| 2005 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
24660 |
57.25% |
 |
Mahinda Rajapaksha |
18005 |
41.80% |
 |
Victor Hettigoda |
158 |
0.37% |
 |
Siritunga Jayasuriya |
67 |
0.16% |
 |
Ashoka Suraweera |
57 |
0.13% |
 |
Chamil Jayaneththi |
34 |
0.08% |
 |
Anura De Silva |
20 |
0.05% |
 |
Wije Dias |
19 |
0.04% |
 |
Aruna De Zoysa |
19 |
0.04% |
 |
J.A. Ajith Kumara |
15 |
0.03% |
 |
Wimal Geeganage |
13 |
0.03% |
 |
Shantha Dharmadwaja |
5 |
0.01% |
 |
P. Nelson Perera |
5 |
0.01% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
43077 |
99.15% |
| Rejected |
369 |
0.85% |
| Polled |
43446 |
73.98% |
| Electors |
58728 |
|
| |
|
|
| 1999 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
19126 |
47.58% |
 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
18683 |
46.48% |
 |
Nandana Gunathilaka |
1346 |
3.35% |
 |
Harishchandra W'tunga |
412 |
1.03% |
 |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara |
324 |
0.81% |
 |
Abdul Rasool |
86 |
0.21% |
 |
Rajiva Wijesinha |
78 |
0.19% |
 |
Tennyson Edirisuriya |
44 |
0.11% |
 |
W.V.M. Ranjith |
33 |
0.08% |
 |
Ariyawansha Dissanayaka |
20 |
0.05% |
 |
Kamal Karunadasa |
17 |
0.04% |
 |
Alwis Premawardhana |
16 |
0.04% |
 |
Hudson Samarasinghe |
9 |
0.02% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
40194 |
96.53% |
| Rejected |
1446 |
3.47% |
| Polled |
41640 |
71.29% |
| Electors |
58407 |
|
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