Matale 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 Matale in the Central province. The district currently elects five of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 342,684 registered electors in 2010. It is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 05.
Polling Divisions The Matale Electoral District consists of the following polling divisions:
A: Dambulla
B: Laggala
C: Matale
D: Rattota
Presidential Elections
1982 presidential election Results of the 1st presidential election held on 20 October 1982 for the district:
CandidatePartyVotes per Polling DivisionPostalVotesTotal Votes% J. R. Jayewardene UNP27,36817,35422,45225,1831,67494,03158.11% Hector Kobbekaduwa SLFP21,74812,14911,63212,98278859,29936.65% Rohana Wijeweera JVP2,5011,1581,4002,033777,1694.43% Colvin R. de Silva LSSP309155153239108660.54% Kumar PonnambalamACTC4639858212530.16% Vasudeva Nanayakkara NSSP40344961121960.12%Valid Votes52,01230,88935,77140,5802,562161,814100.00%Rejected Votes385272332396291,414Total Polled52,39731,16136,10340,9762,591163,228Registered Electors60,53635,12943,70547,906187,276Turnout86.56%88.70%82.61%85.53%87.16%
1988 presidential election Results of the 2nd presidential election held on 19 December 1988 for the district:
CandidatePartyVotes per Polling DivisionPostalVotesTotal Votes% Ranasinghe PremadasaUNP4,2769,05512,54410,59953337,00757.85% Sirimavo BandaranaikeSLFP 3,1958,9086,8896,38045325,82540.37% Ossie AbeygunasekeraSLMP137216437320251,1351.77%Valid Votes7,60818,17919,87017,2991,01163,967100.00%Rejected Votes102198463297501,110Total Polled7,71018,37720,33317,5961,06165,077Registered Electors72,51541,11048,84152,472214,938Turnout10.63%44.70%41.63%33.53%30.28%
1994 presidential election Results of the 3rd presidential election held on 9 November 1994 for the district:
CandidatePartyVotes per Polling DivisionPostalVotesTotal Votes% Chandrika KumaratungaPA37,86926,09225,23428,3003,954121,44960.98% Srima DissanayakeUNP23,74613,01316,00618,1872,37273,32436.82% Hudson SamarasingheInd 260250737961852,1111.06% Harischandra WijayatungaSMBP273137288250449920.50% Nihal GalappaththiSLPF229143137154176800.34% A. J. RanasingheInd 118711912616976080.31%Valid Votes62,90640,01142,17047,6786,399199,164100.00%Rejected Votes1,4588971,2531,636735,317Total Polled64,36440,90843,42349,3146,472204,481Registered Electors85,87048,52558,63866,238259,271Turnout74.96%84.30%74.05%74.45%78.87%
1999 presidential election Results of the 4th presidential election held on 21 December 1999 for the district:
CandidatePartyVotes per Polling DivisionPostalVotesTotal Votes% Chandrika KumaratungaPA35,81124,07321,70926,9592,680111,23251.42% Ranil WickramasingheUNP30,85016,09120,18522,3362,48291,94442.51% Nandana Gunathilake JVP3,4961,0691,3921,5743937,9243.66% W. V. M. RanjithInd 232320016825559510.44% Harischandra WijayatungaSMBP233112239264549020.42% Rajiva WijesinhaLPSL27018117223528600.40% Tennyson EdirisuriyaInd 121417112223287470.35% Abdul RasoolSLMP1696417014255500.25% Kamal KarunadasaPLSF13274567833430.16% Vasudeva NanayakkaraLDA91359475133080.14% Hudson SamarasingheInd 37648597802610.12% A. W. PremawardhanaPFF5730332721490.07% Ariyawansha Dissanayaka DUNF4631342801390.06%Valid Votes71,76842,17944,43352,2835,647216,310100.00%Rejected Votes1,8761,1121,3221,6272346,171Total Polled73,64443,29145,75553,9105,881222,481Registered Electors97,34853,73264,06971,025286,174Turnout75.65%80.57%71.42%75.90%77.74%
2005 presidential election Results of the 5th presidential election held on 17 November 2005 for the district:
CandidatePartyVotes per Polling DivisionPostalVotesTotal Votes% Ranil WickramasingheUNP38,69222,24929,63731,4493,910125,93750.25% Mahinda RajapaksaUPFA43,85323,63720,94525,5516,547120,53348.09% A. A. SuraweeraNDF36127923533481,2170.49% Siritunga JayasuriyaUSP32524327836241,2120.48% Chamil JayaneththiNLF11786737823560.14% Victor HettigodaULPP102378896193420.14% Wimal GeeganageSLNF 7165345802280.09% Aruna de SoyzaRPP8451335512240.09% Anura De SilvaULF6145485312080.08% A. K. J. ArachchigeDUA 4135253911410.06% Wije DiasSEP312817190950.04% P. Nelson PereraSLPF 231415240760.03% H. S. DharmadwajaUNAF171211110510.02%Valid Votes83,77846,78151,43958,12910,493250,620100.00%Rejected Votes1,0736799329551463,785Total Polled84,85147,46052,37159,08410,639254,405Registered Electors111,40160,99071,17178,314321,876Turnout76.17%77.82%73.58%75.45%79.04%
2010 presidential election Results of the 6th presidential election held on 26 January 2010 for the district:
CandidatePartyVotes per Polling DivisionPostalVotesTotal Votes% Mahinda RajapaksaUPFA58,01631,27726,99632,8188,846157,95359.74% Sarath FonsekaNDF28,17116,30026,01325,9914,038100,51338.01% M. C. M. IsmailDUNF360213289232111,1050.42% A. A. SuraweeraNDF26718817421028410.32% W. V. M. RanjithInd 1250136100139106350.24% C. J. Sugathsiri GamageUDF15810015920336230.24% A. S. P. LiyanageSLLP9690839763720.14% Ukkubanda WijekoonInd 310770758713400.13% Siritunga JayasuriyaUSP8559579723000.11% Sarath ManamendraNSH7572618832990.11% Lal PereraONF5146609112490.09% M. K. ShivajilingamInd 54144485721920.07% Aithurus M. IlliasInd 26232394011740.07% Vikramabahu KarunaratneLF4331344361570.06% Sanath PinnaduwaNA2728293211170.04% Wije DiasSEP2921252711030.04% M. Mohamed MusthaffaInd 4232025240920.03% Ven.BattaramullaSeelarathana Thero JP272017250890.03% Aruna de SoyzaRPP201516341860.03% Senaratna de SilvaPNF201523160740.03% M. B. ThaminimullaACAKO101516151570.02% Sarath KongahageUNAF1168221480.02%Valid Votes87,94948,79854,34760,38812,937264,419100.00%Rejected Votes7783616507601172,666Total Polled88,72749,15954,99761,14813,054267,085Registered Electors119,45364,69675,15483,381342,684Turnout74.28%75.98%73.18%73.34%77.94%
2015 presidential election
Results of the 7th presidential election held on 8 January 2015:
CandidatePartyVotes per Polling DivisionPostalVotesTotal Votes% Mahinda Rajapaksa UPFA 57,657 33,821 26,684 32,235 8,483 158,880 51.41% Maithripala Sirisena NDF 47,652 21,511 36,052 37,319 8,394 145,928 47.22% R. A. Sirisena PNF 205 170 123 141 5 649 0.21% Namal Rajapaksa ONF 158 136 65 137 4 500 0.16% A. S. P. Liyanage SLLP 92 73 101 125 3 394 0.13% M. I. Mohanmed Mishlar UPF 104 59 91 134 4 392 0.13% R. Peduru Arachchi ULPP 74 72 96 134 4 380 0.12% Aithurus M. Illias Ind 1 90 52 77 86 1 306 0.1% Siritunga Jayasuriya USP 66 42 72 102 3 285 0.09% Duminda Nagamuwa FSP 79 39 54 72 7 251 0.08% Sarath Manamendra NSH 75 50 44 71 1 241 0.08% Anurudha Polgampola Ind 2 36 30 40 45 1 152 0.05% Sundaram Mahendran NSSP 24 33 36 40 2 135 0.04% M. B. Theminimulla ACAKO 36 22 25 36 0 119 0.04% Vajirapani Wijesiriwardene SEP 27 11 28 31 0 97 0.03% Ven.BattaramullaSeelarathana Thero JSP 30 12 15 28 3 88 0.03% Prasanna Priyankara DNM 25 13 11 34 4 87 0.03% Jayantha Kulathunga ULGC 27 17 9 25 3 81 0.03% Wimal Geeganage SLNF 15 10 14 17 1 57 0.02%Valid Votes 101,472 56,178 63,637 70,812 16,923 309,022 100.00%Rejected Votes 1,074 581 773 1,079 146 3,653 1.17%Total Polled 102,546 56,759 64,410 71,891 17,069 312,675 82.35%Registered Electors 131,831 70,323 84,225 93,296 17,330 379,675
2019 presidential election
Results of the 8th presidential election held on 16 November 2019:
CandidatePartyVotes per Polling DivisionPostalVotesTotal Votes% Gotabaya Rajapaksa SLPP 68,177 36,363 32,486 37,390 13,405 187,821 55.37% Sajith Premadasa NDF 37,717 21,384 33,251 35,774 6,165 134,291 39.59% Anura Kumara Dissanayake NMPP 3,221 1,070 1,895 1,717 987 8,890 2.62% Mahesh Senanayake NPP 241 107 223 215 113 899 0.26% Ajantha Perera SPSL 307 179 129 222 13 850 0.25% Ariyawansa Dissanayake DUNF 240 171 159 232 17 825 0.24% M. L. A. M. Hizbullah Ind 11 222 159 140 187 16 724 0.21% Rohan Pallewatte JSWP 255 123 108 147 12 645 0.19% Siripala Amarasinghe Ind 02 120 69 102 156 12 459 0.14% Ajantha de zoysa RJP 141 90 68 118 5 422 0.12% Milroy Fernando Ind 09 89 62 71 135 3 360 0.11% Ven.BattaramullaSeelarathana Thero JSP 101 53 77 109 1 341 0.1% Anuruddha Polgampola Ind 08 60 47 72 118 4 301 0.09% Jayantha Ketagoda Ind 07 78 65 40 83 1 267 0.08% Namal Rajapaksa NUA 84 68 48 54 7 261 0.08% Subramanium Gunaratnam ONF 56 43 44 68 1 212 0.06% Ven.AparekkePunnananda Thero Ind 01 41 26 33 56 14 170 0.05% A. S. P. Liyanage SLLP 32 36 37 53 1 159 0.05% Duminda Nagamuwa FSP 58 25 19 33 13 148 0.04% Aithurus M. Illiyas Ind 03 31 23 32 26 2 114 0.03% Piyasiri Wijenayake Ind 13 33 31 24 24 1 113 0.03% Sarath Manamendra NSU 30 30 19 27 0 106 0.03% Aruna de soyza DNM 36 16 18 26 1 97 0.03% Rajiva Wijesinha Ind 14 30 12 27 23 0 92 0.03% Siritunga Jayasuriya USP 24 17 16 30 3 90 0.03% Vajirapani Wijesiriwardene SEP 23 11 21 23 2 80 0.02% A. H. M. Alavi Ind 04 21 13 17 25 1 77 0.02% M. K. Shivajilingam Ind 10 20 8 22 17 0 67 0.02% Saman Perera OPPP 15 14 16 19 1 65 0.02% Ashoka Wadigamangawa Ind 12 15 14 8 19 0 56 0.02% Priyantha Edirisinghe ACAKO 14 6 11 19 2 52 0.02% Sarath Keerthirathna Ind 05 13 13 11 15 0 52 0.02% Samaraweera Weerawanni Ind 15 8 14 8 16 4 50 0.01% B. G. Nandimithra NSSP 15 8 5 22 0 48 0.01% Samansiri Herath Ind 06 6 2 4 5 0 17 0.00%Valid Votes 111,572 60,378 69,261 77,203 20,807 339,221 100.00%Rejected Votes 1,000 501 812 678 261 3,252 0.81%Total Polled 112,572 60,879 70,073 77,881 21,068 342,473 85.3%Registered Electors 132,221 69,632 84,846 93,503 21,294 401,496
2024 presidential election
Results of the 9th presidential election held on 21 September 2024: