Richard Charles Kannangara (15 June 1920 – 14 October 1946) was a Ceylonese tea plantation owner and politician. On 3 March 1936 Kannangara was elected to the 2nd State Council of Ceylon representing

Morawaka Morawaka () is a small town in the Matara District, Southern Province of Sri Lanka, a centre of Ceylon tea plantations and rice paddies. Additionally, Morawaka is said to have gem resources. Located at an elevation of , at the intersection of ...

. Kannangara defeated the sitting member, Dr. S. A. Wickramasinghe, of the

Lanka Sama Samaja Party The Lanka Sama Samaja Party, often abbreviated as LSSP ( literally: Lanka Equal Society Party, Sinhala: ලංකා සම සමාජ පක්ෂය, Tamil: லங்கா சமசமாஜக் கட்சி), is a major Trotskyist po ...

by a margin of 2,910 votes. Kannangara was superintendent and owner of a tea plantation in Deniyaya, and his campaign was backed by Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka, the Leader of the House and Minister for Home Affairs. After his election to the State Council he joined the

Sinhala Maha Sabha The Sinhala Maha Sabha () was a political party in colonial-era British Ceylon, Ceylon founded by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike in the mid-1930s to promote Sinhalese people, Sinhalese Buddhist culture and community interests. In 1946, it joined the Un ...

. Kannangara sat on the Executive Committee on Agriculture and Lands. He died whilst still in office on 14 October 1946. At the subsequent by-election in 1947 Wickramasinghe was elected by a majority of 23,823 votes, and sat for a brief period on the Council until it was disbanded in July 1947.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kannangara, Richard Charles 1920 births 1946 deaths Members of the 2nd State Council of Ceylon