List Of First Chief Minister Of All Indian States (2023 Updated)

Last Updated: 2 February 2023

This article contains the names of the First Chief Minister of all Indian states (28 states) and 8 Union Territories.

The list excludes names of the states before Renaming, the Old States, and before the Independence of India. For example, the list has the name of the first Chief Minister of the state of Maharashtra and not Bombay.

The list of Administrators of the Union territories is also mentioned below.

First Chief Minister Of All Indian States

No.	State	Chief Minister	Term In	Term Out	Party
1	Andhra Pradesh	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	01 Nov 1956	11 Jan 1960	INC
2	Arunachal Pradesh	Prem Khandu Thungan	13 Aug 1975	18 Sep 1979	JP
3	Assam	Gopinath Bordoloi	11 Feb 1946	06 Aug 1950	INC
4	Bihar	Sri Krishna Singh	02 Apr 1946	31 Jan 1961	INC
5	Chhattisgarh	Ajit Jogi	01 Nov 2000	07 Dec 2003	INC
6	Goa	Dayanand Bandodkar	20 Dec 1963	02 Dec 1966	MGP
7	Gujarat	Jivraj Narayan Mehta	01 May 1960	19 Sep 1963	INC
8	Haryana	Bhagwat Dayal Sharma	01 Nov 1966	23 Mar 1967	INC
9	Himachal Pradesh	Yashwant Singh Parmar	08 Mar 1952	28 Jan 1977	INC
10	Jharkhand	Babulal Marandi	15 Nov 2000	18 Mar 2003	BJP
11	Karnataka	K. Chengalaraya Reddy	25 Oct 1947	30 Mar 1952	INC
12	Kerala	E. M. S. Namboodiripad	05 Apr 1957	31 Jul 1959	CPI
13	Madhya Pradesh	Ravishankar Shukla	01 Nov 1956	31 Dec 1956	INC
14	Maharashtra	Yashwantrao Chavan	01 May 1960	19 Nov 1962	INC
15	Manipur	Mairembam Koireng Singh	01 Jul 1963	11 Jan 1967	INC
16	Meghalaya	Williamson A. Sangma	02 Apr 1970	03 Mar 1978	APHLC + INC
17	Mizoram	Ch Chhunga	03 May 1972	10 May 1977	MU
18	Nagaland	P. Shilu Ao	01 Dec 1963	14 Aug 1966	NNO
19	Odisha	Harekrushna Mahatab	23 Apr 1946	12 May 1950	INC
20	Punjab	Gopi Chand Bhargava	15 Aug 1947	13 Apr 1949	INC
21	Rajasthan	Heera Lal Shastri	07 Apr 1949	05 Jan 1951	INC
22	Sikkim	Kazi Lhendup Dorjee	16 May 1975	17 Aug 1979	INC
23	Tamil Nadu	C. N. Annadurai	14 Jan 1969	03 Feb 1969	DMK
24	Telangana	K. Chandrasekhar Rao	02 June 2014	~	TRS
25	Tripura	Sachindra Lal Singh	01 Jul 1963	01 Nov 1971	INC
26	Uttar Pradesh	Govind Ballabh Pant	26 Jan 1950	27 Dec 1954	INC
27	Uttarakhand	Nityanand Swami	09 Nov 2000	29 Oct 2001	BJP
28	West Bengal	Prafulla Chandra Ghosh	15 Aug 1947	22 Jan 1948	INC

Acronyms
1) APHLC: All Party Hill Leaders Conference
2) BJP: Bharatiya Janata Party
3) CPI: Communist Party of India
4) DMK: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
5) INC: Indian National Congress
6) JP: Janata Party
7) MGP: Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
8) MU: Mizo Union
9) NNO: Naga Nationalist Organisation
10) TRS: Telangana Rashtra Samithi

Administrators Of Union Territories

No.	Union Territory	Chief Minister	Term In	Term Out	Party
1	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Manohar L. Kampani (LG)	12 Nov 1982	03 Dec 1985	~
2	Chandigarh	Mohinder Singh Randhawa (CC)	01 Nov 1966	31 Oct 1968	~
3	Dadra and Nagar Haveli & Daman and Diu	R. V. Mudras (A)	22 Jul 1954	02 Aug 1954	~
4	Delhi	Chaudhary P. Brahm Parkash (CM)	17 Mar 1952	12 Feb 1955	INC
5	Jammu and Kashmir	Mehr Chand Mahajan (CM)	15 Oct 1947	05 Mar 1948	INC
6	Ladakh	Radha Krishna Mathur (LG)	31 Oct 2019	Current	~
7	Lakshadweep	U. R. Panicker (A)	01 Nov 1956	07 Nov 1956	~
8	Puducherry	Edouard Goubert (CM)	01 Jul 1963	24 Aug 1964	INC