List of Sri Lankan cabinets

This is a list of cabinets of Sri Lanka since 1947.

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

#	Cabinet	Took office	Left office	Head of state	Head of government	Governing party
1	Don	24 September 1947	22 March 1952	George VI (1947–1952)	D. S. Senanayake		United National Party
2	Dudley I	22 March 1952	12 October 1953	Elizabeth II (1952–1972)	Dudley Senanayake
3	Kotelawala	12 October 1953	12 April 1956		John Kotelawala
4	Solomon	12 April 1956	26 September 1959		S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike		Sri Lanka Freedom Party
5	Dahanayake	26 September 1959	20 March 1960		Wijeyananda Dahanayake
6	Dudley II	21 March 1960	21 July 1960		Dudley Senanayake		United National Party
7	Sirimavo I	21 July 1960	25 March 1965		Sirimavo Bandaranaike		Sri Lanka Freedom Party
8	Dudley III	25 March 1965	29 May 1970		Dudley Senanayake		United National Party
9	Sirimavo II	29 May 1970	23 July 1977		Sirimavo Bandaranaike		Sri Lanka Freedom Party
10	Jayewardene I	23 July 1977	7 September 1978	William Gopallawa (1972–1978)	J. R. Jayewardene		United National Party
11	Jayewardene II	7 September 1978	1980	J. R. Jayewardene
12	Jayewardene III	1980	1988
13	Jayewardene IV	1988	2 January 1989
14	Premadasa I	2 January 1989	1990	Ranasinghe Premadasa
15	Premadasa II	1990	1 May 1993
16	Wijetunga I	1 May 1993	19 August 1994	Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
17	Wijetunga II	19 August 1994	12 November 1994				SLFP led People's Alliance
18	Kumaratunga I	12 November 1994	18 October 2000	Chandrika Kumaratunga
19	Kumaratunga II	18 October 2000	7 December 2001
20	Kumaratunga III	12 December 2001	2 April 2004				UNP led United National Front
21	Kumaratunga IV	2 April 2004	19 November 2005				SLFP led United People's Freedom Alliance
22	Mahinda I	19 November 2005	28 January 2007	Mahinda Rajapaksa
23	Mahinda II	28 January 2007	23 April 2010
24	Mahinda III	23 April 2010	28 January 2013
25	Mahinda IV	28 January 2013	9 January 2015
26	Sirisena I	12 January 2015	17 August 2015	Maithripala Sirisena			UNP led United National Front for Good Governance
27	Sirisena II	24 August 2015	26 October 2018
28	Sirisena III	29 October 2018	15 December 2018				SLFP–SLPP led coalition
29	Sirisena IV	20 December 2018	21 November 2019				UNP led United National Front for Good Governance
30	Gotabaya I	21 November 2019	12 August 2020	Gotabaya Rajapaksa			SLPP led Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance
31	Gotabaya II	12 August 2020	3 April 2022
32	Gotabaya cabinet III	18 April 2022	9 May 2022
33	Gotabaya cabinet IV	12 May 2022	14 July 2022				SLPP–UNP led coalition
34	Wickremesinghe	22 July 2022	Incumbent	Ranil Wickremesinghe

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  The First Cabinet of Ministers of Ceylon in 1947, headed by Rt Hon D.S. Senanayake as first Prime Minister of Ceylon. Also in the picture Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore the Governor of Ceylon, and the Chief Justice.
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  Cabinet of 1952 at Queen's House after swearing in ceremony on 17 June 1952

See also

• Cabinet of Sri Lanka
• List of parliaments of Sri Lanka