| Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
| R. B. Kadramer | |
| Constituency Mp: | Batticaloa |
| Parliament: | Ceylonese |
| Term Start: | 1952 |
| Term End: | 1956 |
| Predecessor: | Ahamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe |
| Successor: | C. Rajadurai |
| Death Date: | 1963 |
| Party: | Independent politician |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
| Blank1: | Ethnicity |
| Data1: | Sri Lankan Tamil |
Robert Bruce Kadramer (? - 1963) was a Ceylonese politician.[1]
At the 1st parliamentary election, held between 23 August 1947 and 20 September 1947, Kadramer contested the Batticaloa electorate as an Independent. He received 2,313 votes (17% of the total votes) but lost to the United National Party candidate, Ahamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe who polled 4,740 votes (35% of the total vote).[2]
In September 1950 the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (Federal Party) established a branch in Batticaloa, with Kadramer elected as the branch president.[3]
He ran again at the 2nd parliamentary election, held between 24 May 1952 and 30 May 1952, again as an Independent and this time was successful, obtaining 11,420 votes (59% of the total vote) defeating the sitting member, Lebbe, by 3,460 votes.[4] Kadramer, although a Tamil, publicly questioned the creation of a separate Tamil state arguing that there was no geographic contiguity between the Tamil areas of the east and north.[5] [6]
In 1956, when the Federal Party competed for the first time in the electorate, Kadramer adopted the party label of the Batticaloa Tamil Speakers Front (BTSF).[7] He was unable to retain his seat at the subsequent 3rd parliamentary election, losing to the Illanki Tamil Arasu Kachi (Federal Party) candidate, C. Rajadurai, by 8,004 votes.[8]
Kadramer died in 1963.[9]