Mayor of Jaffna | |
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யாழ்ப்பாண முதல்வர் | |
Incumbent | |
Style | The Honourable |
Member of | Jaffna Municipal Council |
Constituting instrument | Local Government Ordinance No. 11 of 1920 |
Formation | 1 January 1923 |
First holder | A. Canagaratnam |
Deputy | Thurairajah Eesan |
Website | Jaffna Municipal Council |
The Mayor of Jaffna is the head of the Jaffna Municipal Council, the local authority for the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The seat is currently vacant.
Name | Party | Took office | Left office | Title | Refs | |
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A. Canagaratnam | Chairman | [1][2] | ||||
R. R. Nalliah | [3] | |||||
Sam A. Sabapathy | 1937 | 1939 | [4] | |||
K. Aiyadurai | 1942 | 1943 | [5] | |||
Sam A. Sabapathy | 6 January 1949 | 31 December 1949 | Mayor | [4][6][7] | ||
Cathiravelu Ponnambalam | 6 January 1950 | 31 December 1951 | ||||
Sam A. Sabapathy | 11 January 1952 | 31 December 1954 | [4][6][7] | |||
M. A. M. M. Sultan | 5 January 1955 | 31 December 1955 | ||||
S. A. Navaratnam | 16 January 1956 | 31 December 1957 | ||||
P. Kasipillai | 6 July 1960 | 31 December 1960 | ||||
T. S. Thurairajah | 7 January 1961 | 12 February 1962 | ||||
M. Jacob | 19 February 1962 | 15 May 1963 | ||||
S. A. Tharmalingam | 28 May 1962 | 4 April 1963 | [8] | |||
P. M. John | 11 April 1963 | 6 May 1963 | ||||
T. S. Thurairajah | 15 May 1963 | 6 May 1963 | ||||
S. S. Mahadeva | 8 July 1965 | 31 December 1965 | ||||
S. Nagarajah | 8 January 1966 | 24 March 1966 | [9] | |||
Alfred Duraiappah | 15 February 1970 | 21 April 1971 | [10][11][12] | |||
Alfred Duraiappah | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 22 April 1971 | 27 July 1975 | [10][11][12] | ||
R. Viswanathan | 1 June 1979 | 31 May 1983 | [13][14][15] | |||
Sarojini Yogeswaran | Tamil United Liberation Front | 11 March 1998 | 17 May 1998 | [16][17][18] | ||
Pon Sivapalan | Tamil United Liberation Front | 29 June 1998 | 11 September 1998 | [19][20] | ||
Nadarajah Raviraj | Tamil United Liberation Front | 9 January 2001 | 18 December 2001 | [21][22][23] | ||
Sellan Kandaiyan | Tamil United Liberation Front | 15 January 2002 | 13 February 2003 | [24][25][26] | ||
Yogeswari Patkunarajah | Eelam People's Democratic Party | 1 September 2009 | [27][28][29] | |||
E. Arnold | Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi | 26 February 2018 | [30][31][32] | |||
V. Manivannan | Tamil National People's Front | 30 December 2020 | [33] |
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