| 2005 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Mahinda Rajapaksha |
45537 |
55.00% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
36345 |
43.89% |
 |
Siritunga Jayasuriya |
227 |
0.27% |
 |
Ashoka Suraweera |
196 |
0.24% |
 |
Victor Hettigoda |
145 |
0.18% |
 |
Chamil Jayaneththi |
85 |
0.10% |
 |
Anura De Silva |
70 |
0.08% |
 |
Wimal Geeganage |
62 |
0.07% |
 |
J.A. Ajith Kumara |
42 |
0.05% |
 |
Aruna De Zoysa |
38 |
0.05% |
 |
Wije Dias |
28 |
0.03% |
 |
Shantha Dharmadwaja |
13 |
0.02% |
 |
P. Nelson Perera |
13 |
0.02% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
82801 |
98.83% |
| Rejected |
982 |
1.17% |
| Polled |
83783 |
77.90% |
| Electors |
107553 |
|
| |
|
|
| 1999 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
38075 |
52.86% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
28456 |
39.51% |
 |
Nandana Gunathilaka |
4213 |
5.85% |
 |
Harishchandra W'tunga |
415 |
0.58% |
 |
Abdul Rasool |
198 |
0.27% |
 |
W.V.M. Ranjith |
150 |
0.21% |
 |
Tennyson Edirisuriya |
116 |
0.16% |
 |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara |
112 |
0.16% |
 |
Rajiva Wijesinha |
106 |
0.15% |
 |
Kamal Karunadasa |
82 |
0.11% |
 |
Hudson Samarasinghe |
50 |
0.07% |
 |
Ariyawansha Dissanayaka |
31 |
0.04% |
 |
Alwis Premawardhana |
21 |
0.03% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
72025 |
97.8% |
| Rejected |
1619 |
2.2% |
| Polled |
73644 |
75.99% |
| Electors |
96907 |
|
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