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List of members of the Sri Lankan Parliament who died in office

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Member	Constituency	Date of death	Age at death (years)	Cause
Godfrey Edward Madawala	Narammala	September 1932^[1]	54
S. O. Canagaratnam	Batticaloa South	May 1938^[2]	57-58
Neil Hewavitarne	Udugama	30 October 1939^[3]
Charles Batuwantudawe	Kalutara	13 September 1940	62
Naysum Saravanamuttu	Colombo North	19 January 1941^[4]	43-44
C. E. P. de Silva	Negombo	27 February 1942^[5]
R. Sri Pathmanathan	Mannar-Mullaitivu	5 May 1943^[6]
J. H. Ilangantileke	Puttalam	27 July 1943^[7]
G. C. Rambukpotha	Bibile	27 October 1943^[8]	58
Siripala Samarakkody	Narammala	22 August 1944	37	Typhoid fever^[9]
H. R. Freeman	Anuradhapura	April 1945	81
D. M. Rajapaksa	Hambantota	18 May 1945	49^[10]	Heart attack
R. C. Kannangara	Morawaka	14 October 1946^[11]	26

Member	Party		Constituency	Date of death	Age at death (years)	Cause
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike		SLFP	Attanagalla	26 September 1959	60	Assassinated^[12]
Bernard Aluwihare		UNP	Matale	22 January 1961	58	Cancer^[13]

Member		Constituency	Date of death	Age at death (years)	Cause
M. Canagaratnam	UNP	Pottuvil	20 April 1980	56	Assassinated^[14]
Bandulahewa Senadheera	UNP	Karandeniya	January 1982^[15]
Jinadasa Weerasinghe	UNP	Tangalle	31 July 1987	61	Assassinated^[16]
Keerthisena Abeywickrama	UNP	Deniyaya	31 July 1987	61	Assassinated^[17]
G.V.S. de Silva	UNP	Habaraduwa	1 May 1988		Assassinated
Lionel Jayatilleke	UNP	Habaraduwa	26 September 1988	64	Assassinated^[18]
W.M.P.G. Banda	UNP	Galagedara	1989		Assassinated
Lesley Ranagala	UNP	Borella	1989		Assassinated
M. A. Daniel	UNP	Kandy	25 June 1989		Assassinated^[19]
A. Amirthalingam	TULF	Kankesanthurai	13 July 1989		Assassinated^[20]
Daya Sepali Senadheera	UNP	Karandeniya	29 August 1989		Assassinated^[21]
Merrill Kariyawasam	UNP	Agalawatta	5 September 1989		Assassinated^[22]
Sam Tambimuttu	Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front	Batticaloa	7 May 1990	57-58	Assassinated^[23]
G. Yogasangari	Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front	Jaffna	19 June 1990		Assassinated^[24]
Ranjan Wijeratne	UNP	National List	2 March 1991	59	Assassinated^[25]
Lalith Athulathmudali	Democratic United National Front	Colombo	23 April 1993	56	Assassinated^[26]
Gamini Dissanayake	UNP	Kandy	24 October 1994	52	Assassinated^[27]
Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi	UNP	Colombo	24 October 1994	64	Assassinated (same event with Gamini Dissanayake)^[28]
Ossie Abeygunasekera	UNP	Colombo	24 October 1994	44	Assassinated (same event with Gamini Dissanayake and Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi)^[28]
Nalanda Ellawala	People's Alliance	Ratnapura	11 February 1997	29	Assassinated^[29]
A. Thangathurai	TULF	Mutur	5 July 1997	61	Assassinated^[30]
M. E. H. Maharoof	UNP	Trincomalee	29 July 1997	58	Assassinated^[31]
Bernard Soysa	People's Alliance	Colombo	30 December 1997^[32]	83
S. Shanmuganathan	Democratic People's Liberation Front	Vavuniya	15 July 1998	38	Assassinated^[33]
Neelan Tiruchelvam	TULF	National List	29 July 1999	55	Assassinated^[34]
Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed	UNP	Kandy	3 September 1999^[35]	72
Savumiamoorthy Thondaman	People's Alliance	National List	30 October 1999	86	Heart failure^[36]
Nadarajah Atputharajah	Eelam People's Democratic Party	Jaffna	2 November 1999	36	Assassinated^[37]
C. V. Gunaratne	People's Alliance	Colombo	7 June 2000		Assassinated^[38]
M. Sivasithamparam	TNA	National List	5 June 2002^[39]	78
Lakshman Kadirgamar	UPFA	National List	12 August 2005	73	Assassinated^[40]
Joseph Pararajasingham	TNA	National List	25 December 2005	71	Assassinated^[41]
Nadarajah Raviraj	TNA	Jaffna	10 November 2006	44	Assassinated^[42]
Anwar Ismail^[43]	UPFA	National List	13 September 2007
T. Maheswaran	United National Front	Colombo	1 January 2008	41	Assassinated^[44]
D. M. Dassanayake	UPFA	Puttalam	8 January 2008	54	Assassinated^[45]
Sripathi Sooriyarachchi	UPFA	Gampaha	9 February 2008	45	Road accident^[46]
Kiddinan Sivanesan	TNA	Jaffna	6 March 2008	51	Assassinated^[47]
Anura Bandaranaike	UPFA	Gampaha	16 March 2008	59	Cancer^[48]
Jeyaraj Fernandopulle	UPFA	Gampaha	6 April 2008	55	Assassinated^[49]
Reggie Ranatunga	UPFA	Gampaha	31 May 2008^[50]	55
Alick Aluvihare	United National Front	Matale	17 May 2009	83^[51]
K. Pathmanathan	TNA	Ampara	21 May 2009^[52]	60
Amarasiri Dodangoda	UPFA	Galle	30 May 2009^[53]	67
Sarath Ranawaka	United National Front	Kalutara	25 July 2009^[54]	58
P. Chandrasekaran	Up-Country People's Front	Nuwara Eliya	1 January 2010	52	Cirrhosis^[55]
Noordeen Mashoor	UPFA	Vanni	2 December 2010	48	Heart attack^[56]
Jayalath Jayawardena	UNP	Gampaha	30 May 2013	59	Heart attack^[57]
Neranjan Wickremasinghe	UPFA	Kurunegala	12 May 2015^[58]	53	Heart attack
M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana	United National Front	National List	19 January 2016^[59]	68
Amarakeerthi Athukorala	SLPFA	Polonnaruwa	9 May 2022	57	Lynched by a mob^[60]
Sanath Nishantha	SLPFA	Puttalam	25 January 2024	48	Road accident.^[61]
K. H. Nandasena	SLPFA	Anuradhapura	4 April 2024^[62]	69

List_of_members_of_the_Sri_Lankan_Parliament_who_died_in_office

List of members of the Sri Lankan Parliament who died in office

State Council of Ceylon (1931-1947)

Parliament of Ceylon (1947-1972)

National State Assembly (1972-1978)

Parliament of Sri Lanka (1978-present)

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