UPFA’s Prasanna Ranatunga has taken the lead in the  Gampaha preferential votes. Preferential voting results from the Colombo and Gampaha districts were released on Monday morning.

Contesting under the the UPFA banner, Prasanna Ranatunga obtained the highest number of votes of 249,678 for the Gampaha District.

Recording 106,661 votes, the second highest number of votes was recorded by Nimal Lansa.

Sahan Pradeep came in third from the district obtaining 59,892.

Meanwhile, from the UNP, the highest number of votes of 51,018 was obtained by Harshana Rajakaruna from Gampaha. Kavinda Heshan obtained the second highest number of votes obtaining 41,654.

Edward Gunasekera obtained 29,944 votes for the UNP coming in third from Gampaha.

Meanwhile, Susara Dinal who contested from the UPFA for the Gampaha District obtained 37,598 votes.

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