List of female chief ministers in India

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The Chief Minister is the chief executive of the Indian state. 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 that she has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1]

Since 1963 India has had 16 female chief ministers, A majority of them belonged to the Indian National Congress party. The first female to become chief minister was Sucheta Kripalani of the Indian National Congress party, who sworn in on 2 October 1963 as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. The longest-serving female chief minister was Sheila Dikshit, who served as the chief minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi from Indian National Congress held the office for over fifteen years. J. Jayalalithaa, who served as chief minister of Tamil Nadu from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has the second-longest tenure, she held the office until her death in 2016 and became the first female chief minister to die in the office, While V. N. Janaki Ramachandran of the same state and party has the shortest tenure (only 23 days). In India, out of 28 states and 8 union territories only 12 states and 1 union territory had a female chief ministers. Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal is the only incumbent female chief minister in India.

Chronological list[edit]

Key
 AIADMK   (2)  AITC   (1)  BSP   (1)  BJP   (4)  INC   (5)  [[Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party|Template:Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party/meta/shortname]]   (1)  [[Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party|Template:Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party/meta/shortname]]   (1)  RJD   (1)
No. Portrait Name

(Birth–Death)

State/Union territory Political party[lower-alpha 1] Term of office Time in Office

(Days)

Assumed Office Left Office
1 No image available.svg Sucheta Kripalani
(1908–1974)
Uttar Pradesh Indian National Congress 2 October 1963 13 March 1967 1258
2 Nandini-Satapathy.jpg Nandini Satpathy
(1931–2006)
Odisha Indian National Congress 14 June 1972 3 March 1973 1278
6 March 1974 16 December 1976[RES]
3 Shashikala Kakodkar
(1935–2016)
Goa Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 12 August 1973 27 April 1979 2084
4 No image available.svg Anwara Taimur
(1936–2020)
Assam Indian National Congress 6 December 1980 30 June 1981 206
5 VNJanaki.jpg V. N. Janaki Ramachandran
(1924–1996)
Tamil Nadu All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 7 January 1988 30 January 1988 23
6 J Jayalalithaa.jpg J. Jayalalithaa
(1948–2016)
Tamil Nadu All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 24 June 1991 12 May 1996 5238
14 May 2001 21 September 2001[RES]
2 March 2002 12 May 2006
16 May 2011 27 September 2014
23 May 2015 5 December 2016[†]
7 Mayawati.jpg Mayawati
(1956–)
Uttar Pradesh Bahujan Samaj Party 13 June 1995 18 October 1995 2562
21 March 1997 21 September 1997[RES]
3 May 2002 29 August 2003[RES]
13 May 2007 15 March 2012
8 Rajinder Kaur Bhattal.jpg Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
(1945–)
Punjab Indian National Congress 21 November 1996 12 February 1997 83
9 Rabri Devi.jpg Rabri Devi
(1959–)
Bihar Rashtriya Janata Dal 25 July 1997 11 February 1999 2746
9 March 1999 2 March 2000[RES]
11 March 2000 6 March 2005
10 Sushma Swaraj Ji.jpg Sushma Swaraj
(1953–2019)
National Capital Territory of Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party 12 October 1998 3 December 1998 52
11 Sheila Dikshit Ji.jpg Sheila Dikshit
(1938–2019)
National Capital Territory of Delhi Indian National Congress 3 December 1998 28 December 2013 5504
12 Uma Bharati in 2014.jpg Uma Bharti
(1959–)
Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party 8 December 2003 23 August 2004[RES] 259
13 Vasundhra Raje.jpg Vasundhara Raje
(1953–)
Rajasthan Bharatiya Janata Party 8 December 2003 11 December 2008 3659
8 December 2013 16 December 2018
14 Ms. Mamata Banerjee, in Kolkata on July 17, 2018 (cropped) (cropped).JPG Mamata Banerjee*
(1955–)
West Bengal All India Trinamool Congress 20 May 2011 Incumbent 4650
15 Anandiben Patel Ji.jpg Anandiben Patel
(1941–)
Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Party 22 May 2014 7 August 2016[RES] 808
16 Mehbooba Mufti Ji.jpg Mehbooba Mufti
(1959–)
Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party 4 April 2016 20 June 2018 807

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government she heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.

References[edit]

  1. Durga Das Basu. Introduction to the Constitution of India. 1960. 20th Edition, 2011 Reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. ISBN 978-81-8038-559-9