List of chief ministers of Delhi

The chief minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi is the head of government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. According to the Constitution of India, the lieutenant governor is the National Capital Territory of Delhi's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with its chief minister. Following elections to the Delhi Legislative Assembly, the lieutenant governor usually invites the party with a majority of seats to form the government. The president of India, on the advice of the lieutenant governor, appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that the person has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.^[1]A member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), she has been serving as the MLA from Shalimar Bagh since 2025

Chief Minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi
Emblem of the NCT of Delhi
Incumbent Rekha Gupta since 20 February 2025
Government of Delhi
Type	Head of State Government
Member of	Delhi Legislative Assembly & Council of Ministers of Delhi
Reports to	Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Delhi Legislative Assembly
Residence	6, Flagstaff Road, Civil Lines, Delhi
Seat	Old Secretariat, Vikram Nagar, Civil Lines, New Delhi
Nominator	Members of the Government of Delhi in Delhi Legislative Assembly
Appointer	Lt. Governor of Delhi by convention based on appointees ability to command confidence in the Delhi Legislative Assembly
Term length	At the confidence of the assembly Chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.
Inaugural holder	Brahm Prakash
Formation	First Formation 17 March 1952; 73 years ago (1952-03-17)-1 November 1956; 68 years ago (1956-11-01); Dissolved 1 November 1956; 68 years ago (1956-11-01)-1 December 1993; 31 years ago (1993-12-01) Reintroduction 1 December 1993; 31 years ago (1993-12-01)
Deputy	Deputy Chief Minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi
Website	Official website

History

Since 1952, the National Capital Territory of Delhi has had 7 chief ministers, starting with the Indian National Congress party's Chaudhary Brahm Prakash. The office of the chief minister was abolished for 37 years after the States Reorganisation Act of 1956. In 1991, growing demand for self-governance^[2] led to the 69th Amendment to the Indian Constitution which granted Delhi National Capital Territory (NCT) status and an elected legislature.^[3][4] First election after 37 years was held in November 1993^[5] and Madan Lal Khurana of Bharatiya Janata Party was sworn in as the chief minister.^[6] The longest-serving chief minister, Sheila Dikshit from the Indian National Congress party, held the office for over fifteen years.^[7] On 28 December 2013, Arvind Kejriwal of Aam Aadmi Party sworn in as first state party chief minister of the national capital territory. There has been one instance of president's rule in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, most recently in 2015. In the 2025 assembly chooses Rekha Gupta from BJP as the 4th women chief minister of Delhi-NCT.

Official residence

Since 2014, the Chief Minister has resided at Bungalow 6 at Flagstaff Road in Central Delhi. The location is close to the Delhi Secretariat.^[8]

List

No[a]	Portrait	Name[9]	Constituency	Term of office			Assembly (election)	Party[b]
1		Brahm Prakash	Nangloi Jat	17 March 1952	12 February 1955	2 years, 332 days	Interim (1952)	Indian National Congress
2		Gurmukh Nihal Singh	Daryaganj	12 February 1955	1 November 1956	1 year, 263 days
Office abolished (1 November 1956 – 1 December 1993)[c]
3		Madan Lal Khurana	Moti Nagar	2 December 1993	26 February 1996	2 years, 86 days	1st (1993)	Bharatiya Janata Party
4		Sahib Singh Verma	Shalimar Bagh	26 February 1996	12 October 1998	2 years, 228 days
5		Sushma Swaraj	Not Contested	12 October 1998	3 December 1998	52 days
6		Sheila Dikshit	New Delhi	3 December 1998	2 December 2003	15 years, 25 days	2nd (1998)	Indian National Congress
				2 December 2003	30 November 2008		3rd (2003)
				30 November 2008	28 December 2013		4th (2008)
7		Arvind Kejriwal	New Delhi	28 December 2013	14 February 2014	48 days	5th (2013)	Aam Aadmi Party
–		Vacant (President's rule)	–	14 February 2014	14 February 2015	1 year, 0 days	Dissolved	–
(7)		Arvind Kejriwal	New Delhi	14 February 2015	16 February 2020	9 years, 218 days	6th (2015)	Aam Aadmi Party
				16 February 2020	21 September 2024		7th (2020)
8		Atishi Marlena	Kalkaji	21 September 2024	20 February 2025	152 days
9		Rekha Gupta	Shalimar Bagh	20 February 2025	Incumbent	77 days	8th (2025)	Bharatiya Janata Party

Statistics

List of chief ministers by length of term

No.	Name	Party		Length of term
				Longest continuous term	Total years of chief ministership
1	Sheila Dikshit	INC		15 years, 25 days	15 years, 25 days
2	Arvind Kejriwal	AAP		9 years, 218 days	9 years, 266 days
3	Brahm Parkash	INC		2 years, 332 days	2 years, 332 days
4	Sahib Singh Verma	BJP		2 years, 228 days	2 years, 228 days
5	Madan Lal Khurana	BJP		2 years, 86 days	2 years, 86 days
6	Gurmukh Nihal Singh	INC		1 year, 263 days	1 year, 263 days
7	Atishi Marlena	AAP		152 days	152 days
8	Rekha Gupta	BJP		77 days	77 days
9	Sushma Swaraj	BJP		52 days	52 days

List by party

Political parties by total time-span of their member holding CMO (8 May 2025)

No.	Political party	Number of chief ministers	Total days of holding CMO
1	Indian National Congress	3	7194 days
2	Aam Aadmi Party	2	3707 days
3	Bharatiya Janata Party	4	1904 days

Parties by total duration (in days) of holding Chief Minister's Office

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BJP

•   INC
•   AAP
•   BJP

See also

• List of current Indian chief ministers
• List of lieutenant governors of the National Capital Territory of Delhi
• List of deputy chief ministers of the National Capital Territory of Delhi

Notes

1. A parenthetical number indicates that the incumbent has previously held office.
2. This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he headed may have been a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.
3. As after that States Reorganisation Act, 1956 was passed which made Delhi a Union Territory. Thus, no one was appointed the next CM of Delhi until legislative assembly elections in Delhi were held in 1993, when Union Territory of Delhi was formally declared as National Capital Territory of Delhi by the Sixty-ninth Amendment to the Indian constitution and formed Delhi Metropolitan Council.^[10]