| 2005 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Mahinda Rajapaksha |
37829 |
61.69% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
22941 |
37.41% |
 |
Ashoka Suraweera |
162 |
0.26% |
 |
Siritunga Jayasuriya |
127 |
0.21% |
 |
Victor Hettigoda |
77 |
0.13% |
 |
Aruna De Zoysa |
37 |
0.06% |
 |
Chamil Jayaneththi |
36 |
0.06% |
 |
J.A. Ajith Kumara |
28 |
0.05% |
 |
Wimal Geeganage |
26 |
0.04% |
 |
Anura De Silva |
23 |
0.04% |
 |
Wije Dias |
19 |
0.03% |
 |
P. Nelson Perera |
10 |
0.02% |
 |
Shantha Dharmadwaja |
7 |
0.01% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
61322 |
99.22% |
| Rejected |
483 |
0.78% |
| Polled |
61805 |
77.47% |
| Electors |
79784 |
|
| |
|
|
| 1999 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
28865 |
55.79% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
18743 |
36.22% |
 |
Nandana Gunathilaka |
3273 |
6.33% |
 |
Harishchandra W'tunga |
276 |
0.53% |
 |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara |
156 |
0.3% |
 |
Abdul Rasool |
94 |
0.18% |
 |
W.V.M. Ranjith |
86 |
0.17% |
 |
Rajiva Wijesinha |
72 |
0.14% |
 |
Tennyson Edirisuriya |
72 |
0.14% |
 |
Kamal Karunadasa |
54 |
0.1% |
 |
Hudson Samarasinghe |
19 |
0.04% |
 |
Alwis Premawardhana |
18 |
0.03% |
 |
Ariyawansha Dissanayaka |
15 |
0.03% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
51743 |
96.66% |
| Rejected |
1790 |
3.34% |
| Polled |
53533 |
73.74% |
| Electors |
72593 |
|
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