List of mayors of Kandy

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Mayor of Kandy
Incumbent
Chandrasiri Wijenayake
since 3 June 2025
Kandy Municipal Council
Style His Worship
Seat Kandy
Constituting instrumentMunicipal Council Ordinance No. 17 of 1865
First holderSir Cudah Ratwatte
DeputyRuwan Kumara

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.

Contents

List of mayors

Parties

   United National Party    Sri Lanka Freedom Party    National People's Power    Independent

NameDate of officenotes
Sir Cudah Ratwatte 1939 - 1940First elected mayor of Kandy
Allan Morley Spaar 1940 - 1942
Naganather Canaganayagam 1942First Tamil mayor [1]
Bennet Soysa 1943 - 1944
A. S. Karunaratna 1945
Victor M. Guruswamy 1946
Fredrick de Silva 1947Member of Parliament for Kandy (1954–57) and Ambassador to France (1968–71)
A. C. L. Ratwatte 1948
Bennet Soysa 1949
E. L. Senanayake 1950 - 1954 Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament and Governor of North Central Province and Central Province [2]
Bennet Soysa 1954 - 1956Member of the State Council and the Senate of Ceylon
E. L. Senanayake 1956 - 1960
Bennet Soysa 1961 - 1962
Noel Wimalasena 1963
E. L. Senanayake 1964 - 1968
Sir Bennet Soysa 1968 - 1970
Tilak Ratnayake 1979 - 1990Governor of Uva Province (1990–93)
Chandra Ranaraja 1990 - 1991first female mayor of Kandy
Don Edmund Pathirana 1991 - 1997
Harindra Dunuwille 1997 - 2002Member of Parliament (1989–94) and served as the Deputy Minister of State for Constitutional Affairs
Kesera Senanayake 2002 - 2006 [3]
L. B. Aluvihare 2006 - 2010
Rajapathiranalage Sarath Pushpakumara 2010 - 2011
Mahendra Ratwatte 2011 - 2015Resigned as mayor to take on the role of Basnayake Nilame of the Kandy Sri Vishnu Devala [4]
Sena Dissanayake [5] 2015 - 2018
Kesera Senanayake 2018 - 2024Son of E. L. Senanayake [6]
Chandrasiri Wijenayake2025 - Present [7]

References

  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.
  7. https://www.dailynews.lk/2025/06/03/local/789765/new-kandy-mayor-ready-to-face-challenges/