# List of members of the Sri Lankan Parliament who died in office

The following is a list of members of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and its antecedent bodies who died in office.

## State Council of Ceylon (1931–1947)

| Member | Constituency | Date of death | Age at death (years) | Cause |
| Godfrey Edward Madawala | Narammala | September 1932 | 54 | |
| S. O. Canagaratnam | Batticaloa South | May 1938 | 57-58 | |
| Neil Hewavitarne | Udugama | 30 October 1939 | | |
| Charles Batuwantudawe | Kalutara | 13 September 1940 | 62 | |
| Naysum Saravanamuttu | Colombo North | 19 January 1941 | 43-44 | |
| C. E. P. de Silva | Negombo | 27 February 1942 | | |
| R. Sri Pathmanathan | Mannar-Mullaitivu | 5 May 1943 | | |
| J. H. Ilangantileke | Puttalam | 27 July 1943 | | |
| G. C. Rambukpotha | Bibile | 27 October 1943 | 58 | |
| Siripala Samarakkody | Narammala | 22 August 1944 | 37 | Typhoid fever |
| H. R. Freeman | Anuradhapura | April 1945 | 81 | |
| D. M. Rajapaksa | Hambantota | 18 May 1945 | 49 | Heart attack |
| R. C. Kannangara | Morawaka | 14 October 1946 | 26 | |

## Parliament of Ceylon (1947–1972)

| Member | Party | Party | Constituency | Date of death | Age at death (years) | Cause |
| S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike | | SLFP | Attanagalla | 26 September 1959 | 60 | Assassinated |
| Bernard Aluwihare | | UNP | Matale | 22 January 1961 | 58 | Cancer |

## Parliament of Sri Lanka (1978–present)

| Member | Party | Constituency | Date of death | Age at death (years) | Cause |
| M. Canagaratnam | UNP | Pottuvil | 20 April 1980 | 56 | Assassinated |
| Bandulahewa Senadheera | UNP | Karandeniya | January 1982 | | |
| Jinadasa Weerasinghe | UNP | Tangalle | 31 July 1987 | 61 | Assassinated |
| Keerthisena Abeywickrama | UNP | Deniyaya | 31 July 1987 | 61 | Assassinated |
| G.V.S. de Silva | UNP | Habaraduwa | 1 May 1988 | | Assassinated |
| Lionel Jayatilleke | UNP | Habaraduwa | 26 September 1988 | 64 | Assassinated |
| W.M.P.G. Banda | UNP | Galagedara | 1989 | | Assassinated |
| Lesley Ranagala | UNP | Borella | 1989 | | Assassinated |
| M. A. Daniel | UNP | Kandy | 25 June 1989 | | Assassinated |
| A. Amirthalingam | TULF | Kankesanthurai | 13 July 1989 | | Assassinated |
| Daya Sepali Senadheera | UNP | Karandeniya | 29 August 1989 | | Assassinated |
| Merrill Kariyawasam | UNP | Agalawatta | 5 September 1989 | | Assassinated |
| Sam Tambimuttu | EPRLF | Batticaloa | 7 May 1990 | 57-58 | Assassinated |
| G. Yogasangari | EPRLF | Jaffna | 19 June 1990 | | Assassinated |
| Ranjan Wijeratne | UNP | National List | 2 March 1991 | 59 | Assassinated |
| Lalith Athulathmudali | DUNF | Colombo | 23 April 1993 | 56 | Assassinated |
| Gamini Dissanayake | UNP | Kandy | 24 October 1994 | 52 | Assassinated |
| Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi | UNP | Colombo | 24 October 1994 | 64 | Assassinated (same event with Gamini Dissanayake) |
| Ossie Abeygunasekera | UNP | Colombo | 24 October 1994 | 44 | Assassinated (same event with Gamini Dissanayake and Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi) |
| Nalanda Ellawala | PA | Ratnapura | 11 February 1997 | 29 | Assassinated |
| A. Thangathurai | TULF | Mutur | 5 July 1997 | 61 | Assassinated |
| M. E. H. Maharoof | UNP | Trincomalee | 29 July 1997 | 58 | Assassinated |
| Bernard Soysa | PA | Colombo | 30 December 1997 | 83 | |
| S. Shanmuganathan | DPLF | Vavuniya | 15 July 1998 | 38 | Assassinated |
| Neelan Tiruchelvam | TULF | National List | 29 July 1999 | 55 | Assassinated |
| Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed | UNP | Kandy | 3 September 1999 | 72 | |
| Savumiamoorthy Thondaman | PA | National List | 30 October 1999 | 86 | Heart failure |
| Nadarajah Atputharajah | EPDP | Jaffna | 2 November 1999 | 36 | Assassinated |
| C. V. Gunaratne | PA | Colombo | 7 June 2000 | | Assassinated |
| M. Sivasithamparam | TNA | National List | 5 June 2002 | 78 | |
| Lakshman Kadirgamar | UPFA | National List | 12 August 2005 | 73 | Assassinated |
| Joseph Pararajasingham | TNA | National List | 25 December 2005 | 71 | Assassinated |
| Nadarajah Raviraj | TNA | Jaffna | 10 November 2006 | 44 | Assassinated |
| Anwar Ismail | UPFA | National List | 13 September 2007 | | |
| T. Maheswaran | UNF | Colombo | 1 January 2008 | 41 | Assassinated |
| D. M. Dassanayake | UPFA | Puttalam | 8 January 2008 | 54 | Assassinated |
| Sripathi Sooriyarachchi | UPFA | Gampaha | 9 February 2008 | 45 | Road accident |
| Kiddinan Sivanesan | TNA | Jaffna | 6 March 2008 | 51 | Assassinated |
| Anura Bandaranaike | UPFA | Gampaha | 16 March 2008 | 59 | Cancer |
| Jeyaraj Fernandopulle | UPFA | Gampaha | 6 April 2008 | 55 | Assassinated |
| Reggie Ranatunga | UPFA | Gampaha | 31 May 2008 | 55 | |
| Alick Aluvihare | UNF | Matale | 17 May 2009 | 83 | |
| K. Pathmanathan | TNA | Ampara | 21 May 2009 | 60 | |
| Amarasiri Dodangoda | UPFA | Galle | 30 May 2009 | 67 | |
| Sarath Ranawaka | UNF | Kalutara | 25 July 2009 | 58 | |
| P. Chandrasekaran | UCPF | Nuwara Eliya | 1 January 2010 | 52 | Cirrhosis |
| Noordeen Mashoor | UPFA | Vanni | 2 December 2010 | 48 | Heart attack |
| Jayalath Jayawardena | UNP | Gampaha | 30 May 2013 | 59 | Heart attack |
| Neranjan Wickremasinghe | UPFA | Kurunegala | 12 May 2015 | 53 | Heart attack |
| M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana | UNF | National List | 19 January 2016 | 68 | |
| Amarakeerthi Athukorala | SLPFA | Polonnaruwa | 9 May 2022 | 57 | Lynched by a mob |
| Sanath Nishantha | SLPFA | Puttalam | 25 January 2024 | 48 | Road accident. |
| K. H. Nandasena | SLPFA | Anuradhapura | 4 April 2024 | 69 | |
| R. Sampanthan | TNA | Trincomalee | 30 June 2024 | 91 | |