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 10 years in office.

As of September 2024, 46 chief ministers have served for more than 10 years; of these, 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 46, five 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		Nitish Kumar	Bihar	3 March 2000	11 March 2000	18 years, 99 days	Samata Party
				24 November 2005	20 May 2014		Janata Dal (United)
				22 February 2015	Incumbent
11		Yashwant Singh Parmar	Himachal Pradesh	8 March 1952	31 October 1956	18 years, 83 days	Indian National Congress
				1 July 1963	28 January 1977
12		Neiphiu Rio	Nagaland	6 March 2003	3 January 2008	17 years, 274 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		N. Rangaswamy	Puducherry	27 October 2001	4 September 2008	15 years, 171 days	Indian National Congress
				16 May 2011	6 June 2016		All India N.R. Congress
				7 May 2021	Incumbent
18		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
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
25	–	Williamson A. Sangma	Meghalaya	2 April 1970	10 March 1978	14 years, 221 days	All Party Hill Leaders Conference
				7 May 1981	2 March 1983		Indian National Congress
				2 April 1983	6 February 1988
26		Bidhan Chandra Roy	West Bengal	23 January 1948	1 July 1962	14 years, 159 days	Indian National Congress
27		J. Jayalalithaa	Tamil Nadu	24 June 1991	12 May 1996	14 years, 124 days	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
				14 May 2001	21 September 2001
				2 March 2002	12 May 2006
				16 May 2011	27 September 2014
				23 May 2015	5 December 2016
28		N. Chandrababu Naidu	Andhra Pradesh	1 September 1995	14 May 2004	14 years, 45 days	Telugu Desam Party
				8 June 2014	30 May 2019
				12 June 2024	Incumbent
29		Nar Bahadur Bhandari	Sikkim	18 October 1979	11 May 1984	13 years, 277 days	Sikkim Janata Parishad
				8 March 1985	18 May 1994		Sikkim Sangram Parishad
30		Mamata Banerjee	West Bengal	20 May 2011	Incumbent	13 years, 189 days	Trinamool Congress
31		Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	Odisha	9 June 1980	7 December 1989	13 years, 155 days	Indian National Congress
				15 March 1995	17 February 1999
32	–	Bimala Prasad Chaliha	Assam	28 December 1957	11 November 1970	12 years, 318 days	Indian National Congress
33		Narendra Modi	Gujarat	7 October 2001	22 May 2014	12 years, 227 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
34		Bhajan Lal	Haryana	28 June 1979	23 May 1982	11 years, 300 days	Janata Party
				23 May 1982	5 June 1986		Indian National Congress
				23 June 1991	11 May 1996
35		Bansi Lal	Haryana	21 May 1968	1 December 1975	11 years, 283 days	Indian National Congress
				5 June 1986	20 June 1987
				11 May 1996	24 July 1999		Haryana Vikas Party
36		Vasantrao Naik	Maharashtra	5 December 1963	21 February 1975	11 years, 78 days	Indian National Congress
37		Farooq Abdullah	Jammu and Kashmir	8 September 1982	2 July 1984	11 years, 15 days	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
				7 November 1986	19 January 1990
				9 October 1996	18 October 2002
38		Govind Ballabh Pant	Uttar Pradesh	17 July 1937	2 November 1939	11 years, 13 days	Indian National Congress
				1 April 1946	27 December 1954
39		E. K. Nayanar	Kerala	25 January 1980	20 October 1981	10 years, 355 days	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
				26 March 1987	24 June 1991
				20 May 1996	17 May 2001
40		M. O. H. Farook	Puducherry	9 April 1967	6 March 1968	10 years, 250 days	Indian National Congress
				17 March 1969	2 January 1974		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
				16 March 1985	8 March 1990		Indian National Congress
41		Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee	West Bengal	6 November 2000	13 May 2011	10 years, 188 days	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
42		Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	Rajasthan	22 June 1977	16 February 1980	10 years, 156 days	Janata Party
				4 March 1990	15 December 1992		Bharatiya Janata Party
				4 December 1993	1 December 1998
43		M. G. Ramachandran	Tamil Nadu	30 June 1977	17 February 1980	10 years, 65 days	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
				9 June 1980	24 December 1987
44		Nripen Chakraborty	Tripura	5 January 1978	5 February 1988	10 years, 31 days	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
45		Vasundhara Raje	Rajasthan	8 December 2003	12 December 2008	10 years, 8 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
				13 December 2013	17 December 2018
46		Digvijaya Singh	Madhya Pradesh	7 December 1993	8 December 2003	10 years, 1 day	Indian National Congress

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