| 2005 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
33553 |
79.39% |
 |
Mahinda Rajapaksha |
7936 |
18.78% |
 |
Siritunga Jayasuriya |
276 |
0.65% |
 |
Ashoka Suraweera |
155 |
0.37% |
 |
Chamil Jayaneththi |
68 |
0.16% |
 |
Victor Hettigoda |
62 |
0.15% |
 |
Wimal Geeganage |
40 |
0.09% |
 |
Aruna De Zoysa |
37 |
0.09% |
 |
J.A. Ajith Kumara |
37 |
0.09% |
 |
Wije Dias |
37 |
0.09% |
 |
Anura De Silva |
33 |
0.08% |
 |
P. Nelson Perera |
15 |
0.04% |
 |
Shantha Dharmadwaja |
13 |
0.03% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
42262 |
98.22% |
| Rejected |
766 |
1.78% |
| Polled |
43028 |
41.02% |
| Electors |
104884 |
|
| |
|
|
| 1999 |
| Candidate |
Votes |
% |
 |
Ranil Wickramasinghe |
27621 |
76.13% |
 |
Chandrika Kumaratunga |
6845 |
18.87% |
 |
Nandana Gunathilaka |
427 |
1.18% |
 |
Rajiva Wijesinha |
326 |
0.9% |
 |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara |
293 |
0.81% |
 |
W.V.M. Ranjith |
257 |
0.71% |
 |
Abdul Rasool |
178 |
0.49% |
 |
Tennyson Edirisuriya |
142 |
0.39% |
 |
Harishchandra W'tunga |
55 |
0.15% |
 |
Hudson Samarasinghe |
45 |
0.12% |
 |
Kamal Karunadasa |
42 |
0.12% |
 |
Alwis Premawardhana |
27 |
0.07% |
 |
Ariyawansha Dissanayaka |
24 |
0.07% |
| Statistics |
| Valid |
36282 |
97.4% |
| Rejected |
968 |
2.6% |
| Polled |
37250 |
42.83% |
| Electors |
86970 |
|
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