Colombo - Gampaha Preferential Votes released

Most of the voters who were curious to know was the Preferential Votes of Colombo and Gampaha which was incidentally was delayed; but it has now been released. It is as follows. Ranil Wickremasingha has created a record by exceeding 5 lakhs votes from Colombo. Prior to this it was Chandrika Cumaratunge who held such a record by getting 463000. This time Mahinda had claimed the most number of Preferential votes amounting to close upon 423000 from Kurunegala. The total of Preferential votes is as follows.

 1. Ranil Wickremasingha 500,566

 2. Sujeewa Senasingha 117,049

 3. Harsha de Silva 114,148

 4. Ravi Karunanayaka 111,394

 5. Patali Champika Ranawaka 100,444

 6. S.M. Marikkar 92,526

 7. Mujiber Rahuman 83,884

 8. Eran Wickramaratna 82,738

 9. Wijedasa Rajapaksa 81,758

10. Hirunika Premachandra 70,584 

11. Mano Ganeshan 69,064

 1. Wimal Weeravansha 313,801

 2. Udaya Gammanpila 198,818

 3. Susil Premajayantha 174,075

 4. Dinesh Goonawardena 124,451

 5. Bandula Gunawardena 96,057

 6. Mohan Lal Grero 65,703

 7. Gamini Lokuge 58,527

 1. Anura Kumara Dissanayaka 65,966

 1. Ranjan Ramanayaka 216,463

 2. Arjuna Ranatunga 165,890

 3. Ruwan Wijayawardena 157,932

 4. Harshana Rajakaruna 122,455

 5. Ajith Mannapperuma 113,889

 6. John Amaratunga 83070

 7. Kavinda Jayawardena 81383

 8. Chathura Senaratna 71243

 9. Edward Gunasekera 68874

 1. Prasanna Ranatunga 384,448

 2. Prasanna Ranaweera 112,395

 3. Nimal Lansa 94375

 4. Sisira Jayakody 90749

 5. Indika Anuruddha 78109

 6. Sudarshini Fernandopulle 73553

 7. Duleep Wijeysekera 58936

 8. Lasantha Alagiyawanna 57950

 1. Vijitha Herath 55299