Ranil Wickremesinghe Passes 500,000 Preferences from Colombo

 

UNP leader and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe passed the 500,000 preferential vote mark establishing a new record in Sri Lankan General Elections.

Wickremesinghe received 500,566 preferences while the UNP received 640,743 votes in the district. Therefore, 78 percent of those who voted for the UNP have marked a preference vote for Wickremesinghe.

Colombo is the district with the largest number of registered voters. It send 19 MPs to the parliament. UNP won 11 seats and the UPFA managed to win 7. JVP had to be content with just one seat.

UNP

Ranil Wickremesinghe 500566

Sujeeva Senasinghe 117049

Harsha de Silva  114148

Ravi Karunanayake 111394

Patali Champika Ranawaka 100444

S.M. Marikkar 92,526

Mujibar Rahuman 83,884

Eran Wickremeratne 82,783

Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe 81,758

Hirunika Premachandra 70,584

Mano Ganesan 69,064

 

UPFA

Wimal Weerawansa 313,801

Udaya Gammanpila 198,818

Susil Premajayantha 174,075

Dinesh Gunawardena 124,451

Bandula Gunawardena 96,057

Mohan Lal Grero 65,703

Gamini Lokuge 58,527

 

JVP

Anura Dissanayake 65,966