| 2005 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Mahinda Rajapaksha |
50481 |
58.50% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
34749 |
40.27% |
 |
Siritunga Jayasuriya |
341 |
0.40% |
 |
Ashoka Suraweera |
279 |
0.32% |
 |
Victor Hettigoda |
105 |
0.12% |
 |
Anura De Silva |
72 |
0.08% |
 |
Chamil Jayaneththi |
63 |
0.07% |
 |
Wimal Geeganage |
59 |
0.07% |
 |
Aruna De Zoysa |
52 |
0.06% |
 |
J.A. Ajith Kumara |
40 |
0.05% |
 |
P. Nelson Perera |
23 |
0.03% |
 |
Wije Dias |
21 |
0.02% |
 |
Shantha Dharmadwaja |
6 |
0.01% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
86291 |
99.00% |
| Rejected |
870 |
1.00% |
| Polled |
87161 |
81.23% |
| Electors |
107308 |
|
| |
|
|
| 1999 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
40384 |
55.05% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
28430 |
38.76% |
 |
Nandana Gunathilaka |
3262 |
4.45% |
 |
Harishchandra W'tunga |
384 |
0.52% |
 |
W.V.M. Ranjith |
171 |
0.23% |
 |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara |
154 |
0.21% |
 |
Tennyson Edirisuriya |
154 |
0.21% |
 |
Rajiva Wijesinha |
139 |
0.19% |
 |
Kamal Karunadasa |
90 |
0.12% |
 |
Abdul Rasool |
78 |
0.11% |
 |
Alwis Premawardhana |
40 |
0.05% |
 |
Hudson Samarasinghe |
37 |
0.05% |
 |
Ariyawansha Dissanayaka |
31 |
0.04% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
73354 |
980.41% |
| Rejected |
1467 |
19.61% |
| Polled |
7482 |
8.04% |
| Electors |
93107 |
|
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