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Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Emblem of Uttar Pradesh
Incumbent Yogi Adityanath since 19 March 2017 (2017-03-19)
Government of Uttar Pradesh
Style	The Honourable (Formal) Mr. Chief Minister (Informal)
Status	Head of Government
Abbreviation	CM
Member of	Uttar Pradesh Legislature Uttar Pradesh Council of Ministers
Reports to	Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Residence	5, Kalidas Marg, Lucknow
Seat	Lok Bhawan, Lucknow
Appointer	Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Term length	At the confidence of the assembly Chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.
Precursor	Premier of United Provinces
Inaugural holder	Govind Ballabh Pant
Formation	26 January 1950 (74 years ago) (1950-01-26)
Deputy	Deputy Chief Minister
Salary	₹365,000 (US$4,400)/monthly ₹4,380,000 (US$52,000)/annually
Website	Office of the Chief Minister

The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh is the head 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 Bharatiya 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 three chief ministers completed their official tenure of five years: Mayawati, Akhilesh Yadav, and Yogi Adityanath.

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

Oath as the state chief minister

The chief minister serves five years in the office. The following is the oath of the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh:

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.

Precursor

Prime ministers 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.

Prime ministers of United Provinces (1937–50)
No	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Assembly	Appointee	Party
1		The Nawab of Chhatari	3 April 1937	16 July 1937	104 days	1st (1937 elections)	Harry Graham Haig	Independent
2		Govind Ballabh Pant	17 July 1937	2 November 1939	2 years, 108 days			Indian National Congress
-		Vacant (Governor's Rule)	3 November 1939	31 March 1946	6 years, 148 days	Dissolved	-	N/A
(2)		Govind Ballabh Pant	1 April 1946	26 January 1950	3 years, 300 days	2nd (1946 elections)	Francis Verner Wylie	Indian National Congress

Chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of office			Assembly (Election)	Party
1		Govind Ballabh Pant	Bareilly	26 January 1950	20 May 1952	4 years, 336 days	Provincial (1946 elections)	Indian National Congress
				20 May 1952	28 December 1954		1st (1951 election)
2		Sampurnanand	Varanasi South	28 December 1954	9 April 1957	5 years, 345 days
				10 April 1957	7 December 1960		2nd (1957 election)
3		Chandra Bhanu Gupta	Ranikhet South	7 December 1960	14 March 1962	2 years, 299 days
				14 March 1962	2 October 1963		3rd (1962 election)
4		Sucheta Kripalani	Menhdawal	2 October 1963	14 March 1967	3 years, 163 days
(3)		Chandra Bhanu Gupta	Ranikhet	14 March 1967	3 April 1967	20 days	4th (1967 election)
5		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)		Chandra Bhanu Gupta	Ranikhet	26 February 1969	18 February 1970	357 days	5th (1969 election)	Indian National Congress
(5)		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	4 April 1971	168 days		Indian National Congress (O)
7		Kamalapati Tripathi	Chandauli	4 April 1971	13 June 1973	2 years, 70 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, 22 days		Indian National Congress
				5 March 1974	30 November 1975		6th (1974 election)
–		Vacant (President's rule)	N/A	30 November 1975	21 January 1976	52 days		N/A
9		Narayan Datt 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	28 February 1979	1 year, 250 days	7th (1977 election)	Janata Party
11		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	19 July 1982	2 years, 40 days	8th (1980 election)	Indian National Congress
13		Sripati Mishra	Isauli	19 July 1982	3 August 1984	2 years, 15 days
(9)		Narayan Datt Tiwari	Kashipur	3 August 1984	10 March 1985	1 year, 52 days
				11 March 1985	24 September 1985		9th (1985 election)
14		Vir Bahadur Singh	Paniyara	24 September 1985	25 June 1988	2 years, 275 days
(9)		Narayan Datt 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	10th (1989 election)	Janata Dal
16		Kalyan Singh	Atrauli	24 June 1991	6 December 1992	1 year, 165 days	11th (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 (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 (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	8 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 (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 (2007 election)	Bahujan Samaj Party
20		Akhilesh Yadav	MLC	15 March 2012	19 March 2017	5 years, 4 days	16th (2012 election)	Samajwadi Party
21		Yogi Adityanath	MLC	19 March 2017	25 March 2022	7 years, 276 days	17th (2017 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
			Gorakhpur Urban	25 March 2022	Incumbent		18th (2022 election)

Statistics

List by chief minister

Only 6 of them served longer than the total length of President's rule (4 year, 228 days).

Timeline

Representation of chief ministers by party

Notes

1. This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.
2. ^ When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.

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. Note: although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies for the specific case of Uttar Pradesh as well.
2. ^ Chief Ministers. Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Retrieved on 27 July 2013.
3. President's rule. Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Retrieved on 27 July 2013.
4. Date of Constitution & Dissolution of Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Archived 12 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Retrieved on 27 July 2013.
5. Amberish K. Diwanji. "A dummy's guide to President's rule". Rediff.com. 15 March 2005. Retrieved on 3 March 2013.

External links

• "Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh". The Indian Express. 15 May 2007. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.

v t e Chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh
Govind Ballabh Pant Sampurnanand Chandra Bhanu Gupta Sucheta Kripalani Charan Singh Tribhuvan Narain Singh Kamalapati Tripathi Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna N. D. Tiwari Ram Naresh Yadav Banarsi Das Vishwanath Pratap Singh Sripati Mishra Vir Bahadur Singh Mulayam Singh Yadav Kalyan Singh Mayawati Ram Prakash Gupta Rajnath Singh Akhilesh Yadav Yogi Adityanath

v t e Topics in Uttar Pradesh
History	History of Uttar Pradesh Late Harappan Painted Grey Ware culture Vedic period Mahajanapadas Nanda Maurya Sunga Kushan Gupta Harsha Delhi Sultanate Mughal Empire Nawabs Rebellion British Nationalism Independence
Geography	Geography of Uttar Pradesh Bakhira Sanctuary Chambal Wildlife Sanctuary Chandra Prabha Sanctuary Dudhwa National Park Dudhwa Tiger Reserve Hastinapur Sanctuary Kachhua Sanctuary Kaimoor Sanctuary Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary Lakh Bahosi Sanctuary Mahavir Swami Sanctuary Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary Okhla Sanctuary Patna Bird Sanctuary Pilibhit Tiger Reserve Saman Sanctuary Samaspur Sanctuary Sandi Bird Sanctuary Sohagi Barwa Wildlife Sanctuary Suhelva Sanctuary Sur Sarovar Sanctuary Vijai Sagar Sanctuary Climate
Government and politics	Government of Uttar Pradesh Governors Chief Ministers Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Parishad Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Allahabad High Court Uttar Pradesh Police Divisions Districts Cities Political parties Urban Local Bodies
Languages	Western Hindi Braj Bhasha Kannauji Hindustani Hindi Urdu Bundeli Eastern Hindi Awadhi Bagheli Bihari Bhojpuri
Literature	Vedas Epic poetry Sanskrit Hindi Urdu Bhojpuri
Culture	Culture of Uttar Pradesh Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb Music of Uttar Pradesh Hindustani classical music
Music and dance	Music of Uttar Pradesh Hindustani classical music Kathak Nautanki
Economy	Economy of Uttar Pradesh
Other	Uttar Pradesh State Board of High School and Intermediate Education Uttar Pradesh cricket team List of urban agglomerations in Uttar Pradesh List of cities in Uttar Pradesh by population

v t e State of Uttar Pradesh
Capital: Lucknow
Topics	History Geography Government Economy Culture Architecture Tourism Demographics Education
Administration	Government Legislative Assembly Legislative Council Chief Ministers Governors High Court Police Emblem
Regions	Awadh (Central Uttar Pradesh) Purvanchal (Eastern Uttar Pradesh) Western Uttar Pradesh
Divisions	Agra Aligarh Ayodhya Azamgarh Bareilly Basti Chitrakoot Devipatan Gorakhpur Jhansi Kanpur Lucknow Meerut Mirzapur Moradabad Prayagraj Saharanpur Varanasi
Districts	Agra Aligarh Ayodhya Ambedkar Nagar Amethi Amroha Auraiya Azamgarh Bagpat Bahraich Ballia Balrampur Banda Barabanki Bareilly Basti Bhadohi Bijnor Budaun Bulandshahr Chandauli Chitrakoot Devaria Etah Etawah Farrukhabad Fatehpur Firozabad Gautam Buddha Nagar Ghaziabad Ghazipur Gonda Gorakhpur Hamirpur Hardoi Hathras Jalaun Jaunpur Jhansi Kannauj Kanpur Dehat Kanpur Nagar Kasganj Kaushambi Kushinagar Lakhimpur Kheri Lalitpur Lucknow Maharajganj Mahoba Mainpuri Mathura Mau Meerut Mirzapur Moradabad Muzaffarnagar Pilibhit Pratapgarh Prayagraj Raebareli Rampur Saharanpur Sambhal Sant Kabir Nagar Shahjahanpur Shamli Shravasti Siddharthnagar Sitapur Sonbhadra Sultanpur Unnao Varanasi
Major cities	Agra Aligarh Ayodhya Bareilly Ghaziabad Gorakhpur Jhansi Kanpur Lucknow Mathura Meerut Moradabad Noida Prayagraj Saharanpur Vrindavan Varanasi
Villages	Adhkatiya Kala Khas Aharak Ahiran, Pindra Ahirani, Pindra Aily Aitha Ajaipur Akhari Akorha Amaut Amawar Amilo, Varanasi Araji Line Babhanpura Baghirua Baliakheri Bhelupura Chadpur Dabethuwa Deorai Eshipur Harora Aht. Harora Must. Jafarabad Janakpatti Jayapur Kathiraon Khanzadipur Kuri, Varanasi Lamhi Mehdiganj Phoolpur Raghunathpur Rajesultanpur Saifai Tisaura Vyaspur
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