| 2005 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Mahinda Rajapaksha |
64433 |
59.18% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
43477 |
39.93% |
 |
Siritunga Jayasuriya |
242 |
0.22% |
 |
Ashoka Suraweera |
206 |
0.19% |
 |
Victor Hettigoda |
184 |
0.17% |
 |
Chamil Jayaneththi |
68 |
0.06% |
 |
Wimal Geeganage |
64 |
0.06% |
 |
Aruna De Zoysa |
62 |
0.06% |
 |
Anura De Silva |
55 |
0.05% |
 |
J.A. Ajith Kumara |
44 |
0.04% |
 |
Wije Dias |
25 |
0.02% |
 |
P. Nelson Perera |
19 |
0.02% |
 |
Shantha Dharmadwaja |
3 |
0.00% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
108882 |
99.06% |
| Rejected |
1035 |
0.94% |
| Polled |
109917 |
77.42% |
| Electors |
141974 |
|
| |
|
|
| 1999 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
46823 |
55.66% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
30859 |
36.68% |
 |
Nandana Gunathilaka |
4878 |
5.8% |
 |
Harishchandra W'tunga |
662 |
0.79% |
 |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara |
267 |
0.32% |
 |
W.V.M. Ranjith |
140 |
0.17% |
 |
Tennyson Edirisuriya |
129 |
0.15% |
 |
Rajiva Wijesinha |
102 |
0.12% |
 |
Abdul Rasool |
91 |
0.11% |
 |
Kamal Karunadasa |
69 |
0.08% |
 |
Alwis Premawardhana |
37 |
0.04% |
 |
Ariyawansha Dissanayaka |
34 |
0.04% |
 |
Hudson Samarasinghe |
32 |
0.04% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
84123 |
97.25% |
| Rejected |
2383 |
2.75% |
| Polled |
86506 |
74.21% |
| Electors |
116577 |
|
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