Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh

19 Mar 2017 – present · 9 years, 5 months · 2 terms

Yogi Adityanath (born Ajay Mohan Singh Bisht; 5 June 1972) is an Indian Hindu monk and politician. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Adityanath has served as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh since 2017. He is the state's longest-serving chief minister and the first to hold the office for two consecutive terms. Wikipedia →

15 Mar 2012 – 19 Mar 2017 · 5 years

Akhilesh Yadav (; born 1 July 1973) is an Indian politician and national president of the Samajwadi Party, who served as the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2012 to 2017. Having assumed the chief minister's office at the age of 38, he is the youngest person to have held the office till date. He is the incumbent Member of Parliament for Kannauj in the 18th Lok Sabha, where he is the parliamentary party leader of Samajwadi Party. Wikipedia →

28 Oct 2000 – 8 Mar 2002 · 1 year, 4 months

Rajnath Singh (Hindi pronunciation: [ɾɑːd͡ʒnɑːt̪ʰ sɪŋɡʱ] ; born 10 July 1951) is an Indian politician and lecturer who is serving as the 29th Minister of Defence since 2019 and as the Deputy Leader of the House, Lok Sabha since 2014. He is a Member of Parliament from Lucknow since 2014. He previously served as the 25th Union Minister of Home Affairs in the first Modi ministry from 2014 to 2019, making him the first person born after Indian independence to hold the office. Wikipedia →

12 Nov 1999 – 28 Oct 2000 · 11 months

Ram Prakash Gupta (26 October 1923 – 1 May 2004) was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and Governor of Madhya Pradesh. He was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party, as well as its predecessor party, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. A post-graduate in science from Allahabad University, he was a member of the erstwhile Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Wikipedia →

3 Jun 1995 – 15 Mar 2012 · 7 years · 4 terms

Kumari Mayawati (born Kumari Mayawati Das; 15 January 1956) is an Indian politician who served as the 18th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1995 to 1995, 1997 to 1997, 2002 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2012. She is the national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which focuses on a platform of social change for Bahujans, more commonly known as Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as well as religious minorities since 2003. Mayawati had also served as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from 2012 to 2017 from Uttar Pradesh. Wikipedia →

24 Jun 1991 – 12 Nov 1999 · 3 years, 7 months · 2 terms

Kalyan Singh (5 January 1932 – 21 August 2021) was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who twice served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was the Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh during the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992. He was a prominent figure within Hindu nationalism, and in the agitation to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya. Wikipedia →

5 Dec 1989 – 13 May 2007 · 6 years, 9 months · 3 terms

Mulayam Singh Yadav (22 November 1939 – 10 October 2022) also known "Neta ji" was an Indian politician, schoolmaster, lecturer and a socialist figure and the founder of the Samajwadi Party. Over the course of his political career spanning more than six decades, he served for three terms as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and also as the Union Minister of Defence in the Government of India. A long-time parliamentarian, he was a seven-time Member of Parliament representing Mainpuri, Azamgarh, Sambhal and Kannauj constituencies in the Lok Sabha, a ten-time member of the Legislative Assembly, member of the Legislative Council and the Leader of Opposition several times as well. Wikipedia →

24 Sep 1985 – 25 Jun 1988 · 2 years, 9 months

Veer Bahadur Singh (18 February 1935 – 30 May 1989) was an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. He was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1985 to 1988 and Minister of Communications in Central government from 1988 to 1989. He was also an author. Wikipedia →

19 Jul 1982 – 3 Aug 1984 · 2 years

Sripati Mishra (4 December 1923 – 8 December 2002) was an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He served as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh during the 1980s. Wikipedia →

9 Jun 1980 – 19 Jul 1982 · 2 years, 1 month

Vishwanath Pratap Singh (25 June 1931 – 27 November 2008) was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the Raja Bahadur of Manda. Some Pakistani historians state that Singh's family originated from a village in the Yaqubi area of District Peshawar (present-day Swabi, Pakistan), and that after the Partition of India in 1947 he moved with his mother to live at his uncle's home. He was educated at Allahabad University and Fergusson College in Pune. Wikipedia →

28 Feb 1979 – 17 Feb 1980 · 11 months

Banarasi Das, popularly known as Babu Banarasi Das (8 July 1912 – 3 August 1985) was an Indian politician and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was from Janata Party. Wikipedia →

23 Jun 1977 – 28 Feb 1979 · 1 year, 8 months

Ram Naresh Yadav (1 July 1928 – 22 November 2016) was an Indian politician who was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1977 to 1979 and Governor of Madhya Pradesh from 2011 to 2016. He was from Janata Party; later he joined the Congress. He served as Deputy Chief Minister under the Babu Banarasi Das government from 1979 to 1980. Wikipedia →

21 Jan 1976 – 5 Dec 1989 · 3 years, 10 months · 3 terms

Narayan Datt Tiwari (18 October 1925 – 18 October 2018) was an Indian politician who served as the 9th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and 3rd Chief Minister of Uttaranchal (later Uttarakhand) from 2002 to 2007. He was the first Indian Chief Minister who served for two states. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a former member of the Praja Socialist Party and the Indian National Congress. Wikipedia →

8 Nov 1973 – 30 Nov 1975 · 2 years

Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna (25 April 1919 – 17 March 1989) was an Indian National Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; he later joined Bharatiya Lok Dal and worked with Charan Singh. Wikipedia →

4 Apr 1971 – 13 Jun 1973 · 2 years, 2 months

Kamalapati Tripathi (3 September 1905 – 8 October 1990) was an Indian politician, writer, journalist, and independence activist. He was a senior Indian National Congress leader from Varanasi constituency. He served as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (1969–1970) as well as Union Minister for Railways. Wikipedia →

18 Oct 1970 – 4 Apr 1971 · 5 months

Tribhuvan Narain Singh (8 August 1904 – 3 August 1982) was an Indian politician and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He remained Chief Minister from 18 October 1970 till 4 April 1971. Singh later served as Governor of West Bengal from the late 1970s until 1981. Wikipedia →

3 Apr 1967 – 1 Oct 1970 · 1 year, 6 months · 2 terms

Chaudhary Charan Singh (23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987) was an Indian politician, peasant leader, author and an independence activist who briefly served as the prime minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980. Singh was principally known for his land and agricultural reform initiatives, and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Baghpat. During his premiership, he was a member of the Janata Party (Secular). Wikipedia →

2 Oct 1963 – 14 Mar 1967 · 3 years, 5 months

Sucheta Kripalani (née Majumdar) (Bengali pronunciation: [ʃut͡ʃeta]; 25 June 1908 – 1 December 1974) was an Indian politician and independence activist. She was India's first female Chief Minister, serving as the head of the Uttar Pradesh government from 1963 to 1967. Wikipedia →

7 Dec 1960 – 18 Feb 1970 · 3 years, 10 months · 3 terms

Chandra Bhanu Gupta (14 July 1902 – 11 March 1980) served three terms as chief minister of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. In the 1970s, he was a member of Congress (O) and the Janata Party. Wikipedia →

28 Dec 1954 – 7 Dec 1960 · 5 years, 11 months

Sampurnanand (1 January 1891 – 10 January 1969) was an Indian teacher and politician who served as the second Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1954 until 1960, and later as Governor of Rajasthan. Serving for five years and 344 days, he had the longest single tenure of any Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister until surpassed by Yogi Adityanath in 2023. Born in Varanasi, Sampurnanand was a respected scholar of Sanskrit and astronomy. Wikipedia →

26 Jan 1950 – 28 Dec 1954 · 4 years, 11 months

Govind Ballabh Pant (10 September 1887 – 7 March 1961) was an Indian independence activist and politician who was the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel, Pant was a key figure in the Indian independence movement and later a pivotal figure in the Indian government. He was one of the foremost political leaders of Uttar Pradesh (then known as United Provinces) and a key player in the successful movement to establish Hindi as the official language of Indian Union.. Wikipedia →