List of Sri Lankan cabinets

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

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Background
Main article: List of Ceylonese executive councils

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
1947George VI
(1947-1952) (De jure)
Henry Monck-Mason Moore
(1948-1949) (De facto)		Don Stephen SenanayakeUnited National PartyD. S. Senanayake cabinet
1952Elizabeth II
(1952-1972) (De jure)
Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury
(1949-1954) (De facto)		Dudley SenanayakeFirst Dudley Senanayake cabinet
1953John KotelawalaKotelawala cabinet
1956Elizabeth II
(1952-1972) (De jure)
Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke
(1954-1962) (De facto)		S. W. R. D. BandaranaikeSri Lanka Freedom PartyS. W. R. D. Bandaranaike cabinet
1959Wijeyananda DahanayakeDahanayake cabinet
1960Dudley SenanayakeUnited National PartySecond Dudley Senanayake cabinet
1960Sirimavo BandaranaikeSri Lanka Freedom PartyFirst Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet
1965Elizabeth II
(1952-1972) (De jure)
William Gopallawa
(1962-1972) (De facto)		Dudley SenanayakeUnited National PartyThird Dudley Senanayake cabinet
1970Sirimavo BandaranaikeSri Lanka Freedom PartySecond Sirimavo Bandaranaike cabinet
1977William Gopallawa
(1972-1978)		Junius Richard JayewardeneUnited National PartyJayewardene cabinet
1978Junius Richard Jayewardene
1989Ranasinghe PremadasaRanasinghe PremadasaPremadasa cabinet
1993Dingiri Banda WijetungaDingiri Banda WijetungaWijetunga cabinet
1994Chandrika KumaratungaChandrika KumaratungaSri Lanka Freedom PartyKumaratunga cabinet
2005Mahinda RajapaksaMahinda RajapaksaM. Rajapaksa cabinet
2015Maithripala SirisenaMaithripala SirisenaSri Lanka Freedom Party
(United National Party)[N 1]		Sirisena cabinet
2019Gotabaya RajapaksaGotabaya RajapaksaSri Lanka Podujana PeramunaG. Rajapaksa 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

See also

References
    1. Governing Party backed by the United National Party
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