List of Chief Ministers in India

A Chief Minister in India is the elected head of government at the level of States, and is vested with most of the executive powers. He or she is elected by legislators of the political party or coalition commanding an assembly majority, and serves a five-year term with a provision of reelection. The Governor is the head of state, but his or her role is largely ceremonial. There are a total of thirty Chief Ministers elected by all twenty-eight states and two out of the seven union territories. The following table lists the parties that hold power in various states.

Chief Ministers by State

No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 'State Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh National Capital Territory of Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh K K Reddy Dorjee Khandu Tarun Kumar Gogoi Nitish Kumar Raman Singh Sheila Dikshit Digambar Kamat Narendra Modi Bhupinder Singh Hooda Prem Kumar Dhumal Omar Abdullah Arjun Munda B. S. Yeddyurappa V.S. Achuthanandan Shivraj Singh Chauhan Name 201011-25 200704-09 200105-17 200511-24 200312-07 199812-03 200706-08 200110-07 200503-05 200712-30 200901-05 201009-11 200805-28 200605-18 200511-29 Indian National Congress Indian National Congress Indian National Congress Janata Dal (United) Bharatiya Janata Party Indian National Congress indian National Congress Bharatiya Janata Party Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janata Party Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Bharatiya Janata Party Bharatiya Janata Party Communist Party of India (Marxist) Bharatiya Janata Party all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Pondicherry Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttarakhand Uttar Pradesh West Bengal

Prithviraj Chavan Okram Ibobi Singh Mukul Sangma Lal Thanhawla Neiphiu Rio Naveen Patnaik V. Vaithilingam Parkash Singh Badal Ashok Gehlot Pawan Kumar Chamling M. Karunanidhi Manik Sarkar Ramesh Pokhriyal Mayawati Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

201011-11 200203-02 201004-20 200812-07 200803-12 200005-17 200809-04 200702-28 200812-12 199412-12 200605-12 199803-11 200906-24 200705-13 200010-06

Indian National Congress Indian National Congress Indian National Congress Indian National Congress

all all all all

Nagaland People's Front all Biju Janata Dal Indian National Congress Shiromani Akali Dal Indian National Congress Sikkim Democratic Front Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Communist Party of India (Marxist) Bharatiya Janata Party Bahujan Samaj Party Communist Party of India (Marxist) all all all all all all all all all all

Union Territories

By party

Indian state governments led by various political parties as of March 2009 As of 2009 Lok Sabha elections, this is the current list of parties that hold power to the number of states. Number of States/Territories won Current coalition (2009) United Progressive Alliance National Democratic Alliance Third Front United Progressive Alliance National Democratic Alliance National Democratic Alliance

Party

States/Territories Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Goa, Haryana, Maharastra, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Pondicherry, Rajasthan Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand Kerala, Tripura, West Bengal

Indian National 12 Congress Bharatiya Janata 7 Party Communist Party of India 3 (Marxist) Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Janata Dal (United) Nagaland People's Front 1

Tamil Nadu

Bihar

Nagaland

Shiromani Akali 1 Dal Bahujan Samaj Party Biju Janata Dal Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Sikkim Democratic Front 1 1 1

Punjab Uttar Pradesh Orissa Jammu & Kashmir

National Democratic Alliance Third Front Third Front United Progressive Alliance None

Sikkim

Currently, United Progressive Alliance is in power in 12 states (+2 territories), National Democratic Alliance is in power in 10 states, and the Third Front is in power in 5 states.