List of mayors of Kandy

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The mayor of Kandy is the mayor and head of the Kandy Municipal Council. The post was created in 1866 when the Kandy Municipal Council established by the Municipalities Ordinance of 1865. The offices of the mayor are at the Kandy Town Hall. The mayor's legal title is His worship the Mayor of Kandy.

Mayor of Kandy
since 8 April 2018
Kandy Municipal Council
StyleHis Worship
SeatKandy
Constituting instrumentMunicipal Council Ordinance No. 17 of 1865
First holderSir Cudah Ratwatte
DeputyT.M. Ilahi Abdeen

List of mayors

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Parties

  United National Party   Sri Lanka Freedom Party   Independent

Name Date of office notes
Sir Cudah Ratwatte 1939-40 First elected mayor of Kandy
Allan Morley Spaar 1940-42
Naganather Canaganayagam 1942 First Tamil mayor[1]
Bennet Soysa 1943-44
A. S. Karunaratna 1945
Victor M. Guruswamy 1946
Fredrick de Silva 1947 Member of Parliament for Kandy (1954–57) and Ambassador to France (1968–71)
A. C. L. Ratwatte 1948
Bennet Soysa 1949
E. L. Senanayake 1950-54 Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament and Governor of North Central Province and Central Province[2]
Bennet Soysa 1954-56 Member of the State Council and the Senate of Ceylon
E. L. Senanayake 1956-60
Bennet Soysa 1961-62
Noel Wimalasena 1963
E. L. Senanayake 1964-68
Sir Bennet Soysa 1968-70
Tilak Ratnayake 1979-90 Governor of Uva Province (1990–93)
Chandra Ranaraja 1990-91 first female mayor of Kandy
Don Edmund Pathirana 1991-97
Harindra Dunuwille 1997-2002 Member of Parliament (1989–94) and served as the Deputy Minister of State for Constitutional Affairs
Kesera Senanayake 2002-06 [3]
L. B. Aluvihare 2006-10
Rajapathiranalage Sarath Pushpakumara 2010-11
Mahendra Ratwatte 2011 - 19 November 2015 Resigned as mayor to take on the role of Basnayake Nilame of the Kandy Sri Vishnu Devala[4]
Sena Dissanayake 19 November 2015[5] -  ?
Kesera Senanayake 8 April 2018 – present Son of E. L. Senanayake[6]

References

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  1. ^ Arumugam, S., ed. (1997). Dictionary of Biography of the Tamils of Ceylon (PDF). p. 28.
  2. ^ "Tribute to Desamanya E.L. Senanayake". Daily News. 31 January 2005. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  3. ^ Muller, Carl (16 June 2002). "Exclusive interview with the Mayor of Kandy, Mr. Kesara Senanayake - of rotten apples and toilet water!". The Island. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Mahendra Ratwatte resigns as Mayor of Kandy". Daily Mirror. 19 November 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  5. ^ "New Kandy mayor assumes duty". Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization. 16 December 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  6. ^ Senaratne, L. B. (8 April 2018). "UNP's Kesera wins Kandy's mayoral battle amid UPFA, JVP neutrality". Sunday Times. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
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