List of Mayors of Jaffna
Mayors and chairmen

List of Mayors of Jaffna

Section Title: Mayors and chairmen
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Name	Party	Took office	Left office	Title	Refs

Canagaratnam, A.A. Canagaratnam	Chairman

Nalliah, R. R.R. R. Nalliah

Sabapathy, Sam A.Sam A. Sabapathy	1937	1939

Aiyadurai, K.K. Aiyadurai	1942	1943

Sabapathy, Sam A.Sam A. Sabapathy	6 January 1949	31 December 1949	Mayor

Ponnambalam, CathiraveluCathiravelu Ponnambalam	6 January 1950	31 December 1951

Sabapathy, Sam A.Sam A. Sabapathy	11 January 1952	31 December 1954

Sultan, M. A. M. M.M. A. M. M. Sultan	5 January 1955	31 December 1955

Navaratnam, S. A.S. A. Navaratnam	16 January 1956	31 December 1957

Kasipillai, P.P. Kasipillai	6 July 1960	31 December 1960

Thurairajah, T. S.T. S. Thurairajah	7 January 1961	12 February 1962

Jacob, M.M. Jacob	19 February 1962	15 May 1963

Tharmalingam, S. A.S. A. Tharmalingam	28 May 1962	4 April 1963

John, P. M.P. M. John	11 April 1963	6 May 1963

Thurairajah, T. S.T. S. Thurairajah	15 May 1963	6 May 1963

Mahadeva, S. S.S. S. Mahadeva	8 July 1965	31 December 1965

Nagarajah, S.S. Nagarajah	8 January 1966	24 March 1966

Duraiappah, AlfredAlfred Duraiappah	15 February 1970	21 April 1971

Duraiappah, AlfredAlfred Duraiappah	Sri Lanka Freedom Party	22 April 1971	27 July 1975

Viswanathan, R.R. Viswanathan	1 June 1979	31 May 1983

Yogeswaran, SarojiniSarojini Yogeswaran	Tamil United Liberation Front	11 March 1998	17 May 1998

Sivapalan, PonPon Sivapalan	Tamil United Liberation Front	29 June 1998	11 September 1998

Raviraj, NadarajahNadarajah Raviraj	Tamil United Liberation Front	9 January 2001	18 December 2001

Kandaiyan, SellanSellan Kandaiyan	Tamil United Liberation Front	15 January 2002	13 February 2003

Patkunarajah, YogeswariYogeswari Patkunarajah	Eelam People's Democratic Party	1 September 2009

Arnold, E.E. Arnold	Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi	26 February 2018

Sentence(s)

Samuel Ariaretnam Sabapathy was the first Mayor of Jaffna.

final_sentence: Samuel Ariaretnam Sabapathy was the first Mayor of Jaffna.