Gotabaya Rajapaksa, presidential candidate of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), received the most number of votes in the Hanguranketha electorate in the Nuwara Eliya District.
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa – 30,999
- Sajith Premadasa – 24,995
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake – 1,153