Longest Serving Chief Ministers Of India (2024 Updated)

Last Updated: 6 January 2024

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This article contains the list of Chief Ministers of Indian States and Union Territories who have served for the Longest Years Consecutively or Intermittently. The list only includes Chief Ministers who have served for more than 10 years in office.

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Facts About Chief Ministers

Amongst the 46 Longest Serving Chief Ministers Of India, 8 Chief Ministers are Incumbent to Date; i.e. Currently Holding Office.

4 Longest Serving Chief Ministers of India Died in Office; i.e. Hold the Post until the Time of Death.

The Longest-Serving Female Chief Minister is Sheila Dikshit from New Delhi (15 Years 25 Days).

The Second Longest-Serving Female Chief Minister was J. Jayalalithaa (14 Years 124 Days), the Third was Mamata Banerjee (11 Years 218 Days), and the Fourth was Vasundhara Raje (10 Years 10 Days).

Out of the Top 5 Longest Serving Chief Ministers Of India, 3 Chief Ministers were from Northeast India.

Pawan Kumar Chamling from Sikkim was the only Chief Minister from India to Consecutively serve as the longest Chief Minister for 24 Years 165 Days.

Shri Krishna Sinha (20 Jul 1937 – 31 Oct 1939) and Govind Ballabh Pant (17 Jul 1937 – 2 Nov 1939) were the oldest Chief Minister Position holders amongst the Longest Serving Chief Ministers Of India.

Longest Serving Chief Ministers Of India

* → Indicates Incumbent Chief Minister
^✝ → Indicates Died in office

Rank	Chief Minister	State/UT	Party	Term Length
1	Pawan Kumar Chamling	Sikkim	SDF	24 Years 165 Days
2	Naveen Patnaik^*	Odisha	BJD	23 Years 306 Days
3	Jyoti Basu	West Bengal	CPI(M)	23 Years 137 Days
4	Gegong Apang	Arunachal Pradesh	INC + AC + UDF + BJP + JDS	22 Years 250 Days
5	Lal Thanhawla	Mizoram	INC	22 Years 60 Days
6	Virbhadra Singh	Himachal Pradesh	INC	21 Years 13 Days
7	Manik Sarkar	Tripura	CPI(M)	19 Years 363 Days
8	M. Karunanidhi	Tamil Nadu	DMK	18 Years 362 Days
9	Parkash Singh Badal	Punjab	SAD	18 Years 350 Days
10	Yashwant Singh Parmar	Himachal Pradesh	INC	18 Years 83 Days
11	Nitish Kumar^*	Bihar	SP + JD(U)	17 Years 137 Days
12	Shri Krishna Sinha^{^✝}	Bihar	INC	17 Years 51 Days
13	Neiphiu Rio^*	Nagaland	NPF + NDPP	16 Years 314 Days
14	Shivraj Singh Chouhan^*	Madhya Pradesh	BJP	16 Years 306 Days
15	Mohan Lal Sukhadia	Rajasthan	INC	16 Years 194 Days
16	Pratapsingh Rane	Goa	INC	15 Years 325 Days
17	S. C. Jamir	Nagaland	INC	15 Years 151 Days
18	Sheila Dikshit	Delhi	INC	15 Years 25 Days
19	Raman Singh	Chhattisgarh	BJP	15 Years 10 Days
20	Okram Ibobi Singh	Manipur	INC	15 Years 8 Days
21	Tarun Gogoi	Assam	INC	15 Years 6 Days
22	Zoramthanga^*	Mizoram	MNF	15 Years
23	Ashok Gehlot^*	Rajasthan	INC	15 Years 6 Days
24	Williamson A. Sangma	Meghalaya	APHLC + INC	14 Years 221 Days
25	N. Rangasamy^*	Puducherry	INC + AINRC	14 Years 212 Days
26	Bidhan Chandra Roy^✝	West Bengal	INC	14 Years 159 Days
27	J. Jayalalithaa^{^✝}	Tamil Nadu	AIADMK	14 Years 124 Days
28	Nar Bahadur Bhandari	Sikkim	SJP + SSP	13 Years 277 Days
29	Nara Chandrababu Naidu	Andhra Pradesh + United Andhra Pradesh	TDP	13 Years 247 Days
30	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik	Odisha	INC	13 Years 155 Days
31	Bimala Prasad Chaliha	Assam	INC	12 Years 318 Days
32	Narendra Modi	Gujarat	BJP	12 Years 230 Days
33	Mamata Banerjee^*	West Bengal	AITC	12 Years 227 Days
34	Bhajan Lal	Haryana	JP + INC	11 Years 300 Days
35	Bansi Lal	Haryana	INC + HVP	11 Years 283 Days
36	Vasantrao Naik	Maharashtra	INC	11 Years 78 Days
37	Farooq Abdullah	Jammu and Kashmir	JKNC	11 Years 15 Days
38	Govind Ballabh Pant	Uttar Pradesh	INC	11 Years 13 Days
39	E. K. Nayanar	Kerala	CPI(M)	10 Years 355 Days
40	M. O. H. Farook	Puducherry	INC + DMK	10 Years 250 Days
41	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee	West Bengal	CPI(M)	10 years 188 Days
42	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	Rajasthan	JP + BJP	10 Years 156 Days
43	M. G. Ramachandran^{^✝}	Tamil Nadu	AIADMK	10 Years 65 Days
44	Nripen Chakraborty	Tripura	CPI(M)	10 Years 31 Days
45	Vasundhara Raje	Rajasthan	BJP	10 Years 8 Days
46	Digvijaya Singh	Madhya Pradesh	INC	10 Years 1 Day

Questions On Chief Ministers

1. Who is the longest-serving Chief Minister of India?

Answer: Pawan Kumar Chamling (24 Years 165 Days)

2. Who is the second longest-serving Chief Minister of India?

Answer: Naveen Patnaik (23 Years 266 Days+)

3. Who is the longest-serving woman Chief Minister of India?

Answer: Sheila Dikshit (15 Years 25 Days)

4. Who is the second longest-serving woman Chief Minister of India?

Answer: J. Jayalalithaa (14 Years 124 Days)

5. Who is the longest-serving Chief Minister of Karnataka?

Answer: D. Devaraj Urs (7 Years 239 Days)

6. Who is the longest-serving Chief Minister of Kerala?

Answer: E. K. Nayanar (10 Years 353 Days)

7. Who is the longest-serving Chief Minister of Tripura

Answer: Manik Sarkar (19 Years 363 Days)

8. who is the longest-serving Chief Minister of Northeast India?

Answer: Pawan Kumar Chamling (24 Years 165 Days)

9. Which Indian state has the highest number of longest-serving Chief Ministers?

Answer: Rajasthan and West Bengal
Rajasthan
1) Mohan Lal Sukhadia (16 Years 194 Days)
2) Ashok Gehlot (14 Years 352 Days)
3) Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (10 Years 156 Days)
4) Vasundhara Raje (10 Years 8 Days)

West Bengal
1) Jyoti Basu (23 Years 138 Days)
2) Bidhan Chandra Roy (14 Years 159 Days)
3) Mamata Banerjee (12 Years 190 Days)
4) Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (10 Years 188 Days)

10. Which political party in India has the highest number of longest-serving Chief Ministers?

Answer: Indian National Congress (INC)

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