List of longest-serving Indian chief ministers

This list details chief ministers of Indian states and union territories who have served for the longest years consecutively or otherwise.

This list includes chief ministers who have served for more than 15 years in office.

As of September 2024, 24 Chief ministers have served for more than 15 years; of which only four have been female chief ministers: Sheila Dikshit (Delhi), J. Jayalalithaa (Tamil Nadu), Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), and Vasundhara Raje (Rajasthan). Pawan Kumar Chamling has served five consecutive terms as Chief Minister of Sikkim completing a total of more than 24 years of tenure; the highest so far. Of the 24, three Chief ministers are incumbent and continue to serve.

List

Key

• *  Incumbent chief minister

#	Portrait	Name	State/UT	Term of office			Political party
1		Pawan Kumar Chamling	Sikkim	12 December 1994	26 May 2019	24 years, 165 days	Sikkim Democratic Front
2		Naveen Patnaik	Odisha	5 March 2000	12 June 2024	24 years, 99 days	Biju Janata Dal
3		Jyoti Basu	West Bengal	21 June 1977	5 November 2000	23 years, 137 days	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4		Gegong Apang	Arunachal Pradesh	18 January 1980	19 January 1999	22 years, 250 days	Indian National Congress
							Arunachal Congress
				3 August 2003	9 April 2007		United Democratic Front
							Bharatiya Janata Party
							Indian National Congress
5		Lal Thanhawla	Mizoram	5 May 1984	21 August 1986	22 years, 60 days	Indian National Congress
				24 January 1989	3 December 1998
				11 December 2008	15 December 2018
6		Virbhadra Singh	Himachal Pradesh	8 April 1983	5 March 1990	21 years, 13 days	Indian National Congress
				3 December 1993	24 March 1998
				6 March 2003	30 December 2007
				25 December 2012	27 December 2017
7		Manik Sarkar	Tripura	11 March 1998	9 March 2018	19 years, 363 days	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
8		M. Karunanidhi	Tamil Nadu	10 February 1969	31 January 1976	18 years, 362 days	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
				27 January 1989	30 January 1991
				13 May 1996	14 May 2001
				13 May 2006	16 May 2011
9		Parkash Singh Badal	Punjab	27 March 1970	14 June 1971	18 years, 350 days	Shiromani Akali Dal
				20 June 1977	17 February 1980
				12 February 1997	26 February 2002
				1 March 2007	16 March 2017
10		Yashwant Singh Parmar	Himachal Pradesh	8 March 1952	31 October 1956	18 years, 83 days	Indian National Congress
				1 July 1963	28 January 1977
11		Nitish Kumar	Bihar	3 March 2000	11 March 2000	18 years, 26 days	Samata Party
				24 November 2005	20 May 2014		Janata Dal (United)
				22 February 2015	Incumbent
12		Neiphiu Rio	Nagaland	6 March 2003	3 January 2008	17 years, 201 days	Naga People's Front
				12 March 2008	24 May 2014
				8 March 2018	Incumbent		Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party
13		Shri Krishna Sinha	Bihar	20 July 1937	31 October 1939	17 years, 51 days	Indian National Congress
				2 April 1946	31 January 1961
14		Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Madhya Pradesh	29 November 2005	17 December 2018	16 years, 284 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
				23 March 2020	12 December 2023
15		Mohan Lal Sukhadia	Rajasthan	13 November 1954	13 March 1967	16 years, 194 days	Indian National Congress
				26 April 1967	9 July 1971
16		Pratapsingh Rane	Goa	16 January 1980	27 March 1990	15 years, 325 days	Indian National Congress
				16 December 1994	29 July 1998
				3 February 2005	4 March 2005
				7 June 2005	8 June 2007
17		S. C. Jamir	Nagaland	18 April 1980	5 June 1980	15 years, 151 days	United Democratic Front-Progressive
				18 November 1982	29 October 1986
				25 January 1989	16 May 1990		Indian National Congress
				22 February 1993	6 March 2003
18		N. Rangaswamy	Puducherry	27 October 2001	4 September 2008	15 years, 98 days	Indian National Congress
				16 May 2011	6 June 2016		All India N.R. Congress
				7 May 2021	Incumbent
19		Sheila Dikshit	Delhi	3 December 1998	28 December 2013	15 years, 25 days	Indian National Congress
20		Raman Singh	Chhattisgarh	7 December 2003	17 December 2018	15 years, 10 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
21		Okram Ibobi Singh	Manipur	7 March 2002	15 March 2017	15 years, 8 days	Indian National Congress
22		Tarun Gogoi	Assam	18 May 2001	24 May 2016	15 years, 6 days	Indian National Congress
23		Ashok Gehlot	Rajasthan	1 December 1998	8 December 2003	15 years, 6 days	Indian National Congress
				12 December 2008	13 December 2013
				17 December 2018	15 December 2023
24		Zoramthanga	Mizoram	3 December 1998	11 December 2008	15 years, 0 days	Mizo National Front
				15 December 2018	7 December 2023

See also

• List of current Indian chief ministers
• List of current Indian deputy chief ministers
• List of female chief ministers in India
• List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party
• List of chief ministers from the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• List of chief ministers from the Indian National Congress
• List of longest-serving members of the Union Council of Ministers