List of Mayors of Kandy
List of Mayors
Parties United National Party Sri Lanka Freedom Party Independent

List of Mayors of Kandy

Section Title: List of Mayors
Table Section Text: Parties United National Party Sri Lanka Freedom Party Independent

Name	Date of office	notes

Sir Cudah Ratwatte	1939-40	First elected mayor of Kandy

A. M. Spaar	1941

Naganather Canaganayagam	1942

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

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

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

Sena Dissanayake	19 November 2015 - ?

Kesera Senanayake	8 April 2018-present	Son of E. L. Senanayake

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