Colombo Electoral District

Electoral district of Sri Lanka

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Colombo Electoral District

Constituency
for the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Region| Western Province
Electorate| 1,765,351
Current constituency
Created| 1978
Seats| 20 (1989–01)
21 (2001–04)
20 (2004–10)
19 (2010–2024)
18 (2024-present)
MPs|

NPP (14)

Harini Amarasuriya
Chathuranga Abeysinghe
Sunil Watagala
Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi
Aruna Panagoda
Eranga Gunasekara
Harshana Nanayakkara
Kaushalya Ariyarathne
Asitha Niroshana
Rizvie Salih
Susantha Dodawatta
Chandana Sooriyaarachchi
Samanmalee Gunasinghe
Dewananda Suraweera

SJB (4)

Sajith Premadasa
Harsha de Silva
Mujibur Rahman
S. M. Marikkar

Colombo 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 Colombo in the Western province. The district currently elects 19 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 1,765,351 registered electors in 2024.[1] The district is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 01.[2]

## Polling Divisions

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The Colombo Electoral District consists of the following polling divisions:[2]

A: Colombo North

B: Colombo Central

C: Borella

D: Colombo East

E: Colombo West

F: Dehiwala

G: Ratmalana

H: Kolonnawa

I: Kotte

J: Kaduwela

K: Avissawella

L: Homagama

M: Maharagama

N: Kesbewa

O: Moratuwa

## Presidential Elections

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### 1982 presidential election

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Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982:[3]

Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | %

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Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| J. R. Jayewardene | UNP | 26,648 | 21,383 | 68,346 | 21,367 | 29,380 | 22,115 | 23,730 | 27,981 | 27,963 | 25,576 | 25,221 | 25,129 | 26,967 | 32,096 | 21,280 | 11,108 | 436,290 | 57.86%
| Hector Kobbekaduwa | SLFP | 23,481 | 10,946 | 22,061 | 11,268 | 10,641 | 4,751 | 13,194 | 23,135 | 25,275 | 26,553 | 21,153 | 14,814 | 23,874 | 22,744 | 14,111 | 6,475 | 274,476 | 36.40%
| Rohana Wijeweera | JVP | 1,687 | 1,058 | 2,121 | 1,352 | 1,645 | 576 | 1,139 | 2,140 | 3,338 | 2,248 | 2,125 | 1,731 | 2,595 | 2,625 | 1,670 | 530 | 28,580 | 3.79%
| Colvin R. de Silva | LSSP | 238 | 395 | 415 | 828 | 361 | 409 | 695 | 591 | 569 | 851 | 504 | 527 | 946 | 1,137 | 778 | 411 | 9,655 | 1.28%
| Kumar Ponnambalam | ACTC | 70 | 132 | 810 | 320 | 477 | 521 | 201 | 50 | 33 | 29 | 29 | 32 | 27 | 43 | 99 | 149 | 3,022 | 0.40%
| Vasudeva Nanayakkara | NSSP | 205 | 63 | 110 | 142 | 60 | 156 | 117 | 205 | 119 | 150 | 86 | 108 | 116 | 137 | 146 | 88 | 2,008 | 0.27%
Valid Votes | 52,329 | 33,977 | 93,863 | 35,277 | 42,564 | 28,528 | 39,076 | 54,102 | 57,297 | 55,407 | 49,118 | 42,341 | 54,525 | 58,782 | 38,084 | 18,761 | 754,031 | 100.00%
Rejected Votes | 551 | 305 | 740 | 426 | 575 | 314 | 406 | 548 | 719 | 530 | 545 | 374 | 593 | 707 | 415 | 242 | 7,990 |
Total Polled | 52,880 | 34,282 | 94,603 | 35,703 | 43,139 | 28,842 | 39,482 | 54,650 | 58,016 | 55,937 | 49,663 | 42,715 | 55,118 | 59,489 | 38,499 | 19,003 | 762,021 |
Registered Electors | 62,628 | 47,123 | 127,452 | 48,760 | 57,534 | 40,375 | 51,622 | 68,955 | 73,006 | 71,002 | 62,523 | 59,048 | 71,597 | 80,297 | 50,269 |  | 972,191 |
Turnout (%) | 84.44% | 72.75% | 74.23% | 73.22% | 74.98% | 71.44% | 76.48% | 79.25% | 79.47% | 78.78% | 79.43% | 72.34% | 76.98% | 74.09% | 76.59% |  | 78.38% |

### 1988 presidential election

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Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988:[4]

Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | %

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Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| Ranasinghe Premadasa | UNP | 24,292 | 16,452 | 58,795 | 16,480 | 22,389 | 14,670 | 18,326 | 20,810 | 22,872 | 25,549 | 23,895 | 18,834 | 20,770 | 31,546 | 18,409 | 7,248 | 361,337 | 49.14%
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | SLFP | 23,721 | 13,083 | 26,083 | 13,477 | 10,744 | 7,473 | 16,599 | 27,570 | 30,600 | 35,184 | 25,050 | 22,607 | 31,396 | 29,654 | 18,308 | 8,409 | 339,958 | 46.23%
| Ossie Abeygunasekera | SLPP | 1,199 | 1,702 | 4,521 | 2,298 | 2,259 | 1,380 | 1,707 | 1,730 | 2,108 | 2,228 | 2,411 | 2,163 | 2,260 | 3,488 | 1,783 | 783 | 34,020 | 4.63%
Valid Votes | 49,212 | 31,237 | 89,399 | 32,255 | 35,392 | 23,523 | 36,632 | 50,110 | 55,580 | 62,961 | 51,356 | 43,604 | 54,426 | 64,688 | 38,500 | 16,440 | 735,315 | 100.00%
Rejected Votes | 570 | 499 | 1,572 | 666 | 647 | 342 | 520 | 679 | 806 | 879 | 849 | 563 | 779 | 977 | 584 | 363 | 11,295 |
Total Polled | 49,782 | 31,736 | 90,971 | 32,921 | 36,039 | 23,865 | 37,152 | 50,789 | 56,386 | 63,840 | 52,205 | 44,167 | 55,205 | 65,665 | 39,084 | 16,803 | 746,610 |
Registered Electors | 68,892 | 47,917 | 133,920 | 51,225 | 54,149 | 37,220 | 52,969 | 86,987 | 87,693 | 89,277 | 75,650 | 67,194 | 83,598 | 96,841 | 55,248 |  | 1,088,780 |
Turnout | 72.26% | 66.23% | 67.93% | 64.27% | 66.56% | 64.12% | 70.14% | 58.39% | 64.30% | 71.51% | 69.01% | 65.73% | 66.04% | 67.81% | 70.74% |  | 68.57% |

### 1994 presidential election

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Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994:[5]

Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | %

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Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| Chandrika Kumaratunga | PA | 31,132 | 20,837 | 56,219 | 23,867 | 26,250 | 14,329 | 23,977 | 45,072 | 51,876 | 54,327 | 40,296 | 31,646 | 47,818 | 45,403 | 28,666 | 15,993 | 557,708 | 64.82%
| Srima Dissanayake | UNP | 23,126 | 13,162 | 33,824 | 12,806 | 15,924 | 8,557 | 12,783 | 22,369 | 23,475 | 22,130 | 21,313 | 16,331 | 19,514 | 24,493 | 12,275 | 6,659 | 288,741 | 33.56%
| Harischandra Wijayatunga | SMBP | 787 | 236 | 245 | 373 | 118 | 179 | 326 | 444 | 599 | 464 | 330 | 521 | 638 | 280 | 273 | 246 | 6,059 | 0.70%
| A. J. Ranasinghe | Ind 1 | 230 | 124 | 291 | 182 | 103 | 180 | 195 | 284 | 521 | 268 | 201 | 232 | 240 | 234 | 151 | 97 | 3,533 | 0.41%
| Hudson Samarasinghe | Ind 2 | 290 | 96 | 271 | 115 | 138 | 68 | 111 | 279 | 241 | 210 | 202 | 118 | 158 | 127 | 83 | 19 | 2,526 | 0.29%
| Nihal Galappaththi | SLPF | 163 | 57 | 149 | 72 | 75 | 19 | 78 | 171 | 205 | 179 | 156 | 97 | 153 | 118 | 71 | 56 | 1,819 | 0.21%
Valid Votes | 55,728 | 34,512 | 90,999 | 37,415 | 42,608 | 23,332 | 37,470 | 68,619 | 76,917 | 77,578 | 62,498 | 48,945 | 68,521 | 70,655 | 41,519 | 23,070 | 860,386 | 100.00%
Rejected Votes | 1,313 | 617 | 2,020 | 843 | 947 | 460 | 614 | 1,102 | 1,445 | 1,159 | 1,120 | 762 | 1,328 | 988 | 887 | 455 | 16,060 |
Total Polled | 57,041 | 35,129 | 93,019 | 38,258 | 43,555 | 23,792 | 38,084 | 69,721 | 78,362 | 78,737 | 63,618 | 49,707 | 69,849 | 71,643 | 42,406 | 23,525 | 876,446 |
Registered Electors | 81,213 | 52,007 | 139,012 | 57,049 | 63,528 | 36,915 | 55,301 | 106,536 | 113,173 | 110,948 | 90,167 | 71,213 | 101,317 | 97,831 | 59,749 |  | 1,235,959 |
Turnout | 70.24% | 67.55% | 66.91% | 67.06% | 68.56% | 64.45% | 68.87% | 65.44% | 69.24% | 70.97% | 70.56% | 69.80% | 68.94% | 73.23% | 70.97% |  | 70.91% |

### 1999 presidential election

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Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999:[6]

Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | %

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Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| Chandrika Kumaratunga | PA | 33,957 | 17,023 | 35,416 | 17,777 | 18,114 | 7,327 | 18,683 | 46,823 | 50,535 | 51,240 | 36,907 | 24,782 | 43,584 | 41,380 | 22,868 | 7,894 | 474,310 | 49.18%
| Ranil Wickremasinghe | UNP | 26,903 | 19,151 | 59,234 | 22,281 | 32,714 | 16,531 | 19,126 | 30,859 | 32,951 | 31,302 | 28,681 | 21,455 | 27,338 | 33,017 | 17,572 | 6,070 | 425,185 | 44.08%
| Nandana Gunathilake | JVP | 2,976 | 1,289 | 1,955 | 1,486 | 1,281 | 406 | 1,346 | 4,878 | 6,170 | 5,236 | 3,385 | 2,075 | 4,168 | 3,692 | 2,514 | 1,152 | 44,009 | 4.56%
| Harischandra Wijayatunga | SMBP | 334 | 275 | 272 | 410 | 115 | 210 | 412 | 662 | 916 | 940 | 468 | 763 | 1,119 | 431 | 485 | 397 | 8,209 | 0.85%
| Vasudeva Nanayakkara | LDA | 300 | 148 | 424 | 419 | 408 | 539 | 324 | 267 | 338 | 346 | 188 | 231 | 340 | 288 | 203 | 237 | 5,000 | 0.52%
| Abdul
Rasool | SLMP | 109 | 119 | 630 | 109 | 163 | 92 | 86 | 91 | 91 | 71 | 107 | 47 | 78 | 76 | 94 | 17 | 1,980 | 0.21%
| Rajiva
Wijesinha | LPSL | 123 | 57 | 137 | 89 | 94 | 99 | 78 | 102 | 101 | 101 | 93 | 87 | 82 | 72 | 55 | 6 | 1,376 | 0.14%
| Tennyson Edirisuriya | Ind 1 | 113 | 42 | 104 | 59 | 86 | 36 | 44 | 129 | 112 | 134 | 113 | 83 | 117 | 127 | 60 | 11 | 1,370 | 0.14%
| W. V. M.
Ranjith | Ind 2 | 158 | 57 | 178 | 61 | 95 | 17 | 33 | 140 | 102 | 105 | 97 | 37 | 98 | 96 | 42 | 3 | 1,319 | 0.14%
| Kamal
Karunadasa | PLSF | 91 | 23 | 82 | 34 | 46 | 13 | 17 | 69 | 79 | 70 | 42 | 41 | 68 | 70 | 36 | 2 | 783 | 0.08%
| Hudson Samarasinghe | Ind 3 | 41 | 13 | 53 | 19 | 26 | 15 | 9 | 32 | 32 | 20 | 23 | 10 | 31 | 20 | 10 | 1 | 355 | 0.04%
| Ariyawansha Dissanayaka | DUNF | 30 | 5 | 26 | 16 | 14 | 7 | 20 | 34 | 34 | 32 | 16 | 10 | 25 | 38 | 18 | 4 | 329 | 0.03%
| A. W. Premawardhana | PFF | 47 | 11 | 24 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 16 | 37 | 29 | 26 | 13 | 15 | 33 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 309 | 0.03%
Valid Votes | 65,182 | 38,213 | 98,535 | 42,770 | 53,167 | 25,298 | 40,194 | 84,123 | 91,490 | 89,623 | 70,133 | 49,636 | 77,081 | 79,327 | 43,964 | 15,798 | 964,534 | 100.00%
Rejected Votes | 1,495 | 1,058 | 2,605 | 1,388 | 1,409 | 896 | 1,446 | 2,383 | 2,530 | 2,967 | 1,819 | 1,675 | 2,876 | 2,006 | 1,500 | 1,144 | 29,197 |
Total Polled | 66,677 | 39,271 | 101,140 | 44,158 | 54,576 | 26,194 | 41,640 | 86,506 | 94,020 | 92,590 | 71,952 | 51,311 | 79,957 | 81,333 | 45,464 | 16,942 | 993,731 |
Registered Electors | 87,913 | 55,338 | 143,993 | 64,386 | 77,447 | 40,908 | 58,407 | 116,577 | 126,119 | 121,836 | 96,164 | 70,424 | 108,622 | 105,483 | 63,466 |  | 1,337,083 |
Turnout | 75.84% | 70.97% | 70.24% | 68.58% | 70.47% | 64.03% | 71.29% | 74.21% | 74.55% | 76.00% | 74.82% | 72.86% | 73.61% | 77.11% | 71.64% |  | 74.32% |

### 2005 presidential election

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Results of the 5th presidential election held on 17 November 2005:[7]

Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | %

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Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| Ranil Wickremasinghe | UNP | 36,227 | 25,784 | 78,908 | 28,832 | 45,161 | 20,475 | 24,660 | 43,477 | 47,025 | 42,042 | 40,744 | 27,106 | 36,093 | 43,207 | 23,743 | 6,143 | 569,627 | 51.12%
| Mahinda Rajapaksa | UPFA | 41,936 | 15,644 | 20,395 | 16,919 | 14,270 | 5,104 | 18,005 | 64,433 | 65,829 | 66,660 | 40,616 | 26,987 | 53,681 | 48,047 | 25,004 | 10,901 | 534,431 | 47.96%
| Siritunga Jayasuriya | USP | 281 | 115 | 448 | 102 | 270 | 52 | 67 | 242 | 192 | 163 | 178 | 83 | 103 | 232 | 92 | 8 | 2,628 | 0.24%
| Victor
Hettigoda | ULPP | 114 | 80 | 117 | 159 | 101 | 129 | 158 | 184 | 207 | 192 | 117 | 117 | 173 | 143 | 121 | 62 | 2,174 | 0.20%
| A. A.
Suraweera | NDF | 209 | 60 | 189 | 66 | 112 | 22 | 57 | 206 | 236 | 238 | 166 | 88 | 138 | 192 | 76 | 2 | 2,057 | 0.18%
| Chamil Jayaneththi | NLF | 88 | 32 | 71 | 33 | 59 | 37 | 34 | 68 | 59 | 67 | 47 | 31 | 52 | 52 | 36 | 9 | 775 | 0.07%
| Anura
De Silva | ULF | 66 | 22 | 93 | 24 | 39 | 10 | 20 | 55 | 54 | 59 | 34 | 19 | 41 | 38 | 26 | 1 | 601 | 0.05%
| Aruna
de Soyza | RPP | 51 | 18 | 28 | 11 | 17 | 3 | 19 | 62 | 69 | 57 | 36 | 17 | 46 | 57 | 23 | 5 | 519 | 0.05%
| Wimal Geeganage | SLNF | 33 | 17 | 37 | 15 | 20 | 10 | 13 | 64 | 42 | 40 | 27 | 18 | 26 | 33 | 22 | 5 | 422 | 0.04%
| Wije
Dias | SEP | 36 | 23 | 37 | 23 | 27 | 10 | 19 | 25 | 43 | 37 | 24 | 11 | 35 | 37 | 17 | 6 | 410 | 0.04%
| A. K. J. Arachchige | DUA | 31 | 10 | 69 | 13 | 27 | 5 | 15 | 44 | 37 | 33 | 19 | 20 | 24 | 34 | 16 | 1 | 398 | 0.04%
| P. Nelson
Perera | SLPF | 16 | 3 | 20 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 134 | 0.01%
| H. S. Dharmadwaja | UNAF | 10 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 74 | 0.01%
Valid Votes | 79,098 | 41,809 | 100,424 | 46,206 | 60,111 | 25,865 | 43,077 | 108,882 | 113,805 | 109,602 | 82,028 | 54,504 | 90,425 | 92,089 | 49,181 | 17,144 | 1,114,250 | 100.00%
Rejected Votes | 865 | 453 | 1,616 | 694 | 939 | 399 | 369 | 1,035 | 1,209 | 1,110 | 892 | 516 | 910 | 975 | 557 | 340 | 12,879 |
Total Polled | 79,963 | 42,262 | 102,040 | 46,900 | 61,050 | 26,264 | 43,446 | 109,917 | 115,014 | 110,712 | 82,920 | 55,020 | 91,335 | 93,064 | 49,738 | 17,484 | 1,127,129 |
Registered Electors | 101,065 | 60,678 | 144,916 | 65,732 | 85,967 | 38,621 | 58,728 | 141,974 | 148,435 | 140,094 | 107,725 | 73,274 | 119,137 | 115,759 | 66,432 |  | 1,468,537 |
Turnout | 79.12% | 69.65% | 70.41% | 71.35% | 71.02% | 68.00% | 73.98% | 77.42% | 77.48% | 79.03% | 76.97% | 75.09% | 76.66% | 80.39% | 74.87% |  | 76.75% |

### 2010 presidential election

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Results of the 6th presidential election held on 26 January 2010:[8]

Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | %

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Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| Mahinda
Rajapaksa | UPFA | 53,664 | 16,909 | 21,824 | 19,107 | 17,605 | 6,350 | 19,457 | 80,799 | 76,103 | 77,474 | 46,002 | 29,125 | 59,360 | 52,627 | 26,215 | 12,119 | 614,740 | 52.93%
| Sarath
Fonseka | NDF | 28,875 | 23,636 | 73,152 | 28,334 | 42,896 | 19,211 | 24,441 | 39,414 | 45,082 | 40,474 | 39,497 | 26,129 | 35,162 | 37,233 | 22,589 | 6,897 | 533,022 | 45.90%
| A. S. P.
Liyanage | SLLP | 94 | 109 | 170 | 207 | 99 | 33 | 63 | 115 | 124 | 134 | 178 | 136 | 107 | 157 | 71 | 1 | 1,798 | 0.15%
| M. C. M.
Ismail | DUNF | 151 | 67 | 259 | 81 | 197 | 45 | 52 | 143 | 127 | 106 | 135 | 55 | 65 | 69 | 46 | 8 | 1,606 | 0.14%
| C. J. Sugathsiri Gamage | UDF | 129 | 65 | 387 | 74 | 222 | 43 | 33 | 84 | 105 | 83 | 120 | 46 | 51 | 86 | 44 | 7 | 1,579 | 0.14%
| A. A.
Suraweera | NDF | 215 | 34 | 96 | 43 | 72 | 20 | 34 | 217 | 179 | 189 | 106 | 45 | 103 | 125 | 59 | 3 | 1,540 | 0.13%
| W. V. M.
Ranjith | Ind 1 | 148 | 47 | 67 | 30 | 57 | 18 | 39 | 131 | 132 | 134 | 96 | 56 | 109 | 108 | 45 | 2 | 1,219 | 0.10%
| Vikramabahu
Karunaratne | LF | 68 | 46 | 113 | 109 | 112 | 104 | 73 | 52 | 47 | 47 | 43 | 51 | 49 | 67 | 55 | 16 | 1,052 | 0.09%
| Lal
Perera | ONF | 43 | 34 | 134 | 38 | 80 | 18 | 18 | 42 | 40 | 50 | 63 | 31 | 23 | 42 | 24 | 0 | 680 | 0.06%
| Sarath
Manamendra | NSH | 42 | 29 | 105 | 30 | 89 | 19 | 22 | 39 | 45 | 53 | 47 | 19 | 30 | 37 | 22 | 1 | 629 | 0.05%
| Ukkubanda
Wijekoon | Ind 3 | 52 | 28 | 49 | 31 | 26 | 29 | 25 | 52 | 75 | 70 | 28 | 33 | 40 | 38 | 22 | 2 | 600 | 0.05%
| M. K.
Shivajilingam | Ind 5 | 42 | 28 | 81 | 66 | 86 | 63 | 43 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 17 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 548 | 0.05%
| Siritunga Jayasuriya | USP | 56 | 23 | 86 | 44 | 43 | 10 | 14 | 37 | 45 | 33 | 39 | 24 | 29 | 35 | 22 | 4 | 544 | 0.05%
| Aithurus
M. Illias | Ind 2 | 37 | 16 | 73 | 19 | 29 | 12 | 19 | 33 | 41 | 33 | 36 | 16 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 3 | 437 | 0.04%
| Wije
Dias | SEP | 30 | 11 | 32 | 25 | 32 | 21 | 12 | 24 | 26 | 34 | 17 | 9 | 26 | 21 | 17 | 1 | 338 | 0.03%
| Ven.Battaramulla
Seelaratana Thero | JP | 12 | 7 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 17 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 176 | 0.02%
| Sanath
Pinnaduwa | NA | 9 | 7 | 45 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 169 | 0.01%
| M. Mohamed
Musthaffa | Ind 4 | 13 | 7 | 30 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 154 | 0.01%
| Sarath
Kongahage | UNAF | 10 | 7 | 29 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 144 | 0.01%
| Aruna
de Soyza | RPP | 17 | 8 | 25 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 143 | 0.01%
| Senaratna
de Silva | PNF | 16 | 6 | 23 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 136 | 0.01%
| M. B.
Thaminimulla | ACAKO | 9 | 8 | 23 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 128 | 0.01%
Valid Votes | 83,732 | 41,132 | 96,826 | 48,295 | 61,715 | 26,030 | 44,383 | 121,279 | 122,276 | 119,006 | 86,486 | 55,825 | 95,255 | 90,752 | 49,316 | 19,074 | 1,161,382 | 100.00%
Rejected Votes | 689 | 543 | 1,320 | 699 | 1,022 | 444 | 465 | 770 | 850 | 803 | 893 | 557 | 768 | 745 | 512 | 314 | 11,394 |
Total Polled | 84,421 | 41,675 | 98,146 | 48,994 | 62,737 | 26,474 | 44,848 | 122,049 | 123,126 | 119,809 | 87,379 | 56,382 | 96,023 | 91,497 | 49,828 | 19,388 | 1,172,776 |
Registered Electors | 108,138 | 58,757 | 139,822 | 68,643 | 95,385 | 38,921 | 61,194 | 155,720 | 158,736 | 148,696 | 112,363 | 73,009 | 121,247 | 114,601 | 66,622 |  | 1,521,854 |
Turnout | 78.07% | 70.93% | 70.19% | 71.38% | 65.77% | 68.02% | 73.29% | 78.38% | 77.57% | 80.57% | 77.76% | 77.23% | 79.20% | 79.84% | 74.79% |  | 77.06% |

### 2015 presidential election

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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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Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| Maithripala
Sirisena | NDF | 47,728 | 31,469 | 82,495 | 35,167 | 51,537 | 23,915 | 30,955 | 63,563 | 68,886 | 61,116 | 56,835 | 36,614 | 51,480 | 48,599 | 29,554 | 12,160 | 725,073 | 55.93%
| Mahinda
Rajapaksa | UPFA | 51,351 | 15,148 | 17,779 | 16,601 | 16,423 | 6,164 | 15,932 | 77,415 | 70,970 | 74,189 | 39,767 | 24,663 | 53,327 | 46,885 | 23,144 | 12,856 | 562,614 | 43.2%
| A. S. P.
Liyanage | SLLP | 66 | 78 | 185 | 47 | 101 | 21 | 34 | 74 | 70 | 57 | 90 | 41 | 57 | 49 | 29 | 8 | 1,007 | 0.08%
| M. I. Mohanmed
Mishlar | UPF | 61 | 36 | 298 | 32 | 90 | 14 | 39 | 55 | 57 | 45 | 129 | 17 | 37 | 39 | 26 | 3 | 978 | 0.08%
| R. A.
Sirisena | PNF | 112 | 37 | 73 | 23 | 61 | 12 | 32 | 128 | 84 | 83 | 80 | 39 | 66 | 78 | 30 | 5 | 943 | 0.07%
| R. Peduru
Arachchi | ULPP | 80 | 37 | 131 | 33 | 75 | 15 | 17 | 53 | 81 | 56 | 86 | 27 | 38 | 28 | 25 | 4 | 786 | 0.06%
| Namal
Rajapaksa | ONF | 80 | 30 | 39 | 32 | 48 | 13 | 14 | 80 | 84 | 70 | 50 | 33 | 49 | 57 | 31 | 6 | 716 | 0.06%
| Duminda
Nagamuwa | FSP | 84 | 22 | 59 | 31 | 39 | 8 | 26 | 67 | 80 | 85 | 46 | 22 | 65 | 31 | 29 | 21 | 715 | 0.06%
| Aithurus
M. Illias | Ind 1 | 67 | 31 | 120 | 25 | 59 | 12 | 28 | 70 | 64 | 54 | 62 | 17 | 7 | 45 | 18 | 3 | 702 | 0.05%
| Siritunga
Jayasuriya | USP | 57 | 21 | 69 | 36 | 50 | 19 | 9 | 36 | 41 | 40 | 27 | 22 | 39 | 30 | 22 | 7 | 525 | 0.04%
| Ven.Battaramulla
Seelarathana Thero | JSP | 30 | 16 | 22 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 21 | 50 | 75 | 53 | 38 | 28 | 47 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 479 | 0.04%
| Vajirapani
Wijesiriwardene | SEP | 19 | 16 | 32 | 21 | 29 | 12 | 12 | 23 | 31 | 30 | 28 | 10 | 38 | 27 | 15 | 3 | 346 | 0.03%
| Sarath Manamendra | NSH | 39 | 7 | 43 | 16 | 25 | 11 | 6 | 33 | 35 | 24 | 22 | 7 | 17 | 25 | 9 | 2 | 321 | 0.02%
| Anurudha
Polgampola | Ind 2 | 26 | 7 | 44 | 14 | 25 | 9 | 8 | 26 | 27 | 17 | 21 | 7 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 274 | 0.02%
| Sundaram
Mahendran | NSSP | 28 | 10 | 25 | 18 | 28 | 22 | 14 | 21 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 236 | 0.02%
| M. B.
Theminimulla | ACAKO | 15 | 15 | 26 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 15 | 21 | 18 | 12 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 214 | 0.02%
| Prasanna
Priyankara | DNM | 16 | 5 | 19 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 181 | 0.01%
| Wimal
Geeganage | SLNF | 11 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 126 | 0.01%
| Jayantha
Kulathunga | ULGC | 10 | 3 | 21 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 124 | 0.01%
Valid Votes | 94,880 | 46,990 | 101,497 | 52,137 | 68,649 | 30,275 | 47,169 | 141,762 | 140,642 | 135,983 | 97,336 | 59,588 | 105,353 | 95,981 | 53,004 | 25,114 | 1,296,360 | 100.00%
Rejected Votes | 1,032 | 547 | 1,237 | 668 | 1,146 | 325 | 599 | 1,481 | 1,534 | 1,393 | 1,275 | 703 | 1220 | 958 | 680 | 536 | 15,334 | 1.17%
Total Polled | 95,912 | 45,537 | 102,734 | 52,805 | 69,795 | 30,600 | 47,768 | 143,243 | 142,176 | 137,376 | 98,611 | 60,291 | 106,573 | 96,939 | 53,684 | 25,650 | 1,311,694 | 82.67%
Registered Electors | 117,472 | 60,109 | 131,482 | 66,941 | 89,771 | 40,609 | 59,812 | 174,909 | 173,355 | 164,774 | 120,617 | 74,934 | 129,801 | 115,219 | 66,793 | 26,062 | 1,586,598 |

### 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 | %

|
|
|
|
|

Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| Gotabaya
Rajapaksa | SLPP | 61,755 | 18,850 | 16,341 | 19,619 | 16,986 | 6,644 | 19,122 | 106,102 | 98,807 | 99,062 | 53,232 | 31,853 | 71,893 | 57,645 | 28,085 | 21,717 | 727,713 | 53.19%
| Sajith
Premadasa | NDF | 34,532 | 27,436 | 80,076 | 28,599 | 52,983 | 21,345 | 25,004 | 40,157 | 41,747 | 37,430 | 50,456 | 22,628 | 29,688 | 36,390 | 23,156 | 8,294 | 559,921 | 40.92%
| Anura Kumara
Dissanayake | NMPP | 3,184 | 1,500 | 1,528 | 1,750 | 1,084 | 647 | 1,480 | 7,596 | 7,605 | 7,343 | 3,940 | 2,439 | 5,820 | 3,534 | 2,124 | 2,229 | 53,803 | 3.93%
| Mahesh
Senanayake | NPP | 364 | 329 | 186 | 571 | 119 | 236 | 414 | 946 | 1,424 | 1,172 | 526 | 875 | 1,165 | 906 | 500 | 522 | 10,335 | 0.76%
| Rohan
Pallewatte | JSWP | 171 | 58 | 56 | 85 | 73 | 42 | 86 | 266 | 315 | 267 | 173 | 152 | 235 | 190 | 111 | 37 | 2,317 | 0.17%
| Ajantha
Perera | SPSL | 256 | 60 | 50 | 76 | 68 | 27 | 59 | 291 | 255 | 204 | 131 | 75 | 172 | 157 | 94 | 27 | 2,002 | 0.15%
| M. L. A. M.
Hizbullah | Ind 11 | 156 | 11 | 207 | 56 | 136 | 26 | 68 | 180 | 145 | 130 | 152 | 53 | 82 | 124 | 71 | 5 | 1,660 | 0.12%
| Ariyawansa
Dissanayake | DUNF | 154 | 74 | 157 | 74 | 193 | 29 | 29 | 90 | 103 | 93 | 129 | 28 | 54 | 106 | 49 | 5 | 1,367 | 0.1%
| Ven.Battaramulla
Seelarathana Thero | JSP | 70 | 43 | 166 | 33 | 113 | 22 | 37 | 57 | 69 | 72 | 94 | 43 | 54 | 52 | 36 | 13 | 974 | 0.07%
| Milroy
Fernando | Ind 09 | 87 | 52 | 170 | 40 | 121 | 16 | 27 | 56 | 59 | 47 | 96 | 25 | 24 | 53 | 33 | 5 | 911 | 0.07%
| Namal
Rajapaksa | NUA | 66 | 28 | 34 | 19 | 32 | 8 | 19 | 104 | 101 | 86 | 51 | 29 | 56 | 70 | 32 | 6 | 741 | 0.05%
| Siripala
Amarasinghe | Ind 02 | 95 | 30 | 120 | 30 | 97 | 15 | 15 | 52 | 51 | 39 | 66 | 15 | 30 | 35 | 30 | 5 | 725 | 0.05%
| Ajantha
de zoysa | RJP | 82 | 15 | 31 | 19 | 41 | 6 | 16 | 79 | 83 | 53 | 67 | 21 | 41 | 91 | 26 | 4 | 675 | 0.05%
| Duminda
Nagamuwa | FSP | 73 | 14 | 19 | 21 | 23 | 4 | 28 | 68 | 75 | 62 | 30 | 26 | 58 | 24 | 37 | 27 | 589 | 0.04%
| Ven.Aparekke
Punnananda Thero | Ind 01 | 44 | 18 | 77 | 22 | 55 | 15 | 14 | 40 | 32 | 30 | 34 | 8 | 21 | 22 | 20 | 16 | 468 | 0.03%
| Jayantha
Ketagoda | Ind 07 | 41 | 30 | 51 | 25 | 44 | 6 | 5 | 30 | 30 | 28 | 43 | 11 | 24 | 33 | 15 | 4 | 420 | 0.03%
| Anuruddha
Polgampola | Ind 08 | 38 | 12 | 50 | 15 | 51 | 9 | 9 | 33 | 23 | 12 | 35 | 8 | 10 | 26 | 12 | 4 | 343 | 0.03%
| M. K.
Shivajilingam | Ind 10 | 19 | 69 | 41 | 38 | 62 | 53 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 13 | 5 | 335 | 0.02%
| A. S. P.
Liyanage | SLLP | 32 | 24 | 37 | 12 | 34 | 6 | 13 | 32 | 22 | 17 | 29 | 10 | 23 | 24 | 11 | 1 | 327 | 0.02%
| Subramanium
Gunaratnam | ONF | 40 | 12 | 25 | 17 | 32 | 9 | 4 | 27 | 21 | 10 | 24 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 265 | 0.02%
| Vajirapani
Wijesiriwardene | SEP | 19 | 8 | 24 | 21 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 21 | 22 | 18 | 8 | 21 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 246 | 0.02%
| Aithurus
M. Illias | Ind 03 | 20 | 11 | 22 | 11 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 25 | 22 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 221 | 0.02%
| Sirithunga
Jayasuriya | USP | 21 | 8 | 33 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 207 | 0.02%
| Rajiva
Wijesinha | Ind 14 | 12 | 5 | 27 | 12 | 22 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 22 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 204 | 0.01%
| Aruna
de soyza | DNM | 18 | 5 | 17 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 22 | 21 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 11 | 4 | 198 | 0.01%
| Sarath
Manamendra | NSU | 17 | 10 | 18 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 167 | 0.01%
| Piyasiri
Wijenayake | Ind 13 | 33 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 21 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 165 | 0.01%
| Ashoka
Wadigamangawa | Ind 12 | 16 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 149 | 0.01%
| A. H. M.
Alavi | Ind 04 | 14 | 6 | 20 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 141 | 0.01%
| Sarath
Keerthirathna | Ind 05 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 121 | 0.01%
| Saman
Perera | OPPP | 12 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 120 | 0.01%
| B. G.
Nandimithra | NSSP | 12 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 105 | 0.01%
| Priyantha
Edirisinghe | ACAKO | 10 | 6 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 98 | 0.01%
| Samaraweera
Weeravanni | Ind 15 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 92 | 0.01%
| Samansiri
Herath | Ind 06 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 52 | 0.00%
Valid Votes | 101,490 | 48,752 | 99,680 | 51,245 | 72,643 | 29,213 | 46,525 | 156,400 | 151,188 | 146,360 | 109,495 | 58,386 | 109,601 | 99,689 | 54,550 | 32,962 | 1,368,177 | 100.00%
Rejected Votes | 887 | 672 | 1,156 | 727 | 1,335 | 458 | 576 | 1,314 | 1,498 | 1,444 | 1,135 | 745 | 1,129 | 1,008 | 698 | 531 | 15,333 | 0.92%
Total Polled | 102,377 | 49,424 | 100,836 | 51,972 | 73,998 | 29,671 | 47,701 | 157,714 | 152,686 | 147,804 | 110,630 | 59,131 | 110,730 | 100,695 | 55,248 | 33,493 | 1,383,510 | 82.82%
Registered Electors | 119,905 | 61,169 | 124,354 | 65,398 | 93,705 | 40,187 | 58,892 | 186,252 | 183,787 | 174,829 | 132,381 | 73,926 | 133,614 | 118,956 | 69,128 | 33,920 | 1,670,403 |

### 2024 presidential election

[edit]

Results of the 9th presidential election held on 21 September 2024:[11]

Candidate | Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Votes | %

|
|
|
|
|

Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| Anura Kumara
Dissanayake | NPP | 47,219 | 17,290 | 20,220 | 18,523 | 17,978 | 7,778 | 19,338 | 91,770 | 84,299 | 83,049 | 49,239 | 25,123 | 58,692 | 45,299 | 23,282 | 20,864 | 629,963 | 47.21%
| Sajith
Premadasa | SJB | 28,767 | 15,497 | 46,063 | 13,637 | 32,289 | 9,697 | 12,505 | 29,912 | 26,538 | 24,312 | 33,127 | 11,979 | 17,174 | 24,319 | 12,212 | 4,080 | 342,108 | 25.64%
| Ranil
Wickremesinghe | Ind16 | 19,669 | 10,188 | 19,397 | 12,566 | 15,692 | 8,382 | 11,565 | 29,348 | 30,670 | 29,622 | 20,069 | 12,725 | 22,782 | 19,025 | 11,091 | 7,625 | 281,436 | 21.09%
| Namal
Rajapaksa | SLPP | 2,929 | 1,101 | 1,123 | 825 | 954 | 348 | 1,163 | 3,979 | 3,095 | 4,076 | 2,350 | 1,239 | 2,424 | 2,483 | 1,422 | 561 | 30,432 | 2.24%
| Dilith
Jayaweera | SLCP | 1,818 | 659 | 367 | 706 | 442 | 233 | 753 | 4,304 | 3,771 | 4,053 | 1,730 | 1,312 | 3,020 | 1,712 | 924 | 552 | 26,356 | 1.98%
| Pakkiyaselvam
Ariyanethiran | Ind09 | 39 | 60 | 295 | 519 | 585 | 783 | 375 | 27 | 24 | 29 | 58 | 18 | 14 | 105 | 174 | 63 | 3,168 | 0.24%
| Sarath
Fonseka | Ind12 | 156 | 71 | 126 | 90 | 109 | 35 | 81 | 190 | 224 | 215 | 142 | 124 | 169 | 143 | 106 | 63 | 2,044 | 0.15%
| D. M.
Bandaranayake | Ind13 | 188 | 71 | 106 | 55 | 96 | 17 | 42 | 199 | 253 | 147 | 157 | 68 | 112 | 119 | 49 | 12 | 1,691 | 0.13%
| Wijeyadasa
Rajapakshe | JPF | 146 | 41 | 97 | 41 | 97 | 16 | 23 | 159 | 174 | 142 | 101 | 72 | 229 | 97 | 46 | 73 | 1,554 | 0.12%
| Suranjeewa
Anoj de Silva | DUNF | 164 | 32 | 29 | 16 | 27 | 11 | 46 | 276 | 239 | 176 | 87 | 70 | 141 | 73 | 45 | 51 | 1,483 | 0.11%
| K. K.
Piyadasa | Ind04 | 216 | 77 | 237 | 51 | 183 | 31 | 32 | 109 | 83 | 82 | 154 | 29 | 37 | 101 | 44 | 11 | 1,477 | 0.11%
| Namal
Rajapaksa | SBP | 95 | 31 | 39 | 34 | 37 | 8 | 25 | 154 | 107 | 171 | 77 | 52 | 88 | 103 | 46 | 32 | 1.099 | 0.08%
| Nuwan
Bopege | SPF | 89 | 14 | 32 | 26 | 29 | 24 | 46 | 121 | 119 | 86 | 82 | 47 | 109 | 64 | 84 | 46 | 1,018 | 0.08%
| Anuruddha
Polgampola | Ind11 | 87 | 44 | 146 | 37 | 107 | 19 | 23 | 84 | 73 | 56 | 87 | 29 | 40 | 71 | 36 | 3 | 942 | 0.07%
| Sarath
Keerthirathne | Ind05 | 126 | 23 | 56 | 24 | 43 | 13 | 22 | 133 | 111 | 91 | 76 | 33 | 56 | 76 | 27 | 2 | 912 | 0.07%
| Ven.Battaramulle
Seelarathana Thero | JSP | 75 | 33 | 32 | 36 | 22 | 12 | 17 | 120 | 140 | 101 | 59 | 45 | 77 | 67 | 27 | 28 | 891 | 0.07%
| Ajantha
de Zoyza | RJA | 84 | 29 | 49 | 28 | 56 | 10 | 25 | 93 | 84 | 84 | 62 | 30 | 49 | 61 | 26 | 5 | 775 | 0.06%
| Priyantha
Wickremesinghe | NSSP | 83 | 23 | 98 | 26 | 47 | 13 | 24 | 78 | 59 | 60 | 58 | 25 | 53 | 54 | 29 | 17 | 737 | 0.06%
| Ven.Akmeemana
Dayarathana Thero | Ind01 | 77 | 18 | 48 | 25 | 53 | 13 | 78 | 73 | 72 | 54 | 42 | 27 | 31 | 52 | 17 | 10 | 690 | 0.05%
| Keerthi
Wickremeratne | AJP | 44 | 15 | 21 | 24 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 66 | 68 | 69 | 23 | 29 | 53 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 496 | 0.04%
| Siripala
Amarasinghe | Ind02 | 61 | 15 | 31 | 15 | 31 | 9 | 13 | 54 | 28 | 48 | 30 | 14 | 32 | 44 | 21 | 3 | 449 | 0.03%
| Roshan
Ranasinghe | Ind15 | 18 | 11 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 3 | 19 | 51 | 53 | 45 | 37 | 24 | 54 | 40 | 23 | 16 | 444 | 0.03%
| K. R.
Krishan | APP | 78 | 7 | 36 | 9 | 27 | 5 | 6 | 50 | 46 | 37 | 43 | 14 | 11 | 34 | 13 | 1 | 415 | 0.03%
| Abubakar Mohamed
Infaz | DUA | 28 | 16 | 61 | 16 | 48 | 9 | 12 | 35 | 25 | 19 | 59 | 12 | 13 | 26 | 16 | 1 | 396 | 0.03%
| Vajirapani
Wijesiriwardene | SEP | 32 | 14 | 31 | 26 | 33 | 9 | 11 | 40 | 33 | 33 | 32 | 11 | 32 | 26 | 20 | 17 | 388 | 0.03%
| Sirithunga
Jayasuriya | USP | 50 | 13 | 42 | 28 | 22 | 6 | 9 | 54 | 35 | 29 | 23 | 14 | 23 | 22 | 14 | 4 | 388 | 0.03%
| Victor
Anthony Perera | Ind10 | 37 | 14 | 38 | 8 | 48 | 9 | 7 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 28 | 4 | 11 | 32 | 12 | 0 | 320 | 0.02%
| Mahinda
Dewage | SLSP | 29 | 4 | 18 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 31 | 45 | 40 | 34 | 7 | 24 | 22 | 14 | 1 | 306 | 0.02%
| Lalith
De Silva | UNFP | 21 | 13 | 18 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 21 | 40 | 32 | 16 | 18 | 33 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 292 | 0.02%
| Oshala
Herath | NIF | 36 | 6 | 18 | 9 | 22 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 24 | 33 | 31 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 18 | 3 | 272 | 0.02%
| Janaka
Ratnayake | ULPP | 14 | 18 | 14 | 26 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 25 | 33 | 22 | 13 | 12 | 23 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 261 | 0.02%
| Premasiri
Manage | Ind14 | 39 | 7 | 32 | 13 | 28 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 236 | 0.02%
| Ananda
Kularatne | Ind06 | 19 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 28 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 5 | 14 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 212 | 0.02%
| P. W. S. K.
Bandaranayake | NDF | 21 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 15 | 27 | 26 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 196 | 0.01%
| Sidney
Jayarathna | Ind07 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 8 | 30 | 14 | 25 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 179 | 0.01%
| A. S. P.
Liyanage | SLLP | 19 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 140 | 0.01%
| Mylvanagam
Thilakarajah | Ind08 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 119 | 0.01%
| Sarath
Manamendra | NSU | 10 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 105 | 0.01%
Valid Votes | 102,104 | 45,486 | 88,982 | 45,513 | 69,243 | 27,558 | 46,312 | 161,728 | 150,692 | 147,160 | 108,242 | 54,258 | 105,675 | 94,790 | 49,927 | 34,190 | 1,334,390 | 100.00%
Rejected Votes | 2,385 | 1,078 | 2,522 | 1,215 | 2,276 | 731 | 1,172 | 3,689 | 3,097 | 3,181 | 2,431 | 1,360 | 2,380 | 1,946 | 1,274 | 1,059 | 31,796 | 2.33%
Total Polled | 104,989 | 46,564 | 91,504 | 48,728 | 71,519 | 28,289 | 47,514 | 165,417 | 153,789 | 150,341 | 110,673 | 55,618 | 108,055 | 96,736 | 51,201 | 35,249 | 1,336,186 | 77.39%
Registered Electors | 129,439 | 62,623 | 118,986 | 67,112 | 97,620 | 42,048 | 66,062 | 207,235 | 198,793 | 190,053 | 142,482 | 75,810 | 140,699 | 120,503 | 70,250 | 35,636 | 1,765,351 |

Preferential votes[12]

17,902 | 35,488

|

Anura Kumara Dissanayake | Sajith Premadasa

## Parliamentary General Elections

[edit]

### 1989 parliamentary general election

[edit]

Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989:[13]

Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats

|
|
|
|
|

Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| United National Party[a] | 23,462 | 17,324 | 49,733 | 17,908 | 22,052 | 15,265 | 19,768 | 24,795 | 25,849 | 27,415 | 24,561 | 20,113 | 22,042 | 33,090 | 21,237 | 9,916 | 374,530 | 51.67% | 12
| Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 4,131 | 8,721 | 11,861 | 8,654 | 5,691 | 4,100 | 12,193 | 14,872 | 21,306 | 25,830 | 18,531 | 17,007 | 11,002 | 22,024 | 13,063 | 6,067 | 205,053 | 28.29% | 6
| Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 20,225 | 1,040 | 1,326 | 1,620 | 732 | 669 | 1,724 | 7,920 | 7,241 | 4,351 | 2,698 | 3,030 | 19,152 | 1,859 | 1,407 | 1,972 | 76,966 | 10.62% | 2
| United Socialist Alliance[b] | 523 | 1,745 | 4,399 | 2,482 | 1,680 | 1,502 | 1,341 | 1,440 | 1,850 | 1,890 | 2,917 | 2,041 | 1,758 | 3,796 | 1,500 | 1,009 | 31,873 | 4.40% | 0
| Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 168 | 1,604 | 19,874 | 680 | 2,786 | 1,259 | 790 | 81 | 117 | 73 | 662 | 284 | 158 | 301 | 415 | 56 | 29,308 | 4.04% | 0
| United Lanka People's Party | 1,172 | 254 | 205 | 363 | 239 | 247 | 184 | 1,846 | 485 | 266 | 161 | 386 | 671 | 238 | 217 | 178 | 7,112 | 0.98% | 0
Valid Votes | 49,681 | 30,688 | 87,398 | 31,707 | 33,180 | 23,042 | 36,000 | 50,954 | 56,848 | 59,825 | 49,530 | 42,861 | 54,783 | 61,308 | 37,839 | 19,198 | 724,842 | 100.00% | 20
Rejected Votes | 2,500 | 1,501 | 6,126 | 1,439 | 2,460 | 949 | 1,351 | 3,068 | 2,473 | 2,710 | 2,477 | 1,507 | 2,138 | 2,463 | 1,602 | 507 | 35,271 |  |
Total Polled | 52,181 | 32,189 | 93,524 | 33,146 | 35,640 | 23,991 | 37,351 | 54,022 | 59,321 | 62,535 | 52,007 | 44,368 | 56,921 | 63,771 | 39,441 | 19,705 | 760,113 |  |
Registered Electors | 67,851 | 47,174 | 131,624 | 49,993 | 53,356 | 36,820 | 52,176 | 82,139 | 86,029 | 87,609 | 74,671 | 65,984 | 81,774 | 95,786 | 54,316 | 20,589 | 1,087,891 |  |
Turnout | 76.91% | 68.23% | 71.05% | 66.30% | 66.80% | 65.16% | 71.59% | 65.77% | 68.95% | 71.38% | 69.65% | 67.24% | 69.61% | 66.58% | 72.61% | 95.71% | 69.87% |  |
Preferential votes[13] Alliance  | Party  | Candidate  | votes

|
|
|

| UNP |   | UNP | Lalith Athulathmudali[c] | 235,447
| UNP |   | UNP | Sirisena Cooray | 92,263
| SLFP |   | SLFP | Stanley Tillekeratne | 83,636
| MEP |   | MEP | Dinesh Gunawardena | 70,616
| SLFP |   | SLFP | Jinadasa Niyathapala | 67,804
| SLFP |   | SLFP | C. V. Gunaratne | 60,603
| MEP |   | MEP | Bandula Gunawardane | 50,861
| SLFP |   | SLFP | Dixon Perera | 50,735
| UNP |   | UNP | Gamini Lokuge | 48,790
| UNP |   | UNP | M. H. Mohamed | 47,451
| UNP |   | UNP | Tyronne Fernando | 44,718
| UNP |   | UNP | Premaratne Gunasekera  | 44,559
| UNP |   | UNP | Vincent Perera | 42,776
| UNP |   | UNP | Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi | 41,508
| SLFP |   | SLFP | Kingsley Wickramaratne | 38,815
| SLFP |   | SLFP | Nimal Siripala de Silva | 38,647
| UNP |   | UNP | Sunethra Ranasinghe | 37,165
| UNP |   | CWC | M. S. Sellasamy | 36,480
| UNP |   | UNP | Jabir Cader | 30,252
| UNP |   | UNP | Nimal Rathnasiri Peiris  | 27,130

### 1994 parliamentary general election

[edit]

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

Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats

|
|
|
|
|

Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| People's Alliance[d] | 20,782 | 16,764 | 42,060 | 18,211 | 18,140 | 8,977 | 20,882 | 40,034 | 46,899 | 49,342 | 36,939 | 28,106 | 41,034 | 41,670 | 25,967 | 13,835 | 469,642 | 50.94% | 11
| United National Party[e] | 28,768 | 17,076 | 50,136 | 17,858 | 24,522 | 12,983 | 16,942 | 29,566 | 30,668 | 29,585 | 26,796 | 21,215 | 25,269 | 30,360 | 15,860 | 7,496 | 385,100 | 41.77% | 9
| Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 11,846 | 1,345 | 878 | 1,615 | 399 | 462 | 1,145 | 3,409 | 4,327 | 2,709 | 1,646 | 1,975 | 6,932 | 1,543 | 1,061 | 1,442 | 42,734 | 4.64% | 0
| Sri Lanka Progressive Front[f] | 476 | 414 | 502 | 493 | 268 | 90 | 327 | 1,180 | 1,541 | 1,418 | 935 | 742 | 1,142 | 992 | 666 | 268 | 11,454 | 1.24% | 0
| Independent Group 01 | 46 | 258 | 1,526 | 1,593 | 1,254 | 2,813 | 813 | 31 | 57 | 33 | 42 | 140 | 51 | 96 | 311 | 187 | 9,251 | 1.00% | 0
| Nava Sama Samaja Party | 95 | 93 | 319 | 58 | 157 | 44 | 71 | 169 | 183 | 165 | 138 | 104 | 152 | 155 | 115 | 32 | 2,050 | 0.22% | 0
| EROS / PLOTE / TELO | 73 | 36 | 130 | 87 | 96 | 31 | 44 | 106 | 94 | 105 | 71 | 39 | 89 | 60 | 50 | 2 | 1,113 | 0.12% | 0
| Democratic Workers' Congress | 48 | 32 | 159 | 18 | 53 | 25 | 11 | 49 | 23 | 46 | 26 | 18 | 29 | 34 | 9 | 9 | 589 | 0.06% | 0
Valid Votes | 62,134 | 36,018 | 95,710 | 39,933 | 44,889 | 25,425 | 40,235 | 74,544 | 83,792 | 83,403 | 66,593 | 52,339 | 74,698 | 74,910 | 44,039 | 23,271 | 921,933 | 100.00% | 20
Rejected Votes | 2,882 | 1,524 | 5,995 | 1,618 | 2,593 | 821 | 1,273 | 2,938 | 3,010 | 2,932 | 2,775 | 1,485 | 2,082 | 2,701 | 1,652 | 354 | 36,635 |  |
Total Polled | 65,016 | 37,542 | 101,705 | 41,551 | 47,482 | 26,246 | 41,508 | 77,482 | 86,802 | 86,335 | 69,368 | 53,824 | 76,780 | 77,611 | 45,691 | 23,625 | 958,568 |  |
Registered Electors | 81,213 | 52,007 | 139,012 | 57,049 | 63,528 | 36,915 | 55,301 | 106,536 | 113,173 | 110,948 | 90,167 | 71,213 | 101,317 | 97,831 | 59,749 |  | 1,235,959 |  |
Turnout | 80.06% | 72.19% | 73.16% | 72.83% | 74.74% | 71.10% | 75.06% | 72.73% | 76.70% | 77.82% | 76.93% | 75.58% | 75.78% | 79.33% | 76.47% |  | 77.56% |  |
Preferential votes  Alliance  | Party  | Candidate  | votes

|
|
|

| UNP |   | UNP | Ranil Wickremasinghe | 291,194
| PA |   | DUNF | Srimani Athulathmudali | 148,727
| PA |   | SLFP | C. V. Gunaratne[g] | 114,756
| PA |   | SLFP | Nimal Siripala de Silva | 111,730
| UNP |   | UNP | Ossie Abeygunasekera[h] | 98,022
| PA |   | SLFP | Jeewan Kumaranatunga | 95,767
| PA |   | SLFP | Kingsley Wickramaratne | 95,077
| PA |   | SLFP | A. H. M. Fowzie | 72,294
| PA |   | SLFP | Benet Cooray  | 66,976
| PA |   | SLFP | Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra | 63,421
| UNP |   | UNP | Susil Moonesinghe | 61,610
| PA |   | SLFP | Indika Gunawardena | 58,753
| PA |   | SLFP | Amal Senalankadikara  | 54,321
| PA |   | LSSP | Bernard Soysa | 50,872
| UNP |   | UNP | Gamini Lokuge | 47,058
| UNP |   | UNP | Karunasena Kodituwakku | 46,134
| UNP |   | UNP | M. H. Mohamed | 44,527
| UNP |   | UNP | Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi[i] | 44,322
| UNP |   | UNP | Tyronne Fernando | 42,872
| UNP |   | UNP | Gunasekara Premaratne  | 40,646

### 2000 parliamentary general election

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Results of the 11th parliamentary election held on 10 October 2000:[17]

Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats

|
|
|
|
|

Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| United National Party[j] | 26,671 | 19,588 | 57,578 | 22,232 | 33,212 | 15,480 | 19,646 | 33,930 | 35,792 | 34,978 | 30,522 | 22,207 | 28,952 | 35,570 | 18,556 | 5,770 | 440,684 | 43.48% | 10
| People's Alliance[k] | 33,986 | 14,025 | 20,414 | 13,922 | 13,422 | 4,999 | 14,382 | 41,330 | 43,474 | 41,977 | 32,394 | 20,249 | 36,995 | 36,883 | 17,886 | 7,808 | 394,146 | 38.89% | 8
| Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 4,434 | 1,990 | 2,806 | 2,844 | 2,031 | 709 | 2,556 | 8,758 | 11,268 | 10,219 | 5,741 | 3,566 | 8,174 | 6,849 | 4,454 | 1,734 | 78,133 | 7.71% | 2
| Sinhala Heritage | 1,086 | 2,106 | 1,683 | 2,939 | 1,043 | 1,418 | 3,200 | 3,283 | 4,701 | 6,211 | 2,604 | 4,881 | 6,302 | 3,721 | 3,356 | 1,137 | 49,671 | 4.73% | 0
| Muslim National Unity Alliance[l] | 316 | 1,441 | 16,420 | 534 | 3,149 | 925 | 977 | 39 | 1,08 | 33 | 1,689 | 266 | 93 | 478 | 548 | 51 | 27,067 | 2.77% | 0
| All Ceylon Tamil Congress | 26 | 136 | 747 | 927 | 910 | 1,371 | 622 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 16 | 19 | 9 | 171 | 210 | 50 | 5,238 | 0.52% | 0
| Ceylon Workers' Congress | 832 | 210 | 1,247 | 411 | 1,099 | 289 | 122 | 11 | 12 | 16 | 205 | 41 | 3 | 10 | 59 | 21 | 4,588 | 0.45% | 0
| New Left Front[m] | 369 | 163 | 378 | 231 | 282 | 253 | 194 | 350 | 279 | 336 | 204 | 155 | 252 | 231 | 154 | 46 | 3,877 | 0.39% | 0
| Citizen's
Front | 72 | 143 | 1,236 | 169 | 155 | 91 | 59 | 97 | 87 | 99 | 117 | 120 | 127 | 201 | 81 | 25 | 2,879 | 0.28% | 0
| National People's Party | 32 | 42 | 96 | 97 | 49 | 105 | 82 | 71 | 127 | 123 | 77 | 106 | 148 | 122 | 91 | 32 | 1,400 | 0.14% | 0
| Muslim United Liberation Front | 39 | 54 | 797 | 30 | 60 | 15 | 25 | 50 | 32 | 56 | 54 | 16 | 25 | 22 | 44 | 2 | 1,321 | 0.13% | 0
| Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 65 | 37 | 46 | 52 | 23 | 22 | 57 | 101 | 136 | 200 | 72 | 87 | 149 | 57 | 73 | 51 | 1,228 | 0.12% | 0
| Independent Group 3 | 21 | 14 | 75 | 9 | 24 | 21 | 50 | 28 | 20 | 27 | 12 | 17 | 23 | 40 | 421 | 6 | 808 | 0.08% | 0
| United Lalith Front | 70 | 22 | 80 | 27 | 47 | 15 | 23 | 95 | 68 | 50 | 35 | 28 | 59 | 31 | 28 | 6 | 684 | 0.07% | 0
| Liberal Party of Sri Lanka | 17 | 29 | 16 | 35 | 5 | 88 | 36 | 19 | 40 | 40 | 11 | 33 | 40 | 31 | 57 | 0 | 497 | 0.05% | 0
| Socialist Equality Party | 9 | 17 | 26 | 25 | 8 | 14 | 20 | 8 | 38 | 41 | 30 | 21 | 45 | 52 | 26 | 9 | 389 | 0.04% | 0
| Independent Group 2 | 5 | 56 | 98 | 15 | 46 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 18 | 27 | 32 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 357 | 0.04% | 0
| Democratic United National Front | 30 | 16 | 24 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 39 | 32 | 38 | 26 | 18 | 32 | 28 | 16 | 5 | 355 | 0.04% | 0
| Sri Lanka Muslim Party | 6 | 8 | 40 | 29 | 35 | 36 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 244 | 0.02% | 0
| Independent Group 5 | 15 | 11 | 19 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 179 | 0.02% | 0
| Ruhunu People's Party | 6 | 11 | 16 | 33 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 23 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 143 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 4 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 109 | 0.01% | 0
| Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 2 | 2 | 49 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 90 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 75 | 0.01% | 0
| People's Freedom Front | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 58 | 0.01% | 0
Valid Votes | 68,130 | 40,130 | 103,908 | 44,591 | 55,648 | 25,889 | 42,111 | 88,289 | 96,282 | 94,533 | 73,865 | 51,900 | 81,518 | 84,545 | 46,116 | 16,765 | 1,014,220 | 100.00% | 20
Rejected Votes | 3,153 | 1,611 | 5,986 | 1,882 | 3,229 | 1,042 | 1,246 | 3,529 | 3,107 | 2,999 | 2,745 | 1,380 | 2,517 | 2,888 | 1,702 | 408 | 39,424 |  |
Total Polled | 71,283 | 41,741 | 109,894 | 46,473 | 58,877 | 26,931 | 43,357 | 91,818 | 99,389 | 97,532 | 76,610 | 53,280 | 84,035 | 87,433 | 47,818 | 17,173 | 1,053,644 |  |
Registered Electors | 90,721 | 58,676 | 152,701 | 66,374 | 80,510 | 40,939 | 58,883 | 121,170 | 130,721 | 125,802 | 99,486 | 71,617 | 111,204 | 111,701 | 65,042 |  | 1,385,547 |  |
Turnout (%) | 78.57% | 71.14% | 71.97% | 70.02% | 73.13% | 65.78% | 73.63% | 75.78% | 76.03% | 77.53% | 77.01% | 74.40% | 75.57% | 78.27% | 73.52% |  | 76.05% |  |
Preferential votes  Alliance  | Party  | Candidate[18] | votes

|
|
|

| UNP |   | UNP | Ranil Wickremasinghe | 363,668
| UNP |   | UNP | Ravi Karunanayake | 145,593
| PA |   | SLFP | G. L. Peiris | 139,123
| PA |   | MEP | Dinesh Gunawardena | 114,795
| PA |   | SLFP | A. H. M. Fowzie | 100,200
| PA |   | SLFP | Jeewan Kumaranatunga | 88,620
| PA |   | MEP | Bandula Gunawardane | 70,537
| PA |   | SLFP | Indika Gunawardena | 70,341
| UNP |   | UNP | M. Mahroof | 65,400
| PA |   | SLFP | Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra | 62,237
| PA |   | SLFP | Chandana Kathriarachchi  | 61,301
| UNP |   | UNP | Karunasena Kodituwakku | 60,318
| UNP |   | UNP | Gamini Lokuge | 58,009
| UNP |   | UNP | M. H. Mohamed | 49,239
| UNP |   | UNP | Lilantha Perera  | 48,848
| UNP |   | UNP | Tyronne Fernando | 41,439
| UNP |   | UNP | Jayantha Perera  | 39,242
| UNP |   | UNP | Samson Silva  | 38,894
| JVP |   | JVP | Wimal Weerawansa | 13,284
| JVP |   | JVP | Nimal Upatissa Fernando  | 5,717

### 2001 parliamentary general election

[edit]

Results of the 12th parliamentary election held on 5 December 2001:[19][20]

Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats

|
|
|
|
|

Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| United National Front[n] | 32,784 | 24,349 | 80,318 | 26,636 | 41,052 | 18,020 | 24,219 | 39,943 | 43,330 | 42,260 | 37,256 | 27,717 | 35,932 | 42,150 | 23,432 |  | 546,417 | 51.62% | 12
| People's Alliance[o] | 29,176 | 12,710 | 19,149 | 11,807 | 11,792 | 4,053 | 12,686 | 37,389 | 39,238 | 37,815 | 28,465 | 18,573 | 32,800 | 33,627 | 17,344 |  | 353,401 | 33.39% | 7
| Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 7,121 | 2,872 | 3,883 | 3,613 | 3,098 | 926 | 3,786 | 14,159 | 16,602 | 16,045 | 8,869 | 5,275 | 12,776 | 9,932 | 5,750 |  | 117,404 | 11.09% | 2
| Sinhala Heritage | 515 | 785 | 731 | 962 | 342 | 396 | 944 | 1,229 | 1,541 | 2,170 | 1,001 | 1,694 | 2,106 | 1,161 | 1,014 |  | 16,970 | 1.60% | 0
| Tamil National Alliance[p] | 11 | 244 | 1,649 | 2,075 | 2,483 | 3,499 | 1,434 | 5 | 22 | 10 | 41 | 73 | 38 | 450 | 571 |  | 12,696 | 1.20% | 0
| New Left Front[q] | 335 | 135 | 308 | 142 | 184 | 83 | 121 | 385 | 284 | 355 | 236 | 155 | 272 | 255 | 180 |  | 3,457 | 0.33% | 0
| Democratic Left Front | 271 | 85 | 178 | 203 | 138 | 129 | 193 | 347 | 302 | 360 | 182 | 202 | 298 | 227 | 132 |  | 3,322 | 0.31% | 0
| United Socialist Party | 93 | 64 | 315 | 101 | 142 | 43 | 38 | 92 | 117 | 97 | 120 | 46 | 67 | 111 | 52 |  | 1,503 | 0.14% | 0
| United Lalith Front | 98 | 57 | 212 | 39 | 76 | 32 | 32 | 102 | 95 | 73 | 76 | 40 | 54 | 72 | 36 |  | 1,101 | 0.10% | 0
| Eelam People's Democratic Party | 54 | 19 | 77 | 88 | 62 | 58 | 28 | 45 | 35 | 25 | 33 | 15 | 37 | 40 | 24 |  | 640 | 0.06% | 0
| Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 35 | 22 | 20 | 26 | 7 | 9 | 29 | 37 | 43 | 50 | 55 | 32 | 44 | 36 | 33 |  | 478 | 0.05% | 0
| Socialist Equality Party | 12 | 14 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 22 | 20 | 21 | 18 | 16 | 25 | 31 | 15 |  | 239 | 0.02% | 0
| Sri Lanka Muslim Party | 7 | 12 | 50 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 8 |  | 174 | 0.02% | 0
| National Development Front | 14 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 9 |  | 137 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 2 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 3 |  | 100 | 0.01% | 0
| Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 7 | 3 | 15 | 3 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 |  | 81 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 4 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 |  | 77 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 1 |  | 76 | 0.01% | 0
| Sri Lanka National Front | 1 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 |  | 71 | 0.01% | 0
| Ruhuna People's Party | 6 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 |  | 65 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 |  | 42 | 0.00% | 0
Valid Votes | 70,565 | 41,388 | 106,970 | 45,745 | 59,448 | 27,289 | 43,556 | 93,806 | 101,712 | 99,339 | 76,414 | 53,884 | 84,500 | 88,144 | 48,614 |  | 1,058,481 | 100.00% | 21
Rejected Votes | 3,324 | 1,598 | 5,700 | 1,855 | 3,352 | 959 | 1,448 | 3,725 | 3,218 | 3,356 | 2,761 | 1,698 | 2,608 | 3,294 | 1,664 |  | 40,901 |  |
Total Polled | 73,889 | 42,986 | 112,670 | 47,600 | 62,800 | 28,248 | 45,004 | 97,531 | 104,930 | 102,695 | 79,175 | 55,582 | 87,108 | 91,438 | 50,278 |  | 1,099,382 |  |
Registered Electors | 93,630 | 61,373 | 159,417 | 66,736 | 86,842 | 41,908 | 61,222 | 127,422 | 135,550 | 131,571 | 102,676 | 74,140 | 114,854 | 115,430 | 67,911 |  | 1,440,682 |  |
Turnout | 78.92% | 70.04% | 70.68% | 71.33% | 72.32% | 67.40% | 73.51% | 76.54% | 77.41% | 78.05% | 77.11% | 74.97% | 75.84% | 79.22% | 74.04% |  | 76.31% |  |
Preferential votes  Alliance  | Party  | Candidate[21] | votes

|
|
|

| UNF |   | UNP | Ranil Wickremasinghe | 415,686
| UNF |   | UNP | Milinda Moragoda | 134,132
| UNF |   | UNP | Ravi Karunanayake | 129,893
| PA |   | SLFP | A. H. M. Fowzie | 103,817
| PA |   | SLFP | Arjuna Ranatunga | 97,409
| PA |   | SLFP | Susil Premajayanth | 90,170
| PA |   | MEP | Dinesh Gunawardena | 87,615
| UNF |   | UNP | M. Mahroof | 85,988
| UNF |   | UNP | Karunasena Kodituwakku | 78,093
| PA |   | SLFP | Jeewan Kumaranatunga | 70,790
| UNF |   | UNP | Gamini Lokuge | 66,968
| UNF |   | UNP | Bandula Gunawardane | 66,516
| UNF |   | UNP | M. H. Mohamed | 64,783
| PA |   | SLFP | Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra | 61,530
| PA |   | SLFP | Chandana Kathriarachchi  | 57,673
| UNF |   | WPF | Mano Ganesan | 54,942
| UNF |   | UNP | Jayantha Ketagoda | 54,274
| UNF |   | UNP | Tyronne Fernando | 46,129
| UNF |   | UNP | Lilantha Perera  | 43,887
| JVP |   | JVP | Wimal Weerawansa | 19,687
| JVP |   | JVP | Sunil Handunnetti | 9,438

### 2004 parliamentary general election

[edit]

Results of the 13th parliamentary election held on 2 April 2004:[22]

Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats

|
|
|
|
|

Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| United National Front[r] | 28,607 | 21,543 | 71,599 | 23,739 | 40,387 | 19,084 | 19,865 | 29,029 | 32,772 | 26,302 | 29,540 | 19,635 | 22,337 | 34,313 | 18,448 | 4,641 | 441,841 | 41.76% | 9
| United People's Freedom Alliance[s] | 37,380 | 12,484 | 17,681 | 12,141 | 12,724 | 3,613 | 12,577 | 49,520 | 53,065 | 45,939 | 32,976 | 20,070 | 37,919 | 38,833 | 19,284 | 8,482 | 414,688 | 39.20% | 8
| Jathika Hela Urumaya | 5,952 | 6,360 | 8,881 | 9,116 | 3,409 | 2,824 | 9,247 | 17,768 | 18,485 | 29,850 | 14,311 | 13,192 | 25,385 | 13,493 | 9,085 | 3,260 | 190,618 | 18.02% | 3
| National Development Front | 96 | 109 | 230 | 91 | 415 | 44 | 63 | 175 | 202 | 215 | 194 | 140 | 177 | 168 | 86 | 15 | 2,420 | 0.23% | 0
| New Left Front[t] | 133 | 89 | 225 | 166 | 175 | 150 | 112 | 129 | 139 | 121 | 106 | 95 | 135 | 161 | 71 | 30 | 2,037 | 0.19% | 0
| National People's Party | 72 | 41 | 49 | 45 | 24 | 19 | 43 | 175 | 115 | 244 | 78 | 55 | 160 | 102 | 50 | 1 | 1,273 | 0.12% | 0
| United Socialist Party | 71 | 27 | 204 | 57 | 93 | 20 | 30 | 59 | 53 | 40 | 74 | 29 | 32 | 73 | 31 | 1 | 894 | 0.08% | 0
| United Muslim People's Party | 40 | 61 | 317 | 40 | 75 | 22 | 24 | 29 | 30 | 29 | 81 | 30 | 22 | 33 | 23 | 2 | 858 | 0.08% | 0
| Independent Group 7 | 1 | 54 | 501 | 5 | 42 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 40 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 683 | 0.06% | 0
| United Lalith Front | 43 | 20 | 117 | 25 | 57 | 19 | 17 | 39 | 37 | 27 | 29 | 16 | 34 | 49 | 20 | 1 | 550 | 0.05% | 0
| Eelam People's Democratic Party | 34 | 12 | 66 | 65 | 45 | 21 | 30 | 32 | 48 | 41 | 26 | 15 | 36 | 38 | 26 | 4 | 539 | 0.05% | 0
| Swarajya
Party | 2 | 29 | 98 | 37 | 8 | 55 | 25 | 7 | 22 | 30 | 15 | 26 | 9 | 11 | 27 | 3 | 404 | 0.04% | 0
| Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 12 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 26 | 31 | 15 | 14 | 28 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 203 | 0.02% | 0
| Socialist Equality Party | 4 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 159 | 0.02% | 0
| Independent Group 11 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 114 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 10 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 98 | 0.01% | 0
| Sri Lanka Muslim Party | 1 | 10 | 35 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 97 | 0.01% | 0
| Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 2 | 4 | 34 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 8 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 67 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 1 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 46 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 43 | 0.00% | 0
| Sri Lanka National Front | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 42 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 6 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 36 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 9 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 32 | 0.00% | 0
| Ruhuna People's Party | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 0.00% | 0
Valid Votes | 72,500 | 40,893 | 100,142 | 45,576 | 57,528 | 25,914 | 42,087 | 97,061 | 105,077 | 102,942 | 77,530 | 53,359 | 86,327 | 87,376 | 47,202 | 16,452 | 1,057,966 | 100.00% | 20
Rejected Votes | 3,491 | 1,457 | 5,451 | 1,689 | 3,431 | 869 | 1,173 | 3,516 | 3,316 | 2,831 | 2,832 | 1,413 | 2,161 | 3,139 | 1,531 | 305 | 38,605 |  |
Total Polled | 75,991 | 42,350 | 105,593 | 47,265 | 60,959 | 26,783 | 43,260 | 100,577 | 108,393 | 105,773 | 80,362 | 54,772 | 88,488 | 90,515 | 48,733 | 16,757 | 1,096,571 |  |
Registered Electors | 98,012 | 62,722 | 153,763 | 67,885 | 86,388 | 40,209 | 60,159 | 135,242 | 143,644 | 137,285 | 106,335 | 74,159 | 118,318 | 116,454 | 67,176 |  | 1,467,751 |  |
Turnout | 77.53% | 67.52% | 68.67% | 69.63% | 70.56% | 66.61% | 71.91% | 74.37% | 75.46% | 77.05% | 75.57% | 73.86% | 74.79% | 77.73% | 72.55% |  | 74.71% |  |
Preferential votes  Alliance  | Party  | Candidate[23] | votes

|
|
|

| UNF |   | UNP | Ranil Wickremasinghe | 329,524
| UPFA |   | JVP | Wimal Weerawansa | 237,185
| UPFA |   | JVP | Sunil Handunnetti | 152,942
| UPFA |   | JVP | Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi | 122,645
| UPFA |   | SLFP | Susil Premajayanth | 100,074
| UNF |   | UNP | Milinda Moragoda | 99,146
| UPFA |   | MEP | Dinesh Gunawardena | 82,626
| UPFA |   | SLFP | Arjuna Ranatunga | 81,914
| UNF |   | UNP | Ravi Karunanayake | 69,975
| UNF |   | UNP | M. H. Mohamed | 62,559
| UNF |   | UNP | T. Maheswaran[u] | 57,978
| UNF |   | UNP | Bandula Gunawardane | 57,460
| UNF |   | UNP | M. Mahroof | 55,919
| UNF |   | UNP | Gamini Lokuge | 53,810
| UPFA |   | SLFP | Jeewan Kumaranatunga | 51,583
| UNF |   | WPF | Mano Ganesan | 51,508
| UPFA |   | SLFP | A. H. M. Fowzie | 49,719
| JHU |   | JHU | Ven. Uduwe Dhammaloka Thero | 42,850
| JHU |   | JHU | Ven. Kotapola Amarakitti Thero | 26,539
| JHU |   | JHU | Ven. Kataluwe Ratanasiya Thero[v] | 10,512

### 2010 parliamentary general election

[edit]

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

Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats

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Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| United People's Freedom Alliance[w] | 42,259 | 13,662 | 21,794 | 14,662 | 15,976 | 5,169 | 15,472 | 57,951 | 56,539 | 60,139 | 37,782 | 22,799 | 44,200 | 40,369 | 19,486 | 12,637 | 480,896 | 51.19% | 10
| United National Front[x] | 16,730 | 16,421 | 51,421 | 19,241 | 30,825 | 13,056 | 15,831 | 26,841 | 23,546 | 21,953 | 23,949 | 16,374 | 18,937 | 25,356 | 15,384 | 3,885 | 339,750 | 36.17% | 7
| Democratic National Alliance[y] | 5,432 | 3,619 | 6,243 | 4,608 | 3,226 | 1,675 | 4,256 | 10,103 | 14,460 | 13,532 | 8,371 | 6,729 | 12,313 | 8,159 | 5,061 | 2,896 | 110,683 | 11.78% | 2
| United Lanka People's Party | 118 | 90 | 302 | 82 | 93 | 39 | 53 | 121 | 188 | 180 | 173 | 73 | 125 | 92 | 78 | 21 | 1,828 | 0.19% | 0
| Sri Lanka National Front | 15 | 20 | 24 | 20 | 102 | 10 | 7 | 42 | 231 | 82 | 50 | 20 | 60 | 191 | 37 | 13 | 924 | 0.10% | 0
| Tamil United Liberation Front | 5 | 8 | 90 | 176 | 138 | 183 | 94 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 33 | 46 | 9 | 834 | 0.09% | 0
| Left Liberation Front | 20 | 78 | 142 | 38 | 115 | 67 | 48 | 19 | 21 | 26 | 16 | 16 | 23 | 30 | 37 | 10 | 706 | 0.08% | 0
| National Development Front | 15 | 106 | 192 | 23 | 84 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 11 | 12 | 27 | 5 | 12 | 23 | 24 | 4 | 578 | 0.06% | 0
| Our National Front | 21 | 7 | 28 | 7 | 26 | 7 | 11 | 41 | 43 | 39 | 28 | 17 | 37 | 41 | 16 | 4 | 373 | 0.04% | 0
| United Socialist Party | 21 | 21 | 70 | 38 | 54 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 352 | 0.04% | 0
| United National Alternative Front | 19 | 14 | 51 | 10 | 44 | 19 | 11 | 24 | 18 | 11 | 20 | 12 | 9 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 292 | 0.03% | 0
| Independent Group 10 | 14 | 12 | 28 | 16 | 42 | 15 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 212 | 0.02% | 0
| Muslim National Alliance | 9 | 0 | 28 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 147 | 0.02% | 0
| Independent Group 16 | 19 | 7 | 25 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 142 | 0.02% | 0
| All Are Citizens All Are Kings Organisation | 19 | 8 | 35 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 140 | 0.01% | 0
| Socialist Equality Party | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 132 | 0.01% | 0
| Janasetha Peramuna | 1 | 11 | 20 | 2 | 40 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 131 | 0.01% | 0
| United Lanka Great Council | 1 | 6 | 35 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 31 | 4 | 1 | 126 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 11 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 119 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 15 | 6 | 20 | 25 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 115 | 0.01% | 0
| United Democratic Front | 11 | 5 | 19 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 114 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 12 | 8 | 10 | 20 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 107 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 13 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 84 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 75 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 14 | 12 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 64 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 8 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 63 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 48 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 43 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 0.00% | 0
| Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 3 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 0.00% | 0
| Sri Lanka Labour Party | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 30 | 0.00% | 0
| National People’s Party | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 0.00% | 0
| Ceylon Democratic Unity Alliance | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 0.00% | 0
| Patriotic National Front | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 6 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0.00% | 0
Valid Votes | 64,810 | 34,162 | 80,691 | 38,996 | 50,909 | 20,311 | 35,868 | 95,311 | 95,257 | 96,179 | 70,583 | 46,159 | 75,847 | 74,517 | 40,263 | 19,512 | 939,375 | 100.00% | 19
Rejected Votes | 4,225 | 1,998 | 6,606 | 2,562 | 4,495 | 1,283 | 1,606 | 4,206 | 4,193 | 4,160 | 3,863 | 1,877 | 3,014 | 3,725 | 1,990 | 551 | 50,354 |  |
Total Polled | 69,035 | 36,160 | 87,297 | 41,558 | 55,404 | 21,594 | 37,474 | 99,517 | 99,450 | 100,339 | 74,446 | 48,036 | 78,861 | 78,242 | 42,253 | 20,063 | 989,729 |  |
Registered Electors | 108,138 | 58,757 | 139,822 | 68,643 | 95,385 | 38,921 | 61,194 | 155,720 | 158,736 | 148,696 | 112,363 | 73,009 | 121,247 | 114,601 | 66,622 |  | 1,521,854 |  |
Turnout | 63.84% | 61.54% | 62.43% | 60.54% | 58.08% | 55.48% | 61.24% | 63.91% | 62.65% | 67.48% | 66.25% | 65.79% | 65.04% | 68.27% | 63.42% |  | 65.03% |  |
Preferential votes  Alliance  | Party  | Candidate[27] | votes

|
|
|

| UPFA |   | NFF | Wimal Weerawansa | 280,672
| UNF |   | UNP | Ranil Wickremasinghe | 232,957
| UPFA |   | SLFP | Duminda Silva | 146,336
| UPFA |   | JHU | Champika Ranawaka | 120,333
| UPFA |   | MEP | Dinesh Gunawardena | 116,860
| DNA |   | DNA | Sarath Fonseka[z] | 98,458
| DNA |   | JVP | Sunil Handunnetti | 78,126
| UNF |   | UNP | Ravi Karunanayake | 70,328
| UNF |   | UNP | Mohan Lal Grero | 68,008
| UNF |   | UNP | Rosy Senanayake | 66,357
| UPFA |   | UNP | Bandula Gunawardane | 64,654
| UPFA |   | SLFP | Thilanga Sumathipala | 60,848
| UNF |   | UNP | Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa | 60,030
| UPFA |   | SLFP | Susil Premajayanth | 54,702
| UNF |   | UNP | Sujeewa Senasinghe | 52,559
| UPFA |   | SLFP | A. H. M. Fowzie | 51,641
| UPFA |   | SLFP | Jeewan Kumaranatunga | 51,080
| UPFA |   | UNP | Gamini Lokuge | 49,750
| UNF |   | DPF | Praba Ganesan | 42,851

### 2015 parliamentary general election

[edit]

Results of the 15th parliamentary election held on 17 August 2015:[31]

Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats

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|
|
|
|

Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| United National Front for Good Governance[aa] | 39,106 | 28,968 | 79,968 | 31,450 | 50,571 | 22,060 | 28,153 | 52,336 | 56,154 | 49,637 | 49,196 | 30,247 | 41,374 | 43,665 | 26,412 | 11,446 | 640,743 | 53.00% | 11
| United People's Freedom Alliance[ab] | 42,895 | 11,842 | 11,489 | 12,917 | 10,256 | 4,204 | 13,273 | 66,450 | 62,136 | 65,243 | 35,300 | 20,797 | 47,049 | 40,142 | 19,203 | 10,867 | 474,063 | 39.21% | 7
| Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 4,346 | 2,282 | 2,109 | 2,960 | 1,647 | 875 | 2,366 | 10,719 | 11,971 | 11,193 | 6,159 | 4,075 | 9,001 | 5,384 | 3,217 | 3,087 | 81,391 | 6.73% | 1
| Democratic Party | 172 | 284 | 209 | 238 | 121 | 71 | 204 | 678 | 564 | 580 | 293 | 327 | 584 | 420 | 214 | 279 | 5,238 | 0.43% | 0
| Bodu Jana Peramuna | 86 | 100 | 68 | 169 | 45 | 36 | 94 | 207 | 199 | 224 | 229 | 147 | 207 | 134 | 138 | 54 | 2,137 | 0.18% | 0
| Tamil United Liberation Front | 28 | 23 | 86 | 99 | 162 | 112 | 44 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 58 | 8 | 6 | 36 | 17 | 20 | 723 | 0.06% | 0
| Our National Front | 50 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 17 | 4 | 16 | 71 | 63 | 71 | 30 | 23 | 42 | 39 | 25 | 3 | 497 | 0.04% | 0
| Frontline Socialist Party | 56 | 9 | 9 | 21 | 23 | 3 | 19 | 41 | 46 | 59 | 26 | 16 | 72 | 17 | 24 | 22 | 463 | 0.04% | 0
| United Socialist Party | 22 | 31 | 78 | 21 | 64 | 10 | 13 | 20 | 31 | 31 | 39 | 20 | 10 | 19 | 16 | 4 | 429 | 0.04% | 0
| United People's Party | 28 | 23 | 63 | 23 | 49 | 11 | 16 | 31 | 41 | 19 | 31 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 16 | 9 | 422 | 0.03% | 0
| Independent Group 01 | 3 | 54 | 89 | 26 | 81 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 22 | 25 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 339 | 0.03% | 0
| Nava Sama Samaja Party | 10 | 11 | 105 | 8 | 18 | 28 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 18 | 28 | 2 | 303 | 0.03% | 0
| Jana Setha Peramuna | 12 | 26 | 25 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 52 | 24 | 30 | 25 | 31 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 296 | 0.02% | 0
| Independent Group 12 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 52 | 18 | 48 | 27 | 34 | 26 | 15 | 1 | 286 | 0.02% | 0
| Independent Group 11 | 20 | 10 | 36 | 9 | 29 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 19 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 211 | 0.02% | 0
| Independent Group 09 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 149 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 10 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 12 | 51 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 140 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 15 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 137 | 0.01% |
| United Peace Front | 11 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 27 | 19 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 134 | 0.01% | 0
| Socialist Equality Party | 5 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 21 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 125 | 0.01% | 0
| All Lanka Tamil Great Council | 5 | 4 | 21 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 104 | 0.01% | 0
| United Lanka People's Party | 3 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 82 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 08 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 59 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 14 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 57 | 0.00% | 0
| Motherland People's Party | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 55 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 02 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 52 | 0.00% | 0
| Sri Lanka Vanguard Party | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 49 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 05 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 0.00% | 0
| New Sinhala Heritage | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 03 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 0.00% | 0
| Liberal Party of Sri Lanka | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 13 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 07 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 06 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 04 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 0.00% | 0
| Sri Lanka National Force | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.00% | 0
Valid Votes | 89,908 | 43,736 | 94,477 | 48,056 | 63,193 | 27,538 | 44,289 | 130,740 | 131,493 | 127,240 | 91,576 | 55,843 | 98,548 | 90,041 | 49,394 | 25,827 | 1,208,899 | 100.00% | 19
Rejected Votes | 7,044 | 1,902 | 5,332 | 2,043 | 4,055 | 1,237 | 1,330 | 4,026 | 3,536 | 3,452 | 3,283 | 1,457 | 2,492 | 2,990 | 1,634 | 559 | 43,372 | 3.46% |
Total Polled | 90,952 | 45,638 | 99,809 | 50,099 | 67,248 | 28,775 | 45,619 | 134,766 | 135,029 | 130,692 | 94,859 | 57,300 | 101,040 | 93,031 | 51,028 | 26,386 | 1,252,271 | 78.93% |
Registered Electors | 117,472 | 60,109 | 131,482 | 66,941 | 89,771 | 40,609 | 59,812 | 174,909 | 173,355 | 164,774 | 120,617 | 74,934 | 129,801 | 115,219 | 66,793 |  | 1,586,598 |  |
Preferential votes  Alliance  | Party  | Candidate[32] | votes

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| UNFGG |   | UNP | Ranil Wickremesinghe | 500,566
| UPFA |   | NFF | Wimal Weerawansa | 313,801
| UPFA |   | PHU  | Udaya Gammanpila | 198,818
| UPFA |   | SLFP | Susil Premajayantha | 174,075
| UPFA |   | MEP | Dinesh Gunawardena | 124,451
| UNFGG |   | UNP | Sujeewa Senasinghe | 117,049
| UNFGG |   | UNP | Harsha de Silva | 114,147
| UNFGG |   | UNP | Ravi Karunanayake | 111,399
| UNFGG |   | JHU | Champika Ranawaka | 100,444
| UPFA |   | SLFP | Bandula Gunawardena | 96,057
| UNFGG |   | UNP | S. M. Marikar | 92,526
| UNFGG |   | UNP | Mujibur Rahman | 83,884
| UNFGG |   | UNP | Eran Wickramaratne | 82,737
| UNFGG |   | UNP | Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe | 81,758
| UNFGG |   | SLFP | Hirunika Premachandra | 70,584
| UNFGG |   | DPF | Mano Ganeshan | 69,064
| JVP |   | JVP | Anura Kumara Dissanayake | 65,966
| UPFA |   | SLFP | Mohan Lal Grero | 65,703
| UPFA |   | SLFP | Gamini Lokuge | 58,527

### 2020 parliamentary general election

[edit]

Results of the 16th parliamentary election held on 5 August 2020:[33]

Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats

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|
|
|
|

Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance[ac] | 58,477 | 17,680 | 16,688 | 18,007 | 16,775 | 6,294 | 18,244 | 95,118 | 90,489 | 89,240 | 49,742 | 29,436 | 64,309 | 55,000 | 25,320 | 23,784 | 647,687 | 57.04% | 12
| Samagi Jana Balawegaya[ad] | 20,308 | 20,450 | 64,692 | 20,538 | 41,059 | 16,521 | 18,611 | 23,184 | 23,793 | 23,687 | 36,718 | 14,946 | 17,733 | 23,747 | 15,646 | 5,512 | 387,145 | 32.73% | 6
| National People's Power[ae] | 3,761 | 1,931 | 1,912 | 2,595 | 1,230 | 1,074 | 2,094 | 8,712 | 9,594 | 9,160 | 4,655 | 3,405 | 7,371 | 4,404 | 2,901 | 2,801 | 67,600 | 5.72% | 1
| United National Party | 1,712 | 1,500 | 2,978 | 1,869 | 2,676 | 1,143 | 1,706 | 2,476 | 2,679 | 2,098 | 2,091 | 1,563 | 2,128 | 1,754 | 1,440 | 1,062 | 30,875 | 2.61% | 0
| National Development Front | 188 | 61 | 111 | 103 | 112 | 40 | 140 | 334 | 228 | 216 | 182 | 119 | 162 | 188 | 120 | 39 | 2,343 | 0.2% | 0
| Independent Group 07 | 97 | 66 | 48 | 104 | 46 | 58 | 103 | 158 | 201 | 213 | 82 | 204 | 263 | 143 | 120 | 15 | 1,921 | 0.16% | 0
| Independent Group 17 | 214 | 37 | 37 | 42 | 63 | 13 | 30 | 232 | 206 | 223 | 160 | 58 | 96 | 139 | 67 | 10 | 1,627 | 0.14% | 0
| Independent Group 02 | 116 | 31 | 181 | 47 | 88 | 19 | 35 | 105 | 94 | 67 | 114 | 46 | 57 | 106 | 83 | 15 | 1,204 | 0.1% | 0
| Independent Group 19 | 129 | 69 | 166 | 47 | 148 | 23 | 23 | 106 | 73 | 73 | 127 | 44 | 33 | 78 | 34 | 8 | 1,181 | 0.1% | 0
| Frontline Socialist Party | 102 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 54 | 13 | 41 | 143 | 131 | 127 | 54 | 40 | 148 | 43 | 57 | 66 | 1,085 | 0.09% | 0
| Independent Group 08 | 57 | 43 | 177 | 38 | 136 | 27 | 41 | 50 | 38 | 38 | 95 | 25 | 23 | 67 | 35 | 6 | 896 | 0.08% | 0
| National People's Party | 41 | 20 | 23 | 199 | 17 | 14 | 39 | 62 | 74 | 71 | 47 | 57 | 72 | 96 | 28 | 24 | 884 | 0.07% | 0
| Liberal Party of Sri Lanka | 52 | 18 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 17 | 23 | 96 | 116 | 99 | 49 | 39 | 103 | 70 | 29 | 15 | 800 | 0.07% | 0
| Independent Group 10 | 20 | 5 | 56 | 23 | 60 | 11 | 11 | 66 | 39 | 49 | 46 | 30 | 227 | 19 | 10 | 26 | 698 | 0.06% | 0
| United Left Front | 58 | 27 | 70 | 31 | 72 | 11 | 20 | 61 | 57 | 51 | 55 | 17 | 48 | 65 | 23 | 12 | 678 | 0.06% | 0
| Independent Group 11 | 41 | 33 | 161 | 38 | 82 | 4 | 15 | 35 | 37 | 40 | 55 | 14 | 21 | 62 | 12 | 2 | 652 | 0.06% | 0
| Socialist Party of Sri Lanka | 54 | 17 | 31 | 35 | 40 | 13 | 28 | 77 | 65 | 55 | 57 | 27 | 45 | 52 | 37 | 9 | 642 | 0.05% | 0
| Independent Group 13 | 83 | 26 | 92 | 27 | 85 | 21 | 14 | 34 | 48 | 32 | 59 | 10 | 29 | 36 | 21 | 1 | 618 | 0.05% | 0
| Independent Group 15 | 103 | 17 | 29 | 18 | 23 | 4 | 11 | 82 | 65 | 46 | 50 | 12 | 26 | 64 | 29 | 4 | 583 | 0.04% | 0
| Sinhaladeepa National Front | 16 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 81 | 190 | 34 | 28 | 11 | 59 | 15 | 11 | 24 | 515 | 0.04% | 0
| Independent Group 24 | 75 | 25 | 30 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 52 | 28 | 24 | 130 | 12 | 25 | 8 | 33 | 10 | 482 | 0.04% | 0
| Democratic United National Front | 14 | 22 | 13 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 42 | 25 | 219 | 12 | 14 | 34 | 7 | 21 | 471 | 0.04% | 0
| Independent Group 05 | 29 | 18 | 94 | 13 | 94 | 9 | 7 | 29 | 31 | 20 | 38 | 14 | 17 | 31 | 13 | 6 | 463 | 0.04% | 0
| Jana Setha Peramuna | 18 | 22 | 30 | 11 | 22 | 9 | 51 | 26 | 53 | 30 | 45 | 17 | 39 | 21 | 13 | 14 | 421 | 0.04% | 0
| Independent Group 01 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 53 | 34 | 60 | 14 | 19 | 27 | 34 | 9 | 21 | 22 | 34 | 18 | 17 | 396 | 0.03% | 0
| United Socialist Party | 31 | 9 | 40 | 21 | 45 | 7 | 14 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 33 | 10 | 22 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 342 | 0.03% | 0
| Independent Group 03 | 30 | 16 | 28 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 32 | 41 | 47 | 16 | 17 | 25 | 33 | 10 | 2 | 323 | 0.03% | 0
| Independent Group 25 | 16 | 19 | 78 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 8 | 18 | 46 | 7 | 2 | 21 | 47 | 2 | 310 | 0.03% | 0
| Socialist Equality Party | 15 | 10 | 29 | 24 | 20 | 9 | 12 | 23 | 33 | 27 | 32 | 8 | 21 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 303 | 0.03% | 0
| Independent Group 04 | 26 | 19 | 72 | 11 | 30 | 5 | 10 | 24 | 21 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 300 | 0.03% | 0
| Independent Group 26 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 7 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 50 | 34 | 22 | 9 | 33 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 297 | 0.03% | 0
| New Sinhala Heritage | 21 | 21 | 12 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 35 | 23 | 36 | 27 | 25 | 6 | 16 | 10 | 294 | 0.02% | 0
| Independent Group 09 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 12 | 16 | 29 | 29 | 30 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 47 | 44 | 8 | 291 | 0.02% | 0
| Independent Group 20 | 12 | 11 | 55 | 14 | 29 | 13 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 19 | 32 | 9 | 13 | 23 | 6 | 4 | 275 | 0.02% | 0
| Independent Group 06 | 31 | 14 | 26 | 9 | 31 | 2 | 9 | 29 | 17 | 22 | 26 | 8 | 15 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 265 | 0.02% | 0
| Independent Group 21 | 26 | 6 | 23 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 26 | 25 | 26 | 16 | 5 | 16 | 27 | 5 | 6 | 240 | 0.02% | 0
| Independent Group 12 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 27 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 14 | 12 | 43 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 215 | 0.02% | 0
| Independent Group 22 | 21 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 28 | 22 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 168 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 18 | 25 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 150 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 14 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 86 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 78 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 23 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 0.00% | 0
Valid Votes | 86,081 | 43,335 | 88,143 | 44,092 | 63,263 | 25,489 | 41,434 | 131,726 | 128,770 | 126,103 | 95,272 | 50,313 | 93,317 | 86,560 | 46,301 | 33,577 | 1,182,776 | 100.00% | 19
Rejected Votes | 6,907 | 3,537 | 8,955 | 3,371 | 7,113 | 1,545 | 2,529 | 8,032 | 6,845 | 6,760 | 6,870 | 2,789 | 4,931 | 5,895 | 3,254 | 1,701 | 81,034 | 4.74% |
Total Polled | 92,988 | 45,872 | 97,098 | 47,463 | 70,376 | 27,034 | 43,963 | 139,758 | 135,615 | 132,863 | 102,142 | 53,102 | 98,248 | 92,455 | 49,555 | 35,278 | 1,263,810 | 73.98% |
Registered Electors | 122,257 | 61,897 | 126,022 | 67,241 | 93,672 | 41,831 | 62,406 | 191,627 | 188,469 | 179,289 | 136,028 | 75,197 | 136,304 | 119,911 | 70,528 | 36,530 | 1,709,209 |  |
Preferential votes  Alliance  | Party  | Candidate[34] | votes

|
|
|

| SLPFA |   | SLPP | Sarath Weerasekara | 328,092
| SJB |   | SJB | Sajith Premadasa | 305,744
| SLPFA |   | NFF | Wimal Weerawansa | 267,084
| SLPFA |   | PHU  | Udaya Gammanpila | 136,331
| SLPFA |   | SLPP | Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe | 120,626
| SLPFA |   | SLPP | Bandula Gunawardena | 101,644
| SJB |   | SJB | S. M. Marikkar | 96,916
| SLPFA |   | SLPP | Pradeep Undugoda | 91,958
| SJB |   | SJB | Mujibur Rahman | 87,589
| SLPFA |   | MEP | Dinesh Gunawardena | 85,287
| SJB |   | SJB | Harsha de Silva | 82,845
| SLPFA |   | SLPP | Madhura Withanage | 70,205
| SLPFA |   | SLPP | Premnath C. Dolawaththa | 69,055
| SJB |   | JHU | Patali Champika Ranawaka | 65,574
| SLPFA |   | SLPP | Gamini Lokuge | 62,543
| SJB |   | DPF | Mano Ganeshan | 62,091
| SLPFA |   | SLPP | Susil Premajayantha | 50,321
| NPP |   | JVP | Anura Kumara Dissanayake | 49,814
| SLPFA |   | SLPP | Jagath Kumara | 47,693

## Provincial Council Elections

[edit]

### 1988 provincial council election

[edit]

Results of the 1st Western provincial council election held on 2 June 1988[35]

Party | Total Votes | % | Seats

|
|
|

| United National Party | 265,845 | 53.45% | 23
| United Socialist Alliance[af] | 190,116 | 38.23% | 17
| Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 37,598 | 7.56% | 3
| Liberal Party of Sri Lanka | 3,781 | 0.76% | 0
Valid Votes | 497,340 | 100.00% | 43

### 1993 provincial council election

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Results of the 2nd Western provincial council election held on 17 May 1993:[36]

Party | Votes | % | Seats

|
|
|

| People's Alliance[ag] | 307,471 | 38.14% | 17
| United National Party | 303,179 | 37.59% | 16
| Democratic United National Front | 176,511 | 21.87% | 10
| Nava Sama Samaja Party | 6,983 | 0.87% | 0
| Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 4,854 | 0.6% | 0
| Democratic Workers Congress | 2,624 | 0.33% | 0
| Independent Group 02 | 2,495 | 0.31% | 0
| Independent Group 01 | 2,290 | 0.29% | 0
Valid Votes | 806,487 | 100.00% | 43

### 1999 provincial council election

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Results of the 3rd Western provincial council election held on 6 April 1999:[37][38][39]

Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats

|
|
|
|
|

Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| United National Party | 23,077 | 18,534 | 50,132 | 19,492 | 26,448 | 12,348 | 15,548 | 28,150 | 28,065 | 26,785 | 25,989 | 16,956 | 22,576 | 31,232 | 14,971 | 2,333 | 362,336 | 45.07% | 19
| People's Alliance[ah] | 21,057 | 11,230 | 24,182 | 11,979 | 11,483 | 4,659 | 13,416 | 30,493 | 30,989 | 35,377 | 24,217 | 19,351 | 27,843 | 28,688 | 15,373 | 3,259 | 313,576 | 38.98% | 17
| Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 2,800 | 1,736 | 2,457 | 1,997 | 1,734 | 490 | 1,751 | 5,576 | 8,066 | 7,257 | 4,777 | 2,543 | 4,869 | 5,430 | 3,535 | 363 | 55,361 | 6.88% | 3
| Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 9,055 | 619 | 765 | 891 | 518 | 413 | 1,234 | 3,915 | 6,471 | 3,375 | 2,187 | 2,289 | 7,433 | 2,004 | 1,287 | 552 | 43,008 | 5.35% | 2
| National Union of Workers[ai] | 1,088 | 330 | 4,654 | 650 | 3,897 | 812 | 231 | 45 | 84 | 51 | 331 | 113 | 40 | 80 | 96 | 8 | 12,510 | 1.55% | 1
| New Left Front[aj] | 505 | 324 | 1,080 | 886 | 864 | 1,007 | 558 | 567 | 520 | 580 | 416 | 333 | 484 | 547 | 445 | 24 | 9,140 | 1.14% | 1
| Muslim United Liberation Front | 76 | 122 | 3,896 | 48 | 243 | 55 | 60 | 58 | 78 | 80 | 169 | 42 | 53 | 60 | 45 | 2 | 5,087 | 0.63% | 0
| Liberal Party of Sri Lanka | 56 | 57 | 90 | 117 | 74 | 148 | 102 | 70 | 63 | 78 | 51 | 103 | 91 | 152 | 148 | 1 | 1,411 | 0.18% | 0
| Independent Group 01 | 16 | 41 | 284 | 44 | 625 | 84 | 39 | 15 | 30 | 17 | 56 | 9 | 20 | 24 | 12 | 10 | 1,326 | 0.16% | 0
| Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 22 | 7 | 27 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 12 | 70 | 40 | 35 | 21 | 49 | 72 | 43 | 56 | 1 | 495 | 0.06% | 0
Valid Votes | 57,762 | 33,000 | 87,567 | 36,121 | 45,881 | 20,024 | 32,951 | 68,959 | 74,406 | 73,635 | 58,214 | 41,786 | 63,461 | 68,260 | 35,968 | 6,553 | 804,550 | 100.00% | 43
Rejected Votes | 3,676 | 1,976 | 6,738 | 2,303 | 3,539 | 1,308 | 1,835 | 4,440 | 4,174 | 4,491 | 3,674 | 2,385 | 3,794 | 3,525 | 2,231 | 366 | 50,435 | 5.9% |
Total Polled | 61,438 | 34,976 | 94,305 | 38,424 | 49,420 | 21,332 | 34,786 | 73,339 | 78,580 | 28,126 | 66,888 | 44,153 | 67,255 | 71,785 | 38,199 | 6,919 | 854,985 | 64.45% |
Registered Electors | 86,614 | 55,841 | 144,202 | 64,542 | 75,761 | 40,640 | 58,766 | 113,810 | 123,171 | 120,054 | 94,877 | 70,405 | 107,710 | 106,359 | 63,735 |  | 1,326,487 |  |
Preferential votes  Party  | Candidate[40] | votes

|
|

| UNP | Karu Jayasuriya | 250,179
| PA | Susil Premajayantha | 162,415
| UNP | Lilantha Perera  | 39,670
| UNP | Jayantha Perera  | 39,096
| MEP | Bandula Gunawardane | 31,984
| PA | Gamini Thilakasiri  | 31,975
| PA | Chandana Kathirarachchi  | 30,429
| PA | Navusar Fauzi  | 29,837
| UNP | Hameed Mohomad  | 29,384
| PA | Hector Bethgamage  | 28,894
| UNP | Samson Silva  | 28,392
| UNP | Ajith Nivard Cabraal | 27,990
| UNP | Jayantha de Silva  | 27,352
| PA | Ashoka Lankathilaka  | 26,174
| PA | Renuka Dushyantha Perera  | 25,291
| UNP | Janaka Malimaarachchi  | 24,734
| UNP | Laxman Abegunaratne  | 24,163
| UNP | Thompson Joseph Mendis  | 22,414
| UNP | Almon Pieris  | 22,264
| PA | Mahesh Jayathissa  | 22,172
| PA | Upali Kodikara  | 21,812
| PA | Wirantha Fernando | 21,426
| PA | Sunil Jayamini  | 21,374
| UNP | Nimal Rathnasiri Pieris  | 20,750
| PA | Ananda Wasantha  | 20,271
| UNP | Ratnasiri Rajapakse | 20,179
| UNP | Mohomed Ishfahani  | 19,568
| UNP | Senaka Damyantha de Silva  | 19,376
| PA | Susantha Sirinatha  | 19,032
| UNP | Premasiri Perera  | 18,946
| UNP | Mohomed Nawfer  | 18,666
| PA | Thilakaratna Rajapaksa  | 17,701
| UNP | Chandrasiri Dias  | 17,626
| UNP | Joseph Charles  | 17,263
| PA | Isura Devapriya | 16,099
| PA | Ranjith Mahinda  | 15,893
| PA | Terrance Balasooriya  | 15,419
| MEP | Lionel Kariyawasam  | 7,924
| JVP | Dharmadasa Perera  | 5,423
| JVP | Aruna Panagoda | 4,057
| JVP | Sanath Weerakon  | 3,932
| NLF | Vikramabahu Karunaratne | 3,755
| NUW | Mano Ganeshan | 3,663

### 2004 provincial council election

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Results of the 4th Western provincial council election held on 10 July 2004:[41]

Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats

|
|
|
|
|

Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| United People's Freedom Alliance[ak] | 29,534 | 8,968 | 14,580 | 9,372 | 9,615 | 2,632 | 10,374 | 35,610 | 40,785 | 38,289 | 25,690 | 16,436 | 31,251 | 30,382 | 14,621 | 4,514 | 322,653 | 49.11% | 21
| United National Party[al] | 18,113 | 15,020 | 35,680 | 14,251 | 23,661 | 7,622 | 10,850 | 20,694 | 20,364 | 21,088 | 20,889 | 12,758 | 16,794 | 25,453 | 11,369 | 2,153 | 276,759 | 42.12% | 18
| Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 413 | 1,524 | 18,727 | 578 | 4,209 | 975 | 554 | 54 | 142 | 43 | 2,716 | 480 | 62 | 352 | 336 | 19 | 31,184 | 4.75% | 2
| Western People's Front | 400 | 688 | 3,282 | 1,423 | 3,637 | 997 | 308 | 15 | 77 | 10 | 703 | 266 | 11 | 237 | 155 | 10 | 12,219 | 1.86% | 1
| Democratic Unity Alliance | 61 | 586 | 2,882 | 263 | 667 | 332 | 337 | 62 | 103 | 62 | 273 | 92 | 55 | 278 | 151 | 15 | 6,219 | 0.95% | 1
| New Left Front[am] | 185 | 297 | 447 | 168 | 247 | 218 | 106 | 229 | 111 | 174 | 207 | 165 | 145 | 202 | 98 | 25 | 3,024 | 0.46% | 0
| Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 81 | 79 | 74 | 87 | 38 | 22 | 93 | 152 | 191 | 275 | 386 | 202 | 221 | 134 | 96 | 63 | 2,194 | 0.33% | 0
| National Development Front | 75 | 70 | 85 | 46 | 217 | 20 | 26 | 100 | 126 | 115 | 94 | 65 | 82 | 172 | 42 | 2 | 1,337 | 0.20% | 0
| United Lalith Front | 63 | 33 | 144 | 33 | 69 | 11 | 20 | 59 | 42 | 69 | 56 | 41 | 36 | 52 | 37 | 6 | 771 | 0.12% | 0
| United Sinhala Great Council | 16 | 11 | 27 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 17 | 19 | 24 | 33 | 17 | 18 | 21 | 16 | 17 | 10 | 276 | 0.04% | 0
| Independent Group 01 | 19 | 8 | 29 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 15 | 29 | 11 | 12 | 25 | 22 | 18 | 11 | 251 | 0.04% | 0
| Sri Lanka National Front | 7 | 4 | 28 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 113 | 0.02% | 0
Valid Votes | 48,967 | 27,288 | 75,985 | 26,258 | 42,397 | 12,837 | 22,693 | 57,015 | 61,984 | 60,197 | 51,050 | 30,539 | 48,712 | 57,306 | 26,943 | 6,829 | 657,000 | 100.00% | 43
Rejected Votes | 3,022 | 1,753 | 4,952 | 1,809 | 2,696 | 694 | 1,508 | 3,789 | 3,936 | 4,749 | 3,694 | 2,191 | 3,979 | 3,590 | 1,989 | 653 | 45,004 |  |
Total Polled | 51,989 | 29,041 | 80,937 | 28,067 | 45,093 | 13,531 | 24,201 | 60,804 | 65,920 | 64,946 | 54,744 | 32,730 | 52,691 | 60,896 | 28,932 | 7,482 | 702,004 |  |
Registered Electors | 98,012 | 62,722 | 153,763 | 67,885 | 86,388 | 40,209 | 60,159 | 135,242 | 143,644 | 137,285 | 106,335 | 74,159 | 118,318 | 116,454 | 67,176 |  | 1,467,751 |  |
Turnout | 53.04% | 46.30% | 52.64% | 41.34% | 52.20% | 33.65% | 40.23% | 44.96% | 45.89% | 47.31% | 51.48% | 44.13% | 44.53% | 52.29% | 43.07% |  | 47.83% |  |
Preferential votes  Party  | Candidate[41] | votes

|
|

| UNP | Duminda Silva | 56,569
| UPFA | Anura Hemapala  | 36,029
| UPFA | Gamini Thilakasiri  | 34,992
| UNP | Jayantha de Silva  | 34,776
| UPFA | Kanchana Peiris  | 34,658
| UPFA | Hector Bethmage  | 31,924
| UPFA | Sunil Watagala | 31,836
| UNP | Luxman Abeygunarathna  | 30,945
| UPFA | Priyanga Kothalawala  | 30,876
| UNP | Mohan Lal Grero | 30,436
| UPFA | G. H. Buddhadasa  | 29,682
| UPFA | Sarath Pathirana  | 29,375
| UPFA | Sunil Jayamini  | 29,082
| UNP | Ajantha Niroshan Padukka  | 28,104
| UPFA | Mahesh Almeida  | 26,886
| UNP | Nimal Rathnasiri Peiris  | 26,851
| UPFA | Navusar Fauzi  | 25,085
| UPFA | Wasantha Malini  | 24,727
| UPFA | Upali Kodikara  | 22,786
| UPFA | Chandrasiri Karunaratne  | 22,588
| UPFA | Thilakarathne Rajapaksha  | 22,026
| UNP | Prince Sagara Senaratne  | 21,547
| UPFA | Mohomed Nafli  | 21,012
| UPFA | Sumith De Zoysa  | 20,967
| UNP | Senaka Damayantha de Silva  | 20,927
| UPFA | Murugan Mohan  | 20,909
| UPFA | Ashoka Lankathilaka  | 20,293
| UNP | Krishantha Yogadas Pancharathnam  | 20,281
| UNP | Hameed Mohomed  | 20,146
| UPFA | Keerthi Udawatta  | 19,598
| UNP | Joseph Mendis  | 19,434
| UPFA | Isura Devapriya | 18,898
| UNP | Harischandra de Kostha  | 17,798
| UNP | Sujeewa Senasinghe | 17,405
| UNP | Kithsiri Fernando  | 16,796
| UNP | Janaka Mallimarachchi  | 16,349
| UNP | Sunil Magammana  | 16,265
| UNP | Mohamad Fairoz  | 15,588
| UNP | Welamma Sellasami  | 14,382
| SLMC | Mohamed Rajabdeen | 11,625
| SLMC | Hassan Mohideen  | 6,562
| WPF | Praba Ganesan | 6,459
| DUA | A. J. M. Muzammil | 1,904

### 2009 provincial council election

[edit]

Results of the 5th Western provincial council election held on 25 April 2009:[42]

Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats

|
|
|
|
|

Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| United People's Freedom Alliance[an] | 45,368 | 14,950 | 25,505 | 16,890 | 15,746 | 5,483 | 17,377 | 61,542 | 66,362 | 65,459 | 42,086 | 26,902 | 52,439 | 45,787 | 22,560 | 5,914 | 530,370 | 57.78% | 25
| United National Party | 17,984 | 16,994 | 45,414 | 18,922 | 27,866 | 12,244 | 14,612 | 28,355 | 24,219 | 22,933 | 22,932 | 14,819 | 18,350 | 25,873 | 14,201 | 1,853 | 327,571 | 35.69% | 15
| Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 1,405 | 587 | 507 | 1,061 | 387 | 152 | 551 | 2,792 | 3,084 | 3,331 | 1,341 | 1,080 | 2,331 | 1,713 | 1,114 | 351 | 21,787 | 2.37% | 1
| Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 130 | 894 | 9,023 | 506 | 3,332 | 796 | 770 | 17 | 160 | 34 | 2,352 | 306 | 45 | 138 | 462 | 13 | 18,978 | 2.07% | 1
| Democratic Unity Alliance | 64 | 158 | 2,350 | 356 | 4,267 | 159 | 160 | 49 | 83 | 50 | 468 | 88 | 72 | 70 | 185 | 5 | 8,584 | 0.94% | 1
| Left
Front[ao] | 53 | 153 | 564 | 646 | 675 | 816 | 363 | 41 | 42 | 74 | 73 | 51 | 61 | 205 | 170 | 10 | 3,997 | 0.44% | 0
| United National Alliance | 86 | 56 | 196 | 77 | 111 | 50 | 43 | 87 | 100 | 103 | 103 | 52 | 59 | 81 | 38 | 5 | 1,247 | 0.14% | 0
| Independent Group 05 | 12 | 39 | 265 | 159 | 359 | 50 | 21 | 21 | 7 | 12 | 69 | 31 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 1,085 | 0.12% | 0
| Independent Group 03 | 5 | 16 | 316 | 8 | 140 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 30 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 583 | 0.06% | 0
| New Sinhala Heritage | 58 | 22 | 40 | 17 | 130 | 9 | 7 | 42 | 48 | 24 | 7 | 21 | 62 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 526 | 0.06% | 0
| Ruhuna People's Party | 4 | 14 | 48 | 24 | 35 | 9 | 34 | 31 | 13 | 20 | 38 | 15 | 29 | 32 | 176 | 1 | 523 | 0.06% | 0
| Independent Group 06 | 9 | 30 | 120 | 43 | 93 | 43 | 22 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 85 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 483 | 0.05% | 0
| Independent Group 11 | 4 | 72 | 174 | 11 | 67 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 72 | 12 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 1 | 478 | 0.05% | 0
| United Socialist Party | 20 | 13 | 64 | 37 | 38 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 26 | 17 | 23 | 15 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 2 | 355 | 0.04% | 0
| Independent Group 01 | 9 | 30 | 32 | 33 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 45 | 37 | 22 | 54 | 6 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 318 | 0.03% | 0
| Socialist Equality Party | 16 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 181 | 0.02% | 0
| Independent Group 10 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 0.01% | 0
| United Lanka People's Party | 10 | 8 | 25 | 2 | 20 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 104 | 0.01% | 0
| United Lanka Great Council | 1 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 79 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 13 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 77 | 0.01% | 0
| Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 67 | 0.01% | 0
| Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 0 | 3 | 25 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 65 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 12 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 60 | 0.01% | 0
| National People's Party | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 02 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 08 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 43 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 04 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0.00% | 0
| Patriotic National Front | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 09 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 0.00% | 0
| Independent Group 07 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 0.00% | 0
Valid Votes | 65,288 | 34,073 | 84,753 | 38,841 | 53,346 | 19,871 | 34,045 | 93,148 | 94,291 | 92,175 | 69,793 | 43,461 | 73,611 | 74,047 | 39,004 | 8,168 | 917,915 | 100.00% | 43
Rejected Votes | 3,497 | 1,421 | 5,272 | 1,920 | 3,666 | 1,160 | 1,190 | 3,718 | 2,922 | 3,351 | 2,987 | 1,412 | 2,253 | 2,571 | 1,501 | 279 | 39,120 |  |
Total Polled | 68,785 | 35,494 | 90,025 | 40,761 | 57,012 | 21,031 | 35,235 | 96,866 | 97,213 | 95,526 | 72,780 | 44,873 | 75,864 | 76,618 | 40,505 | 8,447 | 957,035 |  |
Registered Electors | 107,093 | 63,884 | 151,308 | 72,446 | 103,050 | 41,441 | 63,115 | 154,055 | 159,596 | 149,191 | 114,105 | 75,555 | 122,895 | 115,042 | 67,817 |  | 1,560,593 |  |
Turnout | 64.23% | 55.56% | 59.50% | 56.26% | 55.32% | 50.75% | 55.83% | 62.88% | 60.91% | 64.03% | 63.78% | 59.39% | 61.73% | 66.60% | 59.73% |  | 61.33% |  |
Preferential votes  Party  | Candidate[43] | votes

|
|

| UPFA | Duminda Silva | 165,128
| UPFA | Thilanga Sumathipala | 159,603
| UPFA | Udaya Gammanpila | 116,144
| UNP | Rosy Senanayake | 80,884
| UPFA | Pradeep Undugoda | 62,736
| UNP | Mohan Lal Grero | 59,056
| UPFA | Roger Seneviratne | 52,390
| UPFA | Gamini Thilakasiri  | 49,471
| UNP | Sujeewa Senasinghe | 45,958
| UNP | Praba Ganesan | 45,899
| UNP | Sudath Manju Sri  | 37,878
| UPFA | Sunil Jayamini  | 39,769
| UPFA | Navusar Fauzi  | 39,417
| UPFA | Hector Bethmage  | 37,890
| UPFA | Salochana Gamage  | 35,693
| UPFA | Sarath Kumara Sumanasekara  | 34,373
| UNP | Hashan Tillakaratne | 32,799
| UNP | A. J. M. Muzammil | 31,202
| UNP | Nalliah Kumaraguruparan | 30,373
| UNP | Jayantha De Silva  | 29,560
| UPFA | Mahesh Jayathissa  | 29,259
| UPFA | Upali Kodikara  | 29,215
| UPFA | Isura Devapriya | 29,043
| UPFA | Janaka Deepal Waliwaththe  | 28,466
| UPFA | Ashoka Lankathilaka  | 26,973
| UPFA | Sumith De Zoysa  | 26,919
| UNP | Krishantha Yogadas Pancharathnam  | 26,460
| UNP | Mohomed Fairoz  | 26,353
| UNP | Mohomed Muin  | 24,272
| UNP | S. Rajendran  | 24,096
| UNP | Ajantha Niroshan Padukka  | 23,501
| UNP | Srinath Perera  | 21,880
| UPFA | Moris Wijerathna  | 21,091
| UPFA | Amal Puspakumara Silva  | 20,639
| UPFA | Ranjith Mahinda  | 20,345
| UPFA | Thilakarathne Rajapaksha  | 20,337
| UPFA | Keerthi Udawatta  | 19,907
| UPFA | Renuka Dushyantha Perera  | 19,384
| UPFA | Jagath Kumara | 19,309
| UPFA | Gamini De Silva  | 19,048
| SLMC | Arshad Mohamed  | 5,789
| DUA | Abdul Faiz  | 2,538
| JVP | Duminda Nagamuwa  | 2,388

### 2014 provincial council election

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Results of the 6th Western provincial council election held on 29 March 2014:[44]

Party | Votes per Polling Division | Postal
Votes | Total Votes | % | Seats

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Avissawella

Borella

Colombo Central

Colombo East

Colombo North

Colombo West

Dehiwala

Homagama

Kaduwela

Kesbewa

Kolonnawa

Kotte

Maharagama

Moratuwa

Ratmalana

| United People's Freedom Alliance[ap] | 42,635 | 11,750 | 17,472 | 12,806 | 10,873 | 4,783 | 12,361 | 53,983 | 58,259 | 55,372 | 35,813 | 20,217 | 42,883 | 38,305 | 17,396 | 8,175 | 443,083 | 45.33% | 18
| United National Party | 15,363 | 15,302 | 40,170 | 13,092 | 16,165 | 7,073 | 11,629 | 32,890 | 20,713 | 27,499 | 22,072 | 10,970 | 14,666 | 24,366 | 11,347 | 2,221 | 285,538 | 29.21% | 12
| Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 4,092 | 2,908 | 2,126 | 3,088 | 1,214 | 769 | 2,196 | 9,127 | 10,659 | 9,807 | 6,112 | 4,201 | 8,504 | 4,848 | 3,621 | 1,165 | 74,437 | 7.62% | 3
| Democratic Party | 4,297 | 1,787 | 2,166 | 2,496 | 1,488 | 1,098 | 3,301 | 6,194 | 10,182 | 7,427 | 5,637 | 5,024 | 9,115 | 5,956 | 3,887 | 1,470 | 71,525 | 7.32% | 3
| Democratic People's Front | 1,790 | 1,764 | 8,854 | 5,643 | 12,795 | 5,703 | 2,639 | 37 | 83 | 57 | 2,371 | 434 | 102 | 706 | 1,096 | 82 | 44,156 | 4.52% | 2
| Sri Lanka Muslim Congress | 199 | 999 | 8,629 | 538 | 4,174 | 801 | 710 | 26 | 138 | 36 | 2,403 | 629 | 53 | 307 | 505 | 16 | 20,163 | 2.06% | 1
| All Ceylon Makkal Congress | 185 | 888 | 4,480 | 404 | 6,111 | 574 | 700 | 62 | 98 | 90 | 1,037 | 180 | 88 | 159 | 418 | 17 | 15,491 | 1.58% | 1
| Independent Group 01 | 476 | 402 | 1,244 | 191 | 2,633 | 21 | 15 | 13 | 32 | 29 | 396 | 149 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 5,655 | 0.58% | 0
| Ceylon Workers' Congress | 473 | 171 | 883 | 289 | 1,295 | 342 | 91 | 21 | 31 | 16 | 124 | 52 | 16 | 20 | 52 | 9 | 3,885 | 0.40% | 0
| Independent Group 03 | 28 | 129 | 219 | 703 | 77 | 21 | 74 | 56 | 107 | 112 | 186 | 115 | 93 | 29 | 88 | 16 | 2,053 | 0.21% | 0
| Independent Group 02 | 37 | 9 | 16 | 60 | 11 | 3 | 254 | 223 | 172 | 304 | 38 | 82 | 143 | 256 | 148 | 8 | 1,764 | 0.18% | 0
| United Lanka People's Party | 60 | 38 | 116 | 63 | 93 | 19 | 24 | 123 | 94 | 126 | 74 | 25 | 281 | 118 | 19 | 10 | 1,283 | 0.13% | 0
| Independent Group 10 | 13 | 145 | 367 | 243 | 159 | 27 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 92 | 75 | 13 | 13 | 31 | 1 | 1,211 | 0.12% | 0
| Nava Sama Samaja Party | 29 | 73 | 170 | 106 | 104 | 95 | 54 | 38 | 47 | 59 | 70 | 29 | 58 | 40 | 82 | 7 | 1,061 | 0.11% | 0
| Independent Group 06 | 95 | 27 | 68 | 35 | 47 | 22 | 52 | 81 | 110 | 86 | 88 | 62 | 100 | 93 | 73 | 15 | 1,054 | 0.11% | 0
| New Democratic Front | 41 | 32 | 61 | 55 | 70 | 30 | 43 | 74 | 111 | 105 | 70 | 75 | 97 | 56 | 45 | 81 | 1,046 | 0.11% | 0
| Jana Setha Peramuna | 17 | 24 | 33 | 36 | 15 | 14 | 21 | 98 | 226 | 73 | 184 | 38 | 102 | 49 | 23 | 14 | 967 | 0.10% | 0
| Patriotic National Front | 59 | 44 | 80 | 30 | 169 | 4 | 18 | 40 | 72 | 49 | 55 | 38 | 58 | 42 | 31 | 8 | 797 | 0.08% | 0
| Independent Group 11 | 31 | 26 | 60 | 20 | 28 | 9 | 10 | 35 | 31 | 29 | 35 | 12 | 16 | 30 | 16 | 3 | 391 | 0.04% | 0
| Our National Front | 21 | 6 | 19 | 11 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 53 | 31 | 31 | 19 | 45 | 25 | 9 | 8 | 330 | 0.03% | 0
| United Peace Front | 11 | 13 | 64 | 8 | 39 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 20 | 35 | 20 | 18 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 292 | 0.03% | 0
| Independent Group 09 | 16 | 21 | 44 | 10 | 22 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 20 | 13 | 30 | 12 | 10 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 260 | 0.03% | 0
| United Lanka Great Council | 17 | 7 | 31 | 30 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 25 | 26 | 21 | 21 | 11 | 16 | 19 | 10 | 3 | 256 | 0.03% | 0
| Socialist Equality Party | 12 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 29 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 16 | 12 | 26 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 220 | 0.02% | 0
| Sri Lanka Labour Party | 30 | 8 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 120 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 04 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 108 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 07 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 108 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 08 | 4 |  | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 99 | 0.01% | 0
| Independent Group 05 | 9 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 4 |  | 1 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 73 | 0.01% | 0
Valid Votes | 70,052 | 36,592 | 87,444 | 39,991 | 57,664 | 21,455 | 34,253 | 103,263 | 101,353 | 101,445 | 77,015 | 42,504 | 76,547 | 75,534 | 38,962 | 13,352 | 977,426 | 100.00% | 40
Rejected Votes | 3,837 | 1,610 | 4,066 | 1,998 | 3,363 | 1,019 | 1,487 | 4,078 | 4,342 | 4,072 | 3,526 | 1,729 | 3,044 | 3,123 | 1,787 | 681 | 43,762 |  |
Total Polled | 73,889 | 38,202 | 91,510 | 41,989 | 61,027 | 22,474 | 35,740 | 107,341 | 105,695 | 105,517 | 80,541 | 44,233 | 79,591 | 78,657 | 40,749 | 14,033 | 1,021,188 |  |
Registered Electors | 115,098 | 57,373 | 130,186 | 66,572 | 87,542 | 39,625 | 60,543 | 169,679 | 168,043 | 160,493 | 118,098 | 73,539 | 127,060 | 113,257 | 65,626 |  | 1,552,734 |  |
Turnout | 64.20% | 66.59% | 70.29% | 63.07% | 69.71% | 56.72% | 59.03% | 63.26% | 62.90% | 65.75% | 68.20% | 60.15% | 62.64% | 69.45% | 62.09% |  | 65.77% |  |
Preferential votes  Party  | Candidate[45][46][47] | votes

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| UPFA | Hirunika Premachandra | 139,034
| UPFA | Udaya Gammanpila | 115,637
| UNP | S. M. Marikkar | 67,243
| UPFA | Upali Kodikara  | 47,822
| UNP | Sudath Manju Sri  | 45,654
| JVP | K. D. Lalkantha | 45,460
| UPFA | Roger Seneviratne | 44,011
| UPFA | Malsha Kumaranatunga  | 43,324
| UNP | Mujibur Rahman | 42,126
| UPFA | Rasika Buddhadasa  | 37,125
| UNP | Ajantha Niroshan Padukka  | 33,846
| UPFA | Salochana Gamage  | 33,495
| DP | Susil Kindelpitiya  | 32,918
| UNP | Loshan Karunarathne  | 32,911
| UNP | Mohomed Fairoz  | 32,642
| UPFA | Gamini Thilakasiri  | 31,532
| UPFA | Mahesh Jayatissa  | 30,191
| UPFA | Jagath Kumara | 29,499
| UPFA | Hector Bethmage  | 28,766
| DPF | Mano Ganesan | 28,558
| UNP | Srinath Perera  | 27,942
| UPFA | Janaka Deepal Weliwatta  | 27,578
| UPFA | Isura Devapriya | 26,164
| UPFA | Pradeep Undugoda | 26,031
| UPFA | Gayan Sriwarnasinghe  | 24,942
| UNP | Jayantha De Silva  | 24,450
| UPFA | Amal Pushpakumara Silva  | 24,431
| UPFA | Sunil Jayamini  | 23,832
| UNP | Senaka Damayantha de Silva  | 23,586
| UPFA | Thushara Perera  | 23,423
| UNP | Anuradha Wimalarathna  | 21,205
| UNP | Udara Rathnayake | 20,165
| UNP | Rodney Fraser  | 19,643
| DPF | S. Kuhawaradan  | 14,888
| DP | Nimal Rathnasiri Peiris  | 14,822
| DP | Nalin Pradeep Udawela | 13,653
| JVP | Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi | 9,528
| JVP | Sunil Watagala | 8,380
| SLMC | Mohamed Nizamdeen  | 5,694
| ACMC | Mohemed Faiz  | 4,208

## Notes

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1. ^ Including the Ceylon Workers' Congress.
2. ^ Including the CPSL, LSSP, NSSP, SLMP.
3. ^ Lalith Athulathmudali (DUNF) was killed on 23 April 1993.[14]
4. ^ Including the SLFP et al..
5. ^ Including the Ceylon Workers' Congress.
6. ^ Including the JVP.
7. ^ C. V. Gunaratne (SLFP) was killed on 7 June 2000.[16]
8. ^ Ossie Abeygunasekera were killed on 24 October 1994. His replacements was P. P. Devaraj (CWC).
9. ^ Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi were killed on 24 October 1994. His replacements was R. Yogarajan (CWC).
10. ^ Including the DWC, NWC, UCPF, UNP.
11. ^ Including the SLFP et al..
12. ^ Including the SLMC.
13. ^ Including the NSSP et al..
14. ^ Including the UNP, SLMC, CWC, WPF.
15. ^ Including the SLFP et al.
16. ^ Including the ACTC, EPRLF(S), TELO, TULF.
17. ^ Including the NSSP et al.
18. ^ Including the UNP, SLMC, CWC, WPF.
19. ^ Including the SLFP, JVP et al.
20. ^ Including the NSSP et al.
21. ^ T. Maheswaran (UNF-UNP) was killed on 1 January 2008.[24] His replacement Mohamed Rajabdeen (UNF-SLMC) was sworn in on 8 January 2008.[25]
22. ^ Ven. Kataluwe Ratanasiya Thero resigned on 18 May 2004. His replacement was Ven. Akmeemana Dayarathana Thero (JHU).
23. ^ SLFP, CWC et al.
24. ^ UNP, SLMC, DPF, SLFP(P)
25. ^ JVP,DNF et al.
26. ^ Sarath Fonseka (DNA) vacated his seat on 7 October 2010 after being sentenced to 30 months imprisonment by a court martial after being found guilty of breaching arms procurement guideline.[28][29] His replacement Jayantha Ketagoda (DNA) was sworn in on 8 March 2011.[30]
27. ^ The alliance consisted of ACMC,DNM, JHU,MTNA,NFGG, SLMC, TPA (DPF, NUW and UCPF),ULF and UNP.
28. ^ The alliance consisted of CWC,CF,DNF,DPC, LBSL, MEP, NC, NFF,PHU, SA (CPSL, DLF, LSSP,NLPP and SLPP), SLFP, TMVP and UCF.
29. ^ The alliance consisted of CWC, CPSL, DLF, DVJP, EPDP, LSSP, MEP,MTK, NC, NFF,PHU, SLFP, SLMP, SLPP, TMVP,UPP & VDJS.
30. ^ The alliance consisted of JHU, SLMC, TPA (NUW, DPF, UCPF), ACMC,NLNP & JSP.
31. ^ Including JVP.
32. ^ Including the CPSL, LSSP, NSSP & SLMP
33. ^ Including the SLFP et al.
34. ^ Including the SLFP, SLMC et al.
35. ^ Including the CWC, DWC.
36. ^ Including the NSSP et al.
37. ^ Including SLFP, JVP et al.
38. ^ Including CWC, UNP.
39. ^ Including NSSP et al.
40. ^ Including SLFP et al.
41. ^ Including NSSP et al.
42. ^ Including SLFP et al.

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Members of the Sri Lankan Parliament from Colombo

* Colombo Electoral District

Multi–member (1989 – Present)|

* (1989 – 1994): Lalith Athulathmudali (Until 1993)
* Sirisena Cooray
* Stanley Tillekeratne
* Dinesh Gunawardena
* Jinadasa Niyathapala
* C. V. Gunaratne
* Bandula Gunawardane
* Dickson Sarathchandra Dela
* Gamini Lokuge
* M. H. Mohamed
* Tyronne Fernando
* Premaratne Gunasekera
* Vincent Perera
* Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi
* Kingsley Wickramaratne
* Nimal Siripala de Silva
* Sunethra Ranasinghe
* M. S. Sellasamy
* Mohamed Jabir Abdul Cader
* Nimal Ransiri Peiris

* (1994 – 2000): Ranil Wickremesinghe
* Srimani Athulathmudali
* C. V. Gunaratne (Until 2000)
* Nimal Siripala de Silva
* Ossie Abeygunasekera (Until 1994)
* Replaced by P. P. Devaraj
* Jeewan Kumaranatunga
* Kingsley Wickramaratne
* A. H. M. Fowzie
* Nawalage Bennet Cooray
* Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra
* Susil Moonesinghe
* Indika Gunawardena
* Amal Senalankadikara
* Bernard Soysa
* Gamini Lokuge
* Karunasena Kodituwakku
* M. H. Mohamed
* Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi (Until 1994)
* Replaced by R. Yogarajan
* Tyronne Fernando
* Gunasekara Premaratne

* (2000 – 2001): Ranil Wickremesinghe
* Ravi Karunanayake
* G. L. Peiris
* Dinesh Gunawardena
* A. H. M. Fowzie
* Jeewan Kumaranatunga
* Bandula Gunawardane
* Indika Gunawardena
* Mohamed Mahroof
* Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra
* Chandana Kathriarachchi
* Karunasena Kodituwakku
* Gamini Lokuge
* M. H. Mohamed
* Lilantha Perera
* Tyronne Fernando
* Jayantha Ketagoda
* Samson Silva
* Wimal Weerawansa
* Nimal Fernando

* (2001 – 2004): Ranil Wickremesinghe
* Milinda Moragoda
* Ravi Karunanayake
* A. H. M. Fowzie
* Arjuna Ranatunga
* Susil Premajayantha
* Dinesh Gunawardena
* Mohamed Mahroof
* Karunasena Kodituwakku
* Jeewan Kumaranatunga
* Gamini Lokuge
* Bandula Gunawardane
* M. H. Mohamed
* Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra
* Chandana Kathriarachchi
* Mano Ganesan
* Jayantha Ketagoda
* Tyronne Fernando
* Lilantha Perera
* Wimal Weerawansa
* Sunil Handunnetti

* (2004 – 2010): Ranil Wickremesinghe
* Wimal Weerawansa
* Sunil Handunnetti
* Lakshman Nipuna Arachchi
* Susil Premajayantha
* Milinda Moragoda
* Dinesh Gunawardena
* Arjuna Ranatunga
* Ravi Karunanayake
* M. H. Mohamed
* T. Maheswaran (Until 2008)
* Replaced by Mohamed Rajabdeen
* Bandula Gunawardane
* Mohamed Mahroof
* Gamini Lokuge
* Jeewan Kumaranatunga
* Mano Ganesan
* A. H. M. Fowzie
* Uduwe Dhammaloka
* Kotapola Amarakitti
* Kathaluwe Rathanaseeha (Until 2004)
* Replaced by Akmeemana Dayarathana

* (2010 – 2015): Wimal Weerawansa
* Ranil Wickremesinghe
* Duminda Silva
* Champika Ranawaka
* Dinesh Gunawardena
* Sarath Fonseka (Until 2010)
* Replaced by Jayantha Ketagoda (From 2011)
* Sunil Handunnetti
* Ravi Karunanayake
* Mohan Lal Grero
* Rosy Senanayake
* Bandula Gunawardane
* Thilanga Sumathipala
* Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe
* Susil Premajayantha
* Sujeewa Senasinghe
* A. H. M. Fowzie
* Jeewan Kumaranatunga
* Gamini Lokuge
* Praba Ganesan

* (2015 – Present): Ranil Wickremesinghe
* Wimal Weerawansa
* Udaya Gammanpila
* Susil Premajayantha
* Dinesh Gunawardena
* Sujeewa Senasinghe
* Harsha de Silva
* Ravi Karunanayake
* Champika Ranawaka
* Bandula Gunawardane
* S. M. Marikkar
* Mujibur Rahman
* Eran Wickramaratne
* Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe
* Hirunika Premachandra
* Mano Ganesan
* Anura Kumara Dissanayake
* Mohan Lal Grero
* Gamini Lokuge

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Electoral Districts of Sri Lanka

Central Province|

* Kandy (Mahanuwara)
* Matale
* Nuwara Eliya

Eastern Province|

* Ampara (Digamadulla)
* Batticaloa
* Trincomalee

Northern Province|

* Jaffna
* Vanni

North Central Province|

* Anuradhapura
* Polonnaruwa

North Western Province|

* Kurunegala
* Puttalam

Sabaragamuwa|

* Kegalle
* Ratnapura

Southern Province|

* Galle
* Hambantota
* Matara

Uva|

* Badulla
* Monaragala

Western Province|

* Colombo
* Gampaha
* Kalutara

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