| 2005 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Mahinda Rajapaksha |
20743 |
56.59% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
15460 |
42.18% |
 |
Siritunga Jayasuriya |
133 |
0.36% |
 |
Ashoka Suraweera |
125 |
0.34% |
 |
Aruna De Zoysa |
36 |
0.10% |
 |
Victor Hettigoda |
34 |
0.09% |
 |
Wije Dias |
28 |
0.08% |
 |
Wimal Geeganage |
26 |
0.07% |
 |
Chamil Jayaneththi |
20 |
0.05% |
 |
J.A. Ajith Kumara |
19 |
0.05% |
 |
Anura De Silva |
16 |
0.04% |
 |
P. Nelson Perera |
8 |
0.02% |
 |
Shantha Dharmadwaja |
4 |
0.01% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
36652 |
99.21% |
| Rejected |
291 |
0.79% |
| Polled |
36943 |
75.66% |
| Electors |
48826 |
|
| |
|
|
| 1999 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
17524 |
53.43% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
13372 |
40.77% |
 |
Nandana Gunathilaka |
1466 |
4.47% |
 |
Harishchandra W'tunga |
101 |
0.31% |
 |
W.V.M. Ranjith |
75 |
0.23% |
 |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara |
60 |
0.18% |
 |
Tennyson Edirisuriya |
54 |
0.16% |
 |
Rajiva Wijesinha |
53 |
0.16% |
 |
Abdul Rasool |
37 |
0.11% |
 |
Kamal Karunadasa |
29 |
0.09% |
 |
Ariyawansha Dissanayaka |
12 |
0.04% |
 |
Hudson Samarasinghe |
9 |
0.03% |
 |
Alwis Premawardhana |
8 |
0.02% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
32800 |
98.38% |
| Rejected |
539 |
1.62% |
| Polled |
33339 |
72.81% |
| Electors |
45790 |
|
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