Kalutara Electoral District

Kalutara
Electoral District for the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Administrative District	Kalutara
Province	Western
Polling divisions	8
Population	1,118,000[1] (2008)
Electorate	813,233[2] (2010)
Area	1,598 km^2 (617 sq mi)[3]
Current Electoral District
Number of members	10
MPs	Rohitha Abeygunawardena, UPFA Reginald Cooray, UPFA Nirmala Kotalawala, UPFA Ajith Perera, UNF Arjuna Ranatunga, DNA Mahinda Samarasinghe, UPFA Rajitha Senaratne, UPFA Palitha Thewarapperuma, UNF Kumara Welgama, UPFA Vidura Wickremenayake, UPFA

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

1982 Presidential Election

Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982 for the district:

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

1988 Provincial Council Election

Results of the 1st Western provincial council election held on 2 June 1988 for the district:

Party	Votes	%	Seats
United National Party			11
United Socialist Alliance (CPSL, LSSP, NSSP, SLMP)			10
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress			2
Others			0
Valid Votes			23
Rejected Votes
Total Polled
Registered Electors
Turnout
Source:

1988 Presidential Election

Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988 for the district:

Candidate	Party	Votes per Polling Division								Postal Votes	Total Votes	%
		Agala- watta	Bandara -gama	Beru- wala	Bulath- sinhala	Horana	Kalu- tara	Matu- gama	Pana- dura
Sirimavo Bandaranaike	SLFP	15,255	26,897	21,920	18,491	24,116	22,425	19,908	28,366	2,383	179,761	49.57%
Ranasinghe Premadasa	UNP	15,155	26,066	20,529	18,705	23,868	22,551	17,917	22,701	2,018	169,510	46.74%
Oswin Abeygunasekara	SLMP	905	2,261	952	743	1,339	2,559	836	3,548	232	13,375	3.69%
Valid Votes		31,315	55,224	43,401	37,939	49,323	47,535	38,661	54,615	4,633	362,646	100.00%
Rejected Votes		521	871	700	880	632	1,161	716	799	257	6,537
Total Polled		31,836	56,095	44,101	38,819	49,955	48,696	39,377	55,414	4,890	369,183
Registered Electors		70,991	73,585	73,408	58,030	69,405	75,912	70,457	78,330		570,118
Turnout		44.85%	76.23%	60.08%	66.89%	71.98%	64.15%	55.89%	70.74%		64.76%
Source:[5]

1989 Parliamentary General Election

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

Party	Votes per Polling Division								Postal Votes	Total Votes	%	Seats
	Agala- watta	Bandara -gama	Beru- wala	Bulath- sinhala	Horana	Kalu- tara	Matu- gama	Pana- dura
United National Party	16,311	24,894	19,298	16,360	25,770	17,840	13,643	20,473	5,480	160,069	49.84%	6
Sri Lanka Freedom Party	11,397	23,202	12,976	12,024	17,658	14,374	12,156	23,778	3,945	131,510	40.94%	5
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress	158	1,968	5,250	321	129	2,248	436	2,428	33	12,971	4.04%	0
United Socialist Alliance (CPSL, LSSP, NSSP, SLMP)	679	1,764	642	207	1,778	3,311	414	3,025	522	12,342	3.84%	0
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna	101	369	112	253	839	122	108	641	145	2,690	0.84%	0
United Lanka People's Party	175	167	224	156	103	247	312	165	62	1,611	0.50%	0
Valid Votes	28,821	52,364	38,502	29,321	46,277	38,142	27,069	50,510	10,187	321,193	100.00%	11
Rejected Votes	2,545	2,550	2,214	2,463	2,883	2,407	2,621	2,162	294	20,139
Total Polled	31,366	54,914	40,716	31,784	49,160	40,549	29,690	52,672	10,481	341,332
Registered Electors	69,937	72,270	72,355	57,111	67,915	73,971	68,955	76,836	10,843	570,193
Turnout	44.85%	75.98%	56.27%	55.65%	72.38%	54.82%	43.06%	68.55%	96.66%	59.86%
Source:[6]

The following candidates were elected:^[6] Thilak Karunaratne (SLFP), 54,339 preference votes (pv); Indradasa Hettiarachchi (UNP), 54,099 pv; Sumitha Priyanganie Abeyweera (SLFP), 51,494 pv; Neville Fernando (SLFP), 40,977 pv; Anil Moonesinghe (SLFP), 40,320 pv; Punsiri Senaraja Perera Samaranayake (UNP), 36,150 pv; Abdul Bakeer Makar Imtiyas (UNP), 35,433 pv; Pathirage Don Abeyratne (UNP), 30,292 pv; Mangala Moonesinghe (SLFP), 28,522 pv; Manna Marakkalage Mervin Joseph Cooray (UNP), 27,991 pv; and Jayasiri Sarath Kumara Ranawaka (UNP), 20,983 pv.

1993 Provincial Council Election

Results of the 2nd Western provincial council election held on 17 May 1993 for the district:

Party	Votes	%	Seats
United National Party			10
People's Alliance (SLFP et al.)			9
Democratic United National Front			3
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress			1
Others			0
Valid Votes			23
Rejected Votes
Total Polled
Registered Electors
Turnout
Source:

1994 Parliamentary General Election

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

Party	Votes per Polling Division								Postal Votes	Total Votes	%	Seats
	Agala- watta	Bandara -gama	Beru- wala	Bulath- sinhala	Horana	Kalu- tara	Matu- gama	Pana- dura
People's Alliance (SLFP et al.)	31,009	37,374	33,686	24,364	32,374	34,349	30,514	39,309	8,775	271,754	53.77%	6
United National Party	27,007	28,531	29,063	23,755	27,562	27,482	26,520	25,692	5,503	221,115	43.75%	4
Sri Lanka Progressive Front (JVP)	693	774	809	226	515	1,107	969	970	175	6,238	1.23%	0
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna	402	707	776	305	771	727	670	1,163	393	5,914	1.17%	0
People's Freedom Front	54	31	42	35	50	27	54	41	5	339	0.07%	0
Valid Votes	59,165	67,417	64,376	48,685	61,272	63,692	58,727	67,175	14,851	505,360	100.00%	10
Rejected Votes	3,818	3,059	2,805	3,121	2,656	3,029	4,034	2,642	233	25,397
Total Polled	62,983	70,476	67,181	51,806	63,928	66,721	62,761	69,817	15,084	530,757
Registered Electors	78,540	86,676	83,849	63,131	77,877	86,437	80,135	89,554		646,199
Turnout	80.19%	81.31%	80.12%	82.06%	82.09%	77.19%	78.32%	77.96%		82.14%
Source:[7]

The following candidates were elected:^[7] Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (PA), 88,213 preference votes (pv); Abeyweera Sumithra Priyanganie (PA), 85,661 pv; Reginald Cooray (PA), 85,297 pv; Kumara Welgama (PA), 79,056 pv; Ediriweera Premarathna (PA), 70,041 pv; Abdul Bakeer Markar Imthiyas (UNP), 68,519 pv; Thilak Karunarathna (UNP), 63,206 pv; Jayasiri Sarath Kumara Ranawaka (UNP), 60,506 pv; Mahinda Samarasinghe (UNP), 59,150 pv; and Anil Moonesinghe (PA), 56,071 pv.

1994 Presidential Election

Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994 for the district:

Candidate	Party	Votes per Polling Division								Postal Votes	Total Votes	%
		Agala- watta	Bandara -gama	Beru- wala	Bulath- sinhala	Horana	Kalu- tara	Matu- gama	Pana- dura
Chandrika Kumaratunga	PA	32,467	40,503	36,364	27,072	36,064	37,490	33,726	42,951	9,049	295,686	61.47%
Srimathi Dissanayake	UNP	21,903	23,655	23,487	20,094	21,886	22,209	20,667	20,032	4,533	178,466	37.10%
Hudson Samarasinghe	Ind 2	322	315	246	281	351	237	286	166	9	2,213	0.46%
Harischandra Wijayatunga	SMBP	190	263	115	172	262	226	202	340	98	1,868	0.39%
A.J. Ranashinge	Ind 1	163	187	135	131	212	170	168	198	34	1,398	0.29%
G.A. Nihal	SLPF	201	177	153	145	147	161	201	161	42	1,388	0.29%
Valid Votes		55,246	65,100	60,500	47,895	58,922	60,493	55,250	63,848	13,765	481,019	100.00%
Rejected Votes		893	929	660	772	932	929	1,045	922	227	7,309
Total Polled		56,139	66,029	61,160	48,667	59,854	61,422	56,295	64,770	13,992	488,328
Registered Electors		78,540	86,676	83,849	63,131	77,877	86,437	80,135	89,554		646,199
Turnout		71.48%	76.18%	72.94%	77.09%	76.86%	71.06%	70.25%	72.33%		75.57%
Source:[8]

1999 Provincial Council Election

Results of the 3rd Western provincial council election held on 6 April 1999 for the district:

Party	Votes	%	Seats
United National Party	199,054	44.16%	10
People's Alliance (SLFP et al.)	198,702	44.08%	10
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	28,347	6.29%	2
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress	7,230	1.60%	1
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna	7,149	1.59%	0
New Left Front (NSSP et al.)	5,427	1.20%	0
National Union of Workers (CWC, DWC)	4,051	0.90%	0
Muslim United Liberation Front	567	0.13%	0
Sri Lanka Progressive Front	209	0.05%	0
Valid Votes	450,736	100.00%	23
Rejected Votes	28,441
Total Polled	479,177
Registered Electors	676,962
Turnout	70.78%
Sources:[9][10]

1999 Presidential Election

Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999 for the district:

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

2000 Parliamentary General Election

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

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

The following candidates were elected:^[13] Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (PA), 148,705 preference votes (pv); Mahinda Samarasinghe (UNP), 82,511 pv; Imtiaz Bakeer Markar (UNP), 74,555 pv; Rajitha Senaratne (UNP), 73,382 pv; Reginald Cooray (PA), 67,945 pv; Tudor Dayaratne (PA), 63,636 pv; Kumara Welgama (PA), 60,394 pv; Ediriweera Premaratne (PA), 53,690 pv; Aberatne Pathirage Don (UNP), 47,271 pv; and Nandana Gunathilake (JVP), 5,628 pv.

2001 Parliamentary General Election

Results of the 12th parliamentary election held on 5 December 2001 for the district:

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

The following candidates were elected:^[16] Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (PA), 120,432 preference votes (pv); Mahinda Samarasinghe (UNF), 108,583 pv; Rajitha Senaratne (UNF), 102,919 pv; Imtiaz Bakeer Markar (UNF), 89,147 pv; Kumara Welgama (PA), 81,507 pv; Tudor Dayaratne (PA), 55,181 pv; Pathirage Don Abeyratne (UNF), 52,414 pv; Rohitha Abeygunawardena (PA), 46,571 pv; Ananda Lakshman Wijemanne (UNF), 45,766; and Nandana Gunathilake (JVP), 8,312 pv.

2004 Parliamentary General Election

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

Party	Votes per Polling Division								Postal Votes	Total Votes	%	Seats
	Agala- watta	Bandara -gama	Beru- wala	Bulath- sinhala	Horana	Kalu- tara	Matu- gama	Pana- dura
United People's Freedom Alliance (SLFP, JVP et al.)	33,939	41,850	33,583	25,374	38,421	37,958	36,294	35,687	8,102	291,208	51.72%	6
United National Front (UNP, SLMC, CWC, WPF)	26,456	27,240	30,210	22,767	26,764	26,255	24,912	24,020	4,097	212,721	37.78%	3
Jathika Hela Urumaya	2,538	8,989	6,751	2,621	7,166	8,324	4,542	14,274	1,410	56,615	10.06%	1
New Left Front (NSSP et al.)	39	87	37	34	84	118	35	113	13	560	0.10%	0
United Socialist Party	61	52	75	37	41	47	40	79	0	432	0.08%	0
United Muslim People's Party	56	47	94	40	46	44	58	35	0	420	0.07%	0
Independent 9	35	26	24	26	23	24	34	19	1	212	0.04%	0
United Lalith Front	23	18	21	17	26	19	24	11	2	161	0.03%	0
Independent 8	21	14	27	11	13	15	22	16	1	140	0.02%	0
Swarajya	16	18	4	13	28	6	6	8	1	100	0.02%	0
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya	9	10	12	5	12	7	9	12	3	79	0.01%	0
Independent 1	10	3	7	6	4	7	14	4	1	56	0.01%	0
Independent 7	7	6	2	4	7	4	4	5	4	43	0.01%	0
Independent 6	4	8	5	5	3	3	6	6	1	41	0.01%	0
Independent 2	2	5	7	6	6	3	5	1	0	35	0.01%	0
Democratic United National Front	5	9	2	6	0	2	6	2	2	34	0.01%	0
Ruhuna People's Party	6	8	3	1	4	3	3	4	0	32	0.01%	0
Sri Lanka National Front	5	5	7	3	2	1	6	2	0	31	0.01%	0
Independent 4	4	4	4	5	2	5	1	3	1	29	0.01%	0
Sri Lanka Progressive Front	3	1	2	5	5	4	3	4	0	27	0.00%	0
Independent 5	5	3	4	0	4	2	3	3	0	24	0.00%	0
Independent 3	2	2	2	1	5	3	3	1	0	19	0.00%	0
Valid Votes	63,246	78,405	70,883	50,987	72,666	72,854	66,030	74,309	13,639	563,019	100.00%	10
Rejected Votes	4,665	3,826	3,912	3,728	3,407	3,766	4,000	3,240	197	30,741
Total Polled	67,911	82,231	74,795	54,715	76,073	76,620	70,030	77,549	13,836	593,760
Registered Electors	88,142	104,093	96,897	69,720	96,686	99,940	90,919	99,741		746,138
Turnout	77.05%	79.00%	77.19%	78.48%	78.68%	76.67%	77.02%	77.75%		79.58%
Source:[17]

The following candidates were elected:^[18] Nandana Gunathilake (UPFA-JVP), 135,743 preference votes (pv); Rajitha Senaratne (UNF-UNP), 97,001 pv; S. A. Jayantha Samaraweera (UPFA-JVP), 95,461 pv; Mahinda Samarasinghe (UNF-UNP), 93,758 pv; Reginald Cooray (UPFA-SLFP), 78,693 pv; Piyasiri Wijenayake (UPFA-JVP), 75,982 pv; Kumara Welgama (UPFA-SLFP), 73,350 pv; Rohitha Abeygunawardena (UPFA-SLFP), 62,598 pv; Sarath Ranawaka (UNF-UNP), 48,380 pv; and Athuraliye Rathana (JHU), 10,772 pv.

Reginald Cooray (UPFA-SLFP) resigned on 28 May 2004 to contest the Western provincial council elections.^[19] His replacement Nirmala Kotalawala was sworn in on 20 July 2004.^[20]

Sarath Ranawaka (UNF-UNP) died on 25 July 2009.^[21] His replacement Ananda Lakshman Wijemanna (UNF-UNP) was sworn in on 6 August 2009.^[22]

2004 Provincial Council Election

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

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

The following candidates were elected:^[23] Reginald Cooray (UPFA), 94,316 preference votes (pv); M.A. Janak Chaminda Wijegunawardhana (UNP), 50,013 pv; Ajith Anura Thalangama Arachchige (UPFA), 34,826 pv; Andaravass Patabendige Vass Gunawardhana (UPFA), 34,165 pv; A. Ankanath Ranjith Somawansa (UPFA), 32,515 pv; Athula Priyantha Bellana (UPFA), 32,206 pv; Angage Jagath (UPFA), 30,661 pv; Nimal Chandraratna (UPFA), 29,441 pv; Palitha Kumara Thewarapperuma (UNP), 29,167 pv; Chandrasiri Karunaratna (UPFA), 28,862 pv; Ananda Karunadhara (UPFA), 28,624 pv; H. Jagath Pushpakumara Perera (UPFA), 28,499 pv; Adikaramge Chandrabhanu (UPFA), 26,620 pv; M.A. Janak Chaminda Wijegunawardhana (UPFA), 23,261 pv; Athakoralage Sirima Ramani Kariyawasam (UNP), 21,287 pv; Ameer Mohamed Yusuf (UNP), 19,105 pv; Anil Kumara Wijesingha (UNP), 17,306 pv; Abeygunawardhana Pahalage Piyal Jayantha (UNP), 17,058 pv; Amarasekara Prasanna Palihakkara (UNP), 15,442 pv; and Aslam Mohamed Salim Mohamed (SLMC), 9,477 pv.

2005 Presidential Election

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

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

2009 Provincial Council Election

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

Party	Votes per Polling Division								Postal Votes	Total Votes	%	Seats
	Agala- watta	Bandara -gama	Beru- wala	Bulath- sinhala	Horana	Kalu- tara	Matu- gama	Pana- dura
United People's Freedom Alliance (SLFP et al.)	37,558	55,404	38,980	33,317	51,919	42,102	39,114	44,923	7,898	351,215	69.58%	14
United National Party	13,682	17,148	14,253	11,069	14,897	16,637	15,807	18,968	1,965	124,426	24.65%	5
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	1,044	2,200	1,492	1,151	1,385	1,876	1,723	1,857	378	13,106	2.60%	1
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress	301	623	7,958	490	17	1,347	653	985	22	12,396	2.46%	0
Democratic Unity Alliance	34	65	468	48	26	635	163	519	4	1,962	0.39%	0
United Socialist Party	103	85	89	47	61	74	100	114	3	676	0.13%	0
National Development Front	54	46	41	53	38	30	47	39	1	349	0.07%	0
Independent 5	20	5	13	6	12	7	27	11	0	101	0.02%	0
Independent 4	4	22	11	8	6	6	22	7	1	87	0.02%	0
Independent 1	19	6	16	14	9	7	8	3	1	83	0.02%	0
Independent 6	12	6	10	14	10	5	14	12	0	83	0.02%	0
United Lanka Great Counci	15	7	7	10	2	8	18	5	2	74	0.01%	0
Sri Lanka Progressive Front	5	7	15	6	17	7	8	3	2	70	0.01%	0
Patriotic National Front	10	5	5	7	5	3	18	3	1	57	0.01%	0
Independent 2	7	7	1	3	7	4	7	12	3	51	0.01%	0
Independent 3	5	4	5	4	7	9	8	2	1	45	0.01%	0
Valid Votes	52,873	75,640	63,364	46,247	68,418	62,757	57,737	67,463	10,282	504,781	100.00%	20
Rejected Votes	2,790	2,840	2,864	2,506	2,484	2,766	2,903	2,296	254	21,703
Total Polled	55,663	78,480	66,228	48,753	70,902	65,523	60,640	69,759	10,536	526,484
Registered Electors	92,898	116,018	103,273	74,111	106,432	105,661	97,739	105,194		801,326
Turnout	59.92%	67.64%	64.13%	65.78%	66.62%	62.01%	62.04%	66.31%		65.70%
Source:[25]

The following candidates were elected:^[26] Reginald Cooray (UPFA), 72,951 preference votes (pv); Vidura Wickramanayake (UPFA), 63,385 pv; Wikum Gunasekara (UPFA), 55,338 pv; A. Ankanath Ranjith Somawansa (UPFA), 54,099 pv; Ellawala Liyanage Lalith Ellawala (UPFA), 48,453 pv; H.M. Piyal Nishantha de Silva (UPFA), 47,540 pv; Yasapala Koralage (UPFA), 46,146 pv; Nimal Chandraratna (UPFA), 41,982 pv; Angage Jagath Thilakasiri Perera (UPFA), 38,090 pv; Adikaramge Chandrabhanu (UPFA), 34,929 pv; Wadduwage Lalith Warnakumara (UPFA), 31,791 pv; Akanadura Sumithlal Mendis (UPFA), 31,702 pv; Keerthi Kariyawasam (UPFA), 30,475 pv; Chandrasiri Karunaratna (UPFA), 28,870 pv; Ajith Perera (UNP), 28,567 pv; Palitha Kumara Thewarapperuma (UNP), 28,450 pv; Ananda Lakshman Wijemanna (UNP), 27,797 pv; Kahatapitiyage Chandra Kithsiri (UNP), 20,147 pv; Abayratne Pathirage Don (UNP), 16,656 pv; and W.A. Nalinda Wajiramal Jayatissa (JVP), 1,393 pv.

2010 Presidential Election

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

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

2010 Parliamentary General Election

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

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

The following candidates were elected:^[28] Kumara Welgama (UPFA-SLFP), 124,766 preference votes (pv); Mahinda Samarasinghe (UPFA), 97,778 pv; Nirmala Kotalawala (UPFA), 82,044 pv; Rohitha Abeygunawardena (UPFA-SLFP), 77,205 pv; Rajitha Senaratne (UPFA), 66,710 pv; Reginald Cooray (UPFA-SLFP), 60,196 pv; Palitha Thewarapperuma (UNF), 51,153 pv; Vidura Wickremenayake (UPFA), 50,114 pv; Ajith Perera (UNF), 48,588 pv; and Arjuna Ranatunga (DNA), 27,796 pv.

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