| 2005 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
30979 |
56.90% |
 |
Mahinda Rajapaksha |
22733 |
41.75% |
 |
Siritunga Jayasuriya |
203 |
0.37% |
 |
Ashoka Suraweera |
181 |
0.33% |
 |
Victor Hettigoda |
90 |
0.17% |
 |
Chamil Jayaneththi |
55 |
0.10% |
 |
Anura De Silva |
45 |
0.08% |
 |
Wimal Geeganage |
45 |
0.08% |
 |
Aruna De Zoysa |
40 |
0.07% |
 |
J.A. Ajith Kumara |
29 |
0.05% |
 |
Wije Dias |
24 |
0.04% |
 |
P. Nelson Perera |
14 |
0.03% |
 |
Shantha Dharmadwaja |
7 |
0.01% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
54445 |
98.68% |
| Rejected |
726 |
1.32% |
| Polled |
55171 |
76.80% |
| Electors |
71840 |
|
| |
|
|
| 1999 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
22192 |
47.86% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
21920 |
47.27% |
 |
Nandana Gunathilaka |
1199 |
2.59% |
 |
Harishchandra W'tunga |
251 |
0.54% |
 |
Abdul Rasool |
240 |
0.52% |
 |
W.V.M. Ranjith |
139 |
0.3% |
 |
Rajiva Wijesinha |
124 |
0.27% |
 |
Tennyson Edirisuriya |
83 |
0.18% |
 |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara |
68 |
0.15% |
 |
Kamal Karunadasa |
58 |
0.13% |
 |
Hudson Samarasinghe |
45 |
0.1% |
 |
Alwis Premawardhana |
31 |
0.07% |
 |
Ariyawansha Dissanayaka |
22 |
0.05% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
46372 |
97.47% |
| Rejected |
1204 |
2.53% |
| Polled |
47576 |
76.13% |
| Electors |
62497 |
|
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