Performance of actors/actresses and sports stars/journalists
Winners
• Sanath Jayasuriya (UPFA/Matara)
• Upeksha Swarnamali (UNP/Gampaha)
• Rosy Senanayake (UNP/Colombo)
• Ranjan Ramanayake (UNP/Ratnapura)
• Jeevan Kumaratunga (UPFA/Colombo)
• Buddika Pathirana (UNP/Sirasa TV/ Matara)
• Sri Ranga Jeyaratnam (UNP/Sirasa TV/ Nuwara Eliya)
• Manusha Nanayakkara (UNP/Swarnavahini/ Galle)
Losers
• Geetha Kumarathunga (UPFA/Galle)
• Susanthika Jayasinha (UPFA/Kegalle)
• Susil Kindelpitiya (UNP/Sirasa TV/ Colombo)
• Sudarman Radaliyagoda (UPFA/ITN/ Colombo)
Top losers from among Tamil politicians
• Shivaneshathure Channdrakanthan (TMVP leader/Batticaloa)
• V. Putrasigamini (N'eliya, Deputy Minister)
• Vadivel Suresh (Badullla, Deputy Minister)
• H. Sachitthananda (Badullla, Deputy Minister)
Most unlikely winners
• Nishantha Muthuhettigama (UPFA/Galle – first in the list)
• Mervyn Silva (UPFA/Gampaha)
• P.H.P. Piyasena (ITAK/Digamadulla)
Top losers
UNP
• Vajira Abeywardana (Galle)
• Sagala Rathnayaka (Matara)
• Renuka Herath (Nuwara Eliya)
• Ranjith Aluvihare (Matale)
UPFA
• Nandana Gunathilaka (Split from JVP => NFF=> SLFP)
• Rohitha Bogollagama (Crossed over from UNP => UPFA, Colombo)
• Milinda Moragoda (Crossed over from UNP => UPFA, Colombo)
• Mahinda Rathnathilaka (Crossed over from UNP => UPFA, Ratnapura)
• Piyasiri Wijenayake ( Split from JVP to NFF and contested from UPFA)
JVP
• Bimal Rathnayaka (Kurunegala)
• K.D. Lal Kantha (Anuradapura)
• Nihal Galappatthi (Hambanthota)
• Wasantha Samarasinghe (Anuradapura)
• Ranaweera Pathirana (Anuradapura)
• Chandrasena Wijesinghe (Galle)
By the way UNP leader Ranil Wickremasinghe explained that approximately 80 % of the registered voters generally cast their votes at parliamentary polls, while this time it was only 56 %, despite there being peace in the country with the end of the war last year.
Wickremasinghe said that while 2.6 million people who would have cast their votes have refrained from voting, 3.1 million have voted against the government.
