| 2005 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
156343 |
81.02% |
 |
Mahinda Rajapaksha |
33453 |
17.34% |
 |
Siritunga Jayasuriya |
1631 |
0.85% |
 |
Ashoka Suraweera |
689 |
0.36% |
 |
Victor Hettigoda |
182 |
0.09% |
 |
Anura De Silva |
125 |
0.06% |
 |
Chamil Jayaneththi |
115 |
0.06% |
 |
Wije Dias |
90 |
0.05% |
 |
Aruna De Zoysa |
79 |
0.04% |
 |
P. Nelson Perera |
74 |
0.04% |
 |
J.A. Ajith Kumara |
73 |
0.04% |
 |
Wimal Geeganage |
67 |
0.03% |
 |
Shantha Dharmadwaja |
40 |
0.02% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
192961 |
98.55% |
| Rejected |
2841 |
1.45% |
| Polled |
195802 |
79.57% |
| Electors |
246062 |
|
| |
|
|
| 1999 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
87653 |
53.09% |
 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
70497 |
42.7% |
 |
Nandana Gunathilaka |
1897 |
1.15% |
 |
W.V.M. Ranjith |
1128 |
0.68% |
 |
Rajiva Wijesinha |
1074 |
0.65% |
 |
Tennyson Edirisuriya |
672 |
0.41% |
 |
Harishchandra W'tunga |
591 |
0.36% |
 |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara |
489 |
0.3% |
 |
Kamal Karunadasa |
326 |
0.2% |
 |
Abdul Rasool |
322 |
0.2% |
 |
Hudson Samarasinghe |
244 |
0.15% |
 |
Alwis Premawardhana |
102 |
0.06% |
 |
Ariyawansha Dissanayaka |
102 |
0.06% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
165097 |
97.13% |
| Rejected |
4885 |
2.87% |
| Polled |
169982 |
78.68% |
| Electors |
216038 |
|
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