List of Mayors of Kandy

Mayor of Kandy
Incumbent Sena Dissanayake since 19 November 2015
Kandy Municipal Council
Style	His Worship
Seat	Kandy
Constituting instrument	Municipal Council Ordinance No. 17 of 1865
First holder	Sir Cuda Ratwatte
Deputy	Asanka Dodanwela

The Mayor of Kandy is the Mayor of (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 officers of the mayor are at the Kandy Town Hall. The mayor's legal title is His worship the Mayor of Kandy.

List of Mayors

Parties

      United National Party       Sri Lanka Freedom Party       Independent

Name		Date of office	notes
	Sir Cuda Ratwatte Adigar	1939-40	First elected mayor of Kandy
	A. M. Spaar	1941
	Gate Mudaliyar Naganather Canaganayagam (CBE, JP)	1942
	Bennet Soysa	1943-44
	A. S. Karunaratna	1945
	Victor M. Guruswamy	1946
	Edmund Frederick Lorensz de Silva (MBE)	1947	Member of Parliament for Kandy (1954-57) and Ambassador to France (1968-71)
	A. C. L. Ratwatte (MBE)	1948
	Bennet Soysa	1949
	Edward Lionel Senanayaka	1950-54	Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament and Governor of North Central Province and Central Province
	Sir Bennet Soysa	1954-56	Member of the State Council and the Senate of Ceylon
	Edward Lionel Senanayaka	1956-60
	Sir Bennet Soysa	1961-62
	Noel Wimalasena	1963
	Edward Lionel Senanayaka	1964-68
	Sir Bennet Soysa	1968-70
	Tilak Ratnayake	1979-90	Governor of Uva Province (1990-93)
	Chandra Ranaraja	1990-91
	Don Edmund Pathirane	1991-97
	Harindra Dunuwille	1997-2002	Member of Parliament (1989-94) and served as the Deputy Minister of State for Constitutional Affairs
	Kesera D. Senanayake	2002-06
	L. B. Aluvihare	2006-10
	Rajapathiranalage Sarath Pushpakumara	2010-11
	Mahendra Ratwatte	2011 - 19 November 2015
	Sena Dissanayake	19 November 2015 - Present	Asanka Dodanwela, Deputy Mayor of Kandy (7 January 2016 - Present)

External links

• kandycity.org