Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka

The **Speaker of the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka** is the presiding officer of the chamber. The current Speaker of the Parliament is Asoka Ranwala since 23 Nowember 2024

## List of speakers of Parliament

- Parties

|colspan="2"|Name|Portrait|Party|Tenure|colspan="2"|Head(s) of Government||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan="7"|**Speakers of the State Council (1931–1947)**|||||||
|Alexander Francis Molamure||Non-partisan|7 July 1931 – 10 December 1934|rowspan="3" style="background: ;"||Graeme Thomson _Francis Graeme Tyrrell_ Reginald Edward Stubbs||
|Forester Augustus Obeysekera||Non-partisan|11 December 1934 – 7 December 1935|Reginald Edward Stubbs||||
|Waithilingam Duraiswamy||Non-partisan|17 March 1936 – 4 July 1947|Reginald Edward Stubbs Maxwell MacLagan Wedderburn Andrew Caldecott Henry Monck-Mason Moore||||
|colspan="7"|**Speakers of the Ceylonese House of Representatives (1947–1972)**|||||||
|Alexander Francis Molamure||United National Party|14 October 1947 – 25 January 1951|rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||Henry Monck-Mason Moore D. S. Senanayake||
|Albert Peries||United National Party|13 February 1951 – 18 February 1956|D. S. Senanayake Dudley Senanayake John Kotelawala||||
|Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail||Independent|19 April 1956 – 5 December 1959|style="background: ;"||John Kotelawala S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Wijeyananda Dahanayake||
|Tikiri Banda Subasinghe||Sri Lanka Freedom Party|30 March 1960 – 23 April 1960|style="background: ;"||Dudley Senanayake||
|R. S. Pelpola||Sri Lanka Freedom Party|5 August 1960 – 24 January 1964|rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Sirimavo Bandaranaike|
|Hugh Fernando||Sri Lanka Freedom Party|24 January 1964 – 17 December 1964|||||
|Albert Peries||United National Party|5 April 1965 – 21 September 1967|rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Dudley Senanayake|
|Shirley Corea||United National Party|27 September 1967 – 25 March 1970|||||
|Stanley Tillekeratne||Sri Lanka Freedom Party|7 June 1970 – 22 May 1972|style="background: ;"||Sirimavo Bandaranaike||
|colspan="7"|**Speakers of the National State Assembly (1972–1978)**|||||||
|Stanley Tillekeratne||Sri Lanka Freedom Party|22 May 1972 – 18 May 1977|style="background: ;"||Sirimavo Bandaranaike||
|Anandatissa de Alwis||United National Party|4 August 1977 – 7 September 1978|style="background: ;"||J. R. Jayewardene||
|colspan="7"|**Speakers of the Sri Lankan Parliament (1978–present)**|||||||
|Anandatissa de Alwis||United National Party|7 September 1978 – 13 September 1978|rowspan="3" style="background: ;"||rowspan="3"|J. R. Jayewardene|
|Bakeer Markar||United National Party|21 September 1978 – 30 August 1983|||||
|E. L. Senanayake||United National Party|6 September 1983 – 20 December 1988|||||
|M. H. Mohamed||United National Party|9 March 1989 – 24 June 1994|rowspan="2" style="background: ;"||Ranasinghe Premadasa Dingiri Banda Wijetunga||
|Kiri Banda Ratnayake||Sri Lanka Freedom Party|25 August 1994 – 10 October 2000|Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Chandrika Kumaratunga||||
|Anura Bandaranaike||United National Party|18 October 2000 – 10 October 2001|rowspan="4" style="background: ;"||rowspan="2"|Chandrika Kumaratunga|
|M. Joseph Michael Perera||United National Party|19 December 2001 – 7 February 2004|||||
|W. J. M. Lokubandara||United National Party|22 April 2004 – 8 April 2010|Chandrika Kumaratunga Mahinda Rajapaksa||||
|Chamal Rajapaksa||Sri Lanka Freedom Party|22 April 2010 – 26 June 2015|Mahinda Rajapaksa Maithripala Sirisena||||
|Karu Jayasuriya||United National Party|1 September 2015 – 20 August 2020|style="background: ;"||Maithripala Sirisena||
|Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena||Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna|20 August 2020 – 21 November 2024|style="background: ";"||Gotabaya Rajapaksa||
||Ashoka Sapumal Ranwala||National Peoples Power|21 November 2024 - 13 December 2024||Anura Kumara Dissanayake||

## Other websites

- Speaker of Parliament
- Speaker of the Seventh Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

## Infobox (political post)

- **post**: Speaker of the Parliament
- **native name**: පාර්ලි‌මේන්තු කථානායක
இலங்கை நாடாளுமன்ற சபாநாயகர்
- **insignia**: Coat of arms of Sri Lanka.svg
- **insigniasize**: 100px
- **insigniacaption**: Emblem of Sri Lanka
- **image**: Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena.JPG
- **incumbent**: Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena
- **incumbentsince**: 20 August 2020
- **residence**: Speaker's Residence, Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte, The Speaker's Residence, Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte
- **style**: Honourable Speaker
- **appointer**: Parliament of Sri Lanka
- **constituting instrument**: Constitution of Sri Lanka, Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
- **formation**:
 (as Speaker of the State Council of Ceylon)
- **succession**: Second in the
<small>Sri Lankan presidential line of succession, presidential line of succession</small>
- **inaugural**: Alexander Francis Molamure
- **salary**: Sri Lankan rupee, LKR 822,000 annually (2016)
- **deputy**: Deputy Speaker of the Parliament