| 2005 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
45161 |
75.13% |
 |
Mahinda Rajapaksha |
14270 |
23.74% |
 |
Siritunga Jayasuriya |
270 |
0.45% |
 |
Ashoka Suraweera |
112 |
0.19% |
 |
Victor Hettigoda |
101 |
0.17% |
 |
Chamil Jayaneththi |
59 |
0.10% |
 |
Anura De Silva |
39 |
0.06% |
 |
J.A. Ajith Kumara |
27 |
0.04% |
 |
Wije Dias |
27 |
0.04% |
 |
Wimal Geeganage |
20 |
0.03% |
 |
Aruna De Zoysa |
17 |
0.03% |
 |
P. Nelson Perera |
5 |
0.01% |
 |
Shantha Dharmadwaja |
3 |
0.00% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
60111 |
98.46% |
| Rejected |
939 |
1.54% |
| Polled |
61050 |
71.02% |
| Electors |
85967 |
|
| |
|
|
| 1999 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
32714 |
61.53% |
 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
18114 |
34.07% |
 |
Nandana Gunathilaka |
1281 |
2.41% |
 |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara |
408 |
0.77% |
 |
Abdul Rasool |
163 |
0.31% |
 |
Harishchandra W'tunga |
115 |
0.22% |
 |
W.V.M. Ranjith |
95 |
0.18% |
 |
Rajiva Wijesinha |
94 |
0.18% |
 |
Tennyson Edirisuriya |
86 |
0.16% |
 |
Kamal Karunadasa |
46 |
0.09% |
 |
Hudson Samarasinghe |
26 |
0.05% |
 |
Ariyawansha Dissanayaka |
14 |
0.03% |
 |
Alwis Premawardhana |
11 |
0.02% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
53167 |
97.42% |
| Rejected |
1409 |
2.58% |
| Polled |
54576 |
70.47% |
| Electors |
77447 |
|
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