Gampaha Electoral District
Gampaha | |
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Electoral District for the Parliament of Sri Lanka | |
Administrative District | Gampaha |
Province | Western |
Polling divisions | 13 |
Population | 2,443,000 (2021) |
Electorate | 1,785,964 (2020) |
Area | 1,387 km2 (536 sq mi)[1] |
Current Electoral District | |
Number of members | 18 |
MPs |
Gampaha 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 Gampaha in the Western province. The district currently elects 18 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 1,785,964 registered electors in 2020.[2]
Presidential Elections
[edit]1982 presidential election
[edit]Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982 for the district:[3]
Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | |||||||||||||
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Junius Jayewardene | UNP | 22,531 | 25,398 | 25,974 | 26,573 | 27,845 | 32,420 | 26,504 | 24,732 | 25,853 | 29,672 | 30,289 | 30,346 | 29,387 | 8,323 | 365,847 | 52.50% | |
Hector Kobbekaduwa | SLFP | 31,495 | 18,539 | 23,447 | 27,508 | 28,532 | 21,074 | 22,027 | 19,050 | 25,580 | 25,849 | 24,143 | 13,345 | 15,717 | 5,502 | 301,808 | 43.31% | |
Rohana Wijeweera | JVP | 1,926 | 1,389 | 1,547 | 1,670 | 1,942 | 1,683 | 1,356 | 2,179 | 1,952 | 1,992 | 3,186 | 1,049 | 1,402 | 428 | 23,701 | 3.40% | |
Colvin R. de Silva | LSSP | 272 | 237 | 231 | 247 | 336 | 346 | 334 | 312 | 307 | 260 | 316 | 236 | 232 | 169 | 3,835 | 0.55% | |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara | NSSP | 65 | 47 | 79 | 57 | 101 | 157 | 104 | 74 | 69 | 70 | 67 | 127 | 59 | 46 | 1,122 | 0.16% | |
Kumar Ponnambalam | ACTC | 32 | 13 | 28 | 33 | 33 | 29 | 36 | 25 | 17 | 27 | 29 | 97 | 119 | 16 | 534 | 0.08% | |
Valid Votes | 56,321 | 45,623 | 51,306 | 56,088 | 58,789 | 55,709 | 50,361 | 46,372 | 53,778 | 57,870 | 58,030 | 45,200 | 46,916 | 14,484 | 696,847 | 100.00% | ||
Rejected Votes | 430 | 410 | 432 | 519 | 517 | 488 | 437 | 480 | 418 | 399 | 478 | 412 | 425 | 147 | 5,992 | |||
Total Polled | 56,751 | 46,033 | 51,738 | 56,607 | 59,306 | 56,197 | 50,798 | 46,852 | 54,196 | 58,269 | 58,508 | 45,612 | 47,341 | 14,631 | 702,839 | |||
Registered Electors | 67,061 | 55,457 | 61,494 | 66,207 | 72,371 | 69,624 | 60,560 | 58,671 | 65,660 | 69,566 | 70,695 | 59,884 | 58,015 | 835,265 | ||||
Turnout | 84.63% | 83.01% | 84.14% | 85.50% | 81.95% | 80.71% | 83.88% | 79.86% | 82.54% | 83.76% | 82.76% | 76.17% | 81.60% | 84.15% |
1988 presidential election
[edit]Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988 for the district:[4]
Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | |||||||||||||
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Sirimavo Bandaranaike | SLFP | 35,758 | 23,633 | 25,857 | 30,829 | 34,340 | 25,357 | 25,379 | 22,877 | 30,305 | 29,751 | 27,712 | 16,601 | 19,361 | 7,793 | 355,553 | 48.83% | |
Ranasinghe Premadasa | UNP | 22,242 | 23,930 | 25,792 | 26,155 | 25,948 | 30,021 | 28,760 | 21,395 | 26,024 | 29,424 | 26,835 | 29,016 | 27,945 | 6,605 | 350,092 | 48.08% | |
Ossie Abeygunasekera | SLMP | 1,475 | 1,518 | 1,055 | 976 | 1,839 | 1,766 | 2,036 | 2,700 | 2,407 | 1,404 | 1,074 | 1,720 | 1,901 | 596 | 22,467 | 3.09% | |
Valid Votes | 59,475 | 49,081 | 52,704 | 57,960 | 62,127 | 57,144 | 56,175 | 46,972 | 58,736 | 60,579 | 55,621 | 47,337 | 49,207 | 14,994 | 728,112 | 100.00% | ||
Rejected Votes | 735 | 685 | 742 | 511 | 721 | 1,052 | 822 | 690 | 735 | 825 | 860 | 587 | 666 | 477 | 10,108 | |||
Total Polled | 60,210 | 49,766 | 53,446 | 58,471 | 62,848 | 58,196 | 56,997 | 47,662 | 59,471 | 61,404 | 56,481 | 47,924 | 49,873 | 15,471 | 738,220 | |||
Registered Electors | 79,172 | 66,166 | 68,377 | 72,945 | 85,424 | 81,566 | 76,452 | 65,961 | 79,936 | 78,056 | 78,953 | 68,250 | 68,477 | 969,735 | ||||
Turnout | 76.05% | 75.21% | 78.16% | 80.16% | 73.57% | 71.35% | 74.55% | 72.26% | 74.40% | 78.67% | 71.54% | 70.22% | 72.83% | 76.13% |
1994 presidential election
[edit]Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994 for the district:[5]
Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | |||||||||||||
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Chandrika Kumaratunga | PA | 51,923 | 36,459 | 35,220 | 39,151 | 51,197 | 44,166 | 42,916 | 35,601 | 46,494 | 42,041 | 40,288 | 31,648 | 37,373 | 16,177 | 550,654 | 64.74% | |
Srima Dissanayake | UNP | 17,437 | 19,678 | 23,749 | 19,920 | 20,094 | 24,260 | 24,637 | 18,825 | 21,935 | 22,839 | 22,585 | 22,131 | 23,671 | 6,847 | 288,608 | 33.93% | |
Harischandra Wijayatunga | SMBP | 374 | 340 | 169 | 228 | 403 | 266 | 184 | 344 | 311 | 299 | 270 | 133 | 183 | 190 | 3,694 | 0.43% | |
Hudson Samarasinghe | Ind 2 | 396 | 201 | 235 | 283 | 215 | 152 | 251 | 151 | 251 | 252 | 248 | 184 | 180 | 20 | 3,019 | 0.35% | |
A. J. Ranasinghe | Ind 1 | 206 | 235 | 149 | 152 | 246 | 236 | 187 | 187 | 235 | 233 | 208 | 172 | 214 | 51 | 2,711 | 0.32% | |
Nihal Galappaththi | SLPF | 175 | 127 | 115 | 116 | 147 | 150 | 128 | 107 | 188 | 121 | 222 | 80 | 99 | 57 | 1,832 | 0.22% | |
Valid Votes | 70,511 | 57,040 | 59,637 | 59,850 | 72,302 | 69,230 | 68,303 | 55,215 | 69,414 | 65,785 | 63,821 | 54,348 | 61,720 | 23,342 | 850,518 | 100.00% | ||
Rejected Votes | 1,065 | 930 | 832 | 867 | 958 | 1,141 | 864 | 920 | 1,064 | 892 | 1,446 | 761 | 922 | 475 | 13,137 | |||
Total Polled | 71,576 | 57,970 | 60,469 | 60,717 | 73,260 | 70,371 | 69,167 | 56,135 | 70,478 | 66,677 | 65,267 | 55,109 | 62,642 | 23,817 | 863,655 | |||
Registered Electors | 91,907 | 80,600 | 77,104 | 80,415 | 100,416 | 97,305 | 92,027 | 78,191 | 98,091 | 89,192 | 89,455 | 80,589 | 85,516 | 1,140,808 | ||||
Turnout | 77.88% | 71.92% | 78.43% | 75.50% | 72.96% | 72.32% | 75.16% | 71.79% | 71.85% | 74.76% | 72.96% | 68.38% | 73.25% | 75.71% |
1999 presidential election
[edit]Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999 for the district:[6]
Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | |||||||||||||
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Chandrika Kumaratunga | PA | 51,204 | 36,550 | 35,245 | 39,214 | 51,606 | 44,098 | 45,607 | 30,947 | 46,703 | 42,314 | 38,075 | 28,515 | 32,954 | 9,764 | 532,796 | 56.58% | |
Ranil Wickramasinghe | UNP | 21,709 | 26,061 | 27,007 | 23,857 | 26,257 | 29,726 | 27,389 | 22,215 | 27,771 | 28,328 | 28,456 | 28,156 | 30,566 | 6,471 | 353,969 | 37.59% | |
M.D.N. Gunathilaka | JVP | 3,608 | 2,825 | 2,046 | 2,794 | 4,433 | 3,089 | 2,224 | 2,940 | 3,941 | 3,658 | 4,213 | 1,360 | 2,127 | 1,214 | 40,472 | 4.30% | |
Harischandra Wijayatunga | SMBP | 411 | 369 | 215 | 281 | 626 | 236 | 261 | 512 | 402 | 450 | 415 | 106 | 184 | 285 | 4,753 | 0.50% | |
Vasudeva Nanayakkara | LDA | 125 | 118 | 97 | 97 | 198 | 224 | 171 | 124 | 171 | 106 | 112 | 156 | 279 | 124 | 2,102 | 0.22% | |
Teenyson Edirisuriya | Ind 1 | 143 | 110 | 107 | 142 | 130 | 112 | 148 | 108 | 113 | 125 | 116 | 111 | 74 | 10 | 1,549 | 0.16% | |
W.V.M. Ranjith | Ind 2 | 133 | 114 | 127 | 137 | 114 | 82 | 125 | 76 | 122 | 134 | 150 | 92 | 83 | 6 | 1,495 | 0.16% | |
Abdul Rasool | SLMP | 212 | 94 | 54 | 81 | 63 | 82 | 82 | 103 | 99 | 98 | 198 | 126 | 60 | 2 | 1,354 | 0.14% | |
Rajiva Wijesinha | LPSL | 95 | 78 | 100 | 121 | 90 | 72 | 92 | 52 | 103 | 102 | 106 | 74 | 72 | 8 | 1,165 | 0.12% | |
Kamal Karunadasa | PLSF | 77 | 54 | 62 | 71 | 77 | 57 | 71 | 59 | 62 | 94 | 82 | 55 | 47 | 10 | 878 | 0.09% | |
Hudson Samarasinghe | Ind 3 | 45 | 24 | 36 | 35 | 39 | 27 | 25 | 19 | 30 | 29 | 50 | 36 | 22 | 3 | 420 | 0.04% | |
Ariyawansha Dissanayaka | DUNF | 52 | 27 | 21 | 48 | 26 | 21 | 19 | 19 | 30 | 33 | 31 | 20 | 27 | 12 | 386 | 0.04% | |
A.W. Premawardhana | PFF | 14 | 18 | 30 | 29 | 23 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 27 | 20 | 21 | 15 | 17 | 3 | 280 | 0.03% | |
Valid Votes | 77,828 | 66,442 | 65,147 | 66,907 | 83,682 | 77,852 | 76,235 | 57,190 | 79,574 | 75,491 | 72,025 | 58,822 | 66,512 | 17,912 | 941,619 | 100.00% | ||
Rejected Votes | 1,933 | 1,443 | 941 | 1,081 | 1,780 | 1,759 | 1,545 | 1,582 | 1,809 | 1,514 | 1,619 | 1,181 | 1,541 | 1,040 | 20,768 | |||
Total Polled | 79,761 | 67,885 | 66,088 | 67,988 | 85,462 | 79,611 | 77,780 | 58,772 | 81,383 | 77,005 | 73,644 | 60,003 | 68,053 | 18,952 | 962,387 | |||
Registered Electors | 101,470 | 88,034 | 83,077 | 87,240 | 111,814 | 104,076 | 100,352 | 77,425 | 107,701 | 98,927 | 96,907 | 83,508 | 88,377 | 1,228,908 | ||||
Turnout | 78.61% | 77.11% | 79.55% | 77.93% | 76.43% | 76.49% | 77.51% | 75.91% | 75.56% | 77.84% | 75.99% | 71.85% | 77.00% | 78.31% |
2005 presidential election
[edit]Results of the 5th presidential election held on 17 November 2005 for the district:[7]
Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | |||||||||||||
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Mahinda Rajapaksa | UPFA | 52,393 | 43,249 | 39,347 | 45,849 | 62,018 | 46,950 | 49,095 | 33,179 | 56,759 | 49,509 | 45,537 | 24,236 | 31,446 | 17,131 | 596,698 | 54.78% | |
Ranil Wickramasinghe | UNP | 33,171 | 34,685 | 34,945 | 30,306 | 34,376 | 42,606 | 40,473 | 28,676 | 37,772 | 37,801 | 36,345 | 40,805 | 40,984 | 8,819 | 481,764 | 44.23% | |
Siritunga Jayasuriya | USP | 252 | 155 | 217 | 227 | 197 | 196 | 258 | 130 | 211 | 259 | 227 | 252 | 200 | 9 | 2,790 | 0.26% | |
A.A. Suraweera | NDF | 214 | 183 | 179 | 238 | 191 | 167 | 195 | 142 | 198 | 179 | 196 | 141 | 141 | 7 | 2,371 | 0.22% | |
Victor Hettigoda | ULPP | 208 | 118 | 115 | 129 | 168 | 175 | 177 | 101 | 155 | 162 | 145 | 92 | 151 | 87 | 1,983 | 0.18% | |
Chamil Jayaneththi | NLF | 83 | 47 | 79 | 61 | 70 | 54 | 79 | 37 | 55 | 74 | 85 | 75 | 47 | 10 | 856 | 0.08% | |
Aruna de Soyza | RPP | 63 | 42 | 46 | 51 | 55 | 51 | 84 | 23 | 60 | 42 | 38 | 37 | 37 | 2 | 631 | 0.06% | |
Anura De Silva | ULF | 40 | 28 | 51 | 52 | 46 | 56 | 52 | 26 | 42 | 59 | 70 | 46 | 39 | 2 | 609 | 0.06% | |
Wimal Geeganage | SLNF | 48 | 41 | 48 | 56 | 42 | 45 | 43 | 20 | 50 | 38 | 62 | 34 | 37 | 6 | 570 | 0.05% | |
A.K.J. Arachchige | DUA | 37 | 23 | 36 | 39 | 31 | 19 | 31 | 23 | 35 | 36 | 42 | 42 | 22 | 2 | 418 | 0.04% | |
Wije Dias | SEP | 35 | 21 | 15 | 28 | 29 | 29 | 18 | 20 | 29 | 29 | 28 | 25 | 31 | 6 | 343 | 0.03% | |
P. Nelson Perera | SLPF | 16 | 7 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 22 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 157 | 0.01% | |
H.S. Dharmadwaja | UNAF | 8 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 87 | 0.01% | |
Valid Votes | 86,568 | 78,601 | 75,100 | 77,055 | 97,241 | 90,362 | 90,528 | 62,387 | 95,380 | 88,220 | 82,801 | 65,802 | 73,148 | 26,084 | 1,089,277 | 100.00% | ||
Rejected Votes | 1,090 | 754 | 680 | 669 | 944 | 973 | 977 | 708 | 901 | 947 | 982 | 799 | 873 | 427 | 11,724 | |||
Total Polled | 87,658 | 79,355 | 75,780 | 77,724 | 98,185 | 91,335 | 91,505 | 63,095 | 96,281 | 89,167 | 83,783 | 66,601 | 74,021 | 26,511 | 1,101,001 | |||
Registered Electors | 112,898 | 99,193 | 93,677 | 97,143 | 124,714 | 117,040 | 114,595 | 80,301 | 122,039 | 111,211 | 107,553 | 89,361 | 94,455 | 1,364,180 | ||||
Turnout | 77.64% | 80.00% | 80.89% | 80.01% | 78.73% | 78.04% | 79.85% | 78.57% | 78.89% | 80.18% | 77.90% | 74.53% | 78.37% | 80.71% |
2010 presidential election
[edit]Results of the 6th presidential election held on 26 January 2010 for the district:[8]
Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | |||||||||||||
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Mahinda Rajapaksa | UPFA | 61,337 | 52,066 | 48,149 | 56,758 | 71,811 | 56,726 | 59,558 | 36,242 | 69,085 | 60,318 | 54,697 | 32,125 | 39,316 | 20,528 | 718,716 | 61.66% | |
Sarath Fonseka | NDF | 30,110 | 31,762 | 28,518 | 23,619 | 32,262 | 39,701 | 38,605 | 26,740 | 34,807 | 33,057 | 30,169 | 36,669 | 38,789 | 9,698 | 434,506 | 37.28% | |
M.C.M. Ismail | DUNF | 136 | 102 | 197 | 124 | 122 | 149 | 150 | 124 | 136 | 235 | 160 | 187 | 215 | 22 | 2,059 | 0.18% | |
A.A. Suraweera | NDF | 202 | 118 | 145 | 208 | 129 | 140 | 117 | 84 | 216 | 184 | 168 | 122 | 140 | 6 | 1,979 | 0.17% | |
W.V. Mahiman Ranjith | Ind 1 | 121 | 91 | 108 | 137 | 114 | 73 | 142 | 67 | 123 | 111 | 131 | 69 | 82 | 10 | 1,379 | 0.12% | |
C.J. Sugathsiri Gamage | UDF | 91 | 68 | 90 | 81 | 78 | 73 | 105 | 85 | 98 | 101 | 101 | 138 | 110 | 11 | 1,230 | 0.11% | |
A. S. P. Liyanage | SLLP | 77 | 100 | 61 | 59 | 65 | 77 | 72 | 90 | 76 | 54 | 89 | 67 | 97 | 8 | 992 | 0.09% | |
Ukkubanda Wijekoon | Ind 3 | 57 | 54 | 55 | 74 | 55 | 45 | 82 | 24 | 49 | 49 | 74 | 35 | 50 | 7 | 710 | 0.06% | |
Aithurus M. Illias | Ind 2 | 60 | 28 | 44 | 38 | 43 | 31 | 34 | 31 | 42 | 39 | 65 | 34 | 35 | 2 | 526 | 0.05% | |
Lal Perera | ONF | 47 | 40 | 38 | 31 | 35 | 35 | 48 | 27 | 36 | 43 | 43 | 50 | 48 | 3 | 524 | 0.04% | |
Vikramabahu Karunaratne | LF | 46 | 25 | 24 | 25 | 40 | 32 | 54 | 18 | 40 | 49 | 30 | 48 | 60 | 19 | 510 | 0.04% | |
Sarath Manamendra | NSH | 49 | 35 | 43 | 37 | 40 | 34 | 46 | 28 | 28 | 38 | 38 | 32 | 50 | 2 | 500 | 0.04% | |
Siritunga Jayasuriya | USP | 41 | 34 | 41 | 29 | 35 | 40 | 40 | 28 | 36 | 45 | 58 | 27 | 37 | 8 | 499 | 0.04% | |
M. K. Shivajilingam | Ind 5 | 26 | 20 | 15 | 17 | 11 | 15 | 37 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 48 | 42 | 1 | 303 | 0.03% | |
Wije Dias | SEP | 26 | 8 | 14 | 20 | 15 | 23 | 25 | 16 | 24 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 22 | 3 | 238 | 0.02% | |
M. Mohamed Musthaffa | Ind 4 | 19 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 18 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 173 | 0.01% | |
Battaramulla Seelarathana | JP | 15 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 23 | 14 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 168 | 0.01% | |
Sanath Pinnaduwa | NA | 11 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 146 | 0.01% | |
Sarath Kongahage | UNAF | 10 | 8 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 24 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 135 | 0.01% | |
Aruna de Soyza | RPP | 14 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 21 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 130 | 0.01% | |
Senaratna de Silva | PNF | 9 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 123 | 0.01% | |
M.B. Thaminimulla | ACAKO | 11 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 102 | 0.01% | |
Valid Votes | 92,515 | 84,611 | 77,624 | 81,324 | 104,927 | 97,279 | 99,197 | 63,671 | 104,905 | 94,435 | 85,933 | 69,723 | 79,160 | 30,344 | 1,165,648 | 100.00% | ||
Rejected Votes | 645 | 629 | 476 | 484 | 682 | 692 | 767 | 584 | 629 | 618 | 719 | 650 | 830 | 555 | 8,960 | |||
Total Polled | 93,160 | 85,240 | 78,100 | 81,808 | 105,609 | 97,971 | 99,964 | 64,255 | 105,534 | 95,053 | 86,652 | 70,373 | 79,990 | 30,899 | 1,174,608 | |||
Registered Electors | 120,900 | 107,786 | 99,742 | 104,155 | 133,606 | 127,821 | 127,421 | 83,105 | 134,581 | 120,860 | 114,566 | 96,028 | 103,893 | 1,474,464 | ||||
Turnout | 77.06% | 79.08% | 78.30% | 78.54% | 79.05% | 76.65% | 78.45% | 77.32% | 78.42% | 78.65% | 75.64% | 73.28% | 76.99% | 79.66% |
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 | % | |||||||||||||
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Maithripala Sirisena | NDF | 50,308 | 48,667 | 40,112 | 38,491 | 53,922 | 58,669 | 58,507 | 37,884 | 55,334 | 51,581 | 45,202 | 53,331 | 56,541 | 20,386 | 669,007 | 49.83% | |
Mahinda Rajapaksa | UPFA | 54,777 | 50,173 | 45,813 | 54,714 | 63,962 | 53,481 | 54,355 | 32,856 | 63,314 | 54,929 | 51,244 | 25,432 | 38,001 | 20,296 | 664,347 | 49.49% | |
R. A. Sirisena | PNF | 86 | 89 | 95 | 109 | 102 | 89 | 119 | 79 | 94 | 125 | 104 | 64 | 82 | 12 | 1,249 | 0.09% | |
Namal Rajapaksa | ONF | 100 | 62 | 75 | 104 | 61 | 73 | 77 | 63 | 112 | 73 | 81 | 62 | 69 | 21 | 1,033 | 0.08% | |
Aithurus M. Illias | Ind 1 | 98 | 49 | 83 | 72 | 70 | 70 | 84 | 35 | 68 | 88 | 82 | 65 | 59 | 7 | 930 | 0.07% | |
A. S. P. Liyanage | SLLP | 57 | 56 | 67 | 38 | 57 | 62 | 84 | 46 | 51 | 61 | 69 | 110 | 108 | 6 | 872 | 0.06% | |
M. I. Mohanmed Mishlar | UPF | 91 | 56 | 64 | 62 | 54 | 53 | 64 | 69 | 61 | 66 | 53 | 83 | 84 | 5 | 859 | 0.06% | |
Duminda Nagamuwa | FSP | 50 | 75 | 57 | 52 | 85 | 52 | 47 | 34 | 87 | 55 | 51 | 50 | 60 | 25 | 780 | 0.06% | |
R. Peduru Arachchi | ULPP | 48 | 46 | 45 | 51 | 40 | 49 | 57 | 45 | 63 | 53 | 48 | 62 | 57 | 4 | 668 | 0.05% | |
Siritunga Jayasuriya | USP | 44 | 27 | 30 | 26 | 44 | 41 | 48 | 35 | 33 | 54 | 55 | 48 | 65 | 16 | 566 | 0.04% | |
Ven.Battaramulla Seelarathana Thero | JSP | 40 | 34 | 23 | 32 | 42 | 28 | 35 | 30 | 25 | 30 | 27 | 16 | 26 | 21 | 409 | 0.03% | |
Sarath Manamendra | NSH | 35 | 22 | 26 | 36 | 28 | 27 | 35 | 19 | 32 | 39 | 28 | 42 | 25 | 5 | 399 | 0.03% | |
Pani Wijesiriwardene | SEP | 26 | 13 | 19 | 19 | 23 | 24 | 22 | 19 | 30 | 25 | 18 | 17 | 21 | 5 | 281 | 0.02% | |
Anurudha Polgampola | Ind 2 | 17 | 18 | 11 | 14 | 21 | 24 | 30 | 8 | 20 | 21 | 14 | 22 | 32 | 5 | 257 | 0.02% | |
M. B. Theminimulla | ACAKO | 19 | 13 | 20 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 19 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 216 | 0.02% | |
Prasanna Priyankara | DNM | 16 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 20 | 22 | 20 | 6 | 192 | 0.01% | |
Sundaram Mahendran | NSSP | 22 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 17 | 17 | 23 | 2 | 169 | 0.01% | |
Wimal Geeganage | SLNF | 9 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 3 | 140 | 0.01% | |
Jayantha Kulathunga | ULGC | 16 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 122 | 0.01% | |
Valid Votes | 105,931 | 99,433 | 86,583 | 93,871 | 118,564 | 112,797 | 113,635 | 71,260 | 120,381 | 107,270 | 97,147 | 79,482 | 95,311 | 40,831 | 1,342,496 | 100.00% | ||
Rejected Votes | 1,024 | 997 | 701 | 878 | 1,222 | 1,584 | 1,505 | 859 | 1,154 | 986 | 880 | 871 | 1,332 | 654 | 14,647 | 1.08% | ||
Total Polled | 106,955 | 100,430 | 87,284 | 94,749 | 119,786 | 114,381 | 115,140 | 72,119 | 121,535 | 108,256 | 98,027 | 80,353 | 96,643 | 41,485 | 1,357,143 | 82.08% | ||
Registered Electors | 133,023 | 121,702 | 108,529 | 115,536 | 147,280 | 143,843 | 143,885 | 90,122 | 149,453 | 132,981 | 124,679 | 106,213 | 120,471 | 42,726 | 1,637,537 |
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 | 66,850 | 68,145 | 55,371 | 67,754 | 84,507 | 71,690 | 71,565 | 43,668 | 83,989 | 69,978 | 61,478 | 31,743 | 48,214 | 30,918 | 855,870 | 59.28% | |
Sajith Premadasa | NDF | 39,548 | 33,715 | 32,149 | 28,629 | 31,984 | 41,649 | 43,053 | 27,521 | 38,407 | 37,212 | 35,184 | 44,032 | 49,463 | 12,125 | 494,671 | 34.26% | |
Anura Kumara Dissanayake | NMPP | 4,829 | 4,188 | 3,117 | 3,070 | 6,256 | 5,556 | 5,343 | 3,134 | 5,547 | 5,259 | 4,720 | 4,132 | 3,428 | 3,181 | 61,760 | 4.28% | |
Mahesh Senanayake | NPP | 503 | 646 | 399 | 341 | 932 | 1,527 | 1,375 | 589 | 804 | 646 | 365 | 1,546 | 899 | 700 | 11,272 | 0.78% | |
Rohan Pallewatte | JSWP | 252 | 215 | 179 | 229 | 627 | 313 | 351 | 138 | 235 | 269 | 178 | 199 | 258 | 143 | 3,586 | 0.25% | |
Ajantha Perera | SPSL | 231 | 211 | 221 | 272 | 247 | 201 | 247 | 122 | 269 | 251 | 228 | 138 | 127 | 21 | 2,786 | 0.19% | |
M. L. A. M. Hizbullah | Ind 11 | 177 | 126 | 121 | 136 | 145 | 135 | 173 | 90 | 157 | 129 | 139 | 128 | 129 | 17 | 1,802 | 0.12% | |
Ariyawansa Dissanayake | DUNF | 120 | 71 | 121 | 90 | 99 | 121 | 133 | 76 | 98 | 127 | 139 | 159 | 191 | 8 | 1,553 | 0.11% | |
Siripala Amarasinghe | Ind 02 | 85 | 58 | 78 | 68 | 53 | 60 | 79 | 47 | 87 | 86 | 96 | 91 | 70 | 13 | 971 | 0.07% | |
Ven.Battaramulla Seelarathana Thero | JSP | 76 | 58 | 56 | 54 | 61 | 56 | 79 | 47 | 82 | 76 | 77 | 69 | 111 | 26 | 928 | 0.06% | |
Ajantha de zoysa | RJP | 69 | 52 | 70 | 79 | 56 | 65 | 93 | 46 | 68 | 86 | 74 | 76 | 57 | 17 | 908 | 0.06% | |
Namal Rajapaksa | NUA | 71 | 54 | 54 | 70 | 60 | 78 | 92 | 41 | 82 | 53 | 70 | 52 | 61 | 9 | 847 | 0.06% | |
Duminda Nagamuwa | FSP | 51 | 73 | 57 | 45 | 108 | 54 | 59 | 30 | 110 | 50 | 51 | 55 | 56 | 41 | 840 | 0.06% | |
Milroy Fernando | Ind 09 | 63 | 52 | 64 | 41 | 47 | 73 | 73 | 43 | 63 | 55 | 52 | 111 | 95 | 8 | 840 | 0.06% | |
Ven.Aparekke Punnananda Thero | Ind 01 | 54 | 30 | 30 | 35 | 34 | 53 | 52 | 37 | 35 | 43 | 48 | 50 | 64 | 19 | 584 | 0.04% | |
Jayantha Ketagoda | Ind 07 | 46 | 40 | 27 | 35 | 28 | 48 | 52 | 26 | 44 | 34 | 33 | 58 | 44 | 4 | 519 | 0.04% | |
Anuruddha Polgampola | Ind 08 | 39 | 20 | 25 | 32 | 29 | 30 | 35 | 25 | 26 | 24 | 26 | 46 | 51 | 4 | 412 | 0.03% | |
Subramanium Gunaratnam | ONF | 33 | 21 | 32 | 28 | 15 | 25 | 46 | 16 | 24 | 30 | 40 | 24 | 36 | 0 | 370 | 0.03% | |
A. S. P. Liyanage | SLLP | 21 | 23 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 34 | 32 | 15 | 23 | 18 | 20 | 40 | 41 | 3 | 323 | 0.02% | |
Illiyas Mohamed | Ind 03 | 22 | 11 | 28 | 20 | 20 | 14 | 25 | 19 | 18 | 25 | 38 | 28 | 22 | 2 | 292 | 0.02% | |
Aruna de soyza | DNM | 13 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 21 | 11 | 26 | 34 | 26 | 29 | 27 | 2 | 281 | 0.02% | |
Piyasiri Wijenayake | Ind 13 | 23 | 10 | 26 | 23 | 22 | 20 | 27 | 13 | 20 | 24 | 21 | 22 | 12 | 4 | 267 | 0.02% | |
Sirithunga Jayasuriya | USP | 16 | 13 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 27 | 24 | 28 | 2 | 231 | 0.02% | |
Vajirapani Wijesiriwardene | SEP | 15 | 11 | 13 | 19 | 28 | 26 | 12 | 7 | 21 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 24 | 6 | 223 | 0.02% | |
M. K. Shivajilingam | Ind 10 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 35 | 41 | 3 | 211 | 0.01% | |
A. H. M. Alavi | Ind 04 | 18 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 10 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 24 | 12 | 1 | 209 | 0.01% | |
Rajiva Wijesinha | Ind 14 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 18 | 18 | 8 | 14 | 18 | 21 | 17 | 19 | 2 | 207 | 0.01% | |
Sarath Manamendra | NSU | 14 | 10 | 12 | 20 | 15 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 25 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 190 | 0.01% | |
Ashoka Wadigamangawa | Ind 12 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 31 | 10 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 182 | 0.01% | |
Sarath Keerthirathna | Ind 05 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 163 | 0.01% | |
Priyantha Edirisinghe | ACAKO | 12 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 17 | 2 | 143 | 0.01% | |
Samaraweera Weeravanni | Ind 15 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 3 | 104 | 0.01% | |
Saman Perera | OPPP | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 103 | 0.01% | |
B. G. Nandimithra | NSSP | 15 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 87 | 0.01% | |
Samansiri Herath | Ind 06 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 65 | 0.00% | |
Valid Votes | 113,348 | 107,938 | 92,392 | 101,251 | 125,547 | 121,997 | 123,180 | 75,855 | 130,350 | 114,666 | 103,279 | 83,039 | 103,662 | 47,296 | 1,443,800 | 100.00% | ||
Rejected Votes | 960 | 902 | 780 | 684 | 1,191 | 1,625 | 1,786 | 899 | 1,166 | 1,123 | 981 | 1,430 | 1,418 | 806 | 15,751 | 0.9% | ||
Total Polled | 114,308 | 108,840 | 93,172 | 101,935 | 126,738 | 123,622 | 124,966 | 76,754 | 131,516 | 115,789 | 104,260 | 84,469 | 105,080 | 48,102 | 1,459,551 | 83.31% | ||
Registered Electors | 135,618 | 128,417 | 110,231 | 117,950 | 151,418 | 153,164 | 153,448 | 93,979 | 156,924 | 137,067 | 124,599 | 110,551 | 129,912 | 48,614 | 1,751,892 |
Parliamentary Elections
[edit]1989 parliamentary general election
[edit]Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989 for the district:[11]
Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United National Party | 25,194 | 25,435 | 27,430 | 27,777 | 30,376 | 34,415 | 28,660 | 23,549 | 28,310 | 32,021 | 33,179 | 30,610 | 28,841 | 9,936 | 385,733 | 54.14% | 10 | |
Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 28,576 | 18,521 | 23,286 | 25,746 | 27,765 | 19,230 | 22,318 | 18,716 | 25,361 | 25,061 | 22,985 | 12,566 | 17,229 | 7,130 | 294,490 | 41.34% | 7 | |
United Socialist Alliance [b] | 1,166 | 1,435 | 850 | 857 | 1,426 | 1,901 | 2,656 | 3,064 | 2,112 | 1,015 | 557 | 1,810 | 2,029 | 787 | 21,665 | 3.04% | 0 | |
United Lanka People's Party | 1,765 | 1,253 | 233 | 345 | 859 | 390 | 333 | 438 | 513 | 756 | 1,618 | 1,310 | 512 | 224 | 10,549 | 1.48% | 0 | |
Valid Votes | 56,701 | 46,644 | 51,799 | 54,725 | 60,426 | 55,936 | 53,967 | 45,767 | 56,296 | 58,853 | 58,339 | 46,296 | 48,611 | 18,077 | 712,437 | 100.00% | 17 | |
Rejected Votes | 2,677 | 2,507 | 2,536 | 2,401 | 2,297 | 2,640 | 2,457 | 2,190 | 2,631 | 2,436 | 2,713 | 2,403 | 2,200 | 409 | 32,497 | |||
Total Polled | 59,378 | 49,151 | 54,335 | 57,126 | 62,723 | 58,576 | 56,424 | 47,957 | 58,927 | 61,289 | 61,052 | 48,699 | 50,811 | 18,486 | 744,934 | |||
Registered Electors | 77,198 | 65,038 | 67,159 | 71,255 | 82,689 | 80,113 | 75,135 | 65,066 | 78,192 | 76,279 | 77,242 | 67,618 | 67,601 | 19,073 | 969,658 | |||
Turnout | 76.92% | 75.57% | 80.91% | 80.17% | 75.85% | 73.12% | 75.10% | 73.71% | 75.36% | 80.35% | 79.04% | 72.02% | 75.16% | 96.92% | 76.82% |
Alliance | Party | Candidate[11] | votes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SLFP | SLFP | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | 214,390 | ||
SLFP | SLFP | Anura Bandaranaike | 107,177 | ||
UNP | UNP | Joseph Michael Perera | 104,094 | ||
UNP | UNP | John Amaratunga | 90,797 | ||
UNP | UNP | Ranil Wickramasinghe | 86,477 | ||
UNP | UNP | Sarath Chandra Rajakaruna | 80,154 | ||
UNP | UNP | I. M. Peter Paul Perera | 63,602 | ||
SLFP | SLFP | Lakshman Jayakody | 62,652 | ||
UNP | UNP | Wijayapala Mendis | 59,235 | ||
UNP | UNP | Donald Dissanayake | 56,610 | ||
UNP | UNP | Mahindra Suransinghe Wijerathna | 52,738 | ||
SLFP | SLFP | Jeyaraj Fernandopulle | 51,485 | ||
SLFP | SLFP | Anura Pradeep | 47,550 | ||
UNP | UNP | Mahen Gunasekera | 44,630 | ||
UNP | UNP | Ariyarathna Jayathilaka | 39,893 | ||
SLFP | SLFP | Reggie Ranatunga | 37,163 | ||
SLFP | SLFP | S. A. Sardhatissa Sakalasooriya | 36,363 |
1994 parliamentary general election
[edit]Results of the 10th parliamentary election held on 16 August 1994 for the district:[12]
Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
People's Alliance [c] | 45,629 | 34,719 | 32,951 | 35,849 | 47,822 | 40,838 | 40,684 | 32,961 | 43,413 | 39,893 | 37,512 | 28,830 | 32,311 | 15,618 | 509,030 | 56.79% | 11 | |
United National Party | 24,269 | 25,537 | 29,141 | 26,552 | 27,133 | 31,851 | 29,617 | 23,504 | 29,173 | 29,455 | 30,492 | 28,624 | 31,482 | 8,801 | 375,631 | 41.91% | 7 | |
Sri Lanka Progressive Front [d] | 849 | 1,048 | 523 | 589 | 1,340 | 970 | 633 | 1,314 | 1,149 | 844 | 1,100 | 289 | 593 | 386 | 11,627 | 1.30% | 0 | |
Valid Votes | 70,747 | 61,304 | 62,615 | 62,990 | 76,295 | 73,659 | 70,934 | 57,779 | 73,735 | 70,192 | 69,104 | 57,743 | 64,386 | 24,805 | 896,288 | 100.00% | 18 | |
Rejected Votes | 2,638 | 2,373 | 2,228 | 2,331 | 2,456 | 2,567 | 3,044 | 2,271 | 2,685 | 2,288 | 2,739 | 2,566 | 2,627 | 740 | 33,553 | |||
Total Polled | 73,385 | 63,677 | 64,843 | 65,321 | 78,751 | 76,226 | 73,978 | 60,050 | 76,420 | 72,480 | 71,843 | 60,309 | 67,013 | 25,545 | 929,841 | |||
Registered Electors | 91,907 | 80,600 | 77,104 | 80,415 | 100,416 | 97,305 | 92,027 | 78,191 | 98,091 | 89,192 | 89,455 | 80,589 | 85,516 | 1,140,808 | ||||
Turnout | 79.85% | 79.00% | 84.10% | 81.23% | 78.42% | 78.34% | 80.39% | 76.80% | 77.91% | 81.26% | 80.31% | 74.84% | 78.36% | 81.51% |
Alliance | Party | Candidate[12] | votes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PA | SLFP | Chandrika Kumaratunga | 464,588 | ||
UNP | UNP | John Amaratunga | 122,813 | ||
PA | SLFP | Jeyaraj Fernandopulle | 102,129 | ||
UNP | UNP | Wijayapala Mendis | 96,559 | ||
UNP | UNP | Joseph Michael Perera | 93,884 | ||
PA | SLFP | Lakshman Jayakody | 88,628 | ||
PA | SLFP | Felix Perera | 80,539 | ||
UNP | UNP | A. Aloysius Reginold Perera | 73,508 | ||
PA | SLFP | Athula Nimalasiri | 65,623 | ||
UNP | UNP | Suranimala Rajapaksha | 63,067 | ||
UNP | UNP | Anura Pradeep Hapangama | 62,829 | ||
PA | SLFP | Reggie Ranatunga | 61,458 | ||
UNP | UNP | Sarath Chandra Rajakaruna | 59,992 | ||
PA | SLFP | M. K. Jinadasa Nandasena | 58,237 | ||
PA | SLFP | B. A. P. Lionel Gunawardena | 57,091 | ||
PA | SLFP | Neil Rupasinghe | 57,090 | ||
PA | SLFP | Upali Gunaratne | 55,328 | ||
PA | SLFP | A. Victor Suraweera | 50,740 |
2000 parliamentary general election
[edit]Results of the 11th parliamentary election held on 10 October 2000 for the district:[13]
Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
People's Alliance[e] | 42,537 | 30,828 | 32,294 | 35,897 | 45,394 | 38,150 | 42,316 | 24,734 | 40,884 | 38,350 | 33,116 | 24,826 | 29,015 | 11,677 | 470,018 | 48.87% | 10 | |
United National Party | 23,248 | 27,052 | 28,894 | 25,053 | 27,794 | 33,089 | 30,157 | 24,045 | 30,031 | 30,025 | 30,025 | 28,983 | 32,570 | 7,362 | 378,328 | 39.34% | 7 | |
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 6,229 | 5,796 | 3,289 | 4,576 | 8,284 | 6,198 | 3,906 | 5,651 | 7,489 | 6,148 | 6,732 | 2,557 | 4,146 | 2,109 | 73,110 | 7.60% | 1 | |
Sinhala Heritage | 1,315 | 1,539 | 658 | 972 | 2,434 | 2,180 | 1,578 | 2,292 | 1,983 | 1,530 | 813 | 975 | 1,320 | 708 | 20,297 | 2.11% | 0 | |
National Unity Alliance[f] | 3,475 | 2,039 | 17 | 205 | 40 | 47 | 223 | 405 | 339 | 411 | 982 | 2,596 | 191 | 43 | 11,013 | 1.15% | 0 | |
New Left Front[g] | 286 | 202 | 254 | 310 | 291 | 261 | 314 | 178 | 270 | 272 | 310 | 285 | 226 | 43 | 3,502 | 0.36% | 0 | |
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 123 | 184 | 52 | 53 | 158 | 68 | 50 | 170 | 112 | 231 | 94 | 36 | 67 | 65 | 1,463 | 0.15% | 0 | |
United Lalith Front | 86 | 68 | 98 | 105 | 68 | 72 | 80 | 62 | 107 | 96 | 102 | 67 | 78 | 4 | 1,093 | 0.11% | 0 | |
Citizen's Front | 81 | 49 | 34 | 44 | 105 | 47 | 48 | 58 | 78 | 55 | 69 | 30 | 57 | 19 | 774 | 0.08% | 0 | |
Democratic United National Front | 52 | 25 | 25 | 37 | 54 | 29 | 37 | 21 | 50 | 48 | 35 | 28 | 27 | 5 | 473 | 0.05% | 0 | |
Independent Group 01 | 29 | 19 | 11 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 27 | 20 | 16 | 24 | 24 | 17 | 22 | 2 | 270 | 0.03% | 0 | |
Independent Group 03 | 30 | 16 | 27 | 24 | 25 | 12 | 31 | 11 | 20 | 24 | 13 | 13 | 19 | 0 | 265 | 0.03% | 0 | |
Independent Group 05 | 16 | 15 | 29 | 20 | 11 | 12 | 17 | 11 | 24 | 23 | 29 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 233 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Liberal Party | 15 | 12 | 21 | 10 | 17 | 10 | 27 | 15 | 29 | 14 | 19 | 22 | 13 | 8 | 232 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent Group 04 | 19 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 177 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 34 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 149 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent Group 02 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 21 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 137 | 0.01% | 0 | |
People's Freedom Front | 10 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 99 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Ruhuna People's Party | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 76 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Valid Votes | 77,600 | 67,900 | 65,739 | 67,365 | 84,767 | 80,239 | 78,856 | 57,716 | 81,485 | 77,297 | 72,405 | 60,482 | 67,803 | 22,055 | 961,709 | 100.00% | 18 | |
Rejected Votes | 3,507 | 2,431 | 2,439 | 2,540 | 2,903 | 2,823 | 3,350 | 2,251 | 3,075 | 2,926 | 3,214 | 2,858 | 2,564 | 509 | 37,390 | |||
Total Polled | 81,107 | 70,331 | 68,178 | 69,905 | 87,670 | 83,062 | 82,206 | 59,967 | 84,560 | 80,223 | 75,619 | 63,340 | 70,367 | 22,564 | 990,099 | |||
Registered Electors | 103,895 | 90,501 | 84,780 | 89,364 | 114,218 | 106,334 | 103,105 | 77,681 | 110,100 | 101,131 | 98,681 | 84,290 | 89,336 | 1,253,416 | ||||
Turnout (%) | 78.07% | 77.71% | 80.42% | 78.23% | 76.76% | 78.11% | 79.73% | 77.20% | 76.80% | 79.33% | 76.63% | 75.15% | 78.77% | 79.71% |
Alliance | Party | Candidate[14] | votes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UNP | UNP | Karu Jayasuriya | 237,387 | ||
PA | SLFP | Susil Premajayantha | 165,905 | ||
PA | SLFP | Jeyaraj Fernandopulle | 138,859 | ||
UNP | UNP | Anura Bandaranaike | 99,536 | ||
PA | SLFP | Felix Perera | 96,222 | ||
PA | SLFP | Pandu Bandaranaike | 92,182 | ||
UNP | UNP | Jayalath Jayawardena | 82,730 | ||
PA | SLFP | Reggie Ranatunga | 79,510 | ||
PA | SLFP | Sarath Keerthiratne | 77,427 | ||
UNP | UNP | John Amaratunga | 67,104 | ||
UNP | UNP | Edward Gunaserkara | 65,157 | ||
PA | SLFP | Lionel Gunawardena | 59,777 | ||
UNP | UNP | Joseph Michael Perera | 59,646 | ||
PA | SLFP | Sarathchandra Peramuna | 52,416 | ||
PA | SLFP | Neil Rupasinghe | 51,500 | ||
UNP | UNP | Suranimala Rajapaksha | 49,697 | ||
PA | SLFP | Ananda Moonasinghe | 48,863 | ||
JVP | JVP | Vijitha Herath | 8,823 |
2001 parliamentary general election
[edit]Results of the 12th parliamentary election held on 5 December 2001 for the district:[15][16]
Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United National Front[h] | 29,618 | 32,882 | 31,434 | 28,707 | 32,479 | 38,219 | 35,075 | 27,174 | 34,904 | 32,726 | 33,405 | 35,678 | 37,592 | 437,289 | 43.94% | 9 | ||
People's Alliance[i] | 39,531 | 28,778 | 29,656 | 33,199 | 41,519 | 34,522 | 39,498 | 23,419 | 37,499 | 34,348 | 31,014 | 21,811 | 24,651 | 428,780 | 43.08% | 7 | ||
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 9,351 | 8,665 | 5,817 | 7,558 | 12,791 | 9,856 | 7,388 | 7,589 | 11,262 | 9,627 | 10,143 | 4,141 | 6,641 | 113,990 | 11.45% | 2 | ||
Sinhala Heritage | 694 | 549 | 303 | 337 | 1,090 | 708 | 548 | 932 | 831 | 633 | 462 | 265 | 513 | 8,105 | 0.81% | 0 | ||
New Left Front[j] | 330 | 220 | 196 | 291 | 315 | 282 | 296 | 175 | 303 | 267 | 284 | 262 | 220 | 3,488 | 0.35% | 0 | ||
United Socialist Party | 47 | 78 | 40 | 45 | 41 | 58 | 60 | 41 | 66 | 61 | 73 | 56 | 62 | 736 | 0.07% | 0 | ||
United Lalith Front | 46 | 47 | 33 | 62 | 41 | 56 | 53 | 35 | 41 | 65 | 62 | 40 | 39 | 623 | 0.06% | 0 | ||
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 37 | 28 | 12 | 22 | 39 | 21 | 16 | 40 | 39 | 44 | 38 | 15 | 17 | 389 | 0.04% | 0 | ||
Ruhuna People's Party | 42 | 36 | 19 | 18 | 23 | 26 | 25 | 18 | 35 | 24 | 33 | 18 | 15 | 334 | 0.03% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 6 | 24 | 23 | 25 | 32 | 20 | 30 | 30 | 12 | 40 | 24 | 25 | 18 | 14 | 317 | 0.03% | 0 | ||
United Sinhala Great Council | 22 | 7 | 14 | 17 | 18 | 13 | 16 | 34 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 34 | 226 | 0.02% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 5 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 17 | 14 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 194 | 0.02% | 0 | ||
Sri Lanka Muslim Party | 9 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 21 | 10 | 10 | 146 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 3 | 24 | 11 | 8 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 136 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 4 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 113 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 107 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 100 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 2 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 90 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Sri Lanka National Front | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 67 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Valid Votes | 79,816 | 71,381 | 67,593 | 70,375 | 88,452 | 83,870 | 83,089 | 59,531 | 85,123 | 77,904 | 75,646 | 62,373 | 69,849 | 995,230 | 100.00% | 18 | ||
Rejected Votes | 3,490 | 2,617 | 2,672 | 2,569 | 2,909 | 2,524 | 3,143 | 2,532 | 3,158 | 2,906 | 3,330 | 3,044 | 2,791 | 38,172 | ||||
Total Polled | 83,306 | 73,998 | 70,265 | 72,944 | 91,361 | 86,394 | 86,232 | 62,063 | 88,281 | 80,810 | 78,976 | 65,417 | 72,640 | 1,033,402 | ||||
Registered Electors | 106,025 | 93,735 | 87,050 | 91,487 | 116,768 | 109,799 | 106,508 | 79,217 | 113,172 | 103,461 | 100,833 | 85,784 | 92,154 | 1,285,993 | ||||
Turnout | 78.57% | 78.94% | 80.72% | 79.73% | 78.24% | 78.68% | 80.96% | 78.35% | 78.01% | 78.11% | 78.32% | 76.26% | 78.82% | 80.36% |
Alliance | Party | Candidate[17] | votes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PA | SLFP | Anura Bandaranaike | 265,160 | ||
UNF | UNP | Karu Jayasuriya | 250,912 | ||
UNF | UNP | Jayalath Jayawardena | 116,737 | ||
PA | SLFP | Jeyaraj Fernandopulle | 95,591 | ||
UNF | UNP | Joseph Michael Perera | 86,959 | ||
UNF | UNP | John Amaratunga | 82,326 | ||
UNF | UNP | Olitha Premathiratne | 81,302 | ||
PA | SLFP | Pandu Bandaranaike | 78,614 | ||
PA | SLFP | Felix Perera | 73,029 | ||
UNF | UNP | Edward Gunaserkara | 70,667 | ||
UNF | UNP | Suranimala Rajapaksha | 60,861 | ||
UNF | UNP | Sarath Chandra Rajakaruna | 60,776 | ||
PA | SLFP | Sarana Gunawardena | 59,470 | ||
UNF | UNP | Ravindra Randeniya | 56,449 | ||
PA | SLFP | Reggie Ranatunga | 53,031 | ||
PA | SLFP | Neil Rupasinghe | 48,167 | ||
JVP | JVP | Vijitha Herath | 13,981 | ||
JVP | JVP | Anjan Umma | 10,834 |
2004 parliamentary general election
[edit]Results of the 13th parliamentary election held on 2 April 2004 for the district:[18]
Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United People's Freedom Alliance[k] | 45,529 | 34,502 | 34,257 | 40,327 | 51,944 | 42,453 | 41,823 | 25,774 | 47,558 | 41,026 | 39,853 | 24,357 | 28,344 | 12,216 | 509,963 | 51.51% | 9 | |
United National Front[l] | 24,282 | 24,696 | 26,267 | 23,111 | 24,652 | 34,248 | 31,919 | 21,450 | 27,012 | 28,632 | 27,523 | 33,709 | 34,041 | 6,030 | 367,572 | 37.13% | 6 | |
Jathika Hela Urumaya | 8,741 | 11,434 | 5,666 | 5,943 | 11,357 | 6,009 | 6,254 | 10,956 | 11,194 | 9,292 | 6,775 | 1,759 | 4,525 | 2,611 | 102,516 | 10.36% | 2 | |
National Development Front | 189 | 306 | 278 | 164 | 327 | 671 | 637 | 251 | 377 | 339 | 193 | 387 | 478 | 25 | 4,622 | 0.47% | 0 | |
United Socialist Party | 237 | 197 | 234 | 192 | 116 | 236 | 282 | 147 | 178 | 248 | 265 | 277 | 233 | 10 | 2,852 | 0.29% | 0 | |
New Left Front[m] | 54 | 57 | 40 | 26 | 53 | 97 | 98 | 51 | 76 | 63 | 46 | 148 | 102 | 21 | 932 | 0.09% | 0 | |
Independent Group 10 | 27 | 14 | 26 | 22 | 20 | 23 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 26 | 20 | 14 | 16 | 1 | 260 | 0.03% | 0 | |
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 8 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 62 | 11 | 25 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 203 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent Group 09 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 20 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 149 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent Group 03 | 22 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 143 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Swarajya Party | 4 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 35 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 129 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Democratic United National Front | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 35 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 107 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Liberal Party of Sri Lanka | 7 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 73 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Sri Lanka Muslim Party | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 73 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 07 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 66 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 01 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 65 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 04 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 48 | 0.00% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 08 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 43 | 0.00% | 0 | ||
Ruhuna People's Party | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 42 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 40 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 06 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 34 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Sri Lanka National Front | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 02 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 05 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Valid Votes | 79,155 | 71,292 | 66,847 | 69,885 | 88,597 | 83,816 | 81,185 | 58,753 | 86,514 | 79,709 | 74,759 | 60,725 | 67,837 | 20,928 | 990,002 | 100.00% | 17 | |
Rejected Votes | 3,853 | 2,585 | 2,884 | 3,073 | 3,485 | 2,997 | 3,268 | 2,396 | 3,448 | 3,169 | 3,677 | 2,842 | 2,761 | 424 | 40,862 | |||
Total Polled | 83,008 | 73,877 | 69,731 | 72,958 | 92,082 | 86,813 | 84,453 | 61,149 | 89,962 | 82,878 | 78,436 | 63,567 | 70,598 | 21,352 | 1,030,864 | |||
Registered Electors | 109,731 | 96,568 | 90,352 | 94,755 | 120,833 | 113,559 | 110,706 | 80,329 | 117,826 | 107,679 | 104,122 | 88,773 | 91,912 | 1,327,145 | ||||
Turnout | 75.65% | 76.50% | 77.18% | 77.00% | 76.21% | 76.45% | 76.29% | 76.12% | 76.35% | 76.97% | 75.33% | 71.61% | 76.81% | 77.68% |
Alliance | Party | Candidate[19] | votes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UPFA | JVP | Vijitha Herath | 215,540 | ||
UNF | UNP | Karu Jayasuriya | 202,029 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Anura Bandaranaike[n] | 198,444 | ||
UPFA | JVP | Siripala Amarasingha[o] | 128,633 | ||
UPFA | JVP | Anjan Umma | 111,755 | ||
UNF | UNP | Joseph Michael Perera | 95,231 | ||
UNF | UNP | Jayalath Jayawardena | 93,643 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Jeyaraj Fernandopulle[p] | 90,307 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Lasantha Alagiyawanna | 86,550 | ||
UNF | UNP | John Amaratunga | 86,141 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Sripathi Sooriyaarachchi[q][r] | 76,637 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Felix Perera | 72,616 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Pandu Bandaranaike | 56,715 | ||
UNF | UNP | Sarath Chandra Rajakaruna | 55,337 | ||
UNF | UNP | Edward Gunaserkara | 44,890 | ||
JHU | JHU | Ven. Kolonnawe Sri Sumangala Thero[s] | 25,154 | ||
JHU | JHU | Ven. Aparekke Punnananda Thero | 7,389 |
2010 parliamentary general election
[edit]Results of the 14th parliamentary election held on 8 April 2010 for the district:[27]
Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United People's Freedom Alliance[t] | 51,172 | 41,478 | 38,957 | 46,356 | 58,268 | 43,920 | 49,766 | 30,276 | 55,327 | 49,033 | 45,428 | 26,076 | 31,444 | 21,975 | 589,476 | 63.37% | 12 | |
United National Front[u] | 15,912 | 20,438 | 18,026 | 14,185 | 17,976 | 26,397 | 22,919 | 16,479 | 20,387 | 19,295 | 17,971 | 23,987 | 26,659 | 5,892 | 266,523 | 28.65% | 5 | |
Democratic National Alliance[v] | 5,626 | 5,089 | 2,931 | 3,709 | 7,188 | 6,544 | 5,228 | 5,322 | 7,027 | 5,270 | 4,491 | 3,463 | 4,929 | 2,930 | 69,747 | 7.50% | 1 | |
Independent Group 02 | 5 | 47 | 65 | 23 | 47 | 223 | 418 | 37 | 83 | 91 | 15 | 239 | 166 | 10 | 1,469 | 0.16% | 0 | |
Sri Lanka National Front | 36 | 13 | 64 | 34 | 69 | 83 | 52 | 15 | 22 | 31 | 63 | 19 | 87 | 37 | 625 | 0.07% | 0 | |
National Development Front | 30 | 15 | 32 | 22 | 18 | 19 | 54 | 20 | 23 | 47 | 18 | 88 | 18 | 5 | 409 | 0.04% | 0 | |
Independent Group 09 | 23 | 13 | 18 | 18 | 25 | 21 | 27 | 21 | 18 | 30 | 24 | 19 | 16 | 6 | 279 | 0.03% | 0 | |
United National Alternative Front | 22 | 14 | 12 | 15 | 21 | 16 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 24 | 6 | 229 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent Group 13 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 34 | 8 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 42 | 38 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 207 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Janasetha Peramuna | 22 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 50 | 9 | 9 | 177 | 0.02% | 0 | |
United Democratic Front | 13 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 134 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 15 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 120 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 11 | 12 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 108 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Sri Lanka Labour Party | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 79 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 08 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 76 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Patriotic National Front | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 66 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 05 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 65 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 14 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 63 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 03 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 54 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 51 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 01 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 50 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 07 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 45 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 06 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 42 | 0.00% | 0 | |
All Are Citizens, All Are Kings Organisation | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 40 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 04 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 39 | 0.00% | 0 | |
United Lanka Great Council | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 29 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Valid Votes | 72,948 | 67,183 | 60,174 | 64,439 | 83,768 | 77,329 | 78,600 | 52,285 | 83,007 | 73,939 | 68,150 | 54,039 | 63,456 | 30,916 | 930,233 | 100.00% | 18 | |
Rejected Votes | 3,774 | 2,998 | 4,017 | 3,518 | 3,930 | 4,208 | 5,021 | 2,668 | 3,925 | 3,675 | 3,522 | 3,711 | 4,328 | 939 | 50,234 | |||
Total Polled | 76,722 | 70,181 | 64,191 | 67,957 | 87,698 | 81,537 | 83,621 | 54,953 | 86,932 | 77,614 | 71,672 | 57,750 | 67,784 | 31,855 | 980,467 | |||
Registered Electors | 120,900 | 107,786 | 99,742 | 104,155 | 133,606 | 127,821 | 127,421 | 83,105 | 134,581 | 120,860 | 114,566 | 96,028 | 103,893 | 1,474,464 | ||||
Turnout | 63.46% | 65.11% | 64.36% | 65.25% | 65.64% | 63.79% | 65.63% | 66.12% | 64.59% | 64.22% | 62.56% | 60.14% | 65.24% | 66.50% |
Alliance | Party | Candidate[28] | votes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UPFA | SLFP | Basil Rajapaksa | 425,861 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Sudarshani Fernandopulle | 186,140 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Mervyn Silva | 151,085 | ||
UPFA | JHU | Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thero | 112,010 | ||
UNF | UNP | Ruwan Wijewardene | 88,850 | ||
UNF | UNP | Upeksha Swarnamali | 81,350 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Felix Perera | 69,938 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Ruwan Ranatunga | 66,488 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Lasantha Alagiyawanna | 65,939 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Sarana Gunawardena | 61,150 | ||
UNF | UNP | Karu Jayasuriya | 60,310 | ||
UNF | UNP | Jayalath Jayawardena | 58,302 | ||
UNF | UNP | John Amaratunga | 52,331 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Dulip Wijeysekara | 51,469 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Wasantha Senanayake | 51,124 | ||
DNA | JVP | Vijitha Herath | 50,967 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Pandu Bandaranaike | 49,613 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Sarath Kumara Gunaratna | 46,040 |
2015 parliamentary general election
[edit]Results of the 15th parliamentary election held on 17 August 2015:[29]
Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United National Front for Good Governance[w] | 42,371 | 41,232 | 35,725 | 35,390 | 42,585 | 51,807 | 50,393 | 31,501 | 45,446 | 43,373 | 39,794 | 48,517 | 51,011 | 17,859 | 577,004 | 47.13% | 9 | |
United People's Freedom Alliance[x] | 44,926 | 42,759 | 38,471 | 44,925 | 53,901 | 43,051 | 45,582 | 28,323 | 54,362 | 45,898 | 41,014 | 18,928 | 30,743 | 17,075 | 549,958 | 44.92% | 8 | |
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 6,973 | 6,742 | 3,951 | 4,557 | 9,754 | 8,333 | 6,662 | 5,206 | 8,603 | 7,400 | 6,255 | 3,902 | 5,141 | 4,401 | 87,880 | 7.18% | 1 | |
Democratic Party | 327 | 444 | 120 | 317 | 356 | 419 | 297 | 427 | 603 | 291 | 248 | 221 | 315 | 321 | 4,706 | 0.38% | 0 | |
Bodu Jana Peramuna | 132 | 212 | 76 | 103 | 154 | 104 | 102 | 169 | 194 | 146 | 106 | 14 | 77 | 75 | 1,664 | 0.14% | 0 | |
Frontline Socialist Party | 39 | 82 | 49 | 30 | 111 | 24 | 41 | 31 | 104 | 37 | 25 | 35 | 55 | 30 | 693 | 0.06% | 0 | |
Independent Group 15 | 67 | 14 | 22 | 8 | 38 | 55 | 57 | 13 | 25 | 36 | 28 | 29 | 37 | 2 | 431 | 0.04% | 0 | |
United People's Party | 30 | 38 | 21 | 32 | 30 | 34 | 31 | 21 | 31 | 22 | 38 | 37 | 41 | 9 | 415 | 0.03% | 0 | |
Independent Group 11 | 40 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 59 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 27 | 28 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 241 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Janasetha Peramuna | 5 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 22 | 9 | 10 | 32 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 185 | 0.02% | 0 | |
All Citizens are All Kings Organization | 11 | 6 | 5 | 93 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 184 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Nava Sama Samaja Party | 13 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 28 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 29 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 141 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent Group 16 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 129 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 07 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 70 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 112 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 84 | 0.01% | 0 | |
United Peace Front | 10 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 77 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 12 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 62 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 01 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 55 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 05 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 52 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 02 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 50 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 08 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 43 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 09 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 42 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Motherland People's Party | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 41 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 39 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 06 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 04 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 13 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Independent Group 03 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 0.00% | 0 | |
Valid Votes | 95,005 | 91,619 | 78,496 | 85,539 | 107,112 | 104,108 | 103,280 | 65,758 | 109,466 | 97,334 | 87,665 | 71,771 | 87,518 | 39,820 | 1,224,401 | 100.00% | 18 | |
Rejected Votes | 4,880 | 3,737 | 3,707 | 3,712 | 4,457 | 4,283 | 5,522 | 3,024 | 4,646 | 4,667 | 3,997 | 4,191 | 4,392 | 1,026 | 56,246 | 4.39% | ||
Total Polled | 99,885 | 95,356 | 82,202 | 89,256 | 111,569 | 108,301 | 108,802 | 68,782 | 114,112 | 102,001 | 91,662 | 75,962 | 91,910 | 40,846 | 1,280,647 | 78.21% | ||
Registered Electors | 133,023 | 121,702 | 108,529 | 115,356 | 147,280 | 143,843 | 143,885 | 90,122 | 149,453 | 132,981 | 124,679 | 106,213 | 120,471 | 1,637,537 |
Alliance | Party | Candidate[30] | votes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UPFA | SLFP | Prasanna Ranatunga | 384,448 | ||
UNFGG | UNP | Ranjan Ramanayake | 216,463 | ||
UNFGG | DNM | Arjuna Ranatunga | 165,890 | ||
UNFGG | UNP | Ruwan Wijewardene | 157,932 | ||
UNFGG | UNP | Harshana Rajakaruna | 122,455 | ||
UNFGG | UNP | Ajith Mannapperuma | 113,889 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Prasanna Ranaweera | 112,395 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Nimal Lanza | 94,375 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Sisira Jayakody | 90,749 | ||
UNFGG | UNP | John Amaratunga | 83,070 | ||
UNFGG | UNP | Kavinda Jayawardena | 81,383 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Indika Anuruddha | 78,109 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Sudarshani Fernandopulle | 73,553 | ||
UNFGG | DNM | Chathura Senarathne | 71,243 | ||
UNFGG | UNP | Edward Gunasekara | 65,874 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Duleep Wijesekera | 58,936 | ||
UPFA | SLFP | Lasantha Alagiyawanna | 57,450 | ||
JVP | JVP | Vijitha Herath | 55,299 |
2020 parliamentary general election
[edit]Results of the 16th parliamentary election held on 5 August 2020:[31]
Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance[y] | 62,674 | 62,301 | 51,251 | 64,663 | 73,455 | 67,798 | 70,062 | 39,172 | 76,227 | 65,763 | 55,063 | 36,536 | 47,230 | 35,701 | 807,896 | 65.76% | 13 | |
Samagi Jana Balawegaya[z] | 21,324 | 18,077 | 17,826 | 15,749 | 17,481 | 25,723 | 25,055 | 17,684 | 21,287 | 20,225 | 18,034 | 25,023 | 34,706 | 7,615 | 285,809 | 23.27% | 4 | |
National People's Power[aa] | 4,675 | 4,374 | 2,675 | 2,681 | 6,372 | 5,944 | 5,041 | 3,421 | 5,789 | 4,757 | 4,685 | 3,834 | 3,744 | 3,841 | 61,833 | 5.03% | 1 | |
United National Party | 2,610 | 3,051 | 1,621 | 1,207 | 1,681 | 2,022 | 1,775 | 1,501 | 2,692 | 1,925 | 1,916 | 2,784 | 2,138 | 1,359 | 28,282 | 2.3% | 0 | |
Our People's Power Party | 2,199 | 1,711 | 1,474 | 1,065 | 2,140 | 1,147 | 1,510 | 1,045 | 1,760 | 1,973 | 3,630 | 618 | 661 | 694 | 21,627 | 1.76% | 0 | |
Independent Group 04 | 324 | 557 | 185 | 259 | 821 | 508 | 372 | 596 | 634 | 549 | 226 | 218 | 260 | 161 | 5,670 | 0.46% | 0 | |
National Development Front | 263 | 306 | 234 | 377 | 399 | 392 | 391 | 195 | 350 | 297 | 233 | 257 | 292 | 63 | 4,049 | 0.33% | 0 | |
Independent Group 09 | 142 | 93 | 134 | 165 | 124 | 130 | 156 | 76 | 135 | 174 | 183 | 143 | 116 | 20 | 1,791 | 0.15% | 0 | |
Frontline Socialist Party | 127 | 140 | 113 | 70 | 223 | 78 | 89 | 66 | 150 | 97 | 107 | 99 | 93 | 82 | 1,534 | 0.12% | 0 | |
Socialist Party of Sri Lanka | 82 | 86 | 64 | 86 | 84 | 90 | 83 | 55 | 106 | 125 | 114 | 67 | 95 | 38 | 1,175 | 0.1% | 0 | |
Independent Group 18 | 87 | 48 | 75 | 74 | 71 | 71 | 85 | 41 | 62 | 85 | 93 | 62 | 68 | 23 | 945 | 0.08% | 0 | |
Jana Setha Peramuna | 48 | 48 | 74 | 83 | 53 | 73 | 79 | 53 | 67 | 60 | 60 | 56 | 117 | 21 | 892 | 0.07% | 0 | |
Independent Group 11 | 54 | 34 | 57 | 63 | 51 | 61 | 49 | 39 | 51 | 55 | 59 | 47 | 51 | 7 | 678 | 0.06% | 0 | |
Independent Group 13 | 53 | 38 | 52 | 46 | 40 | 40 | 51 | 30 | 36 | 50 | 54 | 28 | 34 | 8 | 560 | 0.05% | 0 | |
Sri Lanka Labour Party | 43 | 44 | 30 | 43 | 44 | 52 | 48 | 28 | 49 | 47 | 42 | 35 | 44 | 8 | 557 | 0.05% | 0 | |
Democratic United National Front | 118 | 28 | 22 | 25 | 27 | 16 | 23 | 34 | 26 | 26 | 114 | 26 | 20 | 34 | 539 | 0.04% | 0 | |
New Democratic Front | 46 | 36 | 61 | 42 | 31 | 34 | 45 | 29 | 42 | 58 | 38 | 30 | 33 | 12 | 537 | 0.04% | 0 | |
Independent Group 03 | 22 | 14 | 13 | 37 | 175 | 27 | 22 | 7 | 73 | 56 | 15 | 35 | 13 | 19 | 528 | 0.04% | 0 | |
Sinhaladeepa National Front | 29 | 80 | 13 | 17 | 58 | 15 | 29 | 22 | 47 | 42 | 23 | 34 | 34 | 27 | 470 | 0.04% | 0 | |
Motherland People's Party | 38 | 73 | 16 | 52 | 27 | 9 | 15 | 28 | 37 | 25 | 25 | 15 | 13 | 21 | 394 | 0.03% | 0 | |
Independent Group 15 | 30 | 25 | 20 | 27 | 21 | 18 | 26 | 37 | 21 | 23 | 26 | 36 | 22 | 7 | 353 | 0.03% | 0 | |
New Sinhala Heritage | 20 | 9 | 24 | 22 | 13 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 21 | 14 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 264 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent Group 14 | 18 | 26 | 20 | 26 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 30 | 22 | 14 | 20 | 10 | 264 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent Group 17 | 35 | 10 | 13 | 22 | 16 | 12 | 17 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 29 | 14 | 26 | 11 | 248 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent Group 12 | 12 | 5 | 29 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 41 | 12 | 6 | 50 | 7 | 25 | 11 | 10 | 238 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent Group 06 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 23 | 19 | 8 | 14 | 18 | 27 | 34 | 18 | 8 | 221 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent Group 05 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 31 | 15 | 21 | 10 | 12 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 22 | 16 | 4 | 203 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Independent Group 10 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 24 | 8 | 179 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 02 | 22 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 7 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 170 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 01 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 34 | 10 | 15 | 169 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 16 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 160 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 07 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 31 | 19 | 156 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Independent Group 08 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 83 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Valid Votes | 95,169 | 91,288 | 71,163 | 87,006 | 103,508 | 104,434 | 105,186 | 64,261 | 109,814 | 96,617 | 84,934 | 70,212 | 90,003 | 49,879 | 1,228,474 | 100.00% | 18 | |
Rejected Votes | 6,162 | 4,946 | 4,780 | 4,067 | 5,319 | 6,258 | 7,234 | 4,090 | 6,250 | 5,830 | 5,476 | 5,780 | 6,673 | 2,644 | 75,509 | 4.23% | ||
Total Polled | 101,331 | 96,234 | 80,943 | 91,073 | 108,827 | 110,692 | 112,420 | 68,351 | 116,064 | 102,447 | 90,410 | 75,992 | 96,676 | 52,523 | 1,303,983 | 73.01% | ||
Registered Electors | 137,300 | 130,751 | 111,857 | 120,061 | 153,947 | 156,003 | 156,287 | 94,950 | 160,034 | 139,540 | 126,021 | 112,012 | 133,103 | 54,098 | 1,785,964 |
Alliance | Party | Candidate[32] | votes | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SLPFA | SLPP | Nalaka Godahewa | 325,479 | ||
SLPFA | SLPP | Prasanna Ranatunga | 316,544 | ||
SLPFA | SLPP | Indika Anuruddha | 136,297 | ||
SLPFA | SLPP | Sisira Jayakody | 113,130 | ||
SJB | SJB | Sarath Fonseka | 110,555 | ||
SLPFA | SLPP | Nimal Lanza | 108,945 | ||
SJB | SJB | Ranjan Ramanayake | 103,992 | ||
SLPFA | SLPP | Sahan Pradeep Withana | 97,494 | ||
SLPFA | SLPP | Sudarshani Fernandopulle | 89,329 | ||
SLPFA | SLPP | Prasanna Ranaweera | 83,203 | ||
SLPFA | SLPP | Kokila Gunawardena | 77,922 | ||
SJB | SJB | Harshana Rajakaruna | 73,617 | ||
SLPFA | SLFP | Lasantha Alagiyawanna | 73,061 | ||
SLPFA | SLPP | Nalin Fernando | 69,800 | ||
SLPFA | SLPP | Milan Jayathilaka | 68,449 | ||
SLPFA | SLPP | Upul Mahendra | 67,756 | ||
SJB | SJB | Kavinda Jayawardena | 52,026 | ||
NPP | JVP | Vijitha Herath | 37,008 |
Provincial Council Elections
[edit]1988 provincial council election
[edit]Results of the 1st Western provincial council election held on 2 June 1988 for the district:[33]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
United National Party | 243,694 | 49.03% | 18 | |
United Socialist Alliance[ab] | 212,679 | 42.8% | 15 | |
Liberal Party | 26,962 | 5.42% | 2 | |
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 13,680 | 2.75% | 1 | |
Valid Votes | 497,015 | 100.00% | 36 |
1993 provincial council election
[edit]Results of the 2nd Western provincial council election held on 17 May 1993 for the district:[34]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
People's Alliance[ac] | 353,602 | 45.65% | 17 | |
United National Party | 320,065 | 41.32% | 15 | |
Democratic United National Front | 88,362 | 11.43% | 4 | |
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 7,078 | 0.91% | 0 | |
Nava Sama Samaja Party | 4,815 | 0.62% | 0 | |
Independent Group 01 | 610 | 0.07% | 0 | |
Valid Votes | 774,532 | 100.00% | 36 |
1999 provincial council election
[edit]Results of the 3rd Western provincial council election held on 6 April 1999 for the district:[35][36]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
People's Alliance[ad] | 376,176 | 48.30% | 17 | |
United National Party | 317,698 | 40.79% | 15 | |
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 58,277 | 7.48% | 3 | |
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 15,492 | 1.99% | 1 | |
New Left Front[ae] | 8,409 | 1.08% | 0 | |
Muslim United Liberation Front | 1,347 | 0.17% | 0 | |
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 807 | 0.10% | 0 | |
Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 663 | 0.09% | 0 | |
Valid Votes | 778,869 | 100.00% | 36 | |
Rejected Votes | 48,262 | |||
Total Polled | 827,131 | |||
Registered Electors | 1,213,589 | |||
Turnout | 68.16% |
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[af] | 34,731 | 27,163 | 26,522 | 31,198 | 37,572 | 32,434 | 31,872 | 21,286 | 36,457 | 32,425 | 30,664 | 22,098 | 21,174 | 7,285 | 392,881 | 61.35% | 24 | ||
United National Party | 12,614 | 16,802 | 17,611 | 14,615 | 14,460 | 20,082 | 16,959 | 14,923 | 16,371 | 17,925 | 16,991 | 15,928 | 20,792 | 2,830 | 218,903 | 34.19% | 14 | ||
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 4,653 | 2,631 | 15 | 379 | 24 | 25 | 387 | 1,209 | 790 | 1,183 | 1,575 | 3,447 | 287 | 16 | 16,621 | 2.60% | 1 | ||
Western People's Front | 11 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 127 | 86 | 419 | 32 | 11 | 29 | 413 | 1,626 | 0 | 2,798 | 0.44% | 0 | ||
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 114 | 67 | 1,200 | 29 | 111 | 39 | 431 | 82 | 137 | 195 | 40 | 19 | 48 | 52 | 2,564 | 0.40% | 0 | ||
United Socialist Party | 173 | 219 | 190 | 187 | 127 | 187 | 183 | 180 | 177 | 194 | 191 | 165 | 224 | 22 | 2,419 | 0.38% | 0 | ||
National Development Front | 113 | 128 | 143 | 94 | 134 | 365 | 411 | 98 | 166 | 152 | 84 | 206 | 260 | 7 | 2,361 | 0.37% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 03 | 478 | 11 | 32 | 27 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 179 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 794 | 0.12% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 04 | 29 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 20 | 16 | 18 | 7 | 22 | 34 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 7 | 258 | 0.04% | 0 | ||
United Sinhala Great Council | 18 | 15 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 11 | 20 | 34 | 8 | 236 | 0.04% | 0 | ||
Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 29 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 159 | 0.02% | 0 | ||
Liberal Party | 6 | 11 | 4 | 29 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 142 | 0.02% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 01 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 110 | 0.02% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 02 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 100 | 0.02% | 0 | ||
Valid Votes | 52,992 | 47,094 | 45,780 | 46,626 | 52,523 | 53,329 | 50,407 | 38,256 | 54,223 | 52,190 | 49,822 | 42,351 | 44,508 | 10,245 | 640,346 | 100.00% | 39 | ||
Rejected Votes | 3,649 | 2,608 | 2,400 | 2,647 | 3,434 | 3,183 | 3,028 | 2,668 | 3,176 | 3,335 | 3,009 | 2,177 | 2,727 | 749 | 38,790 | ||||
Total Polled | 56,641 | 49,702 | 48,180 | 49,273 | 55,957 | 56,512 | 53,435 | 40,924 | 57,399 | 55,525 | 52,831 | 44,528 | 47,235 | 10,994 | 679,136 | ||||
Registered Electors | 109,731 | 96,568 | 90,352 | 94,755 | 120,833 | 113,559 | 110,706 | 80,329 | 117,826 | 107,679 | 104,122 | 88,773 | 91,912 | 1,327,145 | |||||
Turnout | 51.62% | 51.47% | 53.32% | 52.00% | 46.31% | 49.76% | 48.27% | 50.95% | 48.72% | 51.57% | 50.74% | 50.16% | 51.39% | 51.17% | |||||
Source:[37] |
Party | Candidate[37] | votes | |
---|---|---|---|
UPFA | R.A. Waruna Deepthi Rajapaksha | 56,118 | |
UPFA | Prasanna Ranatunga | 46,135 | |
UPFA | R.A. Eraj Crishantha de Alwis | 43,064 | |
UPFA | Ashoka Sapumal Ranwala | 35,623 | |
UPFA | Ananda Ranjith Rupasinghe | 34,614 | |
UPFA | A.G Dulip Pandula Perera Wijesekara | 34,509 | |
UPFA | A. Ileperuma Sunil Wijerathna | 33,496 | |
UPFA | I. Gihan Wijesinghe | 32,992 | |
UPFA | Nimal Lanza | 31,502 | |
UPFA | A. Sardhathissa Sakalasuriya | 31,356 | |
UPFA | Sarath Kumara Gunaratna | 29,411 | |
UPFA | U. Arachchige Nandaseeli | 29,107 | |
UPFA | M. Kulasiri de Silva | 28,326 | |
UPFA | K. Meril Perera | 27,513 | |
UPFA | H. Wimalasena Silva | 26,865 | |
UPFA | Nandana Mendis | 26,083 | |
UPFA | S. Kinsley Kasthuriarachchi | 25,739 | |
UPFA | Lalith Wanigarathna | 24,710 | |
UPFA | Gunasiri Jayanath | 24,480 | |
UNP | K.D Gamini Gunarathna | 23,947 | |
UPFA | Sisira Jayakody | 23,859 | |
UNP | Upul Deva Wanawasa Rununage | 23,632 | |
UNP | U. George Perera | 23,339 | |
UPFA | Ashantha Namal Gunawardhana | 22,097 | |
UPFA | Chandana Jayakody | 21,907 | |
UPFA | A.D Nihal Caneesius Premasiri Jayawardhana | 21,694 | |
UNP | Lowrence Madiwela | 21,591 | |
UNP | U.P Chandrasoma Saranalal | 21,458 | |
UPFA | R. Waragoda | 21,446 | |
UNP | A.K Paul Perera | 21,195 | |
UNP | Edward Silva Digirige | 20,629 | |
UNP | A. Sirikamal Feleshian de Silva | 18,637 | |
UNP | M. Clarance Thushara Perera | 17,868 | |
UNP | A. Kithsiri Manchanayake | 15,757 | |
UNP | Ananda Samarasekara | 15,529 | |
UNP | Palitha Lihiniyakumara | 15,066 | |
UNP | Abhayasiri Ramanayake | 14,996 | |
UNP | W. Douglas Morine Fernando | 14,246 | |
SLMC | M.S.M. Raheem | 3,001 |
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[ag] | 51,661 | 45,061 | 42,097 | 48,383 | 60,210 | 50,015 | 53,286 | 32,388 | 59,679 | 55,692 | 45,740 | 32,475 | 36,467 | 11,376 | 624,530 | 69.07% | 27 | ||
United National Party | 12,763 | 18,241 | 17,387 | 14,315 | 16,968 | 23,430 | 21,921 | 14,694 | 18,163 | 17,466 | 17,728 | 17,823 | 22,657 | 2,700 | 236,256 | 26.13% | 10 | ||
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 1,553 | 1,689 | 1,063 | 1,313 | 2,590 | 1,853 | 1,385 | 1,406 | 2,270 | 1,503 | 2,223 | 777 | 1,303 | 563 | 21,491 | 2.38% | 1 | ||
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 4,321 | 2,086 | 53 | 159 | 9 | 97 | 610 | 1,521 | 984 | 941 | 1,352 | 3,558 | 2,291 | 32 | 18,014 | 1.99% | 1 | ||
Democratic Unity Alliance | 376 | 88 | 14 | 16 | 44 | 59 | 48 | 87 | 120 | 55 | 155 | 83 | 276 | 3 | 1,424 | 0.16% | 0 | ||
United Socialist Party | 29 | 41 | 56 | 46 | 28 | 57 | 59 | 50 | 51 | 40 | 71 | 54 | 71 | 4 | 657 | 0.07% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 04 | 42 | 32 | 35 | 56 | 69 | 48 | 57 | 32 | 54 | 41 | 36 | 32 | 34 | 0 | 568 | 0.06% | 0 | ||
Ruhuna People's Party | 10 | 36 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 289 | 34 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 26 | 37 | 1 | 487 | 0.05% | 0 | ||
National Development Front | 15 | 24 | 13 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 20 | 13 | 25 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 229 | 0.03% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 02 | 28 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 23 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 14 | 0 | 147 | 0.02% | 0 | ||
Democratic United National Front | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 46 | 1 | 107 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 8 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 95 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 01 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 70 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 03 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 60 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
United Lanka Great Council | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 55 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Valid Votes | 70,831 | 67,329 | 60,738 | 64,336 | 79,976 | 75,900 | 77,450 | 50,256 | 81,399 | 75,800 | 67,358 | 54,893 | 63,234 | 14,690 | 904,190 | 100.00% | 39 | ||
Rejected Votes | 2,436 | 1,789 | 1,910 | 1,792 | 2,295 | 2,183 | 2,639 | 1,632 | 2,325 | 2,310 | 2,324 | 1,912 | 2,232 | 391 | 28,170 | ||||
Total Polled | 73,267 | 69,118 | 62,648 | 66,128 | 82,271 | 78,083 | 80,089 | 51,888 | 83,724 | 78,110 | 69,682 | 56,805 | 65,466 | 15,081 | 932,360 | ||||
Registered Electors | 119,299 | 106,550 | 98,572 | 103,058 | 132,375 | 126,026 | 125,510 | 83,239 | 132,781 | 119,350 | 113,421 | 94,871 | 103,243 | 1,458,295 | |||||
Turnout | 61.41% | 64.87% | 63.56% | 64.17% | 62.15% | 61.96% | 63.81% | 62.34% | 63.05% | 65.45% | 61.44% | 59.88% | 63.41% | 63.93% | |||||
Source:[38] |
Party | Candidate[39] | votes | |
---|---|---|---|
UPFA | Prasanna Ranatunga | 186,338 | |
UPFA | Nimal Lanza | 76,156 | |
UPFA | Pradeep Perera | 62,948 | |
UPFA | I.A. Sunil Wijerarhna | 58,444 | |
UPFA | Lalith Wanigarathna | 53,773 | |
UNP | Ruwan Wijewardene | 53,756 | |
UPFA | Sisira Jayakody | 49,975 | |
UPFA | Ranjith Rupasinghe | 49,058 | |
UPFA | A. Chandrika Sakalasooriya | 48,852 | |
UPFA | K. Meril Perera | 48,176 | |
UPFA | Ananda Harishchandra De Silva Kadupiti | 47,687 | |
UPFA | H.M.G.B. Kotakadeniya | 47,139 | |
UPFA | Kokila Gunawardena | 46,997 | |
UPFA | Gunasiri Jayantha | 42,068 | |
UPFA | A.D Nihal Caneesius Premasiri Jayawardhana | 40,142 | |
UPFA | A. Sandya Siriwardhana | 39,542 | |
UPFA | A.G Ravindra Prassad Perera Wijesekara | 38,836 | |
UNP | Harshana Rajakaruna | 37,485 | |
UNP | Ajith Mannapperuma | 37,330 | |
UPFA | M.P Lionel Jayasinghe | 37,240 | |
UPFA | Upali Gunarathna | 33,795 | |
UPFA | M.A Clerance Thushara Perera | 33,441 | |
UPFA | A.A.K.A Kamal Kuruppu | 31,332 | |
UNP | M. Shrinath Sudesh Mahendra Perera | 30,843 | |
UPFA | Chandana Jayakody | 29,663 | |
UPFA | A.B.K Randeer Rodrigo | 29,072 | |
UNP | U. George Perera | 29,033 | |
UPFA | N. Darshana Mallawa | 28,311 | |
UPFA | Shalitha Lakshman Wijesundara | 27,951 | |
UPFA | R.P. Dilip Kumara Rajapaksha | 27,399 | |
UPFA | W.K.D. Rehensiri Waragoda | 27,336 | |
UPFA | I.S.D Doltan Janaka | 26,186 | |
UNP | A. Kithsiri Manchanayake | 23,804 | |
UNP | A.A Margret Rose Fernando | 22,439 | |
UNP | Udena Wijerathna | 19,607 | |
UNP | A.K Paul Perera | 18,705 | |
UNP | A.P.A.D.G.I. Shirantha | 18,472 | |
SLMC | A.A. Mohamed Shaffi Raheem | 12,344 | |
JVP | R.A Waruna Deepthi Rajapaksha | 5,689 |
2014 provincial council election
[edit]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[ah] | 50,735 | 40,473 | 40,666 | 44,256 | 50,227 | 46,286 | 50,857 | 28,200 | 55,286 | 51,035 | 43,418 | 28,763 | 36,550 | 15,816 | 582,668 | 57.98% | 24 | ||
United National Party | 13,663 | 19,859 | 17,835 | 18,277 | 16,663 | 25,364 | 22,491 | 13,030 | 17,872 | 18,205 | 16,957 | 22,687 | 22,642 | 3,701 | 249,230 | 24.80% | 10 | ||
Democratic Party | 6,333 | 6,691 | 4,823 | 5,206 | 10,143 | 7,267 | 9,083 | 5,677 | 9,136 | 6,759 | 5,550 | 3,294 | 5,432 | 3,163 | 88,557 | 8.81% | 4 | ||
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 4,244 | 5,073 | 2,112 | 2,774 | 6,767 | 5,534 | 3,964 | 4,288 | 5,965 | 4,809 | 3,763 | 2,330 | 3,433 | 1,344 | 56,405 | 5.61% | 2 | ||
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 4,504 | 1,924 | 98 | 402 | 16 | 41 | 609 | 1,349 | 1,121 | 858 | 1,256 | 3,946 | 1,143 | 32 | 17,296 | 1.72% | 1 | ||
Democratic People's Front | 112 | 43 | 15 | 21 | 36 | 313 | 321 | 557 | 81 | 36 | 27 | 1,388 | 3,873 | 21 | 6,844 | 0.68% | 0 | ||
Jana Setha Peramuna | 208 | 59 | 15 | 32 | 137 | 22 | 18 | 52 | 55 | 64 | 53 | 11 | 84 | 21 | 831 | 0.08% | 0 | ||
United Lanka People's Party | 34 | 28 | 27 | 28 | 40 | 49 | 41 | 39 | 41 | 44 | 50 | 31 | 35 | 48 | 535 | 0.05% | 0 | ||
United Lanka Great Council | 54 | 40 | 19 | 42 | 68 | 36 | 55 | 28 | 53 | 46 | 33 | 11 | 34 | 11 | 530 | 0.05% | 0 | ||
Patriotic National Front | 22 | 28 | 15 | 38 | 45 | 43 | 38 | 22 | 34 | 25 | 32 | 11 | 28 | 14 | 395 | 0.04% | 0 | ||
New Sinhala Heritage | 16 | 16 | 18 | 16 | 38 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 23 | 25 | 11 | 11 | 24 | 14 | 245 | 0.02% | 0 | ||
Nava Sama Samaja Party | 12 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 58 | 16 | 27 | 8 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 18 | 15 | 8 | 229 | 0.02% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 09 | 21 | 13 | 9 | 13 | 21 | 14 | 18 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 15 | 12 | 198 | 0.02% | 0 | ||
Sri Lanka Labour Party | 13 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 13 | 19 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 155 | 0.02% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 05 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 146 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 08 | 10 | 26 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 127 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 01 | 12 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 125 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 03 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 115 | 0.01% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 07 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 89 | 0.00% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 06 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 86 | 0.00% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 02 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 85 | 0.00% | 0 | ||
Independent Group 04 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 71 | 0.00% | 0 | ||
Valid Votes | 80,047 | 74,372 | 65,699 | 71,174 | 84,322 | 85,086 | 87,615 | 53,342 | 89,782 | 82,005 | 71,225 | 62,574 | 73,481 | 24,228 | 1,004,952 | 100.00% | 41 | ||
Rejected Votes | 3,267 | 2,777 | 2,396 | 2,442 | 3,706 | 3,394 | 3,651 | 2,328 | 3,665 | 3,070 | 3,058 | 2,649 | 3,304 | 1,006 | 40,713 | ||||
Total Polled | 83,314 | 77,149 | 68,095 | 73,616 | 88,028 | 88,480 | 91,266 | 55,670 | 93,447 | 85,075 | 74,283 | 65,223 | 76,685 | 25,234 | 1,045,665 | ||||
Registered Electors | |||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | |||||||||||||||||||
Source:[41] |
Party | Candidate[41] | votes | |
---|---|---|---|
UPFA | Prasanna Ranatunga | 249,678 | |
UPFA | Nimal Lanza | 106,661 | |
UPFA | Sahan Pradeep Withana | 59,892 | |
UPFA | Samanmalee Sakalasooriya | 53,447 | |
UNP | Harshana Rajakaruna | 51,018 | |
UPFA | Sisira Jayakody | 43,331 | |
UPFA | Sunil Wijerathne | 42,488 | |
UNP | Kavinda Jayawardena | 41,654 | |
UPFA | Kokila Gunawardena | 40,291 | |
UPFA | Meril Perera | 40,180 | |
UPFA | Ranjith Roopasinghe | 38,477 | |
UPFA | Upul Mahendra | 37,674 | |
UPFA | Susara Dinal Silva | 37,598 | |
UPFA | Gunasiri Jayanath | 36,240 | |
UPFA | Lakshman Gunawardhana | 33,781 | |
UPFA | Lalith Wanigarathna | 32,713 | |
UPFA | Ananda Harischandra | 30,833 | |
UPFA | Nirosha Athukoralage | 30,807 | |
UPFA | Chandana Jayakody | 30,081 | |
UNP | Edwerd Gunasekara | 29,944 | |
UPFA | Lionel Jayasingha | 29,863 | |
UNP | Priyantha Perera | 29,703 | |
UNP | Shirantha Amarasekara | 29,559 | |
UNP | Wijitha Fernando | 29,291 | |
UNP | Rose Fernando | 29,267 | |
UPFA | Upali Gunarathna | 29,215 | |
UPFA | Sandya Siriwardhana | 29,206 | |
UPFA | Upul Rajitha | 27,308 | |
UPFA | Prasad Perera | 26,396 | |
UPFA | Nirosh Dilshan | 25,489 | |
UPFA | Lalantha Gunasekara | 25,419 | |
UNP | Suresh Mahendra Perera | 24,728 | |
UNP | Udena Surasinghe | 23,712 | |
UNP | Pushpakumara De Silva | 20,390 | |
JVP | Mahindawansha Jayasinghe | 15,933 | |
DP | Rajitha Rangana | 14,644 | |
DP | Anuruddha Lekamge | 14,058 | |
SLMC | Mohamed Shaffi Raheem | 12,335 | |
DP | Asoka Dayarathna | 9,985 | |
DP | Indika Bandara | 9,270 | |
JVP | Asoka Sapumal Ranwala | 7,437 |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Replaced by Ajith Mannapperuma.
- ^ Including the CPSL, LSSP, NSSP, SLMP.
- ^ Including the SLFP.
- ^ Including the JVP.
- ^ Including the SLFP.
- ^ Including the SLMC.
- ^ Including the NSSP.
- ^ Including the UNP, SLMC, CWC, WPF.
- ^ Including the SLFP.
- ^ Including the NSSP.
- ^ Including the SLFP, JVP.
- ^ Including the UNP, SLMC, CWC, WPF.
- ^ Including the NSSP.
- ^ Anura Bandaranaike (UPFA-SLFP) died on 16 March 2008.[20] His replacement Sarana Gunawardena (UPFA-SLFP) was sworn in on 6 May 2008.[21]
- ^ Siripala Amarasingha (UPFA-JVP) resigned on 19 April 2006. His replacement was Sarath Kumara Gunaratna (UPFA-SLFP).[22]
- ^ Jeyaraj Fernandopulle (UPFA-SLFP) was murdered on 6 April 2008.[23] His replacement Dulip Wijeysekara (UPFA-SLFP) was sworn in on 6 May 2008.[21]
- ^ Sripathi Sooriyaarachchi (UPFA-SLFP(M)) was killed on 9 February 2008.[24] His replacement was Reggie Ranatunga (UPFA-SLFP).
- ^ Reggie Ranatunga (UPFA-SLFP) died on 31 May 2008.[25] His replacement Neil Rupasinghe (UPFA-SLFP) was sworn in on 6 June 2008.[26]
- ^ Ven. Kolonnawe Sri Sumangala Thero (JHU) resigned on 8 October 2004. His replacement was Ven. Alawwe Nandaloka Thero (JHU).
- ^ Includung the SLFP.
- ^ Including the UNP, SLMC, DPF, SLFP.
- ^ Including the JVP.
- ^ The alliance consisted of ACMC,DNM, JHU,MTNA,NFGG, SLMC, TPA (DPF, NUW and UCPF),ULF and UNP.
- ^ 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 CWC, CPSL, DLF, DVJP, EPDP, LSSP, MEP,MTK, NC, NFF,PHU, SLFP, SLMP, SLPP, TMVP,UPP & VDJS.
- ^ The alliance consisted of JHU, SLMC, TPA (NUW, DPF, UCPF), ACMC,NLNP & JSP.
- ^ Including JVP.
- ^ Including the CPSL, LSSP, NSSP, SLMP.
- ^ Including the SLFP.
- ^ Including the SLFP, SLMC.
- ^ NSSP.
- ^ Includung the SLFP, JVP.
- ^ Includung the SLFP.
- ^ Includung the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
References
[edit]- ^ "Area of Sri Lanka by province and district" (PDF). Statistical Abstract 2009. Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-13.
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