The UNP won the Colombo District postal votes with a wafer thin lead of 579 votes.

The UNP polled 11,446 votes (44.32%) while the UPFA managed to obtain 10, 867 votes.

The JVP managed to poll 3,087 votes.

In 2010, the UPFA won the postal votes in Colombo with 12,637 votes. The UNP had managed to obtain only 3,885 postal votes in 2010 from Colombo.