List of chief ministers of Jharkhand

The chief minister of Jharkhand is the chief executive of the Indian state of Jharkhand. In accordance with the Constitution of India, the governor is a state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the legislative assembly, the state's 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 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 Jharkhand
Emblem of Jharkhand
Incumbent Hemant Soren since 4 July 2024 (2024-07-04)
Government of Jharkhand
Style	The Honourable (Formal) Mr. Chief Minister (Informal)
Type	Head of Government
Status	Leader of the Executive
Abbreviation	CM
Member of	Cabinet Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Reports to	Governor of Jharkhand Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Residence	Jinx, Kanke Road, Ranchi
Seat	Chief Minister Secretariat (CMO), Ranchi, Jharkhand
Nominator	Members of the Government of Jharkhand in Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Appointer	Governor of Jharkhand by convention based on appointees ability to command confidence in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Term length	At the confidence of the assembly Chief minister's term is for 5 years and is subject to no term limits.[1]
Inaugural holder	Babulal Marandi
Formation	15 November 2000 (24 years ago) (2000-11-15)
Deputy	Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand
Salary	₹272,000 (US$3,200)/monthly ₹3,000,000 (US$35,000)/annually
Website	cm.jharkhand.gov.in

Seven people have served as the state's chief minister since Jharkhand's formation on 15 November 2000.^[2] Half of them, including the inaugural officeholder Babulal Marandi and Arjun Munda, represented the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Hemant Soren, from the JMM, is the longest-serving chief minister. Three chief ministers, Shibu Soren, his son Hemant Soren, and Champai Soren, represented the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). Shibu Soren's first term ended in just ten days, as he could not prove that he had the support of a majority of the house and was forced to resign. The state has also been governed by Madhu Koda, one of the few independents to become the chief minister of any state.^[3] In between their reigns, the state has also been under President's rule three times. Raghubar Das, of the BJP, was the first non-tribal and first chief minister to complete a full term in the state. Hemant Soren of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is the incumbent chief minister.

Chief ministers

#	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term			Assembly (election)	Ministry	Party[a]
1		Babulal Marandi	Ramgarh	15 November 2000	18 March 2003	2 years, 123 days	1st[b] (2000 election)	Marandi	Bharatiya Janata Party
2		Arjun Munda	Kharsawan	18 March 2003	2 March 2005	1 year, 349 days		Munda I
3		Shibu Soren	did not contest	2 March 2005	12 March 2005	10 days	2nd (2005 election)	Shibu I	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
(2)		Arjun Munda	Kharsawan	12 March 2005	18 September 2006	1 year, 190 days		Munda II	Bharatiya Janata Party
4		Madhu Koda	Jaganathpur	18 September 2006	27 August 2008	1 year, 343 days		Koda	Independent
(3)		Shibu Soren	did not contest[4]	27 August 2008	19 January 2009	145 days		Shibu II	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
–		Vacant[c] (President's rule)	N/A	19 January 2009	30 December 2009	345 days			N/A
(3)		Shibu Soren	Jamtara	30 December 2009	1 June 2010	153 days	3rd (2009 election)	Shibu III	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
–		Vacant[c] (President's rule)	N/A	1 June 2010	11 September 2010	102 days			N/A
(2)		Arjun Munda	Kharsawan	11 September 2010	18 January 2013	2 years, 129 days		Munda III	Bharatiya Janata Party
–		Vacant[c] (President's rule)	N/A	18 January 2013	13 July 2013	176 days			N/A
5		Hemant Soren	Dumka	13 July 2013	28 December 2014	1 year, 168 days		Hemant I	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
6		Raghubar Das	Jamshedpur East	28 December 2014	29 December 2019	5 years, 1 day	4th (2014 election)	Das	Bharatiya Janata Party
(5)		Hemant Soren	Barhait	29 December 2019	2 February 2024	4 years, 35 days	5th (2019 election)	Hemant II	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
7		Champai Soren	Seraikella	2 February 2024	4 July 2024	153 days		Champai
(5)		Hemant Soren	Barhait	4 July 2024	28 November 2024	303 days		Hemant III
				28 November 2024	Incumbent		6th (2024 election)	Hemant IV

Statistics

Fraction of time of holding CMO by party (as of December 2024)

1. Bharatiya Janata Party (54.63%)
2. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (30.24%)
3. Independent (8.05%)
4. President's Rule (7.08%)

#	Chief Minister	Party		Term of office
				Longest continuous term	Total duration of chief ministership
1	Hemant Soren*		JMM*	4 years, 35 days*	6 years, 141 days*
2	Arjun Munda		BJP	2 years, 129 days	5 years, 307 days
3	Raghubar Das		BJP	5 years, 1 day	5 years, 1 day
4	Babulal Marandi		BJP	2 years, 123 days	2 years, 123 days
5	Madhu Koda		IND	1 year, 343 days	1 year, 343 days
6	Shibu Soren		JMM	153 days	308 days
7	Champai Soren		JMM	153 days	153 days

Timeline

Notes

1. 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.
2. The first Legislative Assembly of Jharkhand was constituted by the MLAs elected in the 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, whose constituencies were in the newly formed Jharkhand.^[2]
3. President's rule may be imposed when the "government in a state is not able to function as per the Constitution", which often happens because no party or coalition has a majority in the assembly. When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant, and the administration is taken over by the governor, who functions on behalf of the central government. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.^[5]