Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh is the head of the Government of Uttar Pradesh. As per the Constitution of India, the governor is the state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.^[1]

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Emblem of Uttar Pradesh
Incumbent Yogi Adityanath since 19 March 2017 (2017-03-19)
Government of Uttar Pradesh
Style	The Honourable (Formal) Mr. Chief Minister (Informal)
Status	Head of Government
Abbreviation	CM
Member of	Uttar Pradesh Legislature Uttar Pradesh Council of Ministers
Reports to	Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Residence	5, Kalidas Marg, Lucknow
Seat	Lok Bhawan, Lucknow
Appointer	Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Term length	At the confidence of the assembly Chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1]
Precursor	Premier of United Provinces
Inaugural holder	Govind Ballabh Pant
Formation	26 January 1950 (75 years ago) (1950-01-26)
Deputy	Deputy Chief Minister
Salary	₹365,000 (US$4,300)/monthly ₹4,380,000 (US$52,000)/annually
Website	Office of the Chief Minister

On 26 January 1950 Govind Ballabh Pant, premier of United Provinces, became the first chief minister of the newly renamed Uttar Pradesh. Including him, 11 out of UP's 21 chief ministers belonged to the Indian National Congress. Among these is V. P. Singh, a future prime minister of India, as was Charan Singh of the Bharatiya Lok Dal. On ten occasions, most recently in 2002, the state has come under President's rule, leaving the office of chief minister vacant. UP has also had two women chief ministers—Sucheta Kripalani and Mayawati. Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party served as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2012 to 2017; having taken the oath at 38 years of age, he is the youngest person to have held the office. Only three chief ministers completed their official tenure of five years: Mayawati, Akhilesh Yadav, and Yogi Adityanath.

Yogi Adityanath of the Bharatiya Janata Party is serving as the incumbent chief minister since 19 March 2017.

Oath as the state chief minister

The chief minister serves five years in the office. The following is the oath of the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh:

I, <Name of Chief Minister>, do swear in the name of God/solemnly affirm that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established, that I will uphold the sovereignty and integrity of India, that I will faithfully and conscientiously discharge my duties as a Minister for the State of Uttar Pradesh and that I will do right to all manner of people in accordance with the Constitution and the law without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.

Prime ministers of United Provinces (1937–50)

The United Provinces, headquartered in Allahabad was a province of British India that comprised present day Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Under the Government of India Act 1935, a bicameral legislature was set up with a legislative assembly and a legislative council.

Prime ministers of United Provinces (1937–50)
No	Portrait	Name	Term of office[2]			Assembly	Appointee	Party
1		The Nawab of Chhatari	3 April 1937	16 July 1937	104 days	1st (1937 elections)	Harry Graham Haig	Independent
2		Govind Ballabh Pant	17 July 1937	2 November 1939	2 years, 108 days			Indian National Congress
-		Vacant (Governor's Rule)	3 November 1939	31 March 1946	6 years, 148 days	Dissolved	-	N/A
(2)		Govind Ballabh Pant	1 April 1946	26 January 1950	3 years, 300 days	2nd (1946 elections)	Francis Verner Wylie	Indian National Congress

Chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of office[2][3]			Assembly[4] (Election)	Party[a]
1		Govind Ballabh Pant	Bareilly	26 January 1950	20 May 1952	4 years, 336 days	Provincial (1946 elections)	Indian National Congress
				20 May 1952	28 December 1954		1st (1951 election)
2		Sampurnanand	Varanasi South	28 December 1954	9 April 1957	5 years, 345 days
				10 April 1957	7 December 1960		2nd (1957 election)
3		Chandra Bhanu Gupta	Ranikhet South	7 December 1960	14 March 1962	2 years, 299 days
				14 March 1962	2 October 1963		3rd (1962 election)
4		Sucheta Kripalani	Menhdawal	2 October 1963	14 March 1967	3 years, 163 days
(3)		Chandra Bhanu Gupta	Ranikhet	14 March 1967	3 April 1967	20 days	4th (1967 election)
5		Charan Singh	Chhaprauli	3 April 1967	25 February 1968	328 days		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)	N/A	25 February 1968	26 February 1969	1 year, 1 day	Dissolved	N/A
(3)		Chandra Bhanu Gupta	Ranikhet	26 February 1969	18 February 1970	357 days	5th (1969 election)	Indian National Congress
(5)		Charan Singh	Chhaprauli	18 February 1970	1 October 1970	225 days		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)	N/A	1 October 1970	18 October 1970	17 days		N/A
6		Tribhuvan Narain Singh		18 October 1970	4 April 1971	168 days		Indian National Congress (O)
7		Kamalapati Tripathi	Chandauli	4 April 1971	13 June 1973	2 years, 70 days		Indian National Congress
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)	N/A	13 June 1973	8 November 1973	148 days		N/A
8		Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna	Bara	8 November 1973	4 March 1974	2 years, 22 days		Indian National Congress
				5 March 1974	30 November 1975		6th (1974 election)
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)	N/A	30 November 1975	21 January 1976	52 days		N/A
9		Narayan Datt Tiwari	Kashipur	21 January 1976	30 April 1977	1 year, 99 days		Indian National Congress
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)	N/A	30 April 1977	23 June 1977	54 days	Dissolved	N/A
10		Ram Naresh Yadav	Nidhauli Kalan	23 June 1977	28 February 1979	1 year, 250 days	7th (1977 election)	Janata Party
11		Banarasi Das	Hapur	28 February 1979	17 February 1980	354 days
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)	N/A	17 February 1980	9 June 1980	113 days	Dissolved	N/A
12		Vishwanath Pratap Singh	Tindwari	9 June 1980	19 July 1982	2 years, 40 days	8th (1980 election)	Indian National Congress
13		Sripati Mishra	Isauli	19 July 1982	3 August 1984	2 years, 15 days
(9)		Narayan Datt Tiwari	Kashipur	3 August 1984	10 March 1985	1 year, 52 days
				11 March 1985	24 September 1985		9th (1985 election)
14		Vir Bahadur Singh	Paniyara	24 September 1985	25 June 1988	2 years, 275 days
(9)		Narayan Datt Tiwari	Kashipur	25 June 1988	5 December 1989	1 year, 163 days
15		Mulayam Singh Yadav	Jaswantnagar	5 December 1989	24 June 1991	1 year, 201 days	10th (1989 election)	Janata Dal
16		Kalyan Singh	Atrauli	24 June 1991	6 December 1992	1 year, 165 days	11th (1991 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)	N/A	6 December 1992	4 December 1993	363 days	Dissolved	N/A
(15)		Mulayam Singh Yadav	Jaswantnagar	4 December 1993	3 June 1995	1 year, 181 days	12th (1993 election)	Samajwadi Party
17		Mayawati	N/A	3 June 1995	18 October 1995	137 days		Bahujan Samaj Party
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)		18 October 1995	17 October 1996	1 year, 154 days	Dissolved	N/A
				17 October 1996	21 March 1997		13th (1996 election)
(17)		Mayawati	Harora	21 March 1997	21 September 1997	184 days		Bahujan Samaj Party
(16)		Kalyan Singh	Atrauli	21 September 1997	21 February 1998	2 years, 52 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
18		Ram Prakash Gupta	MLC	12 November 1999	28 October 2000	351 days
19		Rajnath Singh	Haidergarh	28 October 2000	8 March 2002	1 year, 131 days
–		Vacant[b] (President's rule)	N/A	8 March 2002	3 May 2002	56 days	Dissolved	N/A
(17)		Mayawati	Harora	3 May 2002	29 August 2003	1 year, 118 days	14th (2002 election)	Bahujan Samaj Party
(15)		Mulayam Singh Yadav	Gunnaur	29 August 2003	13 May 2007	3 years, 257 days		Samajwadi Party
(17)		Mayawati	MLC	13 May 2007	15 March 2012	4 years, 307 days	15th (2007 election)	Bahujan Samaj Party
20		Akhilesh Yadav	MLC	15 March 2012	19 March 2017	5 years, 4 days	16th (2012 election)	Samajwadi Party
21		Yogi Adityanath	MLC	19 March 2017	25 March 2022	8 years, 110 days	17th (2017 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
			Gorakhpur Urban	25 March 2022	Incumbent		18th (2022 election)

Statistics

List by chief minister

#	Chief Minister	Party		Term of office
				Longest continuous term	Total duration of chief ministership
1	Yogi Adityanath*		BJP	8 years, 110 days*	8 years, 110 days*
2	Mayawati		BSP	4 years, 307 days	7 years, 16 days
3	Mulayam Singh Yadav		SP/JD	3 years, 257 days	6 years, 274 days
4	Sampurnanand		INC	5 years, 345 days	5 years, 345 days
5	Akhilesh Yadav		SP	5 years, 4 days	5 years, 4 days
6	Govind Ballabh Pant		INC	4 years, 336 days	4 years, 336 days
7	Narayan Datt Tiwari		INC	1 year, 163 days	3 years, 314 days
8	Chandra Bhanu Gupta		INC	2 years, 299 days	3 years, 311 days
9	Kalyan Singh		BJP	2 years, 52 days	3 years, 217 days
10	Sucheta Kripalani		INC	3 years, 163 days	3 years, 163 days
11	Vir Bahadur Singh		INC	2 years, 275 days	2 years, 275 days
12	Kamalapati Tripathi		INC	2 years, 70 days	2 years, 70 days
13	Vishwanath Pratap Singh		INC	2 years, 40 days	2 years, 40 days
14	Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna		INC	2 years, 22 days	2 years, 22 days
15	Sripati Mishra		INC	2 years, 15 days	2 years, 15 days
16	Ram Naresh Yadav		JP	1 year, 250 days	1 year, 250 days
17	Charan Singh		BKD	328 days	1 year, 188 days
18	Rajnath Singh		BJP	1 year, 131 days	1 year, 131 days
19	Banarasi Das		JP	354 days	354 days
20	Ram Prakash Gupta		BJP	351 days	351 days
21	Tribhuvan Narain Singh		INC(O)	168 days	168 days

Only 6 of them served longer than the total length of President's rule (4 year, 228 days).

Timeline

Representation of chief ministers by party

1. Indian National Congress (45.23%)
2. Bharatiya Janata Party (18.22%)
3. Samajwadi Party (13.92%)
4. Bahujan Samaj Party (9.61%)
5. Janata Party (3.61%)
6. Bharatiya Kranti Dal (2.07%)
7. Indian National Congress (O) (0.62%)
8. Janata Dal (0.42%)
9. President's Rule (6.3%)

Notes

1. This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.
2. When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.^[5]