 He was re-elected in the 1956 general election, becoming only one of eight United National Party members to be elected to parliament after the landslide victory of S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike and his Sri Lanka Freedom Party.Dharmapala was re-elected in the March 1960 general election from the Devinuwara electorate, however he lost to P. P. Wickremasuriya.