| Election Name: | 1994 Sri Lankan presidential election |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1993 Sri Lankan presidential election |
| Previous Year: | 1993 |
| Next Election: | 1999 Sri Lankan presidential election |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
| Election Date: | 9 November 1994 |
| Turnout: | 70.47% 15.15 pp |
| Nominee1: | Chandrika Kumaratunga |
| Party1: | Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
| Alliance1: | People's Alliance (Sri Lanka) |
| Popular Vote1: | 4,709,205 |
| Percentage1: | 62.28% |
| Nominee2: | Srima Dissanayake |
| Party2: | United National Party |
| Alliance2: | — |
| Popular Vote2: | 2,715,283 |
| Percentage2: | 35.91% |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga |
| After Election: | Chandrika Kumaratunga |
| Before Party: | United National Party |
| After Party: | Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 9 November 1994. Nominations were accepted on 7 October 1994 and electoral participation was 70.47%. Prime Minister Chandrika Kumaratunga of the governing People's Alliance was elected, receiving 62% of all votes cast, becoming the first female president of Sri Lanka.
President Ranasinghe Premadasa was assassinated in 1993 by the Tamil Tigers and was succeeded by the Prime Minister, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga. President Wijetunga chose not to run in the 1994 election; therefore the United National Party selected Leader of the Opposition Gamini Dissanayake as their candidate. His main challenger was Prime Minister Chandrika Kumaratunga of the People's Alliance, whose party had won the parliamentary elections earlier in 1994.[1]
On 24 October 1994, during his presidential campaign, Gamini Dissanayake was assassinated by the Tamil Tigers. His name on the ballot paper was replaced by his wife Srima Dissanayake, thus making the election the first Sri Lankan presidential election in which both main party candidates were women.[1]
Kumaratunga won the election by a record margin with 62.28% of the vote.[1]