total | 361 | 95 | 1,887,364 |
- Source: [1]. Some variation exists over the exact results. Electoral participation was 61.3%.
- (*)Electoral district of Puttalam was uncontested and returned H. S. Ismail (UNP)
