Edwin Wilfred Abeygunasekera was a member of the 1st and 2nd State Councils of Ceylon.
[1][2] Abeygunasekera was elected to the State Council of Ceylon on 20 June 1931, representing Nuwara Eliya as a member of the Labour Party,[1][3] defeating James T. Rutnam by 3,136 votes and Leslie W. F. de Saram by 7,818 votes.
Following the election he was appointed as a member of the executive committee for Home Affairs.
In April 1943 the Bribery Commissioner found that Abeygunasekera, Charles Batuwantudawe, D. D. Gunasekera, E. R. Tambimuttu and H. A. Goonesekera had accepted bribes in the exercise of their duties as members of the Home Affairs Committee.
His position on the State Council was filled by M. D. Banda, who won the subsequent by-election for Nuwara Eliya, held in October 1943.