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Paulis Peiris Jayawardena (16 September 1898 – ?) was a Ceylonese politician.

Jaywardena served as the chairman of the Gampaha Urban Council, following its formation in January 1945.

Jayawardena was elected to parliament, representing the United National Party (UNP), following a parliamentary by-election in July 1949, in the Gampaha electorate. He secured 18,653 votes (60% of the total vote), 12,026 votes ahead of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party candidate, C. A. Mathew, who received 6,627 votes (21% of the total vote).

References

1. "Hon. Jayawardena, Paulis Peiris, M.P." Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
2. Jātika Rājya Sabhāva. Pustakālaya (1972). Members of the Legislatures of Ceylon: 1931-1972. National State Assembly Library. p. 75.
3. Ceylon Sessional Papers, Issue 13. Government Press. 1952. p. 25.
4. Wickramasinghe, Somasiri; Wickramasinghe, Nimal (2005). S.D. and the Family Roots in Sri Lankan Politics. Somasiri Wickramasinghe. p. xiv. ISBN 9789559916611.
5. University of Ceylon Review. 6. University of Ceylon: 169. 1948. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
6. "Results of the Parliament By Elections held between 1947 – 1988" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
7. Perera, T (2001). Revolutionary trails, Edmund Samarakkody: a political profile. Social Scientists' Association. p. 87. ISBN 9789559102809.

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Central Province (15)	M. D. Banda George E. de Silva T. B. Ilangaratne, Tamara Kumari Ilangaratne Senerat Gunewardene R. S. Pelpola Karuppiah Kumaravelu G. R. Motha Abdul Aziz V. T. Nanayakkara E. A. Nugawela T. B. Panabokke H. R. U. Premachandra K. Rajalingam H. B. Rambukwella Abeyratne Ratnayaka H. B. Tenne Savumiamoorthy Thondaman C. V. Velupillai
Eastern Province (7)	A. R. A. M. Abubucker S. U. Ethirmanasingham M. M. Ebrahim M. S. Kariapper Ahamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe V. Nalliah S. Sivapalan
Northern Province (9)	S. J. V. Chelvanayakam K. Kanagaratnam V. Kumaraswamy G. G. Ponnambalam T. Ramalingam C. Sittampalam C. Suntharalingam Alfred Thambiayah C. Vanniasingam
North Central Province (5)	P. L. Bauddhasara P. B. Bulankulame S. H. Mahadiulwewa T. B. Poholiyadde Maithripala Senanayake
North Western Province (10)	Ivan Dassanayake J. J. Fernando Kavisena Herath I. M. R. A. Iriyagolle Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail John Kotelawala Albert Peries Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake Herbert Sri Nissanka Tikiri Banda Subasinghe
Sabaragamuwa Province (10)	C. E. Attygalle D. F. Hettiarachchi N. H. Keerthiratne E. W. Mathew Alexander Francis Molamure Jayaweera Kuruppu N. M. Perera Reginald Perera Harris Leuke Ratwatte Dudley Senanayake Florence Senanayake
Southern Province (12)	H. D. Abeygoonewardane Simon Abeywickrema H. W. Amarasuriya Wijeyananda Dahanayake William de Silva Arthur de Zoysa Walwin de Silva) D. S. Goonesekera Montague Jayawickrama P. Kumarasiri D. A. Rajapaksa Lakshman Rajapaksa V. G. W. Ratnayake W. Wickremasinghe
Uva Province (7)	Leo Fernando J. C. T. Kotelawala K. V. Nadarajah D. Ramanujam J. A. Rambukpota S. M. Subbaiah K. D. Sugathadasa
Western Province (20)	S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Somaweera Chandrasiri R. A. de Mel T. F. Jayewardene Colvin R. de Silva George R. de Silva A. Ekanayake Gunasinha Cholomondeley Goonewardene Philip Gunawardena Kusumasiri Gunawardena Robert Gunawardena T. B. Jayah M. C. M. Kaleel A. P. Jayasuriya D. P. Jayasuriya J. R. Jayewardene D. D. Karunaratne P. P. Jayawardena Pieter Keuneman Wilmot A. Perera Henry Peiris D. S. Senanayake S. A. Silva H. de Z. Siriwardena
Appointed (6)	E. F. N. Gratiaen Rosslyn Koch F. H. Griffith R. Singleton-Salmon J. A. Martenze J. W. Oldfield S. A. Pakeman G. R. Whitby

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