Tamara Kumari Ilangaratne (néeAludeniya;15 March 1925 –5 October 2000) was a Ceylonese politician.[1] She was the third female member to be elected to parliament in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon).[2]
Ilangaratne was elected as the independent representative for Kandy in parliamentary by-election held on 18 June 1949,where she polled 10,062 votes (50.75% of the total vote) succeeding her husband T. B. Ilangaratne who had been unseated in an election petition and stripped of his civic rights.[3] At the 2nd parliamentary elections in 1952,she failed to retain her seat,losing to the United National Party (UNP) candidate,E. L. Senanayake who received 11,349 votes (58.45%) to Ilangaratne's 7,644 votes (39.37%).[4]
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