| Border: | parliamentary |
| Minister: | not_prime |
| Post: | Chief Minister |
| Body: | Gujarat |
| Insignia: | File:Government Of Gujarat Seal In All Languages.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 100px |
| Insigniacaption: | Emblem of Gujarat |
| Style: | The Honourable |
| Status: | Head of Government |
| Department: | Government of Gujarat |
| Abbreviation: | CM |
| Member Of: | Gujarat Legislative Assembly |
| Termlength: | 5 years subject to the confidence of the assembly.[1] |
| Termlength Qualified: | No term limits |
| Incumbent: | Bhupendrabhai Patel |
| Incumbentsince: | 13 September 2021 |
| Appointer: | Governor of Gujarat |
| Residence: | Bungalow No. 26, Ministers’ Enclave, Sector-20, Gandhinagar |
| Deputy: | Vacant, DCM |
| Inaugural: | Jivraj Narayan Mehta |
| Website: | http://cmogujarat.gov.in/ |
| Native Name: | મુખ્યમંત્રી ગુજરાત |
The Chief Minister of Gujarat is the chief executive of the government of the Indian state of Gujarat. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. The chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits, given that he has the confidence of the assembly.
The state of Gujarat was created on 1 May 1960, composed of the Gujarati-speaking districts of Bombay State following the Mahagujarat Movement.[2] Jivraj Narayan Mehta of the INC was the inaugural chief minister. Narendra Modi of the BJP is the longest serving chief minister for twelve and a half years from 2001 to 2014. He resigned in 2014 to become the 14th prime minister of India. He was succeeded by Anandiben Patel who became the state's first woman chief minister. The current chief minister is Bhupendrabhai Patel of the BJP. He was elected for the post following the resignation of then incumbent Vijay Rupani, who was in the office since 7 August 2016.[3]
| No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of office | Assembly (election) | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | U. N. Dhebar | 26 January 1950 | 19 December 1954 | Interim | Indian National Congress | ||||
| 2nd | |||||||||
| 2 | Rasiklal Parikh | 19 December 1954 | 31 October 1956 | ||||||
| No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of office | Assembly (election) | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jivraj Mehta | Amreli | 1 May 1960 | 3 March 1962 | 1st/Interim (1957 election) | Indian National Congress | |||
| 3 March 1962 | 25 February 1963 | 2nd (1962 election) | |||||||
| 2 | Balwantrai Mehta | Bhavnagar | 25 February 1963 | 19 September 1965 | |||||
| 3 | Hitendra Desai | Olpad | 19 September 1965 | 3 April 1967 | |||||
| 3 April 1967 | 12 November 1969 | 3rd (1967 election) | |||||||
| 12 November 1969 | 13 May 1971 | Indian National Congress (O) | |||||||
| – | Vacant (President's rule) | N/A | 13 May 1971 | 17 March 1972 | Dissolved | N/A | |||
| 4 | Ghanshyam Oza | Dahegam | 17 March 1972 | 17 July 1973 | 4th (1972 election) | Indian National Congress | |||
| 5 | Chimanbhai Patel | Sankheda | 17 July 1973 | 9 February 1974 | |||||
| – | Vacant (President's rule) | N/A | 9 February 1974 | 18 June 1975 | Dissolved | N/A | |||
| 6 | Babubhai Patel | Sabarmati | 18 June 1975 | 12 March 1976 | 5th (1975 election) | Indian National Congress (O) | |||
| – | Vacant (President's rule) | N/A | 12 March 1976 | 24 December 1976 | N/A | ||||
| 7 | Madhav Singh Solanki | Bhadran | 24 December 1976 | 11 April 1977 | Indian National Congress | ||||
| (6) | Babubhai Patel | Sabarmati | 11 April 1977 | 17 February 1980 | Janata Party | ||||
| – | Vacant (President's rule) | N/A | 17 February 1980 | 7 June 1980 | N/A | ||||
| (7) | Madhav Singh Solanki | Bhadran | 7 June 1980 | 10 March 1985 | 6th (1980 election) | Indian National Congress | |||
| 11 March 1985 | 6 July 1985 | 7th(1985 election) | |||||||
| 8 | Amarsinh Chaudhary | Vyara | 6 July 1985 | 10 December 1989 | |||||
| (7) | Madhav Singh Solanki | Bhadran | 10 December 1989 | 4 March 1990 | |||||
| (5) | Chimanbhai Patel | Sankheda | 4 March 1990 | 25 October 1990 | 8th (1990 election) | Janata Dal | |||
| 25 October 1990 | 17 February 1994 | Indian National Congress | |||||||
| 9 | Chhabildas Mehta | Mahuva | 17 February 1994 | 14 March 1995 | |||||
| 10 | Keshubhai Patel | Visavadar | 14 March 1995 | 21 October 1995 | 9th (1995 election) | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
| 11 | Suresh Mehta | Mandvi | 21 October 1995 | 19 September 1996 | |||||
| – | Vacant (President's rule) | N/A | 19 September 1996 | 23 October 1996 | N/A | ||||
| 12 | Shankersinh Vaghela | Radhanpur | 23 October 1996 | 28 October 1997 | Rashtriya Janata Party | ||||
| 13 | Dilip Parikh | Dhandhuka | 28 October 1997 | 4 March 1998 | |||||
| (10) | Keshubhai Patel | Visavadar | 4 March 1998 | 7 October 2001 | 10th (1998 election) | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
| 14 | Narendra Modi | Rajkot West | 7 October 2001 | 22 December 2002 | |||||
| Maninagar | 22 December 2002 | 22 December 2007 | 11th (2002 election) | ||||||
| 23 December 2007 | 20 December 2012 | 12th (2007 election) | |||||||
| 20 December 2012 | 22 May 2014 | 13th (2012 election) | |||||||
| 15 | Anandiben Patel | Ghatlodia | 22 May 2014 | 7 August 2016 | |||||
| 16 | Vijay Rupani | Rajkot West | 7 August 2016 | 26 December 2017 | |||||
| 26 December 2017 | 13 September 2021 | 14th (2017 election) | |||||||
| 17 | Bhupendrabhai Patel | Ghatlodia | 13 September 2021 | 12 December 2022 | |||||
| 12 December 2022 | Incumbent | 15th (2022 election) | |||||||
| data-sort-type=number rowspan = "2" | Name | Party | Length of term | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longest continuous term | Total term in the office | |||||
| data-sort-value="1" | 1 | Narendra Modi | BJP | |||
| data-sort-value="2" | 2 | Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai | INC & INC(O) | |||
| data-sort-value="3" | 3 | Madhav Singh Solanki | INC | 5 years, 222 days | ||
| data-sort-value="4" | 4 | Vijay Rupani | BJP | |||
| data-sort-value="5" | 5 | Chimanbhai Patel | INC & JD | 4 years, 192 days | ||
| data-sort-value="6" | 6 | Amarsinh Chaudhary | INC | |||
| data-sort-value="7" | 7 | Keshubhai Patel | BJP | 4 years, 73 days | ||
| data-sort-value="8" | 8 | Babubhai Patel | INC(O) & JP | 3 years, 215 days | ||
| data-sort-value="9" | 9 | Bhupendrabhai Patel | BJP | |||
| data-sort-value="10" | 10 | Jivraj Narayan Mehta | INC | |||
| data-sort-value="11" | 11 | Balwantrai Mehta | INC | |||
| data-sort-value="12" | 12 | Anandiben Patel | BJP | |||
| data-sort-value="13" | 13 | Ghanshyam Oza | INC | |||
| data-sort-value="14" | 14 | Chhabildas Mehta | INC | |||
| data-sort-value="15" | 15 | Shankersinh Vaghela | RJP | |||
| data-sort-value="16" | 16 | Suresh Mehta | BJP | |||
| data-sort-value="17" | 17 | Dilip Parikh | RJP | |||
| Political party | data-sort-type=number | Number of Chief ministers | Total days of holding CMO |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party | data-sort-type=1 | 6 | days |
| Indian National Congress | data-sort-type=2 | 8 | days |
| Indian National Congress (Organisation) | data-sort-type=3 | 2 | days |
| Janata Party | data-sort-type=4 | 1 | days |
| Rashtriya Janata Party | data-sort-type=5 | 2 | days |
| Janata Dal (Gujarat) | data-sort-type=6 | 1 | days |