Matale | |
Constituency Type: | Electoral District |
Parl Name: | Parliament of Sri Lanka |
District Label: | Administrative District |
District: | Matale |
Region Label: | Province |
Region: | Central |
Polling Divisions: | 4 |
Electorate: | 342,684 |
Population: | 483,000[1] |
Area: | 1993km2[2] |
Elects Howmany: | 5 |
Members Label: | MPs |
Members: | Rohini Kavirathna SJB Rohana Dissanayake, SLPFA Nalaka Kottegoda, SLFPA Premitha Bandara Tennakoon, SLFPA Janaka Bandara Tennakoon, SLFPA |
Matale 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 Matale in the Central province. The district currently elects five of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 342,684 registered electors in 2010.
Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Candidate! | align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | % | |||
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align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
Junius Jayewardene | UNP | 27,368 | 17,354 | 22,452 | 25,183 | 1,674 | 94,031 | 58.11% | |||||
Hector Kobbekaduwa | SLFP | 21,748 | 12,149 | 11,632 | 12,982 | 788 | 59,299 | 36.65% | |||||
Rohana Wijeweera | JVP | 2,501 | 1,158 | 1,400 | 2,033 | 77 | 7,169 | 4.43% | |||||
Colvin R. de Silva | LSSP | 309 | 155 | 153 | 239 | 10 | 866 | 0.54% | |||||
Kumar Ponnambalam | ACTC | 46 | 39 | 85 | 82 | 1 | 253 | 0.16% | |||||
Vasudeva Nanayakkara | NSSP | 40 | 34 | 49 | 61 | 12 | 196 | 0.12% | |||||
align=left colspan=2 | Valid Votes | 52,012 | 30,889 | 35,771 | 40,580 | 2,562 | 161,814 | 100.00% | |||||
align=left colspan=2 | Rejected Votes | 385 | 272 | 332 | 396 | 29 | 1,414 | ||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Total Polled | 52,397 | 31,161 | 36,103 | 40,976 | 2,591 | 163,228 | ||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Registered Electors | 60,536 | 35,129 | 43,705 | 47,906 | 187,276 | |||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Turnout | 86.56% | 88.70% | 82.61% | 85.53% | 87.16% | |||||||
align=left colspan=9 | Source:[3] |
Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Candidate! | align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | % | |||
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align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
Ranasinghe Premadasa | UNP | 4,276 | 9,055 | 12,544 | 10,599 | 533 | 37,007 | 57.85% | |||||
Sirimavo Bandaranaike | SLFP | 3,195 | 8,908 | 6,889 | 6,380 | 453 | 25,825 | 40.37% | |||||
Oswin Abeygunasekara | SLMP | 137 | 216 | 437 | 320 | 25 | 1,135 | 1.77% | |||||
align=left colspan=2 | Valid Votes | 7,608 | 18,179 | 19,870 | 17,299 | 1,011 | 63,967 | 100.00% | |||||
align=left colspan=2 | Rejected Votes | 102 | 198 | 463 | 297 | 50 | 1,110 | ||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Total Polled | 7,710 | 18,377 | 20,333 | 17,596 | 1,061 | 65,077 | ||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Registered Electors | 72,515 | 41,110 | 48,841 | 52,472 | 214,938 | |||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Turnout | 10.63% | 44.70% | 41.63% | 33.53% | 30.28% | |||||||
align=left colspan=9 | Source:[4] |
Results of the 9th parliamentary election held on 15 February 1989 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | %! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Seats | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
United National Party | 23,381 | 19,839 | 21,422 | 22,019 | 2,208 | 88,869 | 63.81% | 4 | |||||
Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 18,786 | 7,143 | 8,553 | 10,225 | 1,010 | 45,717 | 32.82% | 1 | |||||
United Lanka People's Party | 882 | 157 | 364 | 912 | 35 | 2,350 | 1.69% | 0 | |||||
United Socialist Alliance (CPSL, LSSP, NSSP, SLMP) | 445 | 350 | 773 | 710 | 66 | 2,344 | 1.68% | 0 | |||||
Valid Votes | 43,494 | 27,489 | 31,112 | 33,866 | 3,319 | 139,280 | 100.00% | 5 | |||||
Rejected Votes | 3,818 | 2,453 | 2,445 | 3,079 | 132 | 11,927 | |||||||
Total Polled | 47,312 | 29,942 | 33,557 | 36,945 | 3,451 | 151,207 | |||||||
Registered Electors | 71,722 | 40,656 | 47,520 | 51,452 | 3,588 | 214,938 | |||||||
Turnout | 65.97% | 73.65% | 70.62% | 71.80% | 96.18% | 70.35% | |||||||
align=left colspan=10 | Source:[5] |
The following candidates were elected:[5] Wijeratne Banda Jambugahapitiyagedera (UNP), 31,635 preference votes (pv); Alick Aluvihare (UNP), 31,004 pv; Basnayake Mudiyanselage Punchi Banda Kaviratne (UNP), 23,541 pv; V.G. Jinadasa (UNP), 22,941 pv; and Nandimithra Ekanayake (SLFP), 17,941 pv.
Results of the 2nd Central provincial council election held on 17 May 1993 for the district:
align=left width="180" | Party ! | align=center width="50" | Votes ! | align=center width="50" | % ! | align=center width="40" | Seats |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United National Party | 94,376 | 6 | |||||
People's Alliance (SLFP, SLMC et al.) | 46,322 | 3 | |||||
Democratic United National Front | 31,299 | 2 | |||||
Nava Sama Samaja Party | 1,334 | ||||||
Valid Votes | 11 | ||||||
Rejected Votes | |||||||
Total Polled | |||||||
Registered Electors | |||||||
Turnout | |||||||
align=left colspan=4 | Source: |
Results of the 10th parliamentary election held on 16 August 1994 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | %! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Seats | |||
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align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
People's Alliance (SLFP et al.) | 34,286 | 20,648 | 20,607 | 22,856 | 4,283 | 102,680 | 49.85% | 3 | |||||
United National Party | 30,468 | 17,970 | 22,446 | 26,283 | 2,954 | 100,121 | 48.61% | 2 | |||||
Independent | 597 | 437 | 294 | 390 | 10 | 1,728 | 0.84% | 0 | |||||
Sri Lanka Progressive Front (JVP) | 600 | 153 | 338 | 266 | 76 | 1,433 | 0.70% | 0 | |||||
Valid Votes | 65,951 | 39,208 | 43,685 | 49,795 | 7,323 | 205,962 | 100.00% | 5 | |||||
Rejected Votes | 3,881 | 2,618 | 2,630 | 3,393 | 124 | 12,646 | |||||||
Total Polled | 69,832 | 41,826 | 46,315 | 53,188 | 7,447 | 218,608 | |||||||
Registered Electors | 85,870 | 48,525 | 58,638 | 66,238 | 259,271 | ||||||||
Turnout | 81.32% | 86.19% | 78.98% | 80.30% | 84.32% | ||||||||
align=left colspan=10 | Source:[6] |
The following candidates were elected:[6] Alick Aluvihare (UNP), 61,526 preference votes (pv); Janaka Bandara Tennakoon (PA), 52,437 pv; Nandimithra Ekanayake (PA), 51,919 pv; Gopallawa Moithra Kuda Banda (PA), 40,555 pv; and * Vidana Gamage Jinadasa (UNP), 35,474 pv.
Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Candidate! | align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | % | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
Chandrika Kumaratunga | PA | 37,869 | 26,092 | 25,234 | 28,300 | 3,954 | 121,449 | 60.98% | |||||
Srimathi Dissanayake | UNP | 23,746 | 13,013 | 16,006 | 18,187 | 2,372 | 73,324 | 36.82% | |||||
Hudson Samarasinghe | Ind 2 | 602 | 507 | 379 | 618 | 5 | 2,111 | 1.06% | |||||
Harischandra Wijayatunga | SMBP | 273 | 137 | 288 | 250 | 44 | 992 | 0.50% | |||||
G.A. Nihal | SLPF | 229 | 143 | 137 | 154 | 17 | 680 | 0.34% | |||||
A.J. Ranashinge | Ind 1 | 187 | 119 | 126 | 169 | 7 | 608 | 0.31% | |||||
align=left colspan=2 | Valid Votes | 62,906 | 40,011 | 42,170 | 47,678 | 6,399 | 199,164 | 100.00% | |||||
align=left colspan=2 | Rejected Votes | 1,458 | 897 | 1,253 | 1,636 | 73 | 5,317 | ||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Total Polled | 64,364 | 40,908 | 43,423 | 49,314 | 6,472 | 204,481 | ||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Registered Electors | 85,870 | 48,525 | 58,638 | 66,238 | 259,271 | |||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Turnout | 74.96% | 84.30% | 74.05% | 74.45% | 78.87% | |||||||
align=left colspan=9 | Source:[7] |
Results of the 3rd Central provincial council election held on 6 April 1999 for the district:
align=left width="180" | Party ! | align=center width="50" | Votes ! | align=center width="50" | % ! | align=center width="40" | Seats |
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People's Alliance (SLFP, SLMC et al.) | 95,115 | 51.38% | |||||
United National Party | 70,705 | 38.20% | |||||
National Union of Workers (CWC, DWC) | 9,306 | 5.03% | |||||
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 8,010 | 4.33% | |||||
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna | 1,453 | 0.78% | |||||
Independent | 516 | 0.28% | |||||
Valid Votes | 185,105 | 100.00% | |||||
Rejected Votes | 16,257 | ||||||
Total Polled | 201,362 | ||||||
Registered Electors | 281,089 | ||||||
Turnout | 71.64% | ||||||
align=left colspan=4 | Sources:[8] [9] |
Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Candidate! | align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | % | |||
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align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
Chandrika Kumaratunga | PA | 35,811 | 24,073 | 21,709 | 26,959 | 2,680 | 111,232 | 51.42% | |||||
Ranil Wickremasinghe | UNP | 30,850 | 16,091 | 20,185 | 22,336 | 2,482 | 91,944 | 42.51% | |||||
M.D.N. Gunathilaka | JVP | 3,496 | 1,069 | 1,392 | 1,574 | 393 | 7,924 | 3.66% | |||||
W.V.M. Ranjith | Ind 2 | 323 | 200 | 168 | 255 | 5 | 951 | 0.44% | |||||
Harischandra Wijayatunga | SMBP | 233 | 112 | 239 | 264 | 54 | 902 | 0.42% | |||||
Rajiva Wijesinha | Liberal | 270 | 181 | 172 | 235 | 2 | 860 | 0.40% | |||||
T. Edirisuriya | Ind 1 | 214 | 171 | 122 | 232 | 8 | 747 | 0.35% | |||||
Abdul Rasool | SLMP | 169 | 64 | 170 | 142 | 5 | 550 | 0.25% | |||||
Kamal Karunadasa | PLSF | 132 | 74 | 56 | 78 | 3 | 343 | 0.16% | |||||
Vasudeva Nanayakkara | LDA | 91 | 35 | 94 | 75 | 13 | 308 | 0.14% | |||||
Hudson Samarasinghe | Ind 3 | 76 | 48 | 59 | 78 | 0 | 261 | 0.12% | |||||
A.W. Premawardhana | PFF | 57 | 30 | 33 | 27 | 2 | 149 | 0.07% | |||||
A. Dissanayaka | DUNF | 46 | 31 | 34 | 28 | 0 | 139 | 0.06% | |||||
align=left colspan=2 | Valid Votes | 71,768 | 42,179 | 44,433 | 52,283 | 5,647 | 216,310 | 100.00% | |||||
align=left colspan=2 | Rejected Votes | 1,876 | 1,112 | 1,322 | 1,627 | 234 | 6,171 | ||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Total Polled | 73,644 | 43,291 | 45,755 | 53,910 | 5,881 | 222,481 | ||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Registered Electors | 97,348 | 53,732 | 64,069 | 71,025 | 286,174 | |||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Turnout | 75.65% | 80.57% | 71.42% | 75.90% | 77.74% | |||||||
align=left colspan=9 | Source:[10] |
Results of the 11th parliamentary election held on 10 October 2000 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | %! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Seats | |||
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align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
People's Alliance (SLFP et al.) | 35,421 | 23,692 | 19,877 | 27,615 | 3,608 | 110,213 | 50.53% | 3 | |||||
United National Party | 30,455 | 14,941 | 22,089 | 21,331 | 3,020 | 91,836 | 42.11% | 2 | |||||
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 4,396 | 1,283 | 2,233 | 2,138 | 623 | 10,673 | 4.89% | 0 | |||||
New Left Front (NSSP et al.) | 778 | 460 | 440 | 660 | 12 | 2,350 | 1.08% | 0 | |||||
Sinhala Heritage | 279 | 65 | 618 | 391 | 105 | 1,458 | 0.67% | 0 | |||||
United Sinhala Great Council | 109 | 94 | 86 | 80 | 0 | 369 | 0.17% | 0 | |||||
Citizen's Front | 73 | 61 | 90 | 108 | 14 | 346 | 0.16% | 0 | |||||
Liberal Party | 38 | 31 | 51 | 57 | 2 | 179 | 0.08% | 0 | |||||
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 37 | 19 | 40 | 48 | 14 | 158 | 0.07% | 0 | |||||
Democratic United National Front | 56 | 31 | 18 | 37 | 2 | 144 | 0.07% | 0 | |||||
Sri Lanka Muslim Party | 33 | 8 | 22 | 31 | 2 | 96 | 0.04% | 0 | |||||
National Development Front | 43 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 86 | 0.04% | 0 | |||||
Independent | 16 | 13 | 13 | 33 | 0 | 75 | 0.03% | 0 | |||||
Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 15 | 8 | 23 | 19 | 0 | 65 | 0.03% | 0 | |||||
People's Freedom Front | 7 | 7 | 15 | 18 | 2 | 49 | 0.02% | 0 | |||||
Valid Votes | 71,756 | 40,728 | 45,626 | 52,582 | 7,405 | 218,097 | 100.00% | 5 | |||||
Rejected Votes | 5,385 | 2,843 | 3,334 | 4,002 | 155 | 15,719 | |||||||
Total Polled | 77,141 | 43,571 | 48,960 | 56,584 | 7,560 | 233,816 | |||||||
Registered Electors | 99,756 | 54,910 | 65,389 | 72,597 | 292,652 | ||||||||
Turnout | 77.33% | 79.35% | 74.87% | 77.94% | 79.90% | ||||||||
align=left colspan=10 | Source:[11] |
The following candidates were elected:[12] Ranjith Aluvihare (UNP), 62,911 preference votes (pv); Alick Aluvihare (UNP), 60,419 pv; Janaka Bandara Tennakoon (PA), 42,366; Gopallawa Moithra Kuda Banda (PA), 40,397 pv; and Nandimithra Ekanayake (PA), 39,585 pv;
Results of the 12th parliamentary election held on 5 December 2001 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | %! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Seats | |||
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align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
United National Front (UNP, SLMC, CWC, WPF) | 34,066 | 16,117 | 28,478 | 28,088 | 109,991 | 50.43% | 3 | ||||||
People's Alliance (SLFP et al.) | 29,281 | 20,938 | 15,044 | 20,506 | 88,999 | 40.81% | 2 | ||||||
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 6,958 | 2,133 | 2,816 | 3,179 | 16,063 | 7.37% | 0 | ||||||
New Left Front (NSSP et al.) | 649 | 402 | 306 | 453 | 1,824 | 0.84% | 0 | ||||||
United Lalith Front | 130 | 64 | 85 | 85 | 365 | 0.17% | 0 | ||||||
Independent | 76 | 40 | 31 | 75 | 223 | 0.10% | 0 | ||||||
Liberal Party | 55 | 37 | 23 | 37 | 152 | 0.07% | 0 | ||||||
United Sinhala Great Council | 36 | 10 | 31 | 60 | 139 | 0.06% | 0 | ||||||
Peoples Freedom Front | 24 | 25 | 15 | 39 | 103 | 0.05% | 0 | ||||||
Sri Lanka Muslim Party | 45 | 13 | 15 | 21 | 96 | 0.04% | 0 | ||||||
National Development Front | 27 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 67 | 0.03% | 0 | ||||||
Sri Lanka National Front | 12 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 40 | 0.02% | 0 | ||||||
Ruhuna People's Party | 10 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 28 | 0.01% | 0 | ||||||
Valid Votes | 71,369 | 39,801 | 46,873 | 52,578 | 218,090 | 100.00% | 5 | ||||||
Rejected Votes | 5,225 | 2,740 | 3,106 | 4,253 | 15,449 | ||||||||
Total Polled | 76,594 | 42,541 | 49,979 | 56,831 | 233,539 | ||||||||
Registered Electors | 102,302 | 56,244 | 67,034 | 74,026 | 299,606 | ||||||||
Turnout | 74.87% | 75.64% | 74.56% | 76.77% | 77.95% | ||||||||
align=left colspan=10 | Source:[13] |
The following candidates were elected:[14] Alick Aluvihare (UNF), 75,620 preference votes (pv); Ranjith Aluvihare (UNF), 72,553 pv; Janaka Bandara Tennakoon (PA), 49,959 pv; Mudiyanselage Sanjeeva Bandara Kaviratne (UNF), 37,226 pv; and Bandula S.B. Yalegama (PA), 35,450.
Results of the 13th parliamentary election held on 2 April 2004 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | %! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Seats | |||
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align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
United People's Freedom Alliance (SLFP, JVP et al.) | 40,616 | 21,307 | 18,496 | 22,747 | 5,093 | 108,259 | 49.19% | 3 | |||||
United National Front (UNP, SLMC, CWC, WPF) | 29,456 | 18,784 | 24,058 | 25,330 | 3,014 | 100,642 | 45.73% | 2 | |||||
Jathika Hela Urumaya | 1,982 | 579 | 3,135 | 2,611 | 512 | 8,819 | 4.01% | 0 | |||||
United Socialist Party | 264 | 220 | 263 | 383 | 5 | 1,135 | 0.52% | 0 | |||||
National Development Front | 64 | 34 | 89 | 81 | 3 | 271 | 0.12% | 0 | |||||
National People's Party | 77 | 29 | 67 | 90 | 4 | 267 | 0.12% | 0 | |||||
Independent 6 | 91 | 43 | 48 | 80 | 1 | 263 | 0.12% | 0 | |||||
New Left Front (NSSP et al.) | 33 | 10 | 31 | 32 | 3 | 109 | 0.05% | 0 | |||||
Independent 3 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 20 | 0 | 64 | 0.03% | 0 | |||||
Independent 5 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 48 | 0.02% | 0 | |||||
Independent 1 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 33 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Liberal Party | 5 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 27 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Sri Lanka Muslim Party | 11 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Sri Lanka National Front | 2 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 20 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 9 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Independent 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Ruhuna People's Party | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Independent 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Swarajya | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0.00% | 0 | |||||
Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0.00% | 0 | |||||
Valid Votes | 72,660 | 41,066 | 46,266 | 51,429 | 8,641 | 220,062 | 100.00% | 5 | |||||
Rejected Votes | 6,905 | 3,598 | 3,273 | 4,959 | 177 | 18,912 | |||||||
Total Polled | 79,565 | 44,664 | 49,539 | 56,388 | 8,818 | 238,974 | |||||||
Registered Electors | 107,353 | 58,799 | 69,860 | 76,544 | 312,556 | ||||||||
Turnout | 74.12% | 75.96% | 70.91% | 73.67% | 76.46% | ||||||||
align=left colspan=10 | Source:[15] |
The following candidates were elected:[16] Sujatha Alahakoon (UPFA-JVP), 57,234 preference votes (pv); Janaka Bandara Tennakoon (UPFA-SLFP), 54,711 pv; Ranjith Aluvihare (UNF-UNP), 47,152 pv; Alick Aluvihare (UNF-UNP), 39,649 pv; and Rohana Dissanayake (UPFA-SLFP), 37,091 pv.
Alick Aluvihare (UNF-UNP) died on 17 May 2009.[17] His replacement Nandimithra Ekanayake (UNF-UNP) was sworn in on 9 June 2009.[18]
Results of the 4th Central provincial council election held on 10 July 2004 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | %! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Seats | |||
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align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
United People's Freedom Alliance (SLFP, JVP et al.) | 32,668 | 20,551 | 15,496 | 19,981 | 3,814 | 92,510 | 56.12% | 6 | |||||
United National Party | 19,831 | 12,352 | 16,988 | 18,124 | 2,014 | 69,309 | 42.04% | 4 | |||||
United Socialist Party | 259 | 238 | 270 | 379 | 6 | 1,152 | 0.70% | 0 | |||||
Up-Country People's Front | 104 | 48 | 629 | 350 | 4 | 1,135 | 0.69% | 0 | |||||
National Development Front | 101 | 79 | 80 | 138 | 1 | 399 | 0.24% | 0 | |||||
Independent | 32 | 23 | 39 | 22 | 4 | 120 | 0.07% | 0 | |||||
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 23 | 18 | 33 | 33 | 10 | 117 | 0.07% | 0 | |||||
National People's Party | 15 | 14 | 21 | 10 | 2 | 62 | 0.04% | 0 | |||||
Sri Lanka Muslim Party | 15 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 53 | 0.03% | 0 | |||||
Valid Votes | 53,048 | 33,333 | 33,573 | 39,048 | 5,855 | 164,857 | 100.00% | 10 | |||||
Rejected Votes | 3,808 | 2,250 | 2,554 | 3,515 | 342 | 12,469 | |||||||
Total Polled | 56,856 | 35,583 | 36,127 | 42,563 | 6,197 | 177,326 | |||||||
Registered Electors | 107,353 | 58,799 | 69,860 | 76,544 | 312,556 | ||||||||
Turnout | 52.96% | 60.52% | 51.71% | 55.61% | 56.73% | ||||||||
align=left colspan=10 | Source:[19] |
The following candidates were elected:[19] Aluwihare Wasantha (UNP), 33,364 preference votes (pv); Nandimithra Ekanayake (UNP), 27,731 pv; Amarasinghe Herath Bandaranayake Wasala Mudiyanselage Champaka Sugishwara Wijerathna (UPFA), 25,688 pv; Bandula S.B. Yalegama (UPFA), 24,270 pv; Warnakulasooiya Mudiyanselage Yasamana (UPFA), 23,637 pv; Gamagedara Dissanayake (UPFA), 23,216 pv; Thenne Gedara Sarath Wijesinghe (UPFA), 21,029 pv; L.D. Nimalasiri (UPFA), 18,954 pv; Mudiyanselage Sanjeeva Bandara Kaviratne (UNP), 15,728 pv; and Ekanayaka Mudiyanselage Rohana Bandaranayake (UNP), 12,452 pv.
Results of the 5th presidential election held on 17 November 2005 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Candidate! | align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | % | |||
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align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
Ranil Wickremasinghe | UNP | 38,692 | 22,249 | 29,637 | 31,449 | 3,910 | 125,937 | 50.25% | |||||
Mahinda Rajapaksa | UPFA | 43,853 | 23,637 | 20,945 | 25,551 | 6,547 | 120,533 | 48.09% | |||||
A.A. Suraweera | NDF | 361 | 279 | 235 | 334 | 8 | 1,217 | 0.49% | |||||
Siritunga Jayasuriya | USP | 325 | 243 | 278 | 362 | 4 | 1,212 | 0.48% | |||||
Chamil Jayaneththi | NLF | 117 | 86 | 73 | 78 | 2 | 356 | 0.14% | |||||
Victor Hettigoda | ULPP | 102 | 37 | 88 | 96 | 19 | 342 | 0.14% | |||||
Wimal Geeganage | SLNF | 71 | 65 | 34 | 58 | 0 | 228 | 0.09% | |||||
Aruna de Soyza | RPP | 84 | 51 | 33 | 55 | 1 | 224 | 0.09% | |||||
Anura De Silva | ULF | 61 | 45 | 48 | 53 | 1 | 208 | 0.08% | |||||
A.K.J. Arachchige | DUA | 41 | 35 | 25 | 39 | 1 | 141 | 0.06% | |||||
Wije Dias | SEP | 31 | 28 | 17 | 19 | 0 | 95 | 0.04% | |||||
P. Nelson Perera | SLPF | 23 | 14 | 15 | 24 | 0 | 76 | 0.03% | |||||
H.S. Dharmadwaja | UNAF | 17 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 51 | 0.02% | |||||
align=left colspan=2 | Valid Votes | 83,778 | 46,781 | 51,439 | 58,129 | 10,493 | 250,620 | 100.00% | |||||
align=left colspan=2 | Rejected Votes | 1,073 | 679 | 932 | 955 | 146 | 3,785 | ||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Total Polled | 84,851 | 47,460 | 52,371 | 59,084 | 10,639 | 254,405 | ||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Registered Electors | 111,401 | 60,990 | 71,171 | 78,314 | 321,876 | |||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Turnout | 76.17% | 77.82% | 73.58% | 75.45% | 79.04% | |||||||
align=left colspan=9 | Source:[20] |
Results of the 5th Central provincial council election held on 14 February 2009 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | %! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Seats | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
United People's Freedom Alliance (SLFP et al.) | 49,785 | 27,169 | 25,759 | 30,826 | 6,756 | 140,295 | 69.48% | 7 | |||||
United National Party | 14,668 | 9,912 | 14,789 | 15,139 | 1,501 | 56,009 | 27.74% | 3 | |||||
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | 1,568 | 759 | 740 | 808 | 209 | 4,084 | 2.02% | 0 | |||||
National Development Front | 94 | 84 | 79 | 118 | 3 | 378 | 0.19% | 0 | |||||
United National Alliance | 91 | 63 | 75 | 114 | 3 | 346 | 0.17% | 0 | |||||
Independent 8 | 30 | 40 | 74 | 61 | 2 | 207 | 0.10% | 0 | |||||
Independent 4 | 14 | 1 | 10 | 87 | 0 | 112 | 0.06% | 0 | |||||
Independent 7 | 15 | 12 | 38 | 24 | 0 | 89 | 0.04% | 0 | |||||
Left Front (NSSP et al.) | 12 | 4 | 10 | 33 | 1 | 60 | 0.03% | 0 | |||||
Independent 6 | 13 | 9 | 21 | 11 | 1 | 55 | 0.03% | 0 | |||||
United Lanka Great Council | 18 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 50 | 0.02% | 0 | |||||
National People's Party | 23 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 48 | 0.02% | 0 | |||||
Independent 5 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 19 | 0 | 46 | 0.02% | 0 | |||||
Independent 1 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 28 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Independent 3 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 21 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Patriotic National Front | 10 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Sri Lanka Progressive Front | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Independent 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Ruhuna People's Party | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Valid Votes | 66,376 | 38,104 | 41,652 | 47,289 | 8,490 | 201,911 | 100.00% | 10 | |||||
Rejected Votes | 4,785 | 3,158 | 3,476 | 4,780 | 296 | 16,495 | |||||||
Total Polled | 71,161 | 41,262 | 45,128 | 52,069 | 8,786 | 218,406 | |||||||
Registered Electors | 117,788 | 64,147 | 74,839 | 82,172 | 338,946 | ||||||||
Turnout | 60.41% | 64.32% | 60.30% | 63.37% | 64.44% | ||||||||
align=left colspan=10 | Source:[21] |
The following candidates were elected:[22] Pramitha Tennakoon (UPFA), 49,665 preference votes (pv); Nandimithra Ekanayake (UPFA), 35,995 pv; Warnakulasooiya Mudiyanselage Yasamana (UPFA), 32,991 pv; Bandula S.B. Yalegama (UPFA), 30,878 pv; Aluwihare Wasantha (UNP), 28,855 pv; L.D. Nimalasiri (UPFA), 27,958 pv; D.M.P.K.B. Dissanayake (UPFA), 25,903 pv; Amarasinghe Herath Bandaranayake Wasala Mudiyanselage Champaka Sugishwara Wijerathna (UPFA), 25,754 pv; Mudiyanselage Sanjeeva Bandara Kaviratne (UNP), 15,845 pv; and Ekanayaka Mudiyanselage Rohana Bandaranayake (UNP), 13,341 pv.
Results of the 6th presidential election held on 26 January 2010 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Candidate! | align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | % | |||
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align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
Mahinda Rajapaksa | UPFA | 58,016 | 31,277 | 26,996 | 32,818 | 8,846 | 157,953 | 59.74% | |||||
Sarath Fonseka | NDF | 28,171 | 16,300 | 26,013 | 25,991 | 4,038 | 100,513 | 38.01% | |||||
M.C.M. Ismail | DUNF | 360 | 213 | 289 | 232 | 11 | 1,105 | 0.42% | |||||
A.A. Suraweera | NDF | 267 | 188 | 174 | 210 | 2 | 841 | 0.32% | |||||
W.V. Mahiman Ranjith | Ind 1 | 250 | 136 | 100 | 139 | 10 | 635 | 0.24% | |||||
C.J. Sugathsiri Gamage | UDF | 158 | 100 | 159 | 203 | 3 | 623 | 0.24% | |||||
A.S.P Liyanage | SLLP | 96 | 90 | 83 | 97 | 6 | 372 | 0.14% | |||||
Ukkubanda Wijekoon | Ind 3 | 107 | 70 | 75 | 87 | 1 | 340 | 0.13% | |||||
Siritunga Jayasuriya | USP | 85 | 59 | 57 | 97 | 2 | 300 | 0.11% | |||||
Sarath Manamendra | NSH | 75 | 72 | 61 | 88 | 3 | 299 | 0.11% | |||||
Lal Perera | ONF | 51 | 46 | 60 | 91 | 1 | 249 | 0.09% | |||||
M. K. Shivajilingam | Ind 5 | 41 | 44 | 48 | 57 | 2 | 192 | 0.07% | |||||
Aithurus M. Illias | Ind 2 | 62 | 32 | 39 | 40 | 1 | 174 | 0.07% | |||||
Vikramabahu Karunaratne | LF | 43 | 31 | 34 | 43 | 6 | 157 | 0.06% | |||||
Sanath Pinnaduwa | NA | 27 | 28 | 29 | 32 | 1 | 117 | 0.04% | |||||
Wije Dias | SEP | 29 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 1 | 103 | 0.04% | |||||
M. Mohamed Musthaffa | Ind 4 | 23 | 20 | 25 | 24 | 0 | 92 | 0.03% | |||||
Battaramulla Seelarathana | JP | 27 | 20 | 17 | 25 | 0 | 89 | 0.03% | |||||
Aruna de Soyza | RPP | 20 | 15 | 16 | 34 | 1 | 86 | 0.03% | |||||
Senaratna de Silva | PNF | 20 | 15 | 23 | 16 | 0 | 74 | 0.03% | |||||
M.B. Thaminimulla | ACAKO | 10 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 57 | 0.02% | |||||
Sarath Kongahage | UNAF | 11 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 1 | 48 | 0.02% | |||||
align=left colspan=2 | Valid Votes | 87,949 | 48,798 | 54,347 | 60,388 | 12,937 | 264,419 | 100.00% | |||||
align=left colspan=2 | Rejected Votes | 778 | 361 | 650 | 760 | 117 | 2,666 | ||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Total Polled | 88,727 | 49,159 | 54,997 | 61,148 | 13,054 | 267,085 | ||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Registered Electors | 119,453 | 64,696 | 75,154 | 83,381 | 342,684 | |||||||
align=left colspan=2 | Turnout | 74.28% | 75.98% | 73.18% | 73.34% | 77.94% | |||||||
align=left colspan=9 | Source:[23] |
Results of the 14th parliamentary election held on 8 April 2010 for the district:
align=left valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="180" | Party! | Votes per Polling Division | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Postal Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | Total Votes! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="50" | %! | align=center valign=bottom rowspan=2 width="40" | Seats | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Dam- bulla! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Lag- gala! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Matale! | align=center valign=bottom width="50" | Rat- tota | ||||||
United People's Freedom Alliance (SLFP et al.) | 42,847 | 27,777 | 23,734 | 26,818 | 9,893 | 131,069 | 66.96% | 4 | |||||
United National Front (UNP, SLMC, DPF, SLFP(P)) | 15,080 | 8,478 | 14,659 | 14,666 | 2,854 | 55,737 | 28.47% | 1 | |||||
Democratic National Alliance (JVP et al.) | 2,645 | 688 | 1,974 | 1,574 | 755 | 7,636 | 3.90% | 0 | |||||
Our National Front | 57 | 48 | 34 | 21 | 3 | 163 | 0.08% | 0 | |||||
National Development Front | 28 | 14 | 34 | 46 | 6 | 128 | 0.07% | 0 | |||||
Independent 1 | 18 | 30 | 26 | 17 | 5 | 96 | 0.05% | 0 | |||||
Independent 7 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 68 | 0 | 92 | 0.05% | 0 | |||||
Independent 11 | 22 | 33 | 8 | 27 | 0 | 90 | 0.05% | 0 | |||||
Independent 9 | 26 | 17 | 16 | 25 | 2 | 86 | 0.04% | 0 | |||||
United National Alternative Front | 14 | 13 | 18 | 29 | 2 | 76 | 0.04% | 0 | |||||
Independent 2 | 19 | 6 | 28 | 22 | 0 | 75 | 0.04% | 0 | |||||
Sri Lanka National Front | 4 | 19 | 34 | 11 | 7 | 75 | 0.04% | 0 | |||||
Independent 6 | 12 | 6 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 51 | 0.03% | 0 | |||||
Independent 5 | 22 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 45 | 0.02% | 0 | |||||
United Lanka Great Council | 6 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 39 | 0.02% | 0 | |||||
Independent 8 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 39 | 0.02% | 0 | |||||
Independent 10 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 38 | 0.02% | 0 | |||||
Janasetha Peramuna | 24 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 37 | 0.02% | 0 | |||||
United Democratic Front | 13 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 36 | 0.02% | 0 | |||||
Independent 4 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 32 | 0.02% | 0 | |||||
Patriotic National Front | 4 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Left Liberation Front | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Independent 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Sri Lanka Labour Party | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
All Are Citizens, All Are Kings Organisation | 4 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Ruhuna People's Party | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 0.01% | 0 | |||||
Valid Votes | 60,898 | 37,204 | 40,670 | 43,425 | 13,553 | 195,750 | 100.00% | 5 | |||||
Rejected Votes | 5,932 | 3,217 | 3,990 | 5,567 | 604 | 19,310 | |||||||
Total Polled | 66,830 | 40,421 | 44,660 | 48,992 | 14,157 | 215,060 | |||||||
Registered Electors | 119,453 | 64,696 | 75,154 | 83,381 | 342,684 | ||||||||
Turnout | 55.95% | 62.48% | 59.42% | 58.76% | 62.76% | ||||||||
align=left colspan=10 | Source:[24] |
The following candidates were elected:[25] Lakshman Perera (UPFA), 65,077 preference votes (pv); Janaka Bandara Tennakoon (UPFA-SLFP), 47,133 pv; Nandimithra Ekanayake (UPFA), 35,754 pv; Rohana Dissanayake (UPFA-SLFP), 32,803 pv; and Wasantha Aluvihare (UNF), 31,529 pv.