Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
Asanka Navarathne | |
Native Name: | Sinhala; Sinhalese: අසංක නවරත්න அசங்க நவரத்ன |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Constituency Mp1: | Kurunegala District |
Parliament1: | Sri Lanka |
Term Start1: | 2020 |
Office2: | Member of the North Western Provincial Council for Kurunegala District |
Term Start2: | 2009 |
Term End2: | 2018 |
Birth Name: | Asanka Samithajeewa Navarathne |
Birth Date: | 9 January 1981 |
Birth Place: | Kurunegala |
Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
Party: | Sri Lanka People's Party |
Otherparty: | Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance |
Website: | www.slmp.lk |
Asanka Samithajeewa Navarathne (born 9 January 1981) is a Sri Lankan politician, former provincial councillor and Member of Parliament.[1]
Nawaratne was born on 9 January 1981.[1] He is leader of the Sri Lanka People's Party.[2] [3] He was a member of Kurunegala Divisional Council and the North Western Provincial Council.[4] He contested the 2015 parliamentary election as one of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) electoral alliance's candidates in Kurunegala District but failed to get elected after coming 17th amongst the UPFA candidates.[5] [6] [7] He contested the 2020 parliamentary election as a Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance electoral alliance candidate in Kurunegala District and was elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka.[8] [9] [10]
Constituency | scope=col colspan="2" | Party | scope=col colspan="2" | Alliance | scope=col | Votes | scope=col | Result |
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2009 provincial[11] | Elected | |||||||
2013 provincial[12] | Elected | |||||||
Not elected | ||||||||
Elected |