Successful candidates of the Nuwara Eliya district included S. B.
Dissanayake's younger brother Saliya and JVPer Nimal Piyatissa, the only
JVPer to contest the district. Kumara Dassanayake is the son of former
Kotmale MP Ananda Dassanayake.
UPFA (Nine members)
Saliya Bandara Dissanayaka - 39,005
R.S.M.B. Ratnayake - 30,114
Kumara Dassanayaka - 30,006
Rameshwaram Varudhapandy - 21,544
Nimal Piyatissa - 19,961
Ramasamy Muttiah - 18,990
Jayaratna Dissanayaka - 18,897
Velusamy Radhakrishnan - 18,513
Vimali Karunaratna - 17,982
UNP (Seven members)
Allagan Tithambaram - 45,229
Prakash Ganesh - 38,362
Mailvaganam Udhayakumar - 32,409
Jayalath Bandara - 21,350
K.K.Piyadasa - 20,902
Suppaiha Sathasivam - 20,462
Kanapathy Kanagaraja - 15,547
