Former Minister Rosy Senanayake who contested the August 17 general election from Colombo District has asked for a recount of preference votes, raising doubts on the number of preference votes she received.

Senanayake was the 12th in the Colombo District list of UNP candidates by preference votes, receiving 65,320 preferences. Only 11 candidates were elected from the district under the UNP ticket.

Senanayake said that she was suspecting some wrongdoing in cpunting the preferences.

The Tamil Progressive Alliance leader Mano Ganesan, who contested under the UNP ticket, came at the 11th place with 69,064 preferences.