First count of Colombo District preferential votes shows that Hirunika Premachandra, daughter of the lata Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, has topped the Colombo District UPFA preferential list, Elections Department sources said. 

JHU's Legal Adviser Udaya Prabath Gammanpila is the second on the list. Popular actor Roger Seneviratne, who contested under the UPFA ticket, ihas become the third in the first count. 

Upali Kodikara, who was previously a minister of the Western Provincial Council, has managed to become the fourth.

Manjula Buddhadasa, son of Kaduwela UC Chairman G.H. Buddhadasa, is the fifth on the Colombo District list, sources said.

The second count of Colombo District preferential votes is still underway.