Colombo Electoral District

Colombo Electoral District
Constituency for the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Region	Western Province
Electorate	1,552,734
Current constituency
Created	1978
Seats	20 (1989–01) 21 (2001–04) 20 (2004–10) 19 (2010–present)
MPs	, UPFA Praba Ganesan, UPFA Mohan Lal Grero, UNF Bandula Gunawardane, UPFA Dinesh Gunawardena, UPFA Sunil Handunnetti, DNA Ravi Karunanayake, UNF Jayantha Ketagoda, DNA Jeewan Kumaranatunga, UPFA Gamini Lokuge, UPFA Susil Premajayanth, UPFA Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa, UNF Champika Ranawaka, UPFA Hirunika Premachandra, UNF Sujeewa Senasinghe, UNF Duminda Silva, UPFA Thilanga Sumathipala, UPFA Wimal Weerawansa, UPFA Ranil Wickremasinghe, UNF
Provincial Council	Western
Created from	Avissawella Borella Colombo Central Colombo East Colombo North Colombo West Dehiwela Homagama Kaduwela Kesbewa Kolonnawa Kotte Maharagama Moratuwa Ratmalana

Colombo 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 Colombo in the Western province. The district currently elects 19 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 1,552,734 registered electors in 2014.

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

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

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

The following candidates were elected:Lalith Athulathmudali (UNP), 235,447 preference votes (pv); Bulathsinghalage Sirisena Cooray (UNP), 92,263 pv; Stanley Tillekeratne (SLFP), 83,636 pv; Dinesh Gunawardena (MEP), 70,616 pv; Arachchige Jinadasa Niyathapala (SLFP) 67,804 pv; C. V. Gunaratne (SLFP), 60,603 pv; Bandula Gunawardane (MEP), 50,861 pv; Dixon Perera (SLFP), 50,735 pv; Gamini Lokuge (UNP), 48,790 pv; M. H. Mohamed (UNP), 47,451 pv; Tyronne Fernando (UNP), 44,718 pv; Premaratne Gunasekera (UNP), 44,559 pv; Vincent Perera (UNP), 42,776 pv; Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi (UNP), 41,508 pv; Kingsley Wickramaratne (SLFP), 38,815 pv; Nimal Siripala de Silva (SLFP), 38,647 pv; Sunethra Ranasinghe (UNP), 37,165 pv; M. S. Sellasamy (CWC), 36,480 pv, Mohamed Jabir Abdul Cader (UNP), 30,252 pv; and Malwattage Nimal Ransiri Peiris (UNP), 27,130 pv.