Kalutara Electoral District
Kalutara | |
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Electoral District for the Parliament of Sri Lanka | |
Administrative District | Kalutara |
Province | Western |
Polling divisions | 8 |
Population | 1,118,000[1] (2008) |
Electorate | 813,233[2] (2010) |
Area | 1,598 km2 (617 sq mi)[3] |
Current Electoral District | |
Number of members | 10 |
MPs |
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]
Presidential elections
[edit]1982 presidential election
[edit]Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982:[4]
Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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
[edit]Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988:[5]
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
[edit]Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994:[6]
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
[edit]Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999:[7]
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
[edit]Results of the 5th presidential election held on 17 November 2005 for the district:
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% | ||||
Source:[8] |
2010 presidential election
[edit]Results of the 6th presidential election held on 26 January 2010 for the district:
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. Mahiman 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% | ||||
Source:[2] |
2015 presidential election
[edit]Results of the 7th presidential election held on 8 January 2015:[9]
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
[edit]Results of the 8th presidential election held on 16 November 2019:[10]
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% | |
Illiyas Mohamed | 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 |
Parliamentary general election
[edit]1989 parliamentary general election
[edit]Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989 for the district:
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% | ||||
Source:[11] |
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 Senaraja Perera | 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
[edit]Results of the 10th parliamentary election held on 16 August 1994 for the district:
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% | |||||
Source:[12] |
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
[edit]Results of the 11th parliamentary election held on 10 October 2000 for the district:
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% | |||||
Source:[13] |
The following candidates were elected:[14]
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
[edit]Results of the 12th parliamentary election held on 5 December 2001 for the district:
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% | |||||
Sources:[15][16] |
The following candidates were elected:[17]
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
[edit]Results of the 13th parliamentary election held on 2 April 2004 for the district:
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 | ||
Swaraj 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% | |||||
Source:[18] |
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
[edit]Results of the 14th parliamentary election held on 8 April 2010 for the district:
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% | |||||
Source:[23] |
The following candidates were elected:[24]
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 | DNF | Arjuna Ranatunga | 27,796 |
2015 parliamentary general election
[edit]Results of the 15th parliamentary election held on 17 August 2015:[25]
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 |
Alliance | Party | Candidate[26] | 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 | 71,428 | ||
UNFGG | UNP | Lakshman Wijemanna | 58,219 | ||
JVP | JVP | Nalinda Jayatissa | 24,853 |
Provincial council elections
[edit]1988 provincial council election
[edit]Results of the 1st Western provincial council election held on 2 June 1988[27]
Party | Total Votes | % | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
United National Party | 127,270 | 50.36% | 11 | |
United Socialist Alliance[v] | 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
[edit]Results of the 2nd Western provincial council election held on 17 May 1993 for the district:
Party | Votes | % | Seats |
---|---|---|---|
United National Party | 10 | ||
People's Alliance (SLFP et al.) | 9 | ||
Democratic United National Front | 3 | ||
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 1 | ||
Others | 0 | ||
Valid Votes | 23 | ||
Rejected Votes | |||
Total Polled | |||
Registered Electors | |||
Turnout | |||
Source: |
1999 provincial council election
[edit]Results of the 3rd Western provincial council election held on 6 April 1999 for the district:
Party | Votes | % | Seats |
---|---|---|---|
United National Party | 199,054 | 44.16% | 10 |
People's Alliance (SLFP et al.) | 198,702 | 44.08% | 10 |
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 28,347 | 6.29% | 2 |
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 7,230 | 1.60% | 1 |
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 7,149 | 1.59% | 0 |
New Left Front (NSSP et al.) | 5,427 | 1.20% | 0 |
National Union of Workers (CWC, DWC) | 4,051 | 0.90% | 0 |
Muslim United Liberation Front | 567 | 0.13% | 0 |
Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 209 | 0.05% | 0 |
Valid Votes | 450,736 | 100.00% | 23 |
Rejected Votes | 28,441 | ||
Total Polled | 479,177 | ||
Registered Electors | 676,962 | ||
Turnout | 70.78% | ||
Sources:[28][29] |
2004 provincial council election
[edit]Results of the 4th Western provincial council election held on 10 July 2004 for the district:
Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United People's Freedom Alliance (SLFP, JVP et al.) | 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 | 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 3 | 22 | 21 | 29 | 31 | 19 | 14 | 45 | 26 | 1 | 208 | 0.05% | 0 | |
Independent 2 | 15 | 23 | 15 | 21 | 27 | 18 | 24 | 24 | 6 | 173 | 0.04% | 0 | |
Independent 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% | ||||
Source:[30] |
The following candidates were elected:[30] Reginald Cooray (UPFA), 94,316 preference votes (pv); M.A. Janak Chaminda Wijegunawardhana (UNP), 50,013 pv; Ajith Anura Thalangama Arachchige (UPFA), 34,826 pv; Andaravass Patabendige Vass Gunawardhana (UPFA), 34,165 pv; A. Ankanath Ranjith Somawansa (UPFA), 32,515 pv; Athula Priyantha Bellana (UPFA), 32,206 pv; Angage Jagath (UPFA), 30,661 pv; Nimal Chandraratna (UPFA), 29,441 pv; Palitha Kumara Thewarapperuma (UNP), 29,167 pv; Chandrasiri Karunaratna (UPFA), 28,862 pv; Ananda Karunadhara (UPFA), 28,624 pv; H. Jagath Pushpakumara Perera (UPFA), 28,499 pv; Adikaramge Chandrabhanu (UPFA), 26,620 pv; M.A. Janak Chaminda Wijegunawardhana (UPFA), 23,261 pv; Athakoralage Sirima Ramani Kariyawasam (UNP), 21,287 pv; Ameer Mohamed Yusuf (UNP), 19,105 pv; Anil Kumara Wijesingha (UNP), 17,306 pv; Abeygunawardhana Pahalage Piyal Jayantha (UNP), 17,058 pv; Amarasekara Prasanna Palihakkara (UNP), 15,442 pv; and Aslam Mohamed Salim Mohamed (SLMC), 9,477 pv.
2009 provincial council election
[edit]Results of the 5th Western provincial council election held on 25 April 2009 for the district:
Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes |
Total Votes | % | Seats | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United People's Freedom Alliance (SLFP et al.) | 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 5 | 20 | 5 | 13 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 27 | 11 | 0 | 101 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent 4 | 4 | 22 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 87 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent 1 | 19 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 83 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent 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 2 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 51 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent 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% | ||||
Source:[31] |
The following candidates were elected:[32] Reginald Cooray (UPFA), 72,951 preference votes (pv); Vidura Wickramanayake (UPFA), 63,385 pv; Wikum Gunasekara (UPFA), 55,338 pv; A. Ankanath Ranjith Somawansa (UPFA), 54,099 pv; Ellawala Liyanage Lalith Ellawala (UPFA), 48,453 pv; H.M. Piyal Nishantha de Silva (UPFA), 47,540 pv; Yasapala Koralage (UPFA), 46,146 pv; Nimal Chandraratna (UPFA), 41,982 pv; Angage Jagath Thilakasiri Perera (UPFA), 38,090 pv; Adikaramge Chandrabhanu (UPFA), 34,929 pv; Wadduwage Lalith Warnakumara (UPFA), 31,791 pv; Akanadura Sumithlal Mendis (UPFA), 31,702 pv; Keerthi Kariyawasam (UPFA), 30,475 pv; Chandrasiri Karunaratna (UPFA), 28,870 pv; Ajith Perera (UNP), 28,567 pv; Palitha Kumara Thewarapperuma (UNP), 28,450 pv; Ananda Lakshman Wijemanna (UNP), 27,797 pv; Kahatapitiyage Chandra Kithsiri (UNP), 20,147 pv; Abayratne Pathirage Don (UNP), 16,656 pv; and W.A. Nalinda Wajiramal Jayatissa (JVP), 1,393 pv.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Including the Ceylon Workers' Congress.
- ^ Including the CPSL, LSSP, NSSP, SLMP.
- ^ Including the SLFP et al..
- ^ Including the Ceylon Workers' Congress.
- ^ Including the JVP.
- ^ Including the SLFP et al..
- ^ Including the SLMC et al..
- ^ Including the NSSP et al..
- ^ Including the UNP, SLMC, CWC, WPF.
- ^ Including the SLFP et al.
- ^ Including the NSSP et al.
- ^ Including the SLFP, JVP.
- ^ Including the UNP, SLMC, CWC, WPF.
- ^ Including the NSSP et al.
- ^ Reginald Cooray (UPFA-SLFP) resigned on 28 May 2004 to contest the Western provincial council elections.[19] His replacement Nirmala Kotalawala was sworn in on 20 July 2004.[20].
- ^ Sarath Ranawaka (UNF-UNP) died on 25 July 2009.[21] His replacement Ananda Lakshman Wijemanna (UNF-UNP) was sworn in on 6 August 2009.[22].
- ^ Including the SLFP.
- ^ Including the UNP, SLMC, DPF, SLFP(P).
- ^ Including the JVP,DNF et al.
- ^ The alliance consisted of CWC,CF,DNF,DPC, LBSL, MEP, NC, NFF,PHU, SA (CPSL, DLF, LSSP,NLPP and SLPP), SLFP, TMVP and UCF.
- ^ The alliance consisted of ACMC,DNM, JHU,MTNA,NFGG, SLMC, TPA (DPF, NUW and UCPF),ULF and UNP.
- ^ Including the CPSL, LSSP, NSSP & SLMP
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