List of Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (Uttar Pradesh Mukhya Mantri)
Incumbent Akhilesh Yadav since 15 March 2012
Appointer	Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Inaugural holder	Govind Ballabh Pant
Formation	26 January 1950

The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (UP), a north Indian state, is the head of the Government of Uttar Pradesh. As per the Constitution of India, the governor is the state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.^[1]

On 26 January 1950 Govind Ballabh Pant, Premier of United Provinces, became the first Chief Minister of the newly renamed Uttar Pradesh. Including him, 11 out of the 20 UP chief ministers belong to the Indian National Congress. Among these is V. P. Singh, a future Prime Minister of India, as was Charan Singh of the Rashtriya Lok Dal. UP has also had two women chief ministers—Sucheta Kriplani and Mayawati. On ten occasions, most recently in 2002, the state has come under President's rule, leave the office of chief minister vacant.

Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party has served as the incumbent chief minister since 15 March 2012.

Premiers of United Provinces

Govind Ballabh Pant, the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

The United Provinces, headquartered in Allahabad was a province of British India that comprised present day Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. It was established in 1902 to be the headquarters of the English settlements on North India. Under the Government of India Act 1935, a bicameral legislature was set up with a legislative assembly and a legislative council.

No	Name	Term of office[2]		Party
1	Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari	3 April 1937	16 July 1937	Independent
2	Govind Ballabh Pant	17 July 1937	2 November 1939	Indian National Congress
Vacant
(2)	Govind Ballabh Pant	1 April 1946	25 January 1950	Indian National Congress

Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh

Colour key for parties
Bahujan Samaj Party   Bharatiya Kranti Dal   Bharatiya Janata Party   Indian National Congress   Janata Dal   Janata Party   Samajwadi Party   N/A (President's rule)

UP's fifth chief minister, Charan Singh of the Bharatiya Kranti Dal, went on to become India's fifth prime minister.

Ram Naresh Yadav served as UP's chief minister in the late 1970s as a member of the Janata Party.

Although V. P. Singh's chief-ministerial reign was as a Congressman, as Prime Minister of India he headed the National Front government as a member of the Janata Dal.

The BJP's Kalyan Singh was chief minister when the Babri Masjid was demolished in 1991.

UP's 19th chief minister, Rajnath Singh, is the current Union Home Minister.

No	Name Constituency	Term of office[2][3]		Tenure length	Party[lower-alpha 1]		Assembly[4] (Election)	Ref
1	Govind Ballabh Pant Barreilly Municipality	26 January 1950	20 May 1952	4 years, 335 days	Indian National Congress		Not yet created
		20 May 1952	27 December 1954				First Assembly (1952–57) (1951 election)	[5]
2	Sampurnanand Varanasi City South	28 December 1954	9 April 1957	5 years, 344 days
		10 April 1957	6 December 1960				Second Assembly (1957–62) (1957 election)	[6]
3	Chandra Bhanu Gupta Ranikhet South	7 December 1960	14 March 1962	2 years, 298 days
		14 March 1962	1 October 1963				Third Assembly (1962–67) (1962 election)	[7]
4	Sucheta Kriplani Mendhwal	2 October 1963	13 March 1967	3 years, 162 days
(3)	Chandra Bhanu Gupta [2] Ranikhet	14 March 1967	2 April 1967	19 days			Fourth Assembly (1967–68) (1967 election)	[8]
5	Charan Singh	3 April 1967	25 February 1968	328 days	Bharatiya Kranti Dal
–	Vacant[lower-alpha 2] (President's rule)	25 February 1968	26 February 1969	1 year, 1 day	N/A		Dissolved
(3)	Chandra Bhanu Gupta [3] Ranikhet	26 February 1969	17 February 1970	356 days	Indian National Congress		Fifth Assembly (1969–74) (1969 election)	[10]
(5)	Charan Singh [2] Chaprauli	18 February 1970	1 October 1970	225 days	Bharatiya Kranti Dal
–	Vacant[lower-alpha 2] (President's rule)	1 October 1970	18 October 1970	17 days	N/A
6	Tribhuvana Narayana Singh	18 October 1970	3 April 1971	167 days	Indian National Congress
7	Kamlapati Tripathi Chandauli	4 April 1971	12 June 1973	2 years, 69 days
–	Vacant[lower-alpha 2] (President's rule)	13 June 1973	8 November 1973	148 days	N/A
8	Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Bara	8 November 1973	4 March 1974	2 years, 21 days	Indian National Congress
		5 March 1974	29 November 1975				Sixth Assembly (1974–77) (1974 election)	[11]
–	Vacant[lower-alpha 2] (President's rule)	30 November 1975	21 January 1976	52 days	N/A
9	N. D. Tiwari Kashipur	21 January 1976	30 April 1977	1 year, 99 days	Indian National Congress
–	Vacant[lower-alpha 2] (President's rule)	30 April 1977	23 June 1977	54 days	N/A		Dissolved
10	Ram Naresh Yadav	23 June 1977	27 February 1979	1 year, 249 days	Janata Party		Seventh Assembly (1977–80) (1977 election)	[12]
11	Banarsi Das Hapur	28 February 1979	17 February 1980	354 days
–	Vacant[lower-alpha 2] (President's rule)	17 February 1980	9 June 1980	113 days	N/A		Dissolved
12	V. P. Singh Tindwar	9 June 1980	18 July 1982	2 years, 39 days	Indian National Congress		Eighth Assembly (1980–85) (1980 election)	[13]
13	Sripati Mishra	19 July 1982	2 August 1984	2 years, 14 days
(9)	N. D. Tiwari [2] Kashipur	3 August 1984	10 March 1985	1 year, 52 days
		11 March 1985	24 September 1985				Ninth Assembly (1985–89) (1985 election)	[14]
14	Vir Bahadur Singh Paniara	24 September 1985	24 June 1988	2 years, 274 days
(9)	N. D. Tiwari [3]	25 June 1988	5 December 1989	1 year, 163 days
15	Mulayam Singh Yadav Jaswantnagar	5 December 1989	24 June 1991	1 year, 201 days	Janata Dal		Tenth Assembly (1989–91) (1989 election)	[15]
16	Kalyan Singh Atrauli	24 June 1991	6 December 1992	1 year, 165 days	Bharatiya Janata Party		Eleventh Assembly (1991–92) (1991 election)	[16]
–	Vacant[lower-alpha 2] (President's rule)	6 December 1992	4 December 1993	363 days	N/A		Dissolved
(15)	Mulayam Singh Yadav [2] Jaswantnagar	4 December 1993	3 June 1995	1 year, 181 days	Samajwadi Party		Twelfth Assembly (1993–95) (1993 election)	[17]
17	Mayawati	3 June 1995	18 October 1995	137 days	Bahujan Samaj Party
–	Vacant[lower-alpha 2] (President's rule)	18 October 1995	17 October 1996	1 year, 154 days	N/A		Dissolved
		17 October 1996	21 March 1997				Thirteenth Assembly (1996–2002) (1996 election)	[18]
(17)	Mayawati [2] Harora	21 March 1997	21 September 1997	184 days	Bahujan Samaj Party
(16)	Kalyan Singh [2] Atrauli	21 September 1997	12 November 1999	2 years, 52 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
18	Ram Prakash Gupta	12 November 1999	28 October 2000	351 days
19	Rajnath Singh Haidargarh	28 October 2000	8 March 2002	1 year, 131 days
–	Vacant[lower-alpha 2] (President's rule)	8 March 2002	3 May 2002	56 days	N/A		Fourteenth Assembly (2002–07) (2002 election)	[19]
(17)	Mayawati [3] Harora	3 May 2002	29 August 2003	1 year, 118 days	Bahujan Samaj Party
(15)	Mulayam Singh Yadav [3]	29 August 2003	13 May 2007	3 years, 257 days	Samajwadi Party
(17)	Mayawati [4] None (MLC)	13 May 2007	15 March 2012	4 years, 307 days	Bahujan Samaj Party		Fifteenth Assembly (2007–12) (2007 election)	[20]
20	Akhilesh Yadav None (MLC)	15 March 2012	Incumbent	4 years, 267 days	Samajwadi Party		Sixteenth Assembly (2012–17) (2012 election)	[21]

1. This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.
2. When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.^[9]

References

1. Durga Das Basu. Introduction to the Constitution of India. 1960. 20th Edition, 2011 Reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. ISBN 978-81-8038-559-9. Note: although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies for the specific case of Uttar Pradesh as well.
2. Chief Ministers. Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Retrieved on 27 July 2013.
3. President's rule. Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Retrieved on 27 July 2013.
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6. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
7. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
8. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
9. Amberish K. Diwanji. "A dummy's guide to President's rule". Rediff.com. 15 March 2005. Retrieved on 3 March 2013.
10. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
11. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1974, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
12. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
13. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1980, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
14. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1985, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
15. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1989, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
16. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
17. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1993, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
18. "Statistical Report on General Election, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
19. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2002, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
20. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2007, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
21. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2012, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.

External links

• States of India since 1947 on WorldStatesmen.org
• "Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh". The Indian Express. 15 May 2007. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.