Nominations close for 2015 General Election

The acceptance of nominations for the 2015 General Election concluded at noon today. Across the island  all major parties handed in nominations to contest the August 17 Parliamentary Election.   Here are scenes from today's handing over of nominations and the lists   Colombo District United National Party 01. Ravi Karunanayake 02. Wijayadasa Rajapaksha 03. Ranil Wickremesinghe 04. Harsha de Silva 05. Rosy Senanayake 06. Iran Wickramaratne 07. Sujeewa Senasinghe 08. Manju Sri Arangala 09. Niroshan Padukka 10. Mujibur Rahuman 11. S.M. Marikkar 12. Upul Shantha Sannasgala 13. Udara Ratnayake 14. Jayantha de Silva 15. Sunethra Ranasinghe 16. Srinath Perera 17. Leonard Karunathilake 18. Mano Ganesan 19. S. Kuhawarathan 20. Feroza Musammil 21. Hirunika Eranjali Premachandra 22. Patali Champika Ranawaka United People’s Freedom Alliance 01. Susil Premajayantha (Group leader) 02. Dinesh Gunawardena 03. Wimal Weerawansa 04. Bandula Gunawardena 05. Mohan Lal Grero 06. Gamini Lokuge 07. Thilanga Sumathipala 08. Geethanjana Gunawardena 09. Rohitha Bogollagama 10. Chandana Kathriarachchi 11. Janaka Weliwatta 12. Kanthi Kodikara 13. Dhanasiri Amaratunga 14. Malsha Kumaratunga 15. Prasanna Solangaarachchi 16. Jagath Kumara Sumithraarachchi 17. Vajira Mapalagama 18. M. Almeda 19. Thallaiya Kumara Guruparan 20. Udaya Prabhath Gammanpila 21. Fawool Hameed Mohammed 22. Jayantha Ketagoda Hambantota District - United National Party 1.    Sajith Premadasa 2.    Dilip Wedaarachchi 3.    Kadukannage Ananda Kularatne 4.    Tennakone Gamage Senaratne 5.    Thalpawila Vidana Kankanamge Gamini 6.    Samarasinghe Arachchige Sujeewa 7.    Athulasenaratne Meegasdeniya Kankanamge 8.    M.L.A. Gunathilake 9.    Peduru Arachchige Sujith Muthukumarana 10. Mahinda Pushpakumara Pathegama - United People’s Freedom Alliance 01. Chamal Jayantha Rajapaksa 02. Mahinda Amaraweera 03. Namal Rajapaksa 04. Nirupama Deepika Rajapaksa 05. Wehella Kankanamge Indika Jamendra Kurunegala District United National Party 01. Akila Viraj 02. S.B. Nawinna 03. Gamini Jayawickrama 04. Ashoka Abeysinghe 05. Nalin Bandara 06. Shamal Senarath 07. J.C. Alawathuwala 08. Indunil Thushara 09. M.S. Perera 10. Preethi Mohan Perera 11. T.M.P.H. Tennakone 12. Jagath Manjula Yapa 13. Kumaradasa Giribawa 14. Achini Herath 15. Bandula Bandaranayake 16. Ajith Rohana 17. H.M. Jayaratne 18. M.S. Shihabdeen United People’s Freedom Alliance 01. Mahinda Rajapaksa 02. Anura Priyadarshana Yapa 03. Johnston Fernando 04. Shantha Bandara 05. Jayaratne Herath 06. Salinda Dissanayake 07. Indika Bandaranayake 08. Tharanath Basnayake 09. Nimal Wijesinghe 10. R.D. Nimaladasa 11. Dayasiri Jayasekara 12. Athula Wijesinghe 13.  Darshani Wickremesinghe 14. Sujani Maheshika 15. D.B. Herath 16. Asanka Nawaratne 17. K.A. Padmasiri Galle District United National Party 01. Abeywardena Vajira 02. Gayantha Karunathilake 03. Bandulalal Bandarigoda 04. Bopagoda Hettiarachchige Wijepala 05. Sunil Senanayake 06. Jayantha Jayaweera Bandulahewa 07. Ashoka Weera Somaratne 08. Ananda Padmasiri Kariyawasam 09. Denet Paniyanduwage 0. Payaz Mohammed Latheef 11. Ajantha de Soyza 12. Abeygunawardana Chandralal 13. Athukorale Senadhi Jayalal United People’s Freedom Alliance 01.  Ihalamedagama Gamage Piyasena 02. Chandima Weerakkodi 03. Mudugama Hewage Gunaratne Weerakone 04. Nishantha Muthuhettigamage 05.  Ramesh Chaminda Bentota Pathirana 06. Maligaspe Koralage Nalin Manusha Nanayakkara 07. Agampodi Mohan Priyadarshana de Silvage 08. Geetha Samanmali Kumarasinghe 09. Naotunna Guruge Methsiri Alexander de Silva 10. Sirimathura Channa Sri Saliya Mendis 11. Aruna Pradeep Manimelwadu 12. Ven. Baddegama Samitha Thera 13. Agulugahagamage Chandradasa Piyasiri 08.Mohamed Arip Abdul Majeed 09.Walpitigamage Lal 10.Uswaththa Liyanage Amarasiri 11.Thotagamuwa Kankanamge Jayasundara 12.Kariyawasam Galthanthridage Ananda 13.Halwita Ihala Gamage Sunil     UPFA National List

1. A.H.M. Fowzie
2. Professor G.L. Peiris
3. H.W. Gunasekara
4. Professor Tissa Wijeratne
5. Tissa Attanayake
6. Professor H.R.S. Mohamed
7. Dr. Sarath Amunugama
8. Dilan Perera
9. J. Sri Ranga
10. Reginold Cooray
11. Jeewan Kumaratunga
12. Tiran Alles
13. Malith Jayathilaka
14. Shiral Lakthilaka
15. Prof. Colvin Gunaratne
16. Prabha Gameshan
17. Faizer Mustapha
18. Prof. Rajiv Wijesinghe
19. Prof. Kapila Gunasekara
20. Dr. B.A. Rathnapala
21. Charitha Herath
22. Karuppaiya Ganesh Murti
23. Leslie Devendra
24. C. Somaweera
25. S.M. Uthuma
26. M.F.M. Muzammil
27. Gevindu Kumaratunga

1. Malik Samarawickrama
2. Karu Jayasuriya
3. D.M. Swaminadhan
4. Anoma Gamage
5. K. Velayudhan
6. Hussain Ali
7. Mohammad Jamil
8. Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thero
9. Dr. Jayampathy wickramaratne
10. Thilak Janaka
11. Prof. Chandrajith Marapana
12. Nisam Kariyappar
13. S.K.D. Gunawardena
14. Asad Sally
15. Irvin Weerakkody
16. Raja Uswetakeiyawa
17. Wimal Jayasiri
18. Suranimala Rajapaksa
19. Winston Pathiraja
20. Sirinal de Mel
21. A. Sasidharan
22. M. Hameed
23. Krishantha Cooray
24. Abdul Hafeez
25. Mohamed Salman
26. Ven. Omalpe Sobitha Thero
27. Mohamed Naja
28. R. pancharatnam
29. P.G. Gunarathna