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Overview | |||||||||||
Term | 14 October 1947 – 8 April 1952 | ||||||||||
Election | 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30 August, 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17,18, 20 September 1947 | ||||||||||
Senior parliamentarians | |||||||||||
Speaker |
Alexander Francis Molamure Albert Peries |
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Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees |
R. A. de Mel H. W. Amarasuriya Albert Peries Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail |
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Deputy Chairman of Committees | J.A. Martensz Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail T. Ramalingam |
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Prime Minister |
D. S. Senanayake Dudley Senanayake |
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Leader of the Opposition | N. M. Perera | ||||||||||
Leader of the House |
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike John Kotelawala |
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Chief Government Whip |
Senerat Gunewardene A. Ekanayake Gunasinha |
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Sessions | |||||||||||
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1st | 14 October 1947 – 31 January 1948 |
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2nd | 10 February 1948 – 17 June 1949 |
3rd | 12 July 1949 – 6 April 1950 |
4th | 20 June 1950 – 24 April 1951 |
5th | 20 June 1951 – 8 April 1952 |
The 1st Parliament of Ceylon was a meeting of the Parliament of Ceylon, with the membership determined by the results of the 1947 parliamentary election between 23 August and 20 September 1947. The parliament met for the first time on 14 October 1947 and was dissolved on 8 April 1952.