Gampaha Municipal Council
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Gampaha Municipal Council | |
|---|---|
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| History | |
| Founded | April 15, 2002[1] |
| Preceded by | Gampaha Urban Council (1945 - 2002) |
| Leadership | |
Mayor | |
Deputy Mayor | |
A. D. P. I. Prasanna[2] | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 28[3] |
 | |
Political groups | Government (17) [3]
Opposition (11) [3] |
| Elections | |
| Mixed[4] | |
Last election | 2025 |
| Meeting place | |
| Gampaha Municipal Council Office, Gampaha | |
| Website | |
| http://gampaha.mc.gov.lk | |
The Gampaha Municipal Council (Sinhala: ගම්පහ මහ නගර සභාව, Tamil: கம்பாஹா மாநகர சபை) is the local council for Gampaha, the second urban town of Gampaha District, Sri Lanka after Negombo. It has 28 members elected under the mixed electoral system where 60% of members will be elected using first-past-the-post voting and the remaining 40% through closed list proportional representation.[4]
The Urban Council of Gampaha has a history that stretches back to 1945. Two Gazette notifications (No. 1142/22 of August 2000, and No. 117/7 of March 2001) established the Gampaha Municipal Council, which held its first meeting on 15 April 2002.[1]
Structure
Currently there are 28 seats in the council.
| Political party | Council members | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 1997 | 2002 | 2006 | 2011 | 2018 | 2025 | |||
| NPP[a] | – | – | 2 | 4 | – | 3 | 17 | 17 / 28 | |
| SJB | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 4 / 28 | |
| SLPP | – | – | – | – | – | 17 | 4 | 4 / 28 | |
| PA[b] | 3 | 6 | 6 | – | 14 | 3 | 2 | 2 / 28 | |
| UNP | 6 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 / 28 | |
| Ind | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 0 / 28 | |
| Liberal | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | 0 / 28 | |
| JHU | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 0 / 28 | |
| Total | 9 | 9 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 30 | 28 | ||
