Percy Wickremasinghe

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| name = Percy Wickremasinghe

| honorific-suffix = MP

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| constituency_MP = Kamburupitiya District

| parliament = Ceylon

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| predecessor = seat created

| successor = A. M. Nanayakkara

| term_start = 1960

| term_end = 1970

| birth_date = 27 March 1918

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| party = Ceylon Communist Party

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| relations = Sugiswara Wickramasinghe (brother)

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Percy Abeywardhana Wickremasinghe (27 March 1918 – 26 November 1987) was a Sri Lankan politician.{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.lk/members-of-parliament/directory-of-members/viewMember/2807|title=Hon. Wickremasinghe, Percy Abeywardhana, M.P.|work=Directory of Past Members|publisher=Parliament of Sri Lanka|access-date=4 August 2017}}

Wickremasinghe first contested for parliament at the 3rd parliamentary election in 1956, representing the Ceylon Communist Party in the Hakmana Electoral District but was defeated by the United National Party candidate, C. A. Dharmapala.{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/web/images/pdf/general-election-results/general-election-1956.pdf|title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1956|publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka}}{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Wickremasinghe was elected at the 4th parliamentary election in March 1960, in the newly created seat of Kamburupitiya, polling 9,442 votes (41%).{{cite web |url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/web/images/pdf/general-election-results/general-election-1960-03-19.pdf |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election March 1960 |publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka |access-date=4 August 2017 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He retained the seat in the subsequent elections in July that year, increasing his margin by 20% securing 61% of the vote.{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/web/images/pdf/general-election-results/parliamentary-general-election-1960-07-20.pdf|title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 20 July 1960|publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka|access-date=4 August 2017}}{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He ran again at the parliamentary elections in 1965 holding on to the seat with a reduced margin of 57% of the vote,{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/web/images/pdf/general-election-results/parliamentary-election-1965.pdf|title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1965|publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka|access-date=21 June 2017}}{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} however he did not contest the 1970 parliamentary elections.