| 2005 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Mahinda Rajapaksha |
56759 |
59.51% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
37772 |
39.60% |
 |
Siritunga Jayasuriya |
211 |
0.22% |
 |
Ashoka Suraweera |
198 |
0.21% |
 |
Victor Hettigoda |
155 |
0.16% |
 |
Aruna De Zoysa |
60 |
0.06% |
 |
Chamil Jayaneththi |
55 |
0.06% |
 |
Wimal Geeganage |
50 |
0.05% |
 |
Anura De Silva |
42 |
0.04% |
 |
J.A. Ajith Kumara |
35 |
0.04% |
 |
Wije Dias |
29 |
0.03% |
 |
P. Nelson Perera |
10 |
0.01% |
 |
Shantha Dharmadwaja |
4 |
0.00% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
95380 |
99.06% |
| Rejected |
901 |
0.94% |
| Polled |
96281 |
78.89% |
| Electors |
122039 |
|
| |
|
|
| 1999 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
46703 |
58.69% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
27771 |
34.9% |
 |
Nandana Gunathilaka |
3941 |
4.95% |
 |
Harishchandra W'tunga |
402 |
0.51% |
 |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara |
171 |
0.21% |
 |
W.V.M. Ranjith |
122 |
0.15% |
 |
Tennyson Edirisuriya |
113 |
0.14% |
 |
Rajiva Wijesinha |
103 |
0.13% |
 |
Abdul Rasool |
99 |
0.12% |
 |
Kamal Karunadasa |
62 |
0.08% |
 |
Hudson Samarasinghe |
30 |
0.04% |
 |
Ariyawansha Dissanayaka |
30 |
0.04% |
 |
Alwis Premawardhana |
27 |
0.03% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
79574 |
97.78% |
| Rejected |
1809 |
2.22% |
| Polled |
81383 |
75.56% |
| Electors |
107701 |
|
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