Kandy Electoral District

Kandy (Mahanuwara) 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 Kandy in the Central province. The district currently elects 12 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 970,456 registered electors in 2010.^[2]

Kandy (Mahanuwara)
Electoral District for the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Administrative District	Kandy
Province	Central
Polling divisions	13
Population	1,396,000^[1] (2008)
Electorate	970,456^[2] (2010)
Area	1,940 km^2 (750 sq mi)^[3]
Current Electoral District
Number of members	12
MPs	Mahindananda Aluthgamage, UPFA Dilum Amunugama, UPFA Sarath Amunugama, UPFA A.R.M. Abdul Cader, UNF S. B. Dissanayake, UPFA Rauff Hakeem, UNF M. H. A. Haleem, UNF Lakshman Kiriella, UNF Faiszer Musthapha, UPFA Keheliya Rambukwella, UPFA Lohan Ratwatte, UPFA Erik Weerawardena, UPFA

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	%
		Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
Junius Jayewardene	UNP	17,778	26,380	43,186	20,296	15,729	20,421	24,586	22,158	20,105	13,258	15,284	23,440	20,848	6,152	289,621	59.80%
Hector Kobbekaduwa	SLFP	11,874	15,340	23,301	12,286	6,498	12,898	13,512	11,783	13,219	12,747	12,242	12,100	17,596	3,251	178,647	36.89%
Rohana Wijeweera	JVP	1,092	528	3,374	419	408	1,138	961	669	621	821	456	852	964	190	12,493	2.58%
Colvin R. de Silva	LSSP	98	188	230	165	149	180	264	161	199	100	157	150	131	84	2,256	0.47%
Vasudeva Nanayakkara	NSSP	28	45	91	31	82	46	66	54	93	30	51	47	36	18	718	0.15%
Kumar Ponnambalam	ACTC	18	60	42	43	64	60	64	37	32	56	38	27	15	6	562	0.12%
Valid Votes		30,888	42,541	70,224	33,240	22,930	34,743	39,453	34,862	34,269	27,012	28,228	36,616	39,590	9,701	484,297	100.00%
Rejected Votes		214	394	605	414	203	355	411	382	277	267	358	246	325	97	4,548
Total Polled		31,102	42,935	70,829	33,654	23,133	35,098	39,864	35,244	34,546	27,279	28,586	36,862	39,915	9,798	488,845
Registered Electors		35,940	50,563	82,590	38,947	29,751	41,314	47,445	41,888	43,442	3,145	31,788	43,223	46,731		536,767
Turnout		86.54%	84.91%	85.76%	86.41%	77.76%	84.95%	84.02%	84.14%	79.52%	867.38%	89.93%	85.28%	85.41%		91.07%
Source:^[4]

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	%
		Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
Ranasinghe Premadasa	UNP	15,071	24,800	30,708	19,688	11,301	15,231	24,203	20,902	16,825	9,912	12,032	16,582	14,478	2,391	234,124	54.88%
Sirimavo Bandaranaike	SLFP	12,549	18,976	25,594	14,015	6,959	12,118	16,082	15,087	14,690	9,417	12,466	10,420	15,699	2,115	186,187	43.65%
Oswin Abeygunasekara	SLMP	330	418	719	298	617	433	559	557	834	247	324	315	515	100	6,266	1.47%
Valid Votes		27,950	44,194	57,021	34,001	18,877	27,782	40,844	36,546	32,349	19,576	24,822	27,317	30,692	4,606	426,577	100.00%
Rejected Votes		263	517	962	373	297	407	521	611	395	339	386	550	362	184	6,167
Total Polled		28,213	44,711	57,983	34,374	19,174	28,189	41,365	37,157	32,744	19,915	25,208	27,867	31,054	4,790	432,744
Registered Electors		39,671	55,425	94,109	42,868	28,958	48,841	54,010	48,741	48,208	27,659	37,345	50,223	52,182		628,240
Turnout		71.12%	80.67%	61.61%	80.19%	66.21%	57.72%	76.59%	76.23%	67.92%	72.00%	67.50%	55.49%	59.51%		68.88%
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
	Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
United National Party / Ceylon Workers' Congress	16,777	23,262	21,218	20,917	9,513	9,594	22,315	17,031	14,471	6,019	16,255	9,012	11,064	7,525	204,973	61.72%	8
Sri Lanka Freedom Party	7,686	13,450	10,538	10,307	3,911	4,206	10,425	6,979	8,853	4,146	9,373	3,352	8,661	4,090	105,977	31.91%	4
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress	495	1,555	2,476	800	1,263	685	1,065	1,740	1,018	249	84	2,682	500	85	14,697	4.43%	0
United Socialist Alliance (CPSL, LSSP, NSSP, SLMP)	288	288	157	192	556	295	921	476	774	113	263	106	334	384	5,147	1.55%	0
United Lanka People's Party	81	97	108	119	132	116	114	73	129	34	110	52	61	89	1,315	0.40%	0
Valid Votes	25,327	38,652	34,497	32,335	15,375	14,896	34,840	26,299	25,245	10,561	26,085	15,204	20,620	12,173	332,109	100.00%	12
Rejected Votes	1,298	2,642	2,519	2,025	768	1,225	2,784	1,897	1,357	758	2,585	1,048	1,062	406	22,374
Total Polled	26,625	41,294	37,016	34,360	16,143	16,121	37,624	28,196	26,602	11,319	28,670	16,252	21,682	12,579	354,483
Registered Electors	38,747	54,611	92,300	42,178	28,267	47,758	53,327	47,713	46,746	27,254	36,923	48,915	50,598	12,980	628,317
Turnout	68.71%	75.61%	40.10%	81.46%	57.11%	33.76%	70.55%	59.10%	56.91%	41.53%	77.65%	33.22%	42.85%	96.91%	56.42%
Source:^[6]

The following candidates were elected:^[6]Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (UNP), 58,617 preference votes (pv); D. M. Jayaratne (SLFP), 54,290 pv; Mahahitana Arachchige Daniel (UNP), 53,396 pv; Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed (UNP), 36,375 pv; A.R.M. Abdul Cader (UNP), 33,757 pv; Hettihewage Chandraman de Silva (UNP), 29,726 pv; Tikiribanda Harindranatha Dunuwila (UNP), 28,377 pv; Tissa Attanayake (UNP), 27,788 pv; Rankeththege Premachandra Wijesiri (UNP), 27,555 pv; Abeykoon Mudiyanselage Mahinda Abeykoon (SLFP), 26,881 pv; Yasaratne Tennakoon (SLFP), 22,736 pv; and Lakshman Kiriella (SLFP), 20,898 pv.

Mahahitana Arachchige Daniel (UNP) was murdered on 25 June 1989.^[7]

1993 provincial council election

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

Party	Votes	%	Seats
United National Party	252,926		14
People's Alliance (SLFP, SLMC et al.)	155,298		9
Democratic United National Front	90,366		5
Nava Sama Samaja Party	3,382
Valid Votes			28
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
	Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
United National Party / Ceylon Workers' Congress	18,240	27,942	42,356	22,141	13,342	22,434	26,836	25,471	21,005	13,408	18,116	21,586	21,602	7,345	301,824	52.35%	7
People's Alliance (SLFP et al.)	14,762	22,962	41,035	15,365	10,591	20,461	21,402	17,816	20,318	12,457	16,590	21,635	23,096	9,193	267,683	46.43%	5
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna	205	156	425	107	355	402	129	240	474	68	75	384	288	187	3,495	0.61%	0
Sri Lanka Progressive Front (JVP)	144	174	546	92	140	318	211	186	286	99	93	311	350	122	3,072	0.53%	0
Independent 1	14	30	46	16	8	26	22	20	14	17	25	13	15	4	270	0.05%	0
Independent 2	10	16	35	13	7	10	12	21	17	15	17	17	15	3	208	0.04%	0
Valid Votes	33,375	51,280	84,443	37,734	24,443	43,651	48,612	43,754	42,114	26,064	34,916	43,946	45,366	16,854	576,552	100.00%	12
Rejected Votes	1,648	3,117	4,352	2,611	843	2,434	3,148	2,731	1,610	1,766	2,149	2,238	2,122	250	31,019
Total Polled	35,023	54,397	88,795	40,345	25,286	46,085	51,760	46,485	43,724	27,830	37,065	46,184	47,488	17,104	607,571
Registered Electors	43,462	66,812	109,246	50,376	32,335	56,925	62,996	57,482	55,740	32,992	42,700	56,671	58,455		726,192
Turnout	80.58%	81.42%	81.28%	80.09%	78.20%	80.96%	82.16%	80.87%	78.44%	84.35%	86.80%	81.49%	81.24%		83.67%
Source:^[8]

The following candidates were elected:^[8]Gamini Dissanayake (UNP), 198,207 preference votes (pv); D. M. Jayaratne (PA), 101,558 pv; Anuruddha Ratwatte (PA), 92,644 pv; Herath Mudiyanselage Lucky Dissanayake Jayawardene (UNP), 66,340 pv; A.R.M. Abdul Cader (UNP), 66,136 pv; Kuruppu Arachchilage Wilson Kuruppu Arachchi (PA), 63,969 pv; Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed (UNP), 61,906 pv; Tissa Attanayake (UNP), 60,531 pv; Lakshman Kiriella (PA), 59,463 pv; Sarath Amunugama (UNP), 53,997 pv; Ediriweera Weerawardhana (PA), 53,192 pv; and Irajarathnan Sivasamy (UNP), 38,343 pv

Gamini Dissanayake (UNP) was murdered on 24 October 1994.

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	%
		Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
Chandrika Kumaratunga	PA	17,288	29,558	48,134	19,303	12,339	24,150	26,785	23,082	22,323	14,309	22,944	24,199	25,099	10,597	320,110	56.64%
Srimathi Dissanayake	UNP	14,862	19,692	33,007	18,076	10,477	18,243	19,423	19,995	17,152	10,742	11,906	17,442	17,621	6,881	235,519	41.68%
Hudson Samarasinghe	Ind 2	201	350	582	318	98	285	344	349	172	238	277	287	226	21	3,748	0.66%
Harischandra Wijayatunga	SMBP	118	193	303	107	258	238	176	175	335	92	86	215	220	102	2,618	0.46%
A.J. Ranashinge	Ind 1	95	169	228	119	78	122	169	167	123	90	96	155	103	38	1,752	0.31%
G.A. Nihal	SLPF	61	105	219	74	41	102	110	109	62	85	126	101	130	45	1,370	0.24%
Valid Votes		32,625	50,067	82,473	37,997	23,291	43,140	47,007	43,877	40,167	25,556	35,435	42,399	43,399	17,684	565,117	100.00%
Rejected Votes		517	1,524	1,809	921	583	1,081	1,509	1,652	912	625	892	945	934	275	14,179
Total Polled		33,142	51,591	84,282	38,918	23,874	44,221	48,516	45,529	41,079	26,181	36,327	43,344	44,333	17,959	579,296
Registered Electors		43,462	66,812	109,246	50,376	32,335	56,925	62,996	57,482	55,740	32,992	42,700	56,671	58,455		726,192
Turnout		76.26%	77.22%	77.15%	77.26%	73.83%	77.68%	77.01%	79.21%	73.70%	79.36%	85.07%	76.48%	75.84%		79.77%
Source:^[9]

1999 provincial council election

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

Party	Votes	%	Seats
People's Alliance (SLFP, SLMC et al.)	247,250	47.54%
United National Party	232,934	44.79%
National Union of Workers (CWC, DWC)	16,954	3.26%
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	16,065	3.09%
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna	4,433	0.85%
Liberal Party	881	0.17%
Independent	853	0.16%
Sri Lanka Progressive Front	689	0.13%
Valid Votes	520,059	100.00%
Rejected Votes	45,000
Total Polled	565,059
Registered Electors	780,232
Turnout	72.42%
Sources:^[10]^[11]

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	%
		Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
Chandrika Kumaratunga	PA	16,777	29,986	40,996	19,900	10,101	23,259	28,277	32,945	19,893	14,497	18,216	22,192	23,135	8,013	308,187	50.29%
Ranil Wickremasinghe	UNP	16,428	23,928	41,640	19,808	13,809	22,974	20,885	17,372	20,803	11,955	16,335	21,920	21,219	7,284	276,360	45.10%
M.D.N. Gunathilaka	JVP	933	828	2,782	638	639	1,569	1,353	928	1,173	669	632	1,199	1,293	876	15,512	2.53%
Harischandra Wijayatunga	SMBP	134	244	384	108	349	267	184	168	431	107	113	251	301	239	3,280	0.54%
W.V.M. Ranjith	Ind 2	115	141	244	153	40	131	195	134	83	139	135	139	125	1	1,775	0.29%
Abdul Rasool	SLMP	57	163	359	149	109	78	110	122	114	33	54	240	105	13	1,706	0.28%
Rajiva Wijesinha	Liberal	93	161	230	128	43	113	149	119	73	88	186	124	102	5	1,614	0.26%
T. Edirisuriya	Ind 1	70	159	165	116	34	74	165	125	66	109	133	83	61	9	1,369	0.22%
Vasudeva Nanayakkara	LDA	46	94	110	42	105	60	88	55	133	34	29	68	103	98	1,065	0.17%
Kamal Karunadasa	PLSF	41	90	91	51	29	45	86	56	38	50	60	58	49	5	749	0.12%
Hudson Samarasinghe	Ind 3	49	51	114	46	14	43	77	35	29	34	48	45	54	0	639	0.10%
A.W. Premawardhana	PFF	15	22	43	16	9	25	31	20	13	14	30	31	21	0	290	0.05%
A. Dissanayaka	DUNF	16	26	40	19	11	16	22	12	16	14	22	22	24	5	265	0.04%
Valid Votes		34,774	55,893	87,198	41,174	25,292	48,654	51,622	52,091	42,865	27,743	35,993	46,372	46,592	16,548	612,811	100.00%
Rejected Votes		637	1,626	2,720	1,059	624	1,415	1,513	1,338	1,213	720	922	1,204	1,464	605	17,060
Total Polled		35,411	57,519	89,918	42,233	25,916	50,069	53,135	53,429	44,078	28,463	36,915	47,576	48,056	17,153	629,871
Registered Electors		46,621	73,137	120,150	55,180	34,410	65,317	69,098	63,055	59,187	36,214	46,840	62,497	62,747		794,453
Turnout		75.96%	78.65%	74.84%	76.54%	75.32%	76.66%	76.90%	84.73%	74.47%	78.60%	78.81%	76.13%	76.59%		79.28%
Source:^[12]

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
	Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
People's Alliance (SLFP et al.)	16,051	29,140	34,177	18,695	7,254	21,906	30,259	24,235	17,342	13,881	17,897	19,988	21,793	9,664	282,282	46.66%	6
United National Party	15,399	19,769	35,828	16,021	12,460	22,106	16,089	13,805	20,096	10,373	13,825	19,591	20,405	7,856	243,623	40.27%	5
National Unity Alliance (SLMC)	1,048	2,544	10,990	1,564	1,803	883	1,388	3,277	1,469	472	43	4,990	1,341	211	32,023	5.29%	1
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	1,144	1,181	3,732	673	1,105	2,315	1,668	1,016	2,027	843	744	1,698	2,082	1,337	21,565	3.56%	0
Sinhala Heritage	331	491	1,592	291	1,722	898	311	521	2,093	156	48	731	1,208	606	10,999	1.82%	0
Ceylon Workers' Congress	9	490	108	1,053	401	967	1,372	454	337	772	46	43	16	40	6,108	1.01%	0
New Left Front (NSSP et al.)	176	218	329	194	100	157	437	170	168	209	210	207	220	25	2,820	0.47%	0
Citizen's Front	23	97	99	43	89	176	44	203	74	208	95	43	61	49	1,304	0.22%	0
National Union of Workers	22	132	244	72	51	55	97	77	65	43	8	149	45	6	1,066	0.18%	0
United Sinhala Great Council	53	62	113	47	12	52	69	55	44	59	74	60	48	9	757	0.13%	0
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya	20	73	80	12	66	71	41	31	114	11	7	47	80	55	708	0.12%	0
Democratic United National Front	18	34	41	18	7	27	32	17	27	17	25	18	41	1	323	0.05%	0
Liberal Party	14	15	31	15	18	17	28	19	56	23	32	21	10	2	301	0.05%	0
Independent 2	12	24	40	11	18	17	21	13	14	32	12	31	14	5	264	0.04%	0
Independent 4	9	7	9	4	9	37	16	9	29	4	14	12	11	9	179	0.03%	0
Sri Lanka Muslim Party	9	14	26	3	11	14	13	8	11	3	9	6	26	8	161	0.03%	0
Independent 5	7	11	16	8	9	10	16	8	9	13	9	4	3	0	123	0.02%	0
Independent 1	2	5	20	5	5	7	7	8	6	7	7	18	4	2	103	0.02%	0
Ruhuna People's Party	2	9	11	5	6	3	10	7	1	6	2	7	9	0	78	0.01%	0
National Development Front	5	4	13	3	3	7	11	4	7	3	5	4	6	1	76	0.01%	0
Independent 3	3	2	13	5	8	7	7	1	4	1	4	4	4	2	65	0.01%	0
Valid Votes	34,357	54,322	87,512	38,742	25,157	49,732	51,936	43,938	43,993	27,136	33,116	47,672	47,427	19,888	604,928	100.00%	12
Rejected Votes	2,099	4,055	6,340	3,268	1,136	3,289	4,060	2,334	2,373	2,578	3,473	3,171	2,972	600	41,748
Total Polled	36,456	58,377	93,852	42,010	26,293	53,021	55,996	46,272	46,366	29,714	36,589	50,843	50,399	20,488	646,676
Registered Electors	47,418	75,067	122,891	56,465	34,559	67,435	70,727	64,618	60,032	37,031	48,095	63,837	64,303		812,478
Turnout	76.88%	77.77%	76.37%	74.40%	76.08%	78.63%	79.17%	71.61%	77.24%	80.24%	76.08%	79.65%	78.38%		79.59%
Source:^[13]

The following candidates were elected:^[14]Keheliya Rambukwella (UNP), 154,403 preference votes (pv); Anuruddha Ratwatte (PA), 152,511 pv; D. M. Jayaratne (PA), 85,711 pv; Tissa Attanayake (UNP), 73,111 pv; Mahindananda Aluthgamage (PA), 71,653 pv; Sarath Amunugama (PA-UNP(A)), 67,731 pv; A.R.M. Abdul Cader (UNP), 58,375 pv; Lakshman Kiriella (PA), 57,424 pv; M. H. A. Haleem (UNP), 45,177 pv; Heratha Mudiyanselage Lucky Dissanayake Jayawardhana (UNP), 42,085 pv; Ediriweera Weerawrdena (PA), 35,388 pv; and Rauff Hakeem (NUA-SLMC), 28,033 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
	Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
United National Front (UNP, SLMC, CWC, WPF)	18,180	25,089	53,249	14,055	16,764	26,815	22,110	19,461	25,140	13,792	17,477	28,101	24,871		314,297	52.77%	7
People's Alliance (SLFP et al.)	13,721	24,798	28,636	10,371	6,489	18,908	25,630	19,911	15,289	11,276	14,110	15,990	20,318		233,637	39.23%	4
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	1,688	2,168	7,496	996	1,551	3,355	2,811	2,071	3,254	1,697	1,695	2,859	3,243		37,146	6.24%	1
Sinhala Heritage	119	228	595	72	551	331	195	187	653	59	55	292	508		4,040	0.68%	0
New Left Front (NSSP et al.)	214	467	503	192	89	282	435	270	219	268	290	294	344		3,905	0.66%	0
Muslim United Liberation Front	50	75	128	30	13	42	63	40	35	42	33	37	50		641	0.11%	0
United Sinhala Great Council	32	41	83	30	12	38	64	50	24	46	62	45	36		568	0.10%	0
National Development Front	3	28	17	14	22	18	18	6	34	13	12	18	38		253	0.04%	0
People's Freedom Front	10	27	28	8	5	10	37	7	10	12	23	19	15		212	0.04%	0
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya	8	22	22	4	14	22	15	5	29	4	4	19	12		190	0.03%	0
Independent 2	6	7	19	5	14	21	8	8	29	3	3	11	2		141	0.02%	0
Independent 1	6	8	14	3	3	9	9	10	6	3	12	7	12		105	0.02%	0
Independent 6	6	6	15	8	4	10	12	9	6	4	7	5	5		98	0.02%	0
Independent 4	2	4	11	2	3	10	10	5	5	3	3	12	6		77	0.01%	0
Independent 3	4	3	15	5	1	3	4	1	3	5	7	5	6		64	0.01%	0
Ruhuna People's Party	2	6	16	1	0	4	7	2	2	4	1	16	1		62	0.01%	0
Sri Lanka National Front	2	3	5	1	2	3	7	2	2	2	8	5	6		48	0.01%	0
Sri Lanka Progressive Front	3	3	7	4	0	4	12	3	4	1	1	3	3		48	0.01%	0
Independent 5	4	2	10	3	1	2	6	4	1	0	3	5	3		44	0.01%	0
Valid Votes	34,060	52,985	90,869	25,804	25,538	49,887	51,453	42,052	44,745	27,234	33,806	47,743	49,479		595,576	100.00%	12
Rejected Votes	2,032	4,338	6,813	2,230	1,152	3,413	3,780	3,069	2,252	2,780	3,946	3,068	2,512		42,103
Total Polled	36,092	57,323	97,682	28,034	26,690	53,300	55,233	45,121	46,997	30,014	37,752	50,811	51,991		637,679
Registered Electors	48,642	77,854	126,815	57,850	35,351	70,383	72,986	67,327	61,677	37,897	49,524	65,863	66,518		838,687
Turnout	74.20%	73.63%	77.03%	48.46%	75.50%	75.73%	75.68%	67.02%	76.20%	79.20%	76.23%	77.15%	78.16%		76.03%
Sources:^[15]^[16]

The following candidates were elected:^[17]Keheliya Rambukwella (UNF), 143,235 preference votes (pv); Anuruddha Ratwatte (PA), 102,906 pv; Tissa Attanayake (UNF), 99,381 pv; Sarath Amunugama (PA), 78,110 pv; M. H. A. Haleem (UNF), 75,630 pv; Rauff Hakeem (UNF-SLMC), 71,094 pv; Lakshman Kiriella (UNF), 70,241 pv; Abeyrathne Chitra Srimathi Manthilake (UNF) 51,768 pv; Thilina Bandara Tennakoon (PA), 51,542 pv; Mahindananda Aluthgamage (PA), 50,618 pv; Heratha Mudiyanselage Lucky Dissanayake Jayawardhana (UNF), 45,693 pv; and Dimuthu Bandara Abayakoon (JVP), 5,957 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
	Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
United National Front (UNP, SLMC, CWC, WPF)	16,645	30,109	46,572	22,724	14,367	24,807	25,823	26,230	22,435	13,380	15,285	23,413	22,647	9,422	313,859	49.99%	6
United People's Freedom Alliance (SLFP, JVP et al.)	15,896	22,066	37,806	16,277	7,141	23,918	22,708	16,071	17,403	13,321	18,319	21,739	22,887	12,579	268,131	42.71%	5
Jathika Hela Urumaya	1,513	2,515	7,079	1,253	3,959	3,896	1,793	2,946	6,191	674	307	3,678	4,376	2,012	42,192	6.72%	1
National Development Front	43	63	183	77	70	112	61	75	127	27	20	134	96	21	1,109	0.18%	0
United Muslim People's Party	30	68	93	39	12	40	55	45	26	28	26	41	38	7	548	0.09%	0
New Left Front (NSSP et al.)	11	34	84	22	59	28	44	31	61	9	12	34	51	21	501	0.08%	0
United Socialist Party	19	30	56	28	15	20	35	33	11	14	15	25	18	5	324	0.05%	0
Independent 9	18	18	24	18	3	18	39	20	7	10	24	21	12	1	233	0.04%	0
Independent 7	5	13	52	3	10	22	10	11	16	3	11	11	6	5	178	0.03%	0
United Lalith Front	3	16	20	14	3	14	14	12	10	7	7	11	14	2	147	0.02%	0
Independent 8	9	16	18	8	3	7	16	12	6	10	7	11	5	1	129	0.02%	0
Swarajya	28	3	25	2	5	4	2	10	13	1	3	2	5	0	103	0.02%	0
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya	3	6	10	7	2	3	2	7	11	0	2	4	20	4	81	0.01%	0
Sri Lanka Muslim Party	4	3	20	0	3	1	6	2	4	1	1	8	0	0	53	0.01%	0
Sri Lanka National Front	3	4	5	5	0	3	6	5	1	5	1	5	4	1	48	0.01%	0
Independent 6	1	3	3	3	2	3	10	7	5	2	1	2	1	0	43	0.01%	0
Independent 1	3	2	4	3	2	1	2	7	3	0	1	4	1	4	37	0.01%	0
Independent 5	4	4	5	3	2	3	2	5	1	2	1	1	1	1	35	0.01%	0
Independent 3	0	1	6	2	1	0	3	1	1	2	1	3	7	1	29	0.00%	0
Independent 4	0	1	5	5	0	5	1	2	2	1	1	2	1	0	26	0.00%	0
Ruhuna People's Party	0	2	1	5	0	2	3	1	1	3	3	3	0	0	24	0.00%	0
Sri Lanka Progressive Front	0	1	6	2	0	0	3	1	1	2	0	3	1	0	20	0.00%	0
Independent 2	3	1	1	0	0	0	4	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	16	0.00%	0
Valid Votes	34,241	54,979	92,078	40,500	25,659	52,907	50,642	45,536	46,338	27,503	34,049	49,155	50,192	24,087	627,866	100.00%	12
Rejected Votes	2,523	4,415	6,988	3,423	1,123	3,607	4,421	4,250	2,424	2,685	3,749	2,999	2,465	412	45,484
Total Polled	36,764	59,394	99,066	43,923	26,782	56,514	55,063	49,786	48,762	30,188	37,798	52,154	52,657	24,499	673,350
Registered Electors	49,964	81,694	133,404	59,853	36,760	74,784	76,700	69,554	66,995	39,730	51,360	69,844	69,992		880,634
Turnout	73.58%	72.70%	74.26%	73.38%	72.86%	75.57%	71.79%	71.58%	72.78%	75.98%	73.59%	74.67%	75.23%		76.46%
Source:^[18]

The following candidates were elected:^[19]Dimuthu Bandara Abayakoon (UPFA-JVP), 111,923 preference votes (pv); Keheliya Rambukwella (UNF-UNP), 110,720 pv; Tissa Attanayake (UNF-UNP), 93,971 pv; A.R.M. Abdul Cader (UNF-UNP), 89,829 pv; Mahindananda Aluthgamage (UPFA-SLFP), 82,036 pv; Lakshman Kiriella (UNF-UNP), 81,136 pv; Y.M. Nawaratna Banda (UPFA-JVP), 81,036 pv; Sarath Amunugama (UPFA-SLFP), 78,817 pv; M. H. A. Haleem (UNF-UNP), 66,669 pv; D. M. Jayaratne (UPFA-SLFP), 64,317 pv; Faiszer Musthapha (UNF-CWC), 40,475 pv; and Udawatte Nanda (JHU), 10,846 pv.

2004 provincial council election

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

Party	Votes per Polling Division													Postal Votes	Total Votes	%	Seats
	Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
United People's Freedom Alliance (SLFP, JVP et al.)	15,546	20,406	36,289	15,423	6,150	23,101	23,296	14,108	15,294	13,752	18,607	17,582	16,901	8,140	244,595	54.17%	16
United National Party	10,504	18,564	29,938	16,541	9,468	14,656	14,220	16,850	14,353	10,270	10,526	14,605	16,834	4,935	202,264	44.80%	14
National Development Front	54	69	100	49	20	106	62	144	100	45	38	390	132	51	1,360	0.30%	0
United Socialist Party	67	98	157	82	49	86	116	127	49	59	43	71	70	14	1,088	0.24%	0
United Muslim People's Alliance	27	73	372	38	68	32	53	96	36	22	22	72	71	5	987	0.22%	0
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya	12	31	43	13	51	32	21	28	47	12	6	29	49	45	419	0.09%	0
Independent 2	22	27	36	21	1	14	26	18	15	19	13	15	15	5	247	0.05%	0
National Democratic Party	6	13	21	10	23	8	25	15	15	6	6	10	6	14	178	0.04%	0
Ruhuna People's Party	5	8	41	10	2	6	6	7	9	3	3	10	35	16	161	0.04%	0
Independent 1	10	9	20	7	3	12	11	10	11	12	11	12	8	7	143	0.03%	0
Sri Lanka Progressive Front	4	11	11	2	4	2	4	6	12	3	1	6	6	4	76	0.02%	0
Valid Votes	26,257	39,309	67,028	32,196	15,839	38,055	37,840	31,409	29,941	24,203	29,276	32,802	34,127	13,236	451,518	100.00%	30
Rejected Votes	1,567	2,799	4,942	2,424	1,135	2,477	2,872	2,435	2,046	1,641	2,198	2,120	2,022	824	31,502
Total Polled	27,824	42,108	71,970	34,620	16,974	40,532	40,712	33,844	31,987	25,844	31,474	34,922	36,149	14,060	483,020
Registered Electors	49,964	81,695	133,404	59,853	36,760	74,784	76,700	69,554	66,995	39,730	51,360	69,844	69,992		880,635
Turnout	55.69%	51.54%	53.95%	57.84%	46.18%	54.20%	53.08%	48.66%	47.75%	65.05%	61.28%	50.00%	51.65%		54.85%
Source:^[20]

The following candidates were elected:^[20] D.S.B. Amunugama (UPFA), 48,941 preference votes (pv); Amaranath Samansiri Fernando (UPFA), 39,476 pv; Sarath Ekanayake (UPFA), 36,387 pv; H.M. Lucky Dissanayake (UNP), 31,071 pv; Mohamad Rafeek Mohamad Hamjad (UNP), 28,447 pv; Aluthgamage Ananada Aluthgamage (UPFA), 28,034 pv; Abeykoon Mudiyanselage Mahinda Abeykoon (UPFA), 27,643 pv; Ediriweera Weerawardhena (UPFA), 27,047 pv; Aththiadi Gedera Mohamed Saheed (UNP), 24,991 pv; R.G. Samaranayake (UPFA), 24,181 pv; Doreiswami Madiyagurajah (UNP), 23,519 pv; A. Chithra Srimathi Manthilaka (UNP), 23,247 pv; R. Senaratne Mahinda Wijesiri (UNP), 23,097 pv; M.G. Jayaratne (UPFA), 21,577 pv; Abeykoon Mudiyanselage Manel Bandara Abeyratne (UPFA), 21,067 pv; Nishshanka Herath (UPFA), 20,658 pv; Arambegedara Sunil Wickramasinghe (UPFA), 20,613 pv; Nihal Gunasekara (UNP), 20,454 pv; A.G. Sirisena (UPFA), 19,651 pv; Aliapperuma Don Hareendra Chanaka (UNP), 18,185 pv; Amaratunga Sunil Kithsiri (UPFA), 18,116 pv; H.A. Ranasinghe (UPFA), 17,428 pv; M. Punchi Banda Dasanayake (UPFA), 17,392 pv; Chandana Dissanayake (UPFA), 17,099 pv; Kongahage Wickramasinghe Srima Shanthini (UNP), 16,973 pv; Irajarathnam Sivasamy (UNP), 14,267 pv; Alwis Samaraweera Mudalige Padmalal de (UNP), 14,071 pv; A. Seiyadu Mohammadu Mohammadu Marjan Alhaj (UNP), 13,719 pv; Mahahithana Arachchige Rupa Sriyani Daniel (UNP), 13,203 pv; and Alim Masihudeen Naimullah Alhaj (UNP), 13,147 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	%
		Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
Ranil Wickremasinghe	UNP	20,177	35,829	59,899	25,874	17,130	31,321	29,882	31,957	28,894	16,646	20,269	30,979	27,791	10,502	387,150	54.33%
Mahinda Rajapaksa	UPFA	17,453	25,790	43,540	19,058	9,435	27,385	28,544	20,610	22,670	15,367	19,973	22,733	27,428	15,686	315,672	44.30%
Siritunga Jayasuriya	USP	177	276	390	233	55	204	296	284	124	176	186	203	159	12	2,775	0.39%
A.A. Suraweera	NDF	200	258	322	231	55	169	277	206	120	138	207	181	210	15	2,589	0.36%
Victor Hettigoda	ULPP	48	86	147	55	57	83	85	100	83	45	55	90	100	57	1,091	0.15%
Chamil Jayaneththi	NLF	49	70	91	48	20	33	74	73	37	43	68	55	48	8	717	0.10%
Wimal Geeganage	SLNF	42	64	77	38	6	35	63	50	29	38	46	45	46	5	584	0.08%
Anura De Silva	ULF	43	65	84	38	14	26	44	39	25	35	33	45	34	4	529	0.07%
Aruna de Soyza	RPP	25	56	72	23	15	40	56	32	16	23	36	40	50	3	487	0.07%
A.K.J. Arachchige	DUA	20	41	62	28	7	24	40	27	16	22	28	29	26	2	372	0.05%
Wije Dias	SEP	15	27	33	14	10	28	48	29	21	13	14	24	19	12	307	0.04%
P. Nelson Perera	SLPF	12	19	39	14	6	20	28	17	12	17	9	14	12	0	219	0.03%
H.S. Dharmadwaja	UNAF	8	22	21	10	1	4	16	9	5	4	10	7	11	0	128	0.02%
Valid Votes		38,269	62,603	104,777	45,664	26,811	59,372	59,453	53,433	52,052	32,567	40,934	54,445	55,934	26,306	712,620	100.00%
Rejected Votes		382	1,036	1,432	660	335	746	965	885	630	452	564	726	594	410	9,817
Total Polled		38,651	63,639	106,209	46,324	27,146	60,118	60,418	54,318	52,682	33,019	41,498	55,171	56,528	26,716	722,437
Registered Electors		50,898	84,167	138,171	61,006	36,326	77,020	80,003	71,823	69,243	41,465	52,747	71,840	72,329		907,038
Turnout		75.94%	75.61%	76.87%	75.93%	74.73%	78.06%	75.52%	75.63%	76.08%	79.63%	78.67%	76.80%	78.15%		79.65%
Source:^[21]

2009 provincial council election

Results of the 5th Central provincial council election held on 14 February 2009 for the district:

Party	Votes per Polling Division													Postal Votes	Total Votes	%	Seats
	Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
United People's Freedom Alliance (SLFP et al.)	21,646	29,628	53,858	22,752	10,243	32,964	32,016	26,629	24,125	17,881	22,911	27,269	28,967	12,601	363,490	59.41%	18
United National Party	10,446	24,745	35,928	16,523	12,146	20,078	16,126	20,309	19,507	9,997	9,906	19,708	18,654	3,754	237,827	38.87%	12
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	548	410	1,402	469	355	870	813	333	760	351	398	652	591	341	8,293	1.36%	0
United Socialist Party	24	60	90	34	22	31	83	45	40	21	12	42	35	7	546	0.09%	0
Independent 3	15	4	39	27	55	24	9	12	145	3	7	11	14	11	376	0.06%	0
United Lanka People's Party	15	40	35	23	5	16	44	31	18	13	10	24	15	3	292	0.05%	0
Independent 1	2	4	29	3	2	8	2	15	6	89	17	8	6	7	198	0.03%	0
Independent 8	8	28	24	17	9	13	27	15	9	3	9	11	10	1	184	0.03%	0
Independent 7	2	6	13	6	4	4	24	8	3	4	4	5	1	0	84	0.01%	0
United Lanka Great Council	1	7	9	9	1	2	11	4	2	11	4	6	5	3	75	0.01%	0
National People's Party	4	6	9	9	2	4	10	2	1	5	3	6	4	1	66	0.01%	0
Independent 5	8	2	9	4	1	7	7	6	5		3	4	0	1	57	0.01%	0
Patriotic National Front	4	5	8	10	2	2	5	1	5	2	2	4	1	5	56	0.01%	0
Independent 6	2	5	6	5		10	3	6	2	4	0	4	5	1	53	0.01%	0
Sri Lanka Progressive Front	1	2	5	1	7	4	5	8	5	3	2	2	5	2	52	0.01%	0
Ruhuna People's Party		3	9	2	8	5	7	3	4	3	0	3	1	3	51	0.01%	0
Independent 4	3	5	5	8	2	2	1	4	5	1	4	3	2	0	45	0.01%	0
Independent 2	2	3	5	1	2	3	9	6	1	3	3	2	3	0	43	0.01%	0
Valid Votes	32,731	54,963	91,483	39,903	22,866	54,047	49,202	47,437	44,643	28,394	33,295	47,764	48,319	16,741	611,788	100.00%	30
Rejected Votes	1,399	3,174	4,587	2,674	711	2,476	3,818	3,057	1,696	1,881	1,947	2,048	2,020	341	31,829
Total Polled	34,130	58,137	96,070	42,577	23,577	56,523	53,020	50,494	46,339	30,275	35,242	49,812	50,339	17,082	643,617
Registered Electors	52,169	89,422	145,752	64,133	36,702	84,371	82,686	76,751	71,886	44,057	54,923	75,994	76,262		955,108
Turnout	65.42%	65.01%	65.91%	66.39%	64.24%	66.99%	64.12%	65.79%	64.46%	68.72%	64.17%	65.55%	66.01%		67.39%
Source:^[22]

The following candidates were elected:^[23] S.B. Dissanayake (UNP), 181,783 preference votes (pv); Sarath Ekanayake (UPFA), 99,932 pv; D.S.B. Amunugama (UPFA), 77,179 pv; Lohan Ratwatte (UPFA), 70,372 pv; Ediriweera Weerawardhena (UPFA), 46,903 pv; Ananada Aluthgamage (UPFA), 45,178 pv; Thilina Bandara Thennakoon (UPFA), 30,476 pv; Abeykoon Mudiyanselage Mahinda Abeykoon (UPFA), 30,170 pv; S.M.R.B. Samarakoon (UPFA), 29,686 pv; Kuruppu Arachchilage Wilson Kuruppuarachchi (UPFA), 29,637 pv; R.G. Samaranayake (UPFA), 28,479 pv; Mohamad Rafeek Mohamad Hamjad (UNP), 27,421 pv; A.G. Sirisena (UPFA), 26,676 pv; Jamaldeen Jeilabdeen (UNP), 26,103 pv; Gunathilaka Rajapaksha (UPFA), 25,957 pv; Amaratunga Sunil Kithsiri (UPFA), 25,787 pv; Jayawardhana Gammana Vithanalage (UPFA), 23,963 pv; Nishshanka Herath (UPFA), 23,477 pv; T.R. Linton Wijesinghe (UPFA), 22,879 pv; Aliapperuma Don Hareendra Chanaka (UNP), 22,447 pv; M.G. Jayaratne (UPFA), 21,301 pv; H.M. Lucky Dissanayake (UNP), 21,028 pv; H.A. Ranasinghe (UPFA), 21,011 pv; A. Sivasami Rajarathnam (UNP), 20,228 pv; Arawwawela Kadurugaskotuwe Muhammad Marjan (UNP), 19,520 pv; Kongahage Wickramasinghe Srima Shanthini (UNP), 18,472 pv; A.A.G.M.S.M. Shapi (UNP), 18,367 pv; Nihal Gunasekara (UNP), 18,115 pv; and R.P. Luxman Wijesiri (UNP), 16,749 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	%
		Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
Mahinda Rajapaksa	UPFA	22,703	33,078	56,508	24,601	11,636	36,212	35,555	28,628	28,444	19,009	27,179	29,235	33,664	20,184	406,636	54.16%
Sarath Fonseka	NDF	15,338	32,090	51,406	21,791	15,358	27,852	25,107	27,692	25,243	13,957	13,220	27,123	23,290	10,025	329,492	43.89%
M.C.M. Ismail	DUNF	170	273	277	295	47	209	332	238	105	183	265	216	177	23	2,810	0.37%
A.A. Suraweera	NDF	120	184	249	202	24	119	209	167	83	119	183	146	135	10	1,950	0.26%
C.J. Sugathsiri Gamage	UDF	84	171	240	136	20	113	208	162	71	105	97	114	94	9	1,624	0.22%
W.V. Mahiman Ranjith	Ind 1	59	129	148	94	31	79	124	97	65	75	132	82	77	8	1,200	0.16%
A.S.P Liyanage	SLLP	75	104	107	119	16	73	117	108	50	45	89	76	74	6	1,059	0.14%
Sarath Manamendra	NSH	36	99	124	56	20	62	103	84	41	62	58	57	43	3	848	0.11%
Ukkubanda Wijekoon	Ind 3	42	60	112	62	11	50	73	66	28	45	68	54	37	3	711	0.09%
Lal Perera	ONF	30	83	91	71	14	49	84	68	27	47	51	56	26	6	703	0.09%
Siritunga Jayasuriya	USP	28	61	84	52	4	39	64	71	29	35	44	45	40	4	600	0.08%
Aithurus M. Illias	Ind 2	30	57	63	35	9	26	51	52	27	37	51	44	38	3	523	0.07%
Vikramabahu Karunaratne	LF	17	38	59	38	28	40	28	33	35	27	30	36	41	12	462	0.06%
M. K. Shivajilingam	Ind 5	19	49	34	41	16	29	51	50	28	21	30	39	31	4	442	0.06%
Wije Dias	SEP	10	30	47	8	8	26	40	36	17	22	19	16	20	6	305	0.04%
Sanath Pinnaduwa	NA	13	46	33	31	7	12	36	29	10	12	18	30	17	1	295	0.04%
M. Mohamed Musthaffa	Ind 4	14	18	29	26	4	16	22	24	16	18	17	15	23	1	243	0.03%
Battaramulla Seelarathana	JP	13	18	14	21	4	9	32	27	5	14	15	17	22	5	216	0.03%
Aruna de Soyza	RPP	13	25	27	12	5	12	21	19	3	14	11	20	9	1	192	0.03%
Senaratna de Silva	PNF	6	20	22	17	9	15	24	17	6	9	17	10	6	0	178	0.02%
M.B. Thaminimulla	ACAKO	13	14	22	5	5	8	15	20	19	12	6	11	6	2	158	0.02%
Sarath Kongahage	UNAF	3	10	18	8	1	10	24	15	4	8	13	12	11	2	139	0.02%
Valid Votes		38,836	66,657	109,714	47,721	27,277	65,060	62,320	57,703	54,356	33,876	41,613	57,454	57,881	30,318	750,786	100.00%
Rejected Votes		300	857	1,161	674	268	656	1,069	838	534	509	397	631	506	300	8,700
Total Polled		39,136	67,514	110,875	48,395	27,545	65,716	63,389	58,541	54,890	34,385	42,010	58,085	58,387	30,618	759,486
Registered Electors		52,553	91,146	147,475	65,176	36,938	85,857	85,136	78,688	72,906	45,144	55,629	76,812	76,996		970,456
Turnout		74.47%	74.07%	75.18%	74.25%	74.57%	76.54%	74.46%	74.40%	75.29%	76.17%	75.52%	75.62%	75.83%		78.26%
Source:^[2]

2010 parliamentary general election

Results of the 14th parliamentary election held on 8 April 2010 for the district (excluding Nawalapitiya polling division):

Party	Votes per Polling Division													Postal Votes	Total Votes	%	Seats
	Galage -dara	Gam- pola	Haris- pattuwa	Hewa- hata	Kandy	Kunda -sale	Nawala -pitiya	Patha Dumbara	Senka- dagala	Tel- deniya	Udu Dumbara	Udu- nuwara	Yati- nuwara
United People's Freedom Alliance (SLFP, CWC et al.)	18,198	27,843	46,026	20,848	9,187	26,070	38,153	23,956	21,431	14,275	20,851	26,154	26,419	20,408	339,819	60.77%	8
United National Front (UNP, SLMC, DPF, SLFP(P))	8,836	19,144	30,124	13,145	10,226	16,282	11,648	16,214	15,411	7,732	7,544	15,590	14,621	6,281	192,798	34.48%	4
Democratic National Alliance (JVP et al.)	1,209	1,228	3,551	736	1,454	2,775	1,128	1,477	2,965	800	521	1,949	1,983	1,952	23,728	4.24%	0
Sri Lanka National Front	10	13	62	35	54	205	2	132	280	39	13	23	15	38	921	0.16%	0
National Development Front	27	75	87	34	13	56	19	48	21	17	22	27	50	9	505	0.09%	0
United National Alternative Front	15	31	38	23	5	22	11	34	13	9	12	16	11	5	245	0.04%	0
Independent 17	3	17	13	7	0	10	14	11	1	7	13	6	5	1	108	0.02%	0
Independent 11	6	13	4	14	4	11	6	10	12	4	2	4	3	2	95	0.02%	0
Independent 4	2	7	5	3	1	8	16	10	8	4	4	0	3	1	72	0.01%	0
Left Liberation Front	1	7	5	1	6	5	2	2	4	3	2	8	18	2	66	0.01%	0
Patriotic National Front	8	2	9	5	1	7	8	1	2	3	3	6	6	1	62	0.01%	0
Independent 5	2	10	12	5	1	2	4	5	3	3	2	3	4	2	58	0.01%	0
United Lanka Great Council	3	5	7	2	2	3	4	8	6	2	6	5	2	1	56	0.01%	0
Independent 8	1	1	4	1	1	4	2	4	6	9	18	2	1	1	55	0.01%	0
Independent 13	0	12	14	1	1	2	2	4	4	1	5	3	2	3	54	0.01%	0
Independent 2	2	1	6	1	2	3	5	7	14	1	3	4	4	0	53	0.01%	0
Muslim Liberation Front	3	2	20	2	1	4	4	1	2	2	4	2	2	1	50	0.01%	0
Independent 1	6	7	7	4	1	5	3	1	3	5	1	2	3	0	48	0.01%	0
Ceylon Democratic Unity Alliance	4	8	4	2	1	5	8	5	0	0	3	3	1	4	48	0.01%	0
Janasetha Peramuna	4	0	5	2	4	5	4	1	2	1	2	8	4	3	45	0.01%	0
Independent 12	0	3	4	2	1	3	1	1	1	4	19	2	1	2	44	0.01%	0
Independent 9	2	1	4	3	0	10	2	3	1	2	3	6	4	3	44	0.01%	0
Independent 14	3	7	8	1	0	2	5	1	2	3	1	4	2	0	39	0.01%	0
Independent 16	3	3	8	4	0	2	5	3	0	2	2	1	4	1	38	0.01%	0
Independent 15	0	3	6	1	0	2	6	2	3	2	2	4	2	2	35	0.01%	0
Independent 6	1	5	5	0	10	2	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	2	34	0.01%	0
Sri Lanka Labour Party	0	3	5	1	1	5	2	2	4	0	0	0	2	1	26	0.00%	0
Sinhalaye Mahasammatha Bhoomiputra Pakshaya	1	1	0	0	1	2	8	3	2	3	0	1	2	1	25	0.00%	0
Independent 3	2	4	3	1	0	2	1	0	1	3	0	2	3	0	22	0.00%	0
Independent 10	2	2	6	2	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	20	0.00%	0
Independent 7	0	1	4	0	0	0	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	1	13	0.00%	0
Valid Votes	28,354	48,459	80,056	34,886	20,980	45,515	51,076	41,950	40,205	22,939	29,060	43,839	43,179	28,728	559,226	100.00%	12
Rejected Votes	3,007	6,780	8,345	4,763	1,389	4,783	4,262	5,177	2,935	3,540	4,163	4,043	3,862	1,284	58,333
Total Polled	31,361	55,239	88,401	39,649	22,369	50,298	55,338	47,127	43,140	26,479	33,223	47,882	47,041	30,012	617,559
Registered Electors	52,553	91,146	147,475	65,176	36,938	85,857	85,136	78,688	72,906	45,144	55,629	76,812	76,996		970,456
Turnout	59.67%	60.60%	59.94%	60.83%	60.56%	58.58%	65.00%	59.89%	59.17%	58.65%	59.72%	62.34%	61.10%		63.64%
Source:^[24]

The following candidates were elected:^[25]Mahindananda Aluthgamage (UPFA-SLFP), 146,765 preference votes (pv); Keheliya Rambukwella (UPFA), 133,060 pv; S. B. Dissanayake (UPFA), 108,169 pv; Lohan Ratwatte (UPFA), 81,812 pv; A.R.M. Abdul Cader (UNF-UNP), 54,937 pv; Erik Weerawardena (UPFA), 54,195 pv; Rauff Hakeem (UNF-SLMC), 54,047 pv; Lakshman Kiriella (UNF-UNP), 53,690 pv; M. H. A. Haleem (UNF-UNP), 46,240 pv; Dilum Amunugama (UPFA), 45,909 pv; Faiszer Musthapha (UPFA), 44,648 pv; and Sarath Amunugama (UPFA-SLFP), 44,478 pv.

2013 provincial council election

Results of the 6th provincial council election held on 21 September 2013 for the district:

Party	Votes Per Polling Division													Postal Votes	Total Votes	%	Seats
	Galage-dara	Gam-pola	Haris-pattuwa	Hewa-heta	Kandy	Kunda-sale	Nawala-pitiya	Patha-dumbara	Senka-dagala	Tel-deniya	Udu-dumbara	Udu-nuwara	Yati-nuwara
United People's Freedom Alliance (SLFP et al.)	19,072	34,310	52,924	24,103	9,156	31,606	34,824	24,514	23,270	15,945	22,225	23,613	25,667	14,583	355,812	55.76%	16
United National Party	8,931	21,578	32,401	11,559	10,047	13,136	13,358	16,432	16,762	7,938	10,782	19,071	13,973	4,219	200,187	31.37%	9
Democratic Party (Sri Lanka)	1,548	1,545	5,216	1,408	1,741	6,369	2,606	2,788	3,388	1,632	321	2,422	4,173	2,274	37,431	5.87%	2
Ceylon Workers' Congress	97	3,221	242	2,296	498	1,832	3,490	3,905	838	1,764	41	302	94	167	18,787	2.94%	1
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress	632	535	2,386	1,303	293	511	287	1,391	215	181	28	2,448	842	85	11,137	1.75%	1
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna	463	389	1,308	144	221	1,104	701	512	635	425	505	347	484	402	7,640	1.20%	0
Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya	63	59	165	47	107	103	44	95	275	41	50	168	311	22	1,550	0.24%	0
Up-Country People's Front	12	341	65	162	234	53	360	70	63	48	4	18	10	18	1,458	0.23%	0
Janasetha Peramuna	10	13	85	7	16	31	24	13	20	3	5	68	438	23	756	0.12%	0
Eksath Lanka Maha Sabha	22	47	82	33	15	75	54	39	30	30	24	43	40	10	544	0.09%	0
New Democratic Front (Sri Lanka)	28	33	59	12	22	67	46	43	47	11	4	27	28	77	504	0.08%	0
Our National Front	17	55	54	30	8	38	54	38	24	28	33	43	27	17	466	0.07%	0
Patriotic National Front	19	16	43	12	20	59	23	26	23	16	1	26	38	20	342	0,05%	0
Independent Group 8	17	20	32	27	7	14	41	14	8	21	10	19	15	6	257	0.04%	0
Independent Group 4	3	23	20	20	8	23	39	40	13	11	4	6	12	6	228	0.04%	0
Ruhunu Janatha Party	0	41	10	8	2	6	20	13	21	2	1	28	12	3	167	0.03%	0
New Sinhala Heritage	7	10	21	6	6	15	18	14	16	2	4	9	16	10	154	0.02%	0
Independent Group 7	6	9	8	13	3	14	19	11	5	8	2	7	7	0	112	0,02%	0
Independent Group 6	3	12	6	2	6	8	25	9	6	5	9	4	14	1	110	0.02%	0
Independent Group 1	6	7	20	3	6	5	9	6	10	4	6	7	10	7	106	0.02%	0
Muslim Liberation Front	5	11	17	4	4	9	11	7	4	6	2	3	4	2	89	0.01%	0
Sri Lanka Labour Party	2	8	6	3	1	6	14	18	6	8	1	1	3	0	77	0.01%	0
Independent Group 2	4	6	8	5	0	7	7	8	2	3	3	3	8	2	66	0.01%	0
Independent Group 5	4	4	13	3	2	2	10	3	3	4	4	6	6	1	65	0.01%	0
Independent Group 3	3	5	10	3	3	8	4	4	1	3	4	7	2	2	58	0.01%	0
Valid Votes	30,974	62,298	95,201	41,213	22,426	55,101	56,088	50,013	45,685	28,139	34,073	48,695	46,234	21,957	638,097	100.00%	29
Rejected Votes	1,471	4,331	4,993	3,003	941	2,961	4,990	3,610	2,111	2,116	2,264	2,835	2,385	1,137	39,148
Total Polled	32,445	66,629	100,194	44,216	23,367	58,062	61,078	53,623	47,796	30,255	36,337	51,530	48,619	23,094	677,245
Registered electors	53,484	97,640	152,688	67,710	38,364	90,563	91,894	82,896	77,805	46,254	57,334	79,945	78,738	23,805	1,015,315
Turnout	60.66%	68.24%	65.62%	65.30%	60.91%	64.11%	66.47%	64.69%	61.43%	65.41	63,38%	64.46%	61.75%	97.01%	66.7%
Source:^[26]

The following candidates were elected:^[27] Anuradha Jayaratne (UPFA-SLFP), 107,644 preference votes (pv); Sarath Ekanayake (UPFA-SLFP), 70,171 pv; Asad Sali (UNP), 55,395 pv; J.M.A.M Lafeer (UNP), 45,792 pv; Thilina Bandara Tennakoon (UPFA-SLFP), 45,027 pv; Ediriweera Weerawardene (UPFA-SLFP), 44,206 pv; Mahinda Abeykoon (UPFA-SLFP), 29,889 pv; R.G Samaranayake (UPFA-SLFP), 28,646 pv; Mayantha Dissanayake (UNP), 27,204 pv; Nissanka Herath (UPFA-SLFP), 25,877 pv; Gunathilaka Rajapakse (UPFA-SLFP), 24,560 pv; Lucky Jayawardena (UNP), 24,437 pv; A.G Sirisena (UPFA-SLFP), 24,429 pv; Linton Wijesinghe (UPFA-SLFP), 24,266 pv; Sunil Amaratunga (UPFA-SLFP), 23,946 pv; Aluthgamage Weerasinghe (UPFA-SLFP), 23,652 pv; A.A.M Manel Bandara (UPFA-SLFP), 23,400 pv; M.G Jayaratne (UPFA-SLFP), 22,816 pv; Jagath Wijenayake (UPFA-SLFP), 22,386 pv; Gamini Wijebandara (UPFA-SLFP), 21,639 pv; Pathmalal De Alwis (UNP), 19,037 pv; Chanaka Ailapperuma (UNP), 18,603 pv; M. Welukumar (UNP), 18,159 pv; P.B Warawewa (UNP), 16,990 pv; Chithra Manthilake (UNP), 16,054 pv; A.T Madhiyugarajah (CWC), 8,774 pv; Channa Galappaththige (DP), 7,628 pv; Asanga Thilakaratne (DP), 5,542 pv; A.L.M Uvais (SLMC), 3,275 pv.

2015 presidential election

Results of the 7th presidential election held on 26 January 2010 for the district:

Candidate	Party	Votes Per Polling Division													Postal Votes	Total Votes	%
		Galage-dara	Gam-pola	Haris-pattuwa	Hewa-heta	Kandy	Kunda-sale	Nawala-pitiya	Patha-dumbara	Senka-dagala	Tel-deniya	Udu-dumbara	Udu-nuwara	Yati-nuwara
Maithripala Sirisena	NDF	19,818	45,328	71,533	28,049	20,316	41,238	40,233	37,840	36,127	18,624	18,472	38,018	32,298	19,100	466,994	54.56%
Mahinda Rajapaksa	UPFA	21,466	33,293	51,156	24,167	10,200	32,930	32,619	26,762	26,062	18,150	27,722	25,984	30,194	17,880	378,585	44.23%
Arachchige Rathnayaka Sirisena	PNF	79	151	152	106	26	90	173	101	49	80	112	87	88	11	1,306	0.15%
Namal Ajith Rajapaksa	ONF	72	130	149	111	10	85	146	88	61	56	129	76	78	13	1,204	0.14%
Ibrahim Miflar	UPF	44	161	117	112	19	65	128	90	57	65	80	87	74	4	1,103	0.13%
A. S. P. Liyanage	SLLP	46	132	148	91	19	75	127	85	45	68	58	82	45	7	1,028	0.12%
Ruwanthilaka Peduru Arachchi	ULPP	42	131	119	95	23	73	144	90	49	49	66	61	58	3	1,003	0.12%
Aithurus M. Illias	Ind1	47	68	108	56	24	49	95	64	48	63	66	59	42	10	799	0.09%
Duminda Nagamuwa	FSP	26	65	121	44	18	59	70	65	53	37	25	61	47	32	723	0.08%
Siritunga Jayasuriya	USP	39	61	82	46	15	32	105	57	31	31	44	48	28	9	628	0.07%
Sarath Manamendra	NSH	30	50	77	48	8	41	74	52	31	30	36	37	35	5	554	0.06%
Anurudha Polgampola	Ind2	22	39	37	30	2	24	42	37	18	18	14	26	16	3	328	0.04%
Pani Wijesiriwardane	SEP	16	43	35	17	7	23	42	23	25	29	13	25	15	5	318	0.04%
Muthu Bandara Theminimulla	ACAKO	15	37	46	33	5	20	25	30	31	15	11	29	11	4	312	0.04%
Sundaram Mahendran	NSSP	19	29	31	30	6	23	37	19	12	17	22	20	18	2	285	0.03%
Baththaramulle Seelarathana	JSP	10	22	37	17	7	20	44	27	17	11	10	19	21	15	277	0.03%
Prasanna Priyankara	DNM	11	14	19	14	5	20	22	20	10	11	12	13	9	2	182	0.02%
Jayantha Kulathunga	ULGC	5	20	20	11	2	13	26	22	5	9	10	13	3	4	163	0.02%
Wimal Geeganage	SLNF	8	11	10	2	3	10	10	8	4	14	15	9	9	3	116	0.01%
Valid Votes		41,815	79,785	123,998	53,079	30,715	74,890	74,162	65,480	62,735	37,377	46,917	64,754	63,089	37,112	855,908	100.00%
Rejected Votes		390	1,020	1,356	673	401	794	1,393	1,023	834	517	479	763	748	602	10,993
Total Polled		42,205	80,805	125,354	53,752	31,116	75,684	75,555	66,503	63,569	37,894	47,396	65,517	63,837	37,714	866,901
Registered electors		54,214	102,219	157,463	69,243	40,020	94,870	95,567	85,375	81,149	47,685	58,637	82,298	80,420	38,382	1,049,106
Turnout		77.85%	79.05%	79.61%	77.63%	77.75%	79.78%	79.06%	77.90%	78.34%	79.47%	80.83%	79.61%	79.38%	98.26%	82.63%
Source:^[28]

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