List of chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh

The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh is the principal minister in chief of the Government of Uttar Pradesh. As per the Constitution of India, the governor is the state’s de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Uttar Pradesh 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 that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister’s term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.

On 26 January 1950 Govind Ballabh Pant, Premier of United Provinces, became the first Chief Minister of the newly renamed Uttar Pradesh. Including him, 11 out of UP’s 21 chief ministers belonged to the Indian National Congress. Among these is V. P. Singh, a future Prime Minister of India, as was Charan Singh of the Rashtriya Lok Dal. On ten occasions, most recently in 2002, the state has come under President’s rule, leaving the office of chief minister vacant. UP has also had two women chief ministers—Sucheta Kripalani and Mayawati. Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2012 to 2017; having taken the oath at 38 years of age, he is the youngest person to have held the office. Only two Chief Ministers completed their official tenure of five years, first being Sampurnanand and the second being Akhilesh Yadav.

Yogi Adityanath of the Bharatiya Janata Party is serving as the incumbent chief minister since March 19, 2017.

Oath as the state chief minister

The Chief Minister serves 5 years in the office. The following is the Oath of the Chief Minister of Uttar Pardesh:

I, <Name of Chief Minister>, do swear in the name of God/solemnly affirm that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established, that I will uphold the sovereignty and integrity of India, that I will faithfully and conscientiously discharge my duties as a Minister for the State of Uttar Pradesh and that I will do right to all manner of people in accordance with the Constitution and the law without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.

Premier of United Provinces (1937-50)

The United Provinces, headquartered in Allahabad was a province of British India that comprised present day Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Under the Government of India Act 1935, a bicameral legislature was set up with a legislative assembly and a legislative council.

Premier of United Provinces (1937–50)
No	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Party		Assembly	Appointee(Governor)
			Took Office	Left Office	Tenure
1		The Nawab of Chhatri	3 April 1937	16 July 1937	104 days	Independent		1st Assembly(1937 Elections)	Sir Harry Graham Haig
2		Govind Ballabh Pant	17 July 1937	2 November1939	2 years, 108 days	Indian National Congress
–		Vacant(Governor’s Rule)	3 November 1939	31 March 1946	6 years, 148 days	N/A		Dissolved	–
(2)		Govind Ballabh Pant	1 April 1946	25 January1950	3 years, 299 days	Indian National Congress		2nd Assembly(1946 Elections)	Sir Francis Verner Wylie

Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of office		Tenure length	Assembly (Election)	Party
1		Govind Ballabh Pant	Bareilly	26 January 1950	20 May 1952	4 years, 335 days	Provincial Assembly(1946 Elections)	Indian National Congress
				20 May 1952	27 December 1954		1st Assembly (1951 election)
2		Sampurnanand	Varanasi South	28 December 1954	9 April 1957	5 years, 344 days
				10 April 1957	6 December 1960		2nd Assembly (1957 election)
3		Chandrabhanu Gupta,	Ranikhet South	7 December 1960	14 March 1962	2 years, 298 days
				14 March 1962	1 October 1963		3rd Assembly (1962 election)
4		Sucheta Kripalani	Menhdawal	2 October 1963	13 March 1967	3 years, 162 days
(3)		Chandrabhanu Gupta	Ranikhet	14 March 1967	2 April 1967	19 days	4th Assembly (1967 election)
5		Chaudhary Charan Singh	Chhaprauli	3 April 1967	25 February 1968	328 days		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
–		Vacant (President’s rule)	N/A	25 February 1968	26 February 1969	1 year, 1 day	Dissolved	N/A
(3)		Chandrabhanu Gupta	Ranikhet	26 February 1969	17 February 1970	356 days	5th Assembly (1969 election)	Indian National Congress
(5)		Chaudhary Charan Singh	Chhaprauli	18 February 1970	1 October 1970	225 days		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
–		Vacant (President’s rule)	N/A	1 October 1970	18 October 1970	17 days		N/A
6		Tribhuvan Narain Singh		18 October 1970	3 April 1971	167 days		Indian National Congress (O)
7		Kamalapati Tripathi	Chandauli	4 April 1971	12 June 1973	2 years, 69 days		Indian National Congress
–		Vacant (President’s rule)	N/A	13 June 1973	8 November 1973	148 days		N/A
8		Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna	Bara	8 November 1973	4 March 1974	2 years, 21 days		Indian National Congress
				5 March 1974	29 November 1975		6th Assembly (1974 election)
–		Vacant (President’s rule)	N/A	30 November 1975	21 January 1976	52 days		N/A
9		Narayan Dutt Tiwari	Kashipur	21 January 1976	30 April 1977	1 year, 99 days		Indian National Congress
–		Vacant (President’s rule)	N/A	30 April 1977	23 June 1977	54 days	Dissolved	N/A
10		Ram Naresh Yadav	Nidhauli Kalan	23 June 1977	27 February 1979	1 year, 249 days	7th Assembly (1977 election)	Janata Party
11		Babu Banarasi Das	Hapur	28 February 1979	17 February 1980	354 days
–		Vacant (President’s rule)	N/A	17 February 1980	9 June 1980	113 days	Dissolved	N/A
12		Vishwanath Pratap Singh	Tindwari	9 June 1980	18 July 1982	2 years, 39 days	8th Assembly (1980 election)	Indian National Congress
13		Sripati Mishra	Isauli	19 July 1982	2 August 1984	2 years, 14 days
(9)		Narayan Dutt Tiwari	Kashipur	3 August 1984	10 March 1985	1 year, 52 days
				11 March 1985	24 September 1985		9th Assembly (1985 election)
14		Vir Bahadur Singh	Paniyara	24 September 1985	24 June 1988	2 years, 274 days
(9)		Narayan Dutt Tiwari	Kashipur	25 June 1988	5 December 1989	1 year, 163 days
15		Mulayam Singh Yadav	Jaswantnagar	5 December 1989	24 June 1991	1 year, 201 days	Tenth Assembly (1989 election)	Janata Dal
16		Kalyan Singh	Atrauli	24 June 1991	6 December 1992	1 year, 165 days	11th Assembly (1991 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
–		Vacant (President’s rule)	N/A	6 December 1992	4 December 1993	363 days	Dissolved	N/A
(15)		Mulayam Singh Yadav	Jaswantnagar	4 December 1993	3 June 1995	1 year, 181 days	12th Assembly (1993 election)	Samajwadi Party
17		Mayawati	N/A	3 June 1995	18 October 1995	137 days		Bahujan Samaj Party
–		Vacant (President’s rule)		18 October 1995	17 October 1996	1 year, 154 days	Dissolved	N/A
				17 October 1996	21 March 1997		13th Assembly (1996 election)
(17)		Mayawati	Harora	21 March 1997	21 September 1997	184 days		Bahujan Samaj Party
(16)		Kalyan Singh	Atrauli	21 September 1997	12 November 1999	2 years, 52 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
18		Ram Prakash Gupta	MLC	12 November 1999	28 October 2000	351 days
19		Rajnath Singh	Haidergarh	28 October 2000	7 March 2002	1 year, 131 days
–		Vacant (President’s rule)	N/A	8 March 2002	3 May 2002	56 days	Dissolved	N/A
(17)		Mayawati	Harora	3 May 2002	29 August 2003	1 year, 118 days	14th Assembly (2002 election)	Bahujan Samaj Party
(15)		Mulayam Singh Yadav	Gunnaur	29 August 2003	13 May 2007	3 years, 257 days		Samajwadi Party
(17)		Mayawati	MLC	13 May 2007	15 March 2012	4 years, 307 days	15th Assembly (2007 election)	Bahujan Samaj Party
20		Akhilesh Yadav	MLC	15 March 2012	19 March 2017	5 years, 4 days	16th Assembly (2012 election)	Samajwadi Party
21		Yogi Adityanath	MLC	19 March 2017	19 March 2022	4 years, 299 days	17th Assembly (2017 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party

(20) | Akhilesh Yadav | MLA

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