| 2005 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Mahinda Rajapaksha |
41936 |
53.02% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
36227 |
45.80% |
 |
Siritunga Jayasuriya |
281 |
0.36% |
 |
Ashoka Suraweera |
209 |
0.26% |
 |
Victor Hettigoda |
114 |
0.14% |
 |
Chamil Jayaneththi |
88 |
0.11% |
 |
Anura De Silva |
66 |
0.08% |
 |
Aruna De Zoysa |
51 |
0.06% |
 |
Wije Dias |
36 |
0.05% |
 |
Wimal Geeganage |
33 |
0.04% |
 |
J.A. Ajith Kumara |
31 |
0.04% |
 |
P. Nelson Perera |
16 |
0.02% |
 |
Shantha Dharmadwaja |
10 |
0.01% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
79098 |
98.92% |
| Rejected |
865 |
1.08% |
| Polled |
79963 |
79.12% |
| Electors |
101065 |
|
| |
|
|
| 1999 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
33957 |
52.1% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
26903 |
41.27% |
 |
Nandana Gunathilaka |
2976 |
4.57% |
 |
Harishchandra W'tunga |
334 |
0.51% |
 |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara |
300 |
0.46% |
 |
W.V.M. Ranjith |
158 |
0.24% |
 |
Rajiva Wijesinha |
123 |
0.19% |
 |
Tennyson Edirisuriya |
113 |
0.17% |
 |
Abdul Rasool |
109 |
0.17% |
 |
Kamal Karunadasa |
91 |
0.14% |
 |
Alwis Premawardhana |
47 |
0.07% |
 |
Hudson Samarasinghe |
41 |
0.06% |
 |
Ariyawansha Dissanayaka |
30 |
0.05% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
65182 |
97.76% |
| Rejected |
1495 |
2.24% |
| Polled |
66677 |
75.84% |
| Electors |
87913 |
|
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