List of female Indian chief ministers

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The five incumbent woman chief ministers in India — Jayalalithaa, Vasundhara Raje, Mamata Banerjee, Anandiben Patel and Mehbooba Mufti

Sixteen women have served as the chief minister of an Indian state. Currently, five are in office—Jayalalithaa, Anandiben Patel, Vasundhara Raje, Mamata Banerjee and Mehbooba Mufti. Of the thirteen states to have been headed by a female chief minister, only three—Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh—have had two woman premiers.

In the Republic of India, a chief minister is the head of government of each of twenty-nine states and two union territories (Delhi and Puducherry). According to the Constitution of India, at the state-level, the governor is de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the state 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 he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years; the office is subject to no term limits.[1]

Chronological list of female Indian chief ministers

Key

*  incumbent chief minister

No Name Portrait State Term(s) Total tenure Party
1 Sucheta Kriplani Uttar Pradesh 2 October 1963 – 13 March 1967 1258 days Indian National Congress
2 Nandini Satpathy Orissa 14 June 1972 – 3 March 1973
6 March 1974 – 16 December 1976
1278 days Indian National Congress
3 Shashikala Kakodkar Goa 12 August 1973 – 27 April 1979 2084 days Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
4 Syeda Anwara Taimur Assam 6 December 1980 – 30 June 1981 206 days Indian National Congress
5 Janaki Ramachandran 100px Tamil Nadu 7–30 January 1988 23 days All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
6 Jayalalithaa * Jayalalithaa1.jpg Tamil Nadu 24 June 1991 – 12 May 1996
14 May 2001 – 21 September 2001
2 March 2002 – 12 May 2006
16 May 2011 – 29 September 2014
23 May 2015 – present
4679 days All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
7 Mayawati Uttar Pradesh 13 June 1995 – 18 October 1995
21 March 1997 – 21 September 1997
3 May 2002 – 29 August 2003
13 May 2007 – 7 March 2012
2554 days Bahujan Samaj Party
8 Rajinder Kaur Bhattal Punjab 21 January 1996 – 12 February 1997 388 days Indian National Congress
9 Rabri Devi Rabri Devi (cropped).jpg Bihar 25 July 1997 – 11 February 1999
9 March 1999 – 2 March 2000
11 March 2000 – 6 March 2005
2746 days Rashtriya Janata Dal
10 Sushma Swaraj BJP Party leader Sushma Swaraj2.jpg Delhi 13 October 1998 – 3 December 1998 51 days Bharatiya Janata Party
11 Sheila Dikshit Sheila Dikshit (cropped).jpg Delhi 3 December 1998 – 8 December 2013 5484 days Indian National Congress
12 Uma Bharati Uma Bharti.jpg Madhya Pradesh 8 December 2003 – 23 August 2004 259 days Bharatiya Janata Party
13 Vasundhara Raje * 100px Rajasthan 8 December 2003 – 11 December 2008
8 December 2013 – present
Expression error: Unexpected < operator. days Bharatiya Janata Party
14 Mamata Banerjee * Mamata Banerjee - Kolkata 2011-12-08 7542 Cropped.JPG West Bengal 20 May 2011 – present Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days All India Trinamool Congress
15 Anandiben Patel * Anandiben Patel Sept 2014.jpg Gujarat 21 May 2014 – present Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days Bharatiya Janata Party
16 Mehbooba Mufti * Mehbooba Mufti.jpg Jammu and Kashmir 4 April 2016 – present Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party

See also

References

  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.