List of longest-serving Indian chief ministers


This list details chief ministers of Indian states and union territories who have served for the longest years consecutively or otherwise. This list includes chief ministers who have served for more than 10 years in office.

List

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#Chief MinisterPortraitStatePartyTermTerm lengthRef.
1Pawan Kumar Chamling
SikkimSikkim Democratic Front|12 December 1994 - 26 May 2019
2Jyoti Basu
West BengalCommunist Party of India |21 June 1977 - 5 November 2000
3Gegong Apang
Arunachal Pradesh18 January 1980 – 18 January 1999
3 August 2003 – 9 April 2007		22 years, 8 months, 5 days
4Lal Thanhawla
MizoramINC21 years, 55 days
5Virbhadra Singh
Himachal PradeshINC21 years, 11 days
6Naveen Patnaik*
OdishaBiju Janata Dal|
7Manik Sarkar
TripuraCommunist Party of India |11 March 1998 – 9 March 2018
8M. Karunanidhi
Tamil NaduDravida Munnetra Kazhagam|18 years, 293 days
9Yashwant Singh Parmar
Himachal PradeshINC8 March 1952 – 31 October 1956
1 July 1963 – 28 January 1977		18 years, 30 days
10Parkash Singh Badal
PunjabShiromani Akali Dal|18 years, 350 days
11Mohan Lal Sukhadia
RajasthanINC17 years, 175 days
12Pratapsingh Rane
GoaINC15 years, 250 days
13S. C. Jamir
NagalandUnited Democratic Front |15 years, 200 days
14Sheila Dikshit
DelhiINC
15Okram Ibobi Singh
ManipurINC
16Tarun Gogoi
AssamINC
17Raman Singh
ChhattisgarhBharatiya Janata Party|
18Shri Krishna Sinha
BiharINC2 April 1946 – 31 January 1961
19Bidhan Chandra RoyWest BengalINC
20J. Jayalalithaa
Tamil NaduAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|14 years, 126 days
21Williamson A. Sangma
MeghalayaAPHLC
INC		14 Years,87 days
22Nitish Kumar*
BiharJanata Dal |13 years,303 days
23Nar Bahadur Bhandari
SikkimSJP
Sikkim Sangram Parishad|		13 Years, 272 days
24N. Chandrababu Naidu
Andhra PradeshTDP13 years, 230 days
25Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
OdishaINC13 years,155 days
26Neiphiu Rio*
)		NagalandNagaland People's Front|
Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party|		13 years,117 days
27Shivraj Singh Chouhan*
)		Madhya PradeshBharatiya Janata Party|13 years,100 days
28Bimala Prasad Chaliha
AssamINC
29Bansi Lal
Haryana12 years,250 days
30Narendra Modi
GujaratBharatiya Janata Party|
31N. Rangaswamy
Puducherry11 years,333 days
32Ashok Gehlot*
RajasthanINC11 years,187 days
33Zoramthanga*
MizoramMizo National Front|11 years,181 days
34Vasantrao Naik
MaharashtraINC11 Years,77 Days
35Farooq Abdullah
Jammu and KashmirNC11 Years,16 Days
36Govind Ballabh Pant *
KeralaCommunist Party of India|11 years 10 days
38Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
West BengalCommunist Party of India |10 years, 188 days
39M. G. Ramachandran
Tamil NaduAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|
40Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
RajasthanBharatiya Janata Party|10 Years, 158 Days
41Vasundhara Raje
RajasthanBharatiya Janata Party|10 Years, 10 Days
42K. Kamaraj
Tamil NaduINC

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