List of Sri Lankan cabinets

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This is a list of Sri Lankan cabinets, in the sense of successive governments, since 1947 before independence up until the present.

Background

The Executive Council of Ceylon was the Executive Council created in British Ceylon by the British colonial administration on the recommendations of the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission along with the Legislative Council of Ceylon on March 13, 1833.

At its creation the Executive Council was headed by the Governor, along with five members appointed by the Governor. These five members were officials who held the posts of the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney General, the Auditor-General, the Treasurer and the General Officer Commanding, Ceylon. The Council exercised executive power and advised the governor. As a result of the First Manning Reforms three non-officials were elected to the executive council.

With enactment of the new constitution of the Dominion of Ceylon in 1947 the Executive Council was replaced by a National Cabinet.

Cabinets

Date Head of State Head of Government Governing Party Cabinet
1947 George VI
(1947-1948)
Henry Monck-Mason Moore
(1948-1949) 		Don Stephen Senanayake United National Party D. S. Senanayake cabinet
1952 Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury
(1949-1954) 		Dudley Senanayake First Dudley Senanayake cabinet
1953 John Kotelawala Kotelawala cabinet
1956 Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke
(1954-1962) 		S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Sri Lanka Freedom Party S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike cabinet
1959 Wijeyananda Dahanayake Dahanayake cabinet
1960 Dudley Senanayake United National Party Second Dudley Senanayake cabinet
1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Sri Lanka Freedom Party First Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet
1965 William Gopallawa
(1962-1972) 		Dudley Senanayake United National Party Third Dudley Senanayake cabinet
1970 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Sri Lanka Freedom Party Second Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet
1977 William Gopallawa
(1972-1978) 		Junius Richard Jayewardene United National PartyJayewardene cabinet
1978 Junius Richard Jayewardene
1989 Ranasinghe Premadasa Ranasinghe Premadasa Premadasa cabinet
1993 Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Wijetunga cabinet
1994 Chandrika Kumaratunga Chandrika Kumaratunga Sri Lanka Freedom Party Kumaratunga cabinet
2005 Mahinda Rajapaksa Mahinda Rajapaksa Rajapaksa cabinet
2015 Maithripala Sirisena Maithripala Sirisena New Democratic Front
(United National Party)[N 1]		 Sirisena cabinet
The first Cabinet of Ministers of Ceylon in 1947.
Cabinet of 1952 at Queen's House after swearing in ceremony on 17 June 1952
Sri Lanka - Cabinet Ministers of 1965
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene with his Cabinet in 1977.

See also

References

    1. ↑ Governing Party backed by the United National Party