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Kalutara Electoral District

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Kalutara
Electoral District
for the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Administrative
District
Kalutara
ProvinceWestern
Polling divisions8
Population1,118,000[1] (2008)
Electorate813,233[2] (2010)
Area1,598 km2 (617 sq mi)[3]
Current Electoral District
Number of members11
MPs
  NPP (8)

Kalutara electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Kalutara in the Western province. The district currently elects 10 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 813,233 registered electors in 2010.[2] The district is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 03.[4]

Polling Divisions

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The Kalutara Electoral District consists of the following polling divisions:[4]

A: Panadura

B: Bandaragama

C: Horana

D: Bulathsinhala

E: Matugama

F: Kalutara

G: Beruwala

H: Agalawatta

Presidential elections

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1982 presidential election

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Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982:[5]

Candidate Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes %
Agalawatta
  Junius
Jayewardene
UNP 25,681 26,631 27,951 21,486 27,056 26,167 24,494 26,648 5,478 211,592 50.15%
  Hector
Kobbekaduwa
SLFP 21,041 25,500 22,349 20,068 23,518 22,992 23,154 23,861 3,391 185,874 44.06%
  Rohana
Wijeweera
JVP 2,043 1,583 1,812 998 1,361 2,306 2,164 2,011 221 14,499 3.44%
  Colvin R. de
Silva
LSSP 2,079 730 608 521 359 1,707 537 1,776 296 8,613 2.04%
  Vasudeva
Nanayakkara
NSSP 79 81 42 57 186 112 89 189 36 871 0.21%
  Kumar
Ponnambalam
ACTC 80 35 39 64 48 39 107 27 4 443 0.11%
Valid Votes 51,003 54,560 52,801 43,194 52,528 53,323 50,545 54,512 9,426 421,892 100.00%
Rejected Votes 944 628 544 582 459 612 741 677 103 5,290
Total Polled 51,947 55,188 53,345 43,776 52,987 53,935 51,286 55,189 9,529 427,182
Registered Electors 62,890 65,013 64,357 51,297 61,356 64,944 61,809 67,549 499,215
Turnout 82.60% 84.89% 82.89% 85.34% 86.36% 83.05% 82.97% 81.70% 85.57%

1988 presidential election

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Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988:[6]

Candidate Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes %
  Sirimavo
Bandaranaike
SLFP 15,255 26,897 21,920 18,491 24,116 22,425 19,908 28,366 2,383 179,761 49.57%
  Ranasinghe
Premadasa
UNP 15,155 26,066 20,529 18,705 23,868 22,551 17,917 22,701 2,018 169,510 46.74%
  Ossie
Abeygunasekara
SLMP 905 2,261 952 743 1,339 2,559 836 3,548 232 13,375 3.69%
Valid Votes 31,315 55,224 43,401 37,939 49,323 47,535 38,661 54,615 4,633 362,646 100.00%
Rejected Votes 521 871 700 880 632 1,161 716 799 257 6,537
Total Polled 31,836 56,095 44,101 38,819 49,955 48,696 39,377 55,414 4,890 369,183
Registered Electors 70,991 73,585 73,408 58,030 69,405 75,912 70,457 78,330 570,118
Turnout 44.85% 76.23% 60.08% 66.89% 71.98% 64.15% 55.89% 70.74% 64.76%

1994 presidential election

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Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994:[7]

Candidate Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes %
  Chandrika
Kumaratunga
PA 32,467 40,503 36,364 27,072 36,064 37,490 33,726 42,951 9,049 295,686 61.47%
  Srima
Dissanayake
UNP 21,903 23,655 23,487 20,094 21,886 22,209 20,667 20,032 4,533 178,466 37.10%
  Hudson
Samarasinghe
Ind 2 322 315 246 281 351 237 286 166 9 2,213 0.46%
  Harischandra
Wijayatunga
SMBP 190 263 115 172 262 226 202 340 98 1,868 0.39%
  A. J.
Ranasinghe
Ind 1 163 187 135 131 212 170 168 198 34 1,398 0.29%
  Nihal
Galappaththi
SLPF 201 177 153 145 147 161 201 161 42 1,388 0.29%
Valid Votes 55,246 65,100 60,500 47,895 58,922 60,493 55,250 63,848 13,765 481,019 100.00%
Rejected Votes 893 929 660 772 932 929 1,045 922 227 7,309
Total Polled 56,139 66,029 61,160 48,667 59,854 61,422 56,295 64,770 13,992 488,328
Registered Electors 78,540 86,676 83,849 63,131 77,877 86,437 80,135 89,554 646,199
Turnout 71.48% 76.18% 72.94% 77.09% 76.86% 71.06% 70.25% 72.33% 75.57%

1999 presidential election

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Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999:[8]

Candidate Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes %
  Chandrika
Kumaratunga
PA 30,128 40,384 34,369 25,424 37,559 35,751 32,352 39,081 6,169 281,217 52.88%
  Ranil
Wickramasinghe
UNP 26,506 28,430 29,585 22,879 27,700 27,131 25,813 24,976 4,403 217,423 40.88%
  Nandana
Gunathilake
JVP 3,014 3,262 2,421 1,397 2,648 3,369 3,221 3,647 791 23,770 4.47%
  Harischandra
Wijayatunga
SMBP 227 384 148 184 308 386 316 596 172 2,721 0.51%
  W. V. M.
Ranjith
Ind 2 208 171 160 156 182 127 183 90 2 1,279 0.24%
  Tennyson
Edirisuriya
Ind 1 176 154 150 131 139 135 148 96 4 1,133 0.21%
  Rajiva
Wijesinha
LPSL 163 139 114 128 126 111 162 81 4 1,028 0.19%
  Vasudeva
Nanayakkara
LDA 78 154 81 45 130 131 75 242 67 1,003 0.19%
  Abdul
Rasool
SLMP 86 78 159 69 77 105 74 144 4 796 0.15%
  Kamal
Karunadasa
PLSF 76 90 70 69 79 77 83 60 4 608 0.11%
  Hudson
Samarasinghe
Ind 3 83 37 35 63 40 38 71 19 0 386 0.07%
  A. W.
Premawardhana
PFF 34 40 15 28 31 31 32 16 2 229 0.04%
  Ariyawansha
Dissanayaka
DUNF 34 31 14 24 21 21 35 25 11 216 0.04%
Valid Votes 60,813 73,354 67,321 50,597 69,040 67,413 62,565 69,073 11,633 531,809 100.00%
Rejected Votes 1,226 1,467 1,145 991 1,417 1,540 1,492 2,014 504 11,796
Total Polled 62,039 74,821 68,466 51,588 70,457 68,953 64,057 71,087 12,137 543,605
Registered Electors 82,145 93,107 87,513 66,212 86,680 90,723 84,575 91,768 682,723
Turnout 75.52% 80.36% 78.24% 77.91% 81.28% 76.00% 75.74% 77.46% 79.62%

2005 presidential election

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Results of the 5th presidential election held on 17 November 2005 for the district:[9]

Candidate Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes %
  Mahinda
Rajapaksa
UPFA 37,518 50,481 37,402 29,218 44,801 45,143 40,006 46,097 11,027 341,693 55.48%
  Ranil
Wickramasinghe
UNP 31,449 34,749 37,390 25,918 34,300 32,916 30,853 33,034 5,434 266,043 43.20%
  Siritunga
Jayasuriya
USP 408 341 372 371 293 237 379 216 6 2,623 0.43%
  A. A.
Suraweera
NDF 254 279 224 251 232 222 271 182 6 1,921 0.31%
  Victor
Hettigoda
ULPP 81 105 105 85 134 91 105 128 31 865 0.14%
  Chamil
Jayaneththi
NLF 91 63 84 81 68 63 67 85 12 614 0.10%
  Aruna
de Soyza
RPP 57 52 66 46 56 76 65 46 4 468 0.08%
  Anura
De Silva
ULF 56 72 55 36 53 43 58 47 4 424 0.07%
  Wimal
Geeganage
SLNF 57 59 48 66 54 48 60 25 5 422 0.07%
  A. K. J.
Arachchige
DUA 52 40 47 40 48 36 53 22 1 339 0.06%
  Wije
Dias
SEP 24 21 27 28 21 37 29 23 5 215 0.03%
  P. Nelson
Perera
SLPF 26 23 21 30 15 13 23 14 0 165 0.03%
  H. S.
Dharmadwaja
UNAF 8 6 10 9 14 5 13 2 1 68 0.01%
Valid Votes 70,081 86,291 75,851 56,179 80,089 78,930 71,982 79,921 16,536 615,860 100.00%
Rejected Votes 656 870 885 644 802 808 756 762 334 6,517
Total Polled 70,737 87,161 76,736 56,823 80,891 79,738 72,738 80,683 16,870 622,377
Registered Electors 89,979 107,308 99,026 71,080 100,085 102,020 93,479 101,328 764,305
Turnout 78.62% 81.23% 77.49% 79.94% 80.82% 78.16% 77.81% 79.63% 81.43%

2010 presidential election

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Results of the 6th presidential election held on 26 January 2010 for the district:[2]

Candidate Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes %
  Mahinda
Rajapaksa
UPFA 47,317 62,363 43,787 38,018 57,292 51,330 47,988 50,772 13,695 412,562 63.06%
  Sarath
Fonseka
NDF 23,717 32,290 35,678 19,073 27,818 29,719 26,016 31,319 6,177 231,807 35.43%
  A. A.
Suraweera
NDF 286 203 172 190 209 218 275 122 8 1,683 0.26%
  M. C. M.
Ismail
DUNF 168 140 133 233 155 129 183 96 5 1,242 0.19%
  C. J. Sugathsiri
Gamage
UDF 173 122 153 163 107 111 233 112 7 1,181 0.18%
  W. V. M.
Ranjith
Ind 1 195 156 124 103 130 133 124 100 10 1,075 0.16%
  A. S. P.
Liyanage
SLLP 107 107 80 119 89 76 108 77 2 765 0.12%
  Ukkubanda
Wijekoon
Ind 3 72 79 78 77 85 63 77 50 1 582 0.09%
  Siritunga
Jayasuriya
USP 83 57 44 69 65 43 73 34 4 472 0.07%
  Sarath
Manamendra
NSH 76 52 60 62 71 43 53 33 3 453 0.07%
  Lal
Perera
ONF 49 68 54 49 62 40 56 42 1 421 0.06%
  Aithurus
M. Illias
Ind 2 57 67 49 47 51 34 44 26 4 379 0.06%
  Vikramabahu
Karunaratne
LF 41 27 27 39 44 30 42 49 6 305 0.05%
  M. K.
Shivajilingam
Ind 5 36 33 12 40 39 24 47 15 2 248 0.04%
  Wije
Dias
SEP 23 29 22 41 27 25 34 19 4 224 0.03%
  Sanath
Pinnaduwa
NA 22 18 23 26 21 15 21 11 2 159 0.02%
  M. Mohamed
Musthaffa
Ind 4 18 13 16 24 22 17 21 22 1 154 0.02%
  Ven.Battaramulla
Seelarathana Thero
JP 25 22 10 23 13 7 29 10 4 143 0.02%
  Senaratna de
Silva
PNF 18 8 10 22 27 8 22 5 0 120 0.02%
  Aruna
de Soyza
RPP 14 15 12 21 18 7 17 16 0 120 0.02%
  M. B.
Thaminimulla
ACAKO 12 13 7 10 13 12 4 6 1 78 0.01%
  Sarath
Kongahage
UNAF 14 10 7 7 8 1 15 11 3 76 0.01%
Valid Votes 72,523 95,892 80,558 58,456 86,366 82,085 75,482 82,947 19,940 654,249 100.00%
Rejected Votes 486 558 523 423 666 581 564 553 187 4,541
Total Polled 73,009 96,450 81,081 58,879 87,032 82,666 76,046 83,500 20,127 658,790
Registered Electors 93,972 118,942 104,363 74,991 108,781 106,878 99,737 105,569 813,233
Turnout 77.69% 81.09% 77.69% 78.51% 80.01% 77.35% 76.25% 79.10% 81.01%

2015 presidential election

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Results of the 7th presidential election held on 8 January 2015:[10]

Candidate Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes %
  Mahinda
Rajapaksa
UPFA 44,750 61,199 37,424 37,311 57,633 48,851 45,984 45,908 14,830 395,890 52.65%
  Maithripala
Sirisena
NDF 33,950 48,469 53,280 28,341 42,065 44,804 38,668 46,820 12,962 349,404 46.46%
  R. A.
Sirisena
PNF 154 154 96 123 120 92 148 84 8 979 0.13%
  Namal
Rajapaksa
ONF 142 118 88 95 107 82 114 57 5 808 0.11%
  Duminda
Nagamuwa
FSP 79 89 93 74 76 92 96 71 25 695 0.09%
  A. S. P.
Liyanage
SLLP 67 68 113 79 62 60 94 54 8 605 0.08%
  R. Peduru
Arachchi
ULPP 87 75 75 78 52 58 94 37 4 560 0.07%
  M. I. Mohanmed
Mishlar
UPF 79 73 79 42 71 55 76 79 5 559 0.07%
  Aithurus
M. Illias
Ind 1 67 97 73 64 77 48 59 59 6 547 0.07%
  Siritunga
Jayasuriya
USP 55 73 37 49 64 43 57 31 7 416 0.06%
  Sarath
Manamendra
NSH 53 45 38 39 48 27 49 33 0 336 0.04%
  Pani
Wijesiriwardene
SEP 19 31 27 29 22 25 30 20 7 210 0.03%
  Ven.Battaramulla
Seelarathana Thero
JSP 21 36 20 11 25 24 20 34 15 206 0.03%
  M. B.
Theminimulla
ACAKO 25 24 28 19 19 20 20 20 3 178 0.02%
  Anurudha
Polgampola
Ind 2 18 22 23 24 22 23 27 10 2 171 0.02%
  Sundaram
Mahendran
NSSP 18 21 15 17 13 6 26 14 0 130 0.02%
  Prasanna
Priyankara
DNM 20 15 13 17 11 12 15 7 6 121 0.02%
  Jayantha
Kulathunga
ULGC 14 10 14 8 13 12 12 12 3 93 0.01%
  Wimal
Geeganage
SLNF 11 12 4 11 17 8 8 5 4 80 0.01%
Valid Votes 79,764 110,628 93,540 66,431 100,517 94,342 85,597 93,355 27,900 751,984 100.00%
Rejected Votes 1,002 999 951 716 952 905 1,063 1,152 641 8,381 1.1%
Total Polled 80,676 111,627 94,491 67,147 101,469 95,247 86,660 94,507 28,541 760,365 84.73%
Registered Electors 100,040 133,887 117,033 82,123 122,511 117,931 108,996 114,828 28,997 897,349

2019 presidential election

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Results of the 8th presidential election held on 16 November 2019:[11]

Candidate Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes %
  Gotabaya
Rajapaksa
SLPP 52,400 74,879 48,037 42,021 69,822 59,796 55,932 57,447 22,586 482,920 59.49%
  Sajith
Premadasa
NDF 28,744 38,981 47,654 25,407 32,967 34,076 31,451 35,761 9,172 284,213 35.01%
  Anura Kumara
Dissanayake
NMPP 2,319 4,312 3,172 1,468 3,532 4,034 3,028 3,904 1,912 27,681 3.41%
  Mahesh
Senanayake
NPP 203 432 252 169 412 542 257 649 297 3,213 0.40%
  Ajantha
Perera
SPSL 243 295 228 187 299 241 226 161 22 1,902 0.23%
  Rohan
Pallewatte
JSWP 182 206 127 169 239 157 199 184 48 1,511 0.19%
  M. L. A. M.
Hizbullah
Ind 11 185 193 266 151 146 179 164 137 19 1,440 0.18%
  Ariyawansa
Dissanayake
DUNF 149 124 142 93 120 98 139 85 6 956 0.12%
  Siripala
Amarasinghe
Ind 02 111 82 78 110 105 53 111 59 12 740 0.09%
  Duminda
Nagamuwa
FSP 67 108 97 74 75 109 93 89 27 739 0.09%
  Ajantha
de zoysa
RJP 106 74 97 78 81 71 84 55 10 637 0.08%
  Namal
Rajapaksa
NUA 53 77 60 68 93 75 96 58 10 590 0.07%
  Milroy
Fernando
Ind 09 83 87 91 67 61 59 85 50 4 587 0.07%
  Ven.Battaramulla
Seelarathana Thero
JSP 55 90 86 59 64 55 81 54 12 566 0.07%
  Jayantha
Ketagoda
Ind 07 62 59 58 42 64 40 82 34 4 445 0.05%
  Anuruddha
Polgampola
Ind 08 35 44 62 50 52 30 70 30 8 381 0.05%
  Ven.Aparekke
Punnananda Thero
Ind 01 41 52 49 44 47 39 46 33 16 367 0.05%
  Subramanium
Gunaratnam
ONF 40 35 54 50 44 34 75 25 4 361 0.04%
  A. S. P.
Liyanage
SLLP 45 32 48 34 30 27 39 17 1 273 0.03%
  Piyasiri
Wijenayake
Ind 13 24 36 42 25 36 30 38 18 4 253 0.03%
  Aruna
de soyza
DNM 33 30 24 29 35 18 25 20 4 218 0.03%
  Aithurus
M. Illias
Ind 03 30 32 33 21 33 24 22 16 2 213 0.03%
  Vajirapani
Wijesiriwardene
SEP 19 24 23 25 28 29 21 17 7 193 0.02%
  Sirithunga
Jayasuriya
USP 24 22 15 26 19 18 31 16 9 180 0.02%
  Sarath
Manamendra
NSU 22 20 23 20 23 21 29 13 1 172 0.02%
  Rajiva
Wijesinha
Ind 14 17 4 21 20 26 21 20 14 2 145 0.02%
  A. H. M.
Alavi
Ind 04 15 20 16 21 21 11 24 14 0 142 0.02%
  Ashoka
Wadigamangawa
Ind 12 18 15 13 18 21 18 21 10 2 136 0.02%
  M. K.
Shivajilingam
Ind 10 14 12 14 13 14 15 17 11 4 114 0.01%
  Priyantha
Edirisinghe
ACAKO 7 7 16 12 17 12 14 15 4 104 0.01%
  Saman
Perera
OPPP 10 14 22 13 16 7 7 7 8 104 0.01%
  Sarath
Keerthirathna
Ind 05 12 15 15 8 11 9 9 9 2 90 0.01%
  B. G.
Nandimithra
NSSP 8 7 9 10 13 6 15 5 2 75 0.01%
  Samaraweera
Weeravanni
Ind 15 7 10 6 12 14 8 8 8 0 73 0.01%
  Samansiri
Herath
Ind 06 8 7 4 3 3 3 7 3 1 39 0.00%
Valid Votes 85,391 120,437 100,954 70,617 108,583 99,965 92,566 99,028 34,222 811,763 100.00%
Rejected Votes 492 944 885 503 883 870 786 827 657 6,847 0.72%
Total Polled 85,883 121,381 101,839 71,120 109,466 100,835 93,352 99,855 34,879 818,610 85.71%
Registered Electors 99,484 140,999 121,486 82,439 128,005 119,526 109,804 118,719 35,218 955,079

2024 presidential election

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Results of the 9th presidential election held on 21 September 2024:[12]

Candidate Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Votes %
  Anura Kumara
Dissanayake
NPP 34,139 60,752 44,146 28,052 54,322 52,607 43,598 48,586 21,589 387,764 47.73%
  Sajith
Premadasa
SJB 29,833 33,363 39,007 23,773 27,090 25,006 27,738 25,032 5,465 236,307 28.91%
  Ranil
Wickremesinghe
Ind16 13,518 21,996 14,583 11,903 23,064 17,078 16,046 17,641 7,456 143,285 17.53%
  Namal
Rajapaksa
SLPP 3,117 3,573 2,414 2,693 3,024 1,997 2,580 2,666 663 22,727 2.7%
  Dilith
Jayaweera
SLCP 896 1,876 510 729 1,786 1,293 890 1,891 390 10,261 1.26%
  K. K.
Piyadasa
Ind04 252 193 312 210 188 151 288 118 18 1,730 0.21%
  D. M.
Bandaranayake
Ind13 194 254 179 150 177 176 201 161 29 1,521 0.19%
  Sarath
Fonseka
Ind12 158 160 161 149 187 136 168 145 53 1,317 0.16%
  Nuwan
Bopege
SPF 114 145 118 90 80 198 118 104 43 1,013 0.12%
  Sarath
Keerthirathne
Ind05 117 133 132 124 135 108 135 69 7 960 0.12%
  Wijeyadasa
Rajapakshe
JPF 109 125 123 102 142 83 126 91 37 938 0.11%
  Suranjeewa
Anoj de Silva
DUNF 81 188 77 76 170 115 84 104 30 925 0.11%
  Namal
Rajapaksa
SBP 113 123 80 96 106 58 105 78 30 789 0.1%
  Anuruddha
Polgampola
Ind11 97 114 105 98 102 75 87 89 6 773 0.09%
  Ven.Akmeemana
Dayarathana Thero
Ind01 91 84 60 78 92 85 83 61 18 652 0.08%
  K. R.
Krishan
APP 124 73 68 80 83 47 103 31 2 611 0.07%
  Ajantha
de Zoyza
RJA 72 99 73 56 74 67 80 51 10 582 0.07%
  Priyantha
Wickremesinghe
NSSP 67 91 58 50 89 62 85 46 13 561 0.07%
  Siripala
Amarasinghe
Ind02 67 61 64 59 49 46 65 43 5 459 0.06%
  Ven.Battaramulle
Seelarathana Thero
JSP 51 79 28 40 68 56 37 63 12 434 0.05%
  Victor
Anthony Perera
Ind10 79 42 47 60 50 29 61 24 3 395 0.05%
  Sirithunga
Jayasuriya
USP 57 46 48 59 44 28 45 47 3 377 0.05%
  Premasiri
Manage
Ind14 56 39 40 59 31 23 41 28 1 318 0.04%
  Abubakar Mohamed
Infaz
DUA 35 34 52 46 37 20 38 32 5 299 0.04%
  Mahinda
Dewage
SLSP 35 42 27 23 33 37 33 21 7 258 0.03%
  Roshan
Ranasinghe
Ind15 20 32 23 16 32 26 26 60 14 249 0.03%
  Keerthi
Wickremeratne
AJP 24 40 23 26 40 16 35 30 7 241 0.03%
  Oshala
Herath
NIF 21 32 26 24 37 36 26 22 6 230 0.03%
  P. W. S. K.
Bandaranayake
NDF 28 38 34 30 26 21 29 16 1 223 0.03%
  Vajirapani
Wijesiriwardene
SEP 28 39 18 41 20 12 30 24 5 217 0.03%
  Ananda
Kularatne
Ind06 27 26 41 18 32 21 28 22 1 216 0.03%
  Pakkiyaselvam
Ariyanethiran
Ind09 24 26 28 26 30 19 43 15 4 215 0.03%
  Lalith
De Silva
UNFP 16 19 26 29 17 19 18 25 7 176 0.03%
  Sidney
Jayarathna
Ind07 25 25 18 15 19 20 16 14 2 154 0.02%
  Janaka
Ratnayake
ULPP 18 15 15 19 17 6 13 11 10 124 0.02%
  Sarath
Manamendra
NSU 8 16 13 6 10 11 6 8 2 80 0.01%
  A. S. P.
Liyanage
SLLP 7 15 13 10 8 5 8 7 2 75 0.01%
  Mylvanagam
Thilakarajah
Ind08 10 9 14 7 5 5 7 2 3 62 0.01%
Valid Votes 83,518 124,017 102,804 69,098 111,516 99,798 93,120 94,478 35,979 817,518 100.00%
Rejected Votes 1,448 2,403 1,751 1,734 2,437 1,859 1,792 2,056 763 16,243 1.95%
Total Polled 85,176 126,420 104,555 70,832 113,953 101,657 94,912 99,534 36,722 833,761 81.4%
Registered Electors 104,424 154,272 130,456 86,639 140,590 127,561 117,866 125,088 37,348 1,024,244

Preferential votes[13]

6,135 8,517
Anura Kumara Dissanayake Sajith Premadasa

Parliamentary general election

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1989 parliamentary general election

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Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989 for the district:[14]

Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes % Seats
  United National Party[a] 16,311 24,894 19,298 16,360 25,770 17,840 13,643 20,473 5,480 160,069 49.84% 6
  Sri Lanka Freedom Party 11,397 23,202 12,976 12,024 17,658 14,374 12,156 23,778 3,945 131,510 40.94% 5
  Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 158 1,968 5,250 321 129 2,248 436 2,428 33 12,971 4.04% 0
  United Socialist Alliance[b] 679 1,764 642 207 1,778 3,311 414 3,025 522 12,342 3.84% 0
  Mahajana Eksath Peramuna 101 369 112 253 839 122 108 641 145 2,690 0.84% 0
  United Lanka People's Party 175 167 224 156 103 247 312 165 62 1,611 0.50% 0
Valid Votes 28,821 52,364 38,502 29,321 46,277 38,142 27,069 50,510 10,187 321,193 100.00% 11
Rejected Votes 2,545 2,550 2,214 2,463 2,883 2,407 2,621 2,162 294 20,139
Total Polled 31,366 54,914 40,716 31,784 49,160 40,549 29,690 52,672 10,481 341,332
Registered Electors 69,937 72,270 72,355 57,111 67,915 73,971 68,955 76,836 10,843 570,193
Turnout 44.85% 75.98% 56.27% 55.65% 72.38% 54.82% 43.06% 68.55% 96.66% 59.86%
Preferential votes[14]
Alliance Party Candidate votes
  SLFP   SLFP Thilak Karunaratne 54,339
  UNP   UNP Indradasa Hettiarachchi 54,099
  SLFP   SLFP Sumitha Priyanganie Abeyweera 51,494
  SLFP   SLFP Neville Fernando 40,977
  SLFP   SLFP Anil Moonesinghe 40,320
  UNP   UNP Punsiri Samaranayake 36,150
  UNP   UNP Imthiaz Bakeer Markar 35,433
  UNP   UNP P. D. Abeyratne 30,292
  SLFP   SLFP Mangala Moonesinghe 28,522
  UNP   UNP Mervin Joseph Cooray 27,130
  UNP   UNP Sarath Ranawaka 20,983

1994 parliamentary general election

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Results of the 10th parliamentary election held on 16 August 1994 for the district:[15]

Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes % Seats
  People's Alliance[c] 31,009 37,374 33,686 24,364 32,374 34,349 30,514 39,309 8,775 271,754 53.77% 6
  United National Party [d] 27,007 28,531 29,063 23,755 27,562 27,482 26,520 25,692 5,503 221,115 43.75% 4
  Sri Lanka Progressive Front[e] 693 774 809 226 515 1,107 969 970 175 6,238 1.23% 0
  Mahajana Eksath Peramuna 402 707 776 305 771 727 670 1,163 393 5,914 1.17% 0
  People's Freedom Front 54 31 42 35 50 27 54 41 5 339 0.07% 0
Valid Votes 59,165 67,417 64,376 48,685 61,272 63,692 58,727 67,175 14,851 505,360 100.00% 10
Rejected Votes 3,818 3,059 2,805 3,121 2,656 3,029 4,034 2,642 233 25,397
Total Polled 62,983 70,476 67,181 51,806 63,928 66,721 62,761 69,817 15,084 530,757
Registered Electors 78,540 86,676 83,849 63,131 77,877 86,437 80,135 89,554 646,199
Turnout 80.19% 81.31% 80.12% 82.06% 82.09% 77.19% 78.32% 77.96% 82.14%
Preferential votes
Alliance Party Candidate votes
  PA   SLFP Ratnasiri Wickremanayake 88,213
  PA   SLFP Sumitha Priyanganie Abeyweera 85,661
  PA   SLFP Reginald Cooray 85,297
  PA   SLFP Kumara Welgama 79,056
  PA   SLFP Ediriweera Premarathna 70,041
  UNP   UNP Imthiaz Bakeer Markar 68,519
  UNP   UNP Thilak Karunarathna 63,206
  UNP   UNP Sarath Ranawaka 60,506
  UNP   UNP Mahinda Samarasinghe 59,150
  PA   SLFP Anil Moonesinghe 56,071

2000 parliamentary general election

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Results of the 11th parliamentary election held on 10 October 2000 for the district:[16]

Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes % Seats
  People's Alliance[f] 28,531 35,860 30,179 24,308 36,659 31,469 29,968 30,848 7,353 255,175 46.86% 5
  United National Party 27,665 27,434 29,392 22,812 27,259 26,641 25,518 25,994 4,500 217,215 39.89% 4
  Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna 4,128 5,534 3,988 2,037 4,191 5,516 4,709 7,047 1,223 38,373 7.05% 1
  Sinhala Heritage 835 2,760 1,565 597 1,233 2,428 1,648 4,035 518 15,619 2.87% 0
  National Unity Alliance [g] 153 1,688 3,671 471 82 2,464 519 2,857 38 11,943 2.19% 0
  New Left Front[h] 492 323 299 265 452 289 426 363 25 2,934 0.54% 0
  Citizen's
Front
67 48 185 52 76 47 80 75 12 642 0.12% 0
  Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya 92 81 33 52 80 80 52 146 21 637 0.12% 0
  Independent Group 4 70 55 64 38 48 32 56 37 0 400 0.07% 0
  Democratic United National Front 41 32 31 41 37 30 40 40 0 292 0.05% 0
  Left & Democratic Alliance 9 14 18 17 17 52 75 41 12 255 0.05% 0
  Independent Group 5 33 22 18 17 17 26 39 21 3 196 0.04% 0
  Independent Group 1 25 15 21 18 20 22 28 22 0 171 0.03% 0
  Sri Lanka Muslim Party 20 22 21 5 12 26 37 21 4 168 0.03% 0
  Independent Group 3 28 17 8 15 15 17 15 8 0 123 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 2 13 21 11 16 13 8 16 20 0 118 0.02% 0
  National Development Front 15 30 6 10 14 7 11 18 2 113 0.02% 0
  Sri Lanka Progressive Front 8 16 12 3 9 3 5 9 0 65 0.01% 0
  People's Freedom Front 4 6 6 6 3 6 6 4 0 41 0.01% 0
  Ruhuna People's Party 3 3 5 2 5 6 7 7 0 38 0.01% 0
Valid Votes 62,232 73,981 69,533 50,782 70,242 69,169 63,255 71,613 13,711 544,518 100.00% 10
Rejected Votes 3,534 3,159 2,885 3,046 2,928 3,385 3,672 2,792 330 25,731
Total Polled 65,766 77,140 72,418 53,828 73,170 72,554 66,927 74,405 14,041 570,249
Registered Electors 83,947 95,223 89,742 67,198 88,937 92,550 85,838 94,221 697,656
Turnout 78.34% 81.01% 80.70% 80.10% 82.27% 78.39% 77.97% 78.97% 81.74%

The following candidates were elected:[17]

Preferential votes
Alliance Party Candidate votes
  PA   SLFP Ratnasiri Wickremanayake 148,705
  UNP   UNP Mahinda Samarasinghe 82,511
  UNP   UNP Imthiaz Bakeer Markar 74,555
  UNP   UNP Rajitha Senaratne 73,382
  PA   SLFP Reginald Cooray 67,945
  PA   SLFP Tudor Dayaratne 63,636
  PA   SLFP Kumara Welgama 60,394
  PA   SLFP Ediriweera Premarathna 53,690
  UNP   UNP P. D. Aberatne 47,271
  JVP   JVP Nandana Gunathilake 5,628

2001 parliamentary general election

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Results of the 12th parliamentary election held on 5 December 2001 for the district:[18][19]

Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes % Seats
  United National Front [i] 29,734 33,272 36,709 24,592 31,462 32,344 29,290 32,013 4,923 254,339 45.94% 5
  People's Alliance [j] 25,147 32,966 25,641 20,909 31,788 28,693 25,761 29,288 6,275 226,468 40.91% 4
  Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna 6,599 8,544 6,581 3,976 7,013 8,768 7,697 9,435 1,835 60,451 10.92% 1
  Sinhala Heritage 297 845 455 215 476 736 552 1,367 160 5,103 0.92% 0
  New Left Front [k] 318 326 321 201 346 263 283 290 21 2,369 0.43% 0
  United Socialist Party 292 255 358 242 215 291 271 230 8 2,162 0.39% 0
  Muslim United Liberation Front 216 220 260 200 201 186 212 189 9 1,693 0.31% 0
  Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya 23 43 6 7 28 26 12 54 5 204 0.04% 0
  Independent Group 7 29 15 14 37 26 24 16 16 1 178 0.03% 0
  National Development Front 16 20 17 13 12 15 22 12 2 129 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 5 22 3 14 8 12 11 18 10 1 99 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 6 10 14 9 15 16 6 12 13 0 95 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 2 9 8 11 4 10 14 6 6 2 70 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 4 11 6 8 3 12 7 7 2 3 59 0.01% 0
  Ruhuna People's Party 3 5 9 6 8 5 6 9 4 55 0.01% 0
  Sri Lanka National Front 5 8 4 7 5 6 6 11 1 53 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 1 9 1 4 6 3 4 11 11 0 49 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 3 6 4 9 5 5 6 4 4 0 43 0.01% 0
Valid Votes 62,746 76,555 70,430 50,446 71,638 71,405 64,186 72,960 13,253 553,619 100.00% 10
Rejected Votes 4,963 3,912 3,903 3,730 3,779 3,911 4,472 3,655 292 32,617
Total Polled 67,709 80,467 74,333 54,176 75,417 75,316 68,658 76,615 13,545 586,236
Registered Electors 86,105 98,871 92,658 67,795 91,968 95,698 88,182 96,487 717,764
Turnout 78.64% 81.39% 80.22% 79.91% 82.00% 78.70% 77.86% 79.40% 81.68%

The following candidates were elected:[20]

Preferential votes
Alliance Party Candidate votes
  PA   SLFP Ratnasiri Wickremanayake 120,432
  UNF   UNP Mahinda Samarasinghe 108,583
  UNF   UNP Rajitha Senaratne 102,919
  UNF   UNP Imthiaz Bakeer Markar 89,147
  PA   SLFP Kumara Welgama 81,507
  PA   SLFP Tudor Dayaratne 55,181
  UNF   UNP P. D. Abeyratne 52,414
  PA   SLFP Rohitha Abeygunawardena 46,571
  UNF   UNP Ananda Lakshman Wijemanne 45,766
  JVP   JVP Nandana Gunathilake 8,312

2004 parliamentary general election

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Results of the 13th parliamentary election held on 2 April 2004 for the district:[21]

Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes % Seats
  United People's Freedom Alliance[l] 33,939 41,850 33,583 25,374 38,421 37,958 36,294 35,687 8,102 291,208 51.72% 6
  United National Front[m] 26,456 27,240 30,210 22,767 26,764 26,255 24,912 24,020 4,097 212,721 37.78% 3
  Jathika Hela Urumaya 2,538 8,989 6,751 2,621 7,166 8,324 4,542 14,274 1,410 56,615 10.06% 1
  New Left Front [n] 39 87 37 34 84 118 35 113 13 560 0.10% 0
  United Socialist Party 61 52 75 37 41 47 40 79 0 432 0.08% 0
  United Muslim People's Party 56 47 94 40 46 44 58 35 0 420 0.07% 0
  Independent Group 9 35 26 24 26 23 24 34 19 1 212 0.04% 0
  United Lalith Front 23 18 21 17 26 19 24 11 2 161 0.03% 0
  Independent Group 8 21 14 27 11 13 15 22 16 1 140 0.02% 0
  Swarajya
Party
16 18 4 13 28 6 6 8 1 100 0.02% 0
  Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya 9 10 12 5 12 7 9 12 3 79 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 1 10 3 7 6 4 7 14 4 1 56 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 7 7 6 2 4 7 4 4 5 4 43 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 6 4 8 5 5 3 3 6 6 1 41 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 2 2 5 7 6 6 3 5 1 0 35 0.01% 0
  Democratic United National Front 5 9 2 6 0 2 6 2 2 34 0.01% 0
  Ruhuna People's Party 6 8 3 1 4 3 3 4 0 32 0.01% 0
  Sri Lanka National Front 5 5 7 3 2 1 6 2 0 31 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 4 4 4 4 5 2 5 1 3 1 29 0.01% 0
  Sri Lanka Progressive Front 3 1 2 5 5 4 3 4 0 27 0.00% 0
  Independent Group 5 5 3 4 0 4 2 3 3 0 24 0.00% 0
  Independent Group 3 2 2 2 1 5 3 3 1 0 19 0.00% 0
Valid Votes 63,246 78,405 70,883 50,987 72,666 72,854 66,030 74,309 13,639 563,019 100.00% 10
Rejected Votes 4,665 3,826 3,912 3,728 3,407 3,766 4,000 3,240 197 30,741
Total Polled 67,911 82,231 74,795 54,715 76,073 76,620 70,030 77,549 13,836 593,760
Registered Electors 88,142 104,093 96,897 69,720 96,686 99,940 90,919 99,741 746,138
Turnout 77.05% 79.00% 77.19% 78.48% 78.68% 76.67% 77.02% 77.75% 79.58%
Preferential votes
Alliance Party Candidate votes
  UPFA   JVP Nandana Gunathilake 135,743
  UNF   UNP Rajitha Senaratne 97,001
  UPFA   JVP Jayantha Samaraweera 95,461
  UNF   UNP Mahinda Samarasinghe 93,758
  UPFA   SLFP Reginald Cooray [o] 78,693
  UPFA   JVP Piyasiri Wijenayake 75,982
  UPFA   SLFP Kumara Welgama 73,350
  UPFA   SLFP Rohitha Abeygunawardena 62,598
  UNF   UNP Sarath Ranawaka [p] 48,380
  JHU   JHU Ven.Athuraliye Rathana Thero 10,772

2010 parliamentary general election

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Results of the 14th parliamentary election held on 8 April 2010 for the district:[26]

Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes % Seats
  United People's Freedom Alliance[q] 35,541 44,927 32,709 29,522 44,136 38,300 35,920 37,818 14,963 313,836 63.68% 7
  United National Front [r] 14,402 19,017 21,737 11,737 16,613 16,838 17,295 18,022 3,935 139,596 28.32% 2
  Democratic National Alliance [s] 1,909 5,803 5,716 1,577 4,020 5,584 2,990 7,340 1,783 36,722 7.45% 1
  Our National Front 31 53 34 32 48 36 37 32 7 310 0.06% 0
  Independent Group 22 30 28 34 29 27 26 37 19 2 232 0.05% 0
  Independent Group 19 15 30 25 19 28 28 26 39 3 213 0.04% 0
  National Development Front 28 24 12 26 16 23 29 12 3 173 0.04% 0
  Sri Lanka National Front 1 16 0 0 123 3 5 21 3 172 0.03% 0
  Independent Group 9 5 45 4 21 53 9 8 2 1 148 0.03% 0
  United National Alternative Front 17 11 23 15 11 20 26 11 1 135 0.03% 0
  Left Liberation Front 8 16 13 4 26 14 10 34 2 127 0.03% 0
  Independent Group 5 14 20 15 11 8 20 14 10 0 112 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 20 17 26 4 10 17 9 12 7 0 102 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 3 8 11 14 8 28 13 7 4 2 95 0.02% 0
  United Democratic Front 11 12 15 5 12 10 12 10 2 89 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 4 6 16 13 14 9 12 10 7 1 88 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 21 9 8 11 9 12 4 10 6 1 70 0.01% 0
  Patriotic National Front 9 6 5 3 6 8 7 9 0 53 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 13 0 4 2 6 30 1 2 7 0 52 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 7 11 3 4 2 4 7 13 3 0 47 0.01% 0
  Janasetha Peramuna 3 6 19 3 7 1 5 2 1 47 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 15 4 3 11 2 5 5 4 11 0 45 0.01% 0
  All Are Citizens, All Are Kings Organisation 5 9 5 2 3 10 3 6 1 44 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 10 13 4 3 4 1 5 7 2 0 39 0.01% 0
  United Lanka Great Council 2 5 6 6 2 2 7 2 1 33 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 8 2 11 1 2 4 0 12 0 0 32 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 12 5 1 6 1 2 0 5 11 0 31 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 6 6 3 2 5 3 4 5 2 1 31 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 14 3 2 6 1 4 6 2 4 2 30 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 11 6 1 6 1 6 4 1 3 1 29 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 1 5 3 1 1 6 1 2 2 1 22 0.00% 0
  Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya 2 5 2 1 0 2 2 5 3 22 0.00% 0
  Sri Lanka Labour Party 6 1 1 1 4 2 1 2 2 20 0.00% 0
  Independent Group 2 3 2 4 3 0 3 2 2 0 19 0.00% 0
  Independent Group 16 3 2 0 3 1 2 1 1 1 14 0.00% 0
  Independent Group 18 2 1 0 3 2 0 4 1 0 13 0.00% 0
  Independent Group 17 1 1 1 4 2 2 1 0 0 12 0.00% 0
Valid Votes 52,143 70,136 60,464 43,093 65,279 61,014 56,534 63,469 20,723 492,855 100.00% 10
Rejected Votes 6,851 7,122 6,644 5,734 6,100 6,056 6,566 5,851 827 51,751
Total Polled 58,994 77,258 67,108 48,827 71,379 67,070 63,100 69,320 21,550 544,606
Registered Electors 93,972 118,942 104,363 74,991 108,781 106,878 99,737 105,569 813,233
Turnout 62.78% 64.95% 64.30% 65.11% 65.62% 62.75% 63.27% 65.66% 66.97%

The following candidates were elected:[27]

Preferential votes
Alliance Party Candidate votes
  UPFA   SLFP Kumara Welgama 124,766
  UPFA   SLFP Mahinda Samarasinghe 97,778
  UPFA   SLFP Nirmala Kotalawala 82,044
  UPFA   SLFP Rohitha Abeygunawardena 77,205
  UPFA   UNP Rajitha Senaratne 66,710
  UPFA   SLFP Reginald Cooray 60,196
  UNF   UNP Palitha Thewarapperuma 51,153
  UPFA   SLFP Vidura Wickremenayake 50,114
  UNF   UNP Ajith Perera 48,588
  DNA   DNA Arjuna Ranatunga 27,796

2015 parliamentary general election

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Results of the 15th parliamentary election held on 17 August 2015:[28]

Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes % Seats
  United People's Freedom Alliance[t] 38,125 53,314 33,142 31,612 50,024 40,837 38,114 40,809 12,824 338,801 48.56% 5
  United National Front for Good Governance[u] 37,731 42,069 47,987 26,254 36,325 39,525 35,267 39,190 11,866 310,234 44.47% 4
  Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna 2,860 6,180 3,670 2,052 5,037 5,775 4,087 6,253 2,561 38,475 5.52% 1
  Bodu Jana Peramuna 388 455 2,119 219 290 652 953 520 131 5,727 0.82% 0
  Democratic Party 109 340 102 121 166 217 159 477 105 4,706 0.26% 0
  Frontline Socialist Party 81 130 85 55 72 110 78 101 38 750 0.11% 0
  Our National Front 44 61 40 35 51 44 35 35 4 349 0.05% 0
  United Socialist Party 31 27 52 35 33 30 73 37 6 324 0.05% 0
  United People's Party 29 32 26 32 52 33 35 33 10 282 0.04% 0
  Independent Group 05 35 23 36 28 26 24 44 23 0 239 0.03% 0
  Independent Group 04 21 13 12 10 8 10 14 10 0 98 0.01% 0
  All Citizens are All Kings Organization 6 10 8 15 26 10 10 9 2 96 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 01 7 18 7 3 37 8 5 3 4 92 0.01% 0
  Nava Sama Samaja Party 25 4 7 6 11 2 19 10 1 85 0.01% 0
  Janasetha Peramuna 6 12 10 5 9 7 7 11 3 70 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 03 8 3 2 10 8 3 5 5 1 45 0.01% 0
  Motherland People's Party 2 2 20 2 4 4 3 3 2 42 0.01% 0
  United Lanka People's Party 4 0 7 2 12 4 8 3 0 40 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 02 7 2 3 7 3 2 3 3 1 31 0.00% 0
  Sri Lanka National Force 3 2 2 5 4 4 3 4 0 27 0.00% 0
  Democratic National Movement 3 1 2 3 1 3 4 1 2 20 0.00% 0
  Sri Lanka Labour Party 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 12 0.00% 0
Valid Votes 73,528 102,699 87,340 60,513 92,200 87,305 78,927 87,541 27,582 697,637 100.00% 10
Rejected Votes 2,691 2,734 2,782 2,340 2,760 2,425 2,978 2,232 424 21,366 2.97%
Total Polled 76,219 105,433 90,122 62,853 94,960 89,730 81,905 89,773 28,006 719,001 80.13%
Registered Electors 100,040 133,887 117,033 82,133 122,511 117,931 108,996 114,828 897,349
Preferential votes
Alliance Party Candidate[29] votes
  UPFA   SLFP Kumara Welgama 218,614
  UNFGG   DNM Rajitha Senaratne 142,196
  UNFGG   UNP Ajith Perera 131,383
  UPFA   SLFP Rohitha Abeygunawardena 127,040
  UNFGG   UNP Palitha Thewarapperuma 118,128
  UPFA   NFF Jayantha Samaraweera 101,139
  UPFA   SLFP Vidura Wickremenayake 90,488
  UPFA   SLFP Piyal Nishantha de Silva 71,428
  UNFGG   UNP Ananda Lakshman Wijemanna 58,219
  JVP   JVP Nalinda Jayatissa 24,853

2020 parliamentary general election

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Results of the 16th parliamentary election held on 5 August 2020:[30]

Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes % Seats
  Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance[v] 48,038 69,327 47,098 39,321 66,361 52,344 49,991 52,533 23,686 448,699 64.08% 8
  Samagi Jana Balawegaya[w] 17,504 22,469 34,029 15,077 17,510 18,582 19,005 21,416 6,396 171,988 24.56% 2
  National People's Power[x] 2,488 5,227 3,322 1,838 4,267 5,111 3,328 5,344 2,589 33,434 4.77% 0
  United National Party 1,481 2,481 1,236 1,520 1,573 2,251 2,873 1,967 1,183 16,485 2.35% 0
  Sri Lanka Freedom Party 1,252 2,855 525 524 649 1,915 1,671 944 644 10,979 1.57% 0
  Independent Group 01 56 276 1,152 195 68 3,614 516 172 158 6,207 0.89% 0
  Independent Group 05 163 210 498 212 79 335 174 2,780 38 4,489 0.64% 0
  Frontline Socialist Party 159 173 148 119 111 212 212 114 86 1,334 0.19% 0
  National Development Front 124 129 119 115 157 191 135 135 29 1,132 0.16% 0
  Independent Group 12 113 120 166 108 136 83 89 67 8 890 0.13% 0
  United Socialist Party 104 56 112 87 96 60 91 56 15 677 0.1% 0
  Independent Group 02 127 105 75 68 93 60 66 52 5 651 0.09% 0
  Socialist Party of Sri Lanka 66 88 73 52 85 67 72 52 6 561 0.08% 0
  Democratic United National Front 61 145 56 77 66 29 38 29 17 518 0.07% 0
  Sinhaladeepa National Front 34 66 58 34 49 68 38 60 23 430 0.06% 0
  Independent Group 13 47 34 73 36 88 31 46 28 4 387 0.06% 0
  Independent Group 03 21 37 32 13 66 62 22 20 6 279 0.04% 0
  Independent Group 04 30 37 28 36 19 21 36 15 9 231 0.03% 0
  Independent Group 07 22 20 39 21 23 32 25 17 4 203 0.03% 0
  Independent Group 08 23 26 25 16 17 28 19 25 10 189 0.03% 0
  Independent Group 10 38 13 24 15 17 12 22 10 3 154 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 09 17 12 24 18 18 16 18 9 2 134 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 11 10 27 31 12 15 11 13 5 2 126 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 06 10 8 8 10 8 7 11 12 5 79 0.01% 0
Valid Votes 71,828 103,941 88,951 59,524 91,571 85,142 78,509 85,862 34,928 1,182,776 100.00% 10
Rejected Votes 5,351 5,972 5,891 4,976 5,718 5,253 6,532 5,140 1,582 46,415 4.77%
Total Polled 77,197 109,913 94,842 64,500 97,289 90,395 85,041 91,002 36,510 746,671 76.79%
Registered Electors 100,140 143,708 123,063 83,201 130,927 120,922 111,541 120,770 37,777 972,319
Preferential votes
Alliance Party Candidate[31] votes
  SLPFA   SLPP Vidura Wickremenayake 147,958
  SLPFA   SLPP Rohitha Abeygunawardena 147,478
  SLPFA   SLPP Sanjeeva Edirimanna 105,973
  SLPFA   SLPP Piyal Nishantha de Silva 103,904
  SLPFA   NFF Jayantha Samaraweera 85,287
  SLPFA   SLPP Anupa Pasqual 97,777
  SJB   DNM Rajitha Senaratne 77,476
  SJB   NLFP Kumara Welgama 77,083
  SLPFA   SLPP Lalith Ellawala 76,705
  SLPFA   SLFP Mahinda Samarasinghe 58,514

Provincial council elections

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1988 provincial council election

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Results of the 1st Western provincial council election held on 2 June 1988[32]

Party Total Votes % Seats
  United National Party 127,270 50.36% 11
  United Socialist Alliance[y] 105,697 41.83% 10
  Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 18,029 7.13% 1
  Liberal Party of Sri Lanka 1,701 0.67% 0
Valid Votes 252,697 100.00% 23

1993 provincial council election

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Results of the 2nd Western provincial council election held on 17 May 1993:[33]

Party Votes % Seats
  United National Party 192,269 44.17% 10
  People's Alliance [z] 171,451 39.39% 9
  Democratic United National Front 59,864 13.75% 3
  Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 6,398 1.47% 1
  Nava Sama Samaja Party 3,704 0.85% 0
  People's Freedom Front 1,633 0.36% 0
Valid Votes 435,319 100.00% 23

1999 provincial council election

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Results of the 3rd Western provincial council election held on 10 July 2004 for the district:[34][35]

Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes % Seats
  United National Party 25,039 27,165 23,873 22,452 25,534 26,142 24,371 22,480 1,708 199,054 44.16% 10
  People's
Alliance
[aa]
20,774 29,850 27,388 18,212 24,539 23,972 22,723 28,925 2,319 198,702 44.08% 10
  Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna 3,245 4,203 3,121 1,464 3,934 3,996 3,630 4,467 287 28,347 6.29% 2
  Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 74 617 2,499 227 77 1,656 324 1,752 4 7,230 1.6% 1
  Mahajana Eksath Peramuna 453 810 634 506 1,620 531 1,319 1,178 98 7,149 1.59% 0
  New Left
Front
[ab]
928 758 445 370 789 636 818 659 26 5,427 1.2% 0
  National Union of Workers [ac] 523 121 165 1,060 1,100 149 810 116 7 4,051 0.9% 0
  Muslim United Liberation Front 67 73 76 51 80 80 74 66 0 567 0.13% 0
  Sri Lanka Progressive Front 54 12 12 12 19 30 24 43 3 209 0.05% 0
Valid Votes 51,427 63,809 58,233 44,354 57,692 57,192 54,091 59,686 4,452 400,736 100.00% 23
Rejected Votes 3,437 3,466 3,309 3,040 3,677 3,916 3,759 3,632 210 28,491 5.94%
Total Polled 54,864 67,075 61,542 47,394 61,364 61,108 57,850 63,318 4,462 479,177 70.78%
Registered Electors 81,475 92,160 86,398 65,666 84,988 90,192 83,837 92,246 676,962

The following candidates were elected:[36]

Preferential votes
Party Candidate votes
  UNP Kitsiri Kahatapitiya 39,171
  PA Tudor Dayaratne 31,969
  UNP Bandula Parakrama Gunawardhene 28,818
  UNP P. D. Abeyratne 28,087
  UNP Ananda Lakshman Wijemanne 27,458
  PA Nirmala Kotalawala 26,673
  PA Erni Yasathilaka 24,438
  PA Rohitha Abeygunawardena 23,702
  UNP Mohomad Yoosuf 23,457
  PA Thilakasiri Perera 23,404
  UNP Sujith Kumara Deshapriya 22,762
  UNP Hemantha Wickremarachchi 22,017
  PA Ranjith Somawansha 21,352
  UNP Kitsiri Samaranayake 20,921
  PA Mohomed Faleel 20,215
  UNP Sanajaya Galaboda 19,998
  UNP Anil Kumara Wijesinghe 19,738
  PA W. K. Wijesiri 19,672
  PA Sumithlal Mendis 17,921
  PA S. A. Premaratne 17,055
  SLMC M. S. M. Aslam 2,460
  JVP I. A. Wijesiri 2,118
  JVP Champika Samanmalee 2,061

2004 provincial council election

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Results of the 4th Western provincial council election held on 10 July 2004 for the district:[37]

Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes % Seats
  United People's Freedom Alliance [ad] 26,811 35,838 24,363 19,537 29,468 28,073 26,259 29,543 5,022 224,914 57.27% 12
  United National Party [ae] 18,944 16,363 16,974 15,066 19,388 16,241 20,838 15,333 2,189 141,336 35.99% 7
  Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 204 2,974 9,547 585 40 3,760 711 5,070 35 22,926 5.84% 1
  United Socialist Party 258 242 295 256 268 255 325 216 10 2,125 0.54% 0
  National Development Front 104 166 104 81 105 97 97 113 5 872 0.22% 0
  Independent Group 3 22 21 29 31 19 14 45 26 1 208 0.05% 0
  Independent Group 2 15 23 15 21 27 18 24 24 6 173 0.04% 0
  Independent Group 1 16 25 16 11 14 13 18 26 5 144 0.04% 0
Valid Votes 46,374 55,652 51,343 35,588 49,329 48,471 48,317 50,351 7,273 392,698 100.00% 20
Rejected Votes 3,101 3,504 3,265 2,561 3,469 3,367 3,276 3,592 490 26,625
Total Polled 49,475 59,156 54,608 38,149 52,798 51,838 51,593 53,943 7,763 419,323
Registered Electors 88,142 104,093 96,897 69,720 96,686 99,940 90,919 99,741 746,138
Turnout 56.13% 56.83% 56.36% 54.72% 54.61% 51.87% 56.75% 54.08% 56.20%

The following candidates were elected:[37]

Preferential votes
Party Candidate[37] votes
  UPFA Reginald Cooray 94,316
  UNP Kitsiri Kahatapitiya 50,013
  UPFA Ajith Anura Thalangama 34,826
  UPFA Vaas Gunawardhene 34,165
  UPFA Ranjith Somawansha 32,515
  UPFA Athula Priyantha Bellana 32,206
  UPFA Thilakasiri Perera 30,661
  UPFA Nimal Chandraratne 29,441
  UNP Palitha Thewarapperuma 29,167
  UPFA Chandrasiri Karunaratne 28,862
  UPFA Ananda Karunadhara 28,621
  UPFA Jagath Pushpakumara Perera 28,449
  UPFA A. Chandrabhanu 26,626
  UPFA Janak Chaminda Wijegunawardhene 23,261
  UNP Srima Ramani Kariyawasam 21,287
  UNP Mohomad Yoosuf 19,165
  UNP Anil Kumara Wijesinghe 17,306
  UNP Piyal Jayantha 17,058
  UPFA Prasanna Palihakkara 15,472
  SLMC M. S. M. Aslam 9,477

2009 provincial council election

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Results of the 5th Western provincial council election held on 25 April 2009 for the district:[38]

Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes % Seats
  United People's Freedom Alliance [af] 37,558 55,404 38,980 33,317 51,919 42,102 39,114 44,923 7,898 351,215 69.58% 14
  United National Party 13,682 17,148 14,253 11,069 14,897 16,637 15,807 18,968 1,965 124,426 24.65% 5
  Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna 1,044 2,200 1,492 1,151 1,385 1,876 1,723 1,857 378 13,106 2.60% 1
  Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 301 623 7,958 490 17 1,347 653 985 22 12,396 2.46% 0
  Democratic Unity Alliance 34 65 468 48 26 635 163 519 4 1,962 0.39% 0
  United Socialist Party 103 85 89 47 61 74 100 114 3 676 0.13% 0
  National Development Front 54 46 41 53 38 30 47 39 1 349 0.07% 0
  Independent Group 5 20 5 13 6 12 7 27 11 0 101 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 4 4 22 11 8 6 6 22 7 1 87 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 1 19 6 16 14 9 7 8 3 1 83 0.02% 0
  Independent Group 6 12 6 10 14 10 5 14 12 0 83 0.02% 0
  United Lanka Great Council 15 7 7 10 2 8 18 5 2 74 0.01% 0
  Sri Lanka Progressive Front 5 7 15 6 17 7 8 3 2 70 0.01% 0
  Patriotic National Front 10 5 5 7 5 3 18 3 1 57 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 2 7 7 1 3 7 4 7 12 3 51 0.01% 0
  Independent Group 3 5 4 5 4 7 9 8 2 1 45 0.01% 0
Valid Votes 52,873 75,640 63,364 46,247 68,418 62,757 57,737 67,463 10,282 504,781 100.00% 20
Rejected Votes 2,790 2,840 2,864 2,506 2,484 2,766 2,903 2,296 254 21,703
Total Polled 55,663 78,480 66,228 48,753 70,902 65,523 60,640 69,759 10,536 526,484
Registered Electors 92,898 116,018 103,273 74,111 106,432 105,661 97,739 105,194 801,326
Turnout 59.92% 67.64% 64.13% 65.78% 66.62% 62.01% 62.04% 66.31% 65.70%

The following candidates were elected:[39]

Preferential votes
Party Candidate votes
  UPFA Reginald Cooray 72,951
  UPFA Vidura Wickremanayake 63,385
  UPFA Vikum Gunasekara 55,338
  UPFA Ranjith Somawansha 54,099
  UPFA Lalith Ellawala 48,453
  UPFA Piyal Nishantha de Silva 47,540
  UPFA Yasapala Koralage 46,146
  UPFA Nimal Chandraratne 41,982
  UPFA Thilakasiri Perera 38,090
  UPFA A. Chandrabanu 34,929
  UPFA Lalith Warnakumara 31,791
  UPFA Sumithlal Mendis 31,702
  UPFA Keerthi Kariyawasam 30,475
  UPFA Chandrasiri Karunaratna 28,870
  UNP Ajith Perera 28,567
  UNP Palitha Thewarapperuma 28,450
  UNP Ananda Lakshman Wijemanne 27,797
  UNP Kitsiri Kahatapitiya 20,147
  UNP P. D. Abeyratne 16,656
  JVP Nalinda Jayatissa 1,393

2014 provincial council election

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Results of the 6th Western provincial council election held on 29 March 2014:[40]

Party Votes per Polling Division Postal
Votes
Total Votes % Seats
  United People's Freedom Alliance [ag] 39,488 54,019 39,715 33,226 44,988 38,777 38,792 37,690 11,229 337,924 58.9% 13
  United National Party 14,840 16,087 24,615 11,357 14,948 21,639 17,101 21,558 2,779 144,924 25.26% 6
  Democratic
Party
3,171 8,997 3,283 2,631 5,315 5,275 5,997 6,694 2,322 43,685 7.62% 2
  Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna 2,003 3,768 2,664 1,455 3,949 3,851 2,593 4,110 973 25,366 4.42% 1
  Sri Lanka Muslim Congress 71 1,203 4,868 392 14 2,892 790 1,803 23 12,056 2.1% 0
  Ceylon Workers' Congress 757 115 49 775 1,355 60 1,198 8 14 4,331 0.75% 0
  Independent
Group 3
26 167 43 15 23 127 61 887 19 1,368 0.24% 0
  Jana Setha Peramuna 34 421 13 30 214 39 44 169 47 1,011 0.18% 0
  United Socialist Party 76 99 63 65 106 84 85 138 13 739 0.13% 0
  All Citizens are All Kings Organization 13 10 4 5 300 10 13 12 8 375 0.06% 0
  United Lanka Great Council 34 66 27 33 39 33 56 49 7 344 0.06% 0
  Patriotic National Front 24 61 26 15 31 34 45 43 13 292 0.05% 0
  United Lanka People's Party 21 26 32 21 45 33 39 27 11 255 0.04% 0
  Independent
Group 9
25 39 28 17 32 24 30 18 3 216 0.04% 0
  Independent
Group 5
27 18 4 20 15 13 29 13 4 143 0.02% 0
  Independent
Group 2
16 13 11 25 21 9 16 12 6 129 0.02% 0
  Independent
Group 1
5 21 5 13 23 7 9 13 2 98 0.02% 0
  Independent
Group 8
7 15 6 11 20 11 13 8 3 94 0.02% 0
  Independent
Group 6
15 12 10 5 23 6 7 12 2 92 0.02% 0
  Independent
Group 4
9 10 19 7 4 10 14 8 1 82 0.01% 0
  Independent
Group 7
4 13 9 8 9 10 12 7 1 73 0.01% 0
  Sri Lanka Labour Party 2 5 6 3 17 5 12 5 1 56 0.01% 0
Valid Votes 60,688 85,185 75,500 50,129 71,491 72,949 66,956 73,294 17,481 573,653 100.00% 22
Rejected Votes 3,449 3,886 3,515 2,857 3,801 3,821 3,645 3,086 750 28,810 4.78%
Total Polled 64,117 89,071 79,015 52,986 75,292 76,770 70,770 76,308 18,231 602,463 68.32%
Registered Electors 99,146 131,024 114,791 81,045 119,927 116,212 107,144 112,555 881,814

The following candidates were elected:[40]

Preferential votes
Party Candidate votes
  UPFA Senal Welgama 115,385
  UPFA Rohana Priyankara 51,539
  UPFA Yasapala Koralage 42,395
  UPFA Thilakasiri Perera 40,962
  UPFA Ranjith Somawansha 40,863
  UPFA Piyal Nishantha de Silva 26,673
  UPFA Nimal Chandraratne 37,674
  UPFA Sumithlal Mendis 33,388
  UPFA Lalith Ellawala 32,580
  UPFA Lalith Varna Kumara 30,079
  UNP Jagath Premalal 29,920
  UPFA Sunethra Lal Fernando 25,453
  UPFA Prasanna Sanjeewa 25,140
  UPFA Keerthi Kariyawasam 24,921
  UNP Mohamed Ifthikar 24,576
  UNP P. D. Abeyratne 20,797
  UNP Vijith Priyantha Silva 19,727
  UNP Kitsiri Kahatapitiya 19,492
  UNP Nihal Premachandra 18,773
  DP Ravindra Yasas 12,885
  DP Anura Deepal 12,469
  JVP Nalinda Jayatissa 11,949

Notes

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  1. ^ Including the Ceylon Workers' Congress.
  2. ^ Including the CPSL, LSSP, NSSP, SLMP.
  3. ^ Including the SLFP et al..
  4. ^ Including the Ceylon Workers' Congress.
  5. ^ Including the JVP.
  6. ^ Including the SLFP et al..
  7. ^ Including the SLMC et al..
  8. ^ Including the NSSP et al..
  9. ^ Including the UNP, SLMC, CWC, WPF.
  10. ^ Including the SLFP et al.
  11. ^ Including the NSSP et al.
  12. ^ Including the SLFP, JVP.
  13. ^ Including the UNP, SLMC, CWC, WPF.
  14. ^ Including the NSSP et al.
  15. ^ Reginald Cooray (UPFA-SLFP) resigned on 28 May 2004 to contest the Western provincial council elections.[22] His replacement Nirmala Kotalawala was sworn in on 20 July 2004.[23].
  16. ^ Sarath Ranawaka (UNF-UNP) died on 25 July 2009.[24] His replacement Ananda Lakshman Wijemanna (UNF-UNP) was sworn in on 6 August 2009.[25].
  17. ^ Including the SLFP.
  18. ^ Including the UNP, SLMC, DPF, SLFP(P).
  19. ^ Including the JVP,DNF et al.
  20. ^ The alliance consisted of CWC,CF,DNF,DPC, LBSL, MEP, NC, NFF,PHU, SA (CPSL, DLF, LSSP,NLPP and SLPP), SLFP, TMVP and UCF.
  21. ^ The alliance consisted of ACMC,DNM, JHU,MTNA,NFGG, SLMC, TPA (DPF, NUW and UCPF),ULF and UNP.
  22. ^ The alliance consisted of CWC, CPSL, DLF, DVJP, EPDP, LSSP, MEP,MTK, NC, NFF,PHU, SLMP, SLPP, TMVP,UPP & VDJS.
  23. ^ The alliance consisted of JHU, SLMC, TPA (NUW, DPF, UCPF), ACMC,NLNP & JSP.
  24. ^ Including JVP.
  25. ^ Including the CPSL, LSSP, NSSP & SLMP
  26. ^ Including the SLFP et al.
  27. ^ Including SLFP et al.
  28. ^ Including NSSP et al.
  29. ^ CWC, DWC et al.
  30. ^ Including SLFP, JVP et al.
  31. ^ Including CWC, UNP.
  32. ^ Including SLFP et al.
  33. ^ Including SLFP et al.

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