List of chief ministers of Delhi

The chief minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi is the head of government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. According to the Constitution of India, the lieutenant governor is the National Capital Territory of Delhi’s de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with its chief minister. Following elections to the Delhi Legislative Assembly, the lieutenant governor usually invites the party with a majority of seats to form the government. The president of India, on the advice of the lieutenant governor, appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that the person has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister’s term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.

History

Since 1952, National Capital Territory of Delhi has had 7 chief ministers, starting with the Indian National Congress party’s Chaudhary Brahm Prakash. Shortly after his term ended, the office of chief minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi was abolished for 37 years until 2 December 1993, when the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Madan Lal Khurana was sworn in. The longest-serving chief minister, Sheila Dikshit from the Indian National Congress party held the office for over fifteen years.^[2] On 28 December 2013, Arvind Kejriwal of Aam Aadmi Party sworn in as first state party chief minister of the national capital territory. There have been one instance of president’s rule in National Capital Territory of Delhi, most recently in 2015.

Arvind Kejriwal of Aam Aadmi Party is the incumbent chief minister of Delhi since 14 February 2015.

Official residence

Since 2014, CM Kejriwal resides at Bhagwan Das Road in central Delhi. The location is close to the Delhi Secretariat.

List

No.[a]	Portrait	Name[4]	Constituency	Term of office			Assembly (election)	Party[b]
1		Brahm Prakash	Nangloi Jat	17 March 1952	12 February 1955[RES]	2 years, 332 days	Interim (1952 election)	Indian National Congress
2		Gurmukh Nihal Singh	Daryaganj	12 February 1955	1 November 1956	1 year, 263 days
Office abolished (1 November 1956 – 1 December 1993)[c]
3		Madan Lal Khurana	Moti Nagar	2 December 1993	26 February 1996[RES]	2 years, 86 days	1st (1993 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
4		Sahib Singh Verma	Shalimar Bagh	26 February 1996	12 October 1998[RES]	2 years, 228 days
5		Sushma Swaraj	Not Contested	12 October 1998	3 December 1998	52 days
6		Sheila Dikshit	New Delhi	3 December 1998	1 December 2003	15 years, 25 days	2nd (1998 election)	Indian National Congress
				2 December 2003	29 November 2008		3rd (2003 election)
				30 November 2008	28 December 2013		4th (2008 election)
7		Arvind Kejriwal	New Delhi	28 December 2013	14 February 2014[RES]	48 days	5th (2013 election)	Aam Aadmi Party
–		Vacant (President’s rule)	–	14 February 2014	14 February 2015	1 year, 0 days	Dissolved	–
(7)		Arvind Kejriwal	New Delhi	14 February 2015	15 February 2020	7 years, 335 days	6th (2015 election)	Aam Aadmi Party
				16 February 2020	Incumbent		7th (2020 election)

Statistics

List of chief ministers by length of term

No.	Name	Party	Length of term
			Longest continuous term	Total years of chief ministership
1	Sheila Dikshit	INC	15 years, 25 days	15 years, 25 days
2	Arvind Kejriwal	AAP	7 years, 335 days	8 years, 18 days
3	Chaudhary Brahm Parkash	INC	2 years, 332 days	2 years, 332 days
4	Sahib Singh Verma	BJP	2 years, 228 days	2 years, 228 days
5	Madan Lal Khurana	BJP	2 years, 86 days	2 years, 86 days
6	Gurmukh Nihal Singh	INC	1 year, 263 days	1 year, 263 days
7	Sushma Swaraj	BJP	52 days	52 days

Timeline

List by party

Political parties by total time-span of their member holding CMO (15 January 2023)

No.	Political party	Number of Chief ministers	Total days of holding CMO
1	Indian National Congress	3	7194 days
2	Aam Aadmi Party	1	2940 days
3	Bharatiya Janata Party	3	1827 days

Parties by total duration (in days) of holding Chief Minister’s Office