List of chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh explained

Border:	parliamentary
Minister:	not_prime
Post:	Chief Minister
Body:	Uttar Pradesh
Incumbent:	Yogi Adityanath
Appointer:	Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Reportsto:	Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Inaugural:	Govind Ballabh Pant
Insignia:	Seal of Uttar Pradesh.svg
Insigniacaption:	Emblem of Uttar Pradesh
Status:	Head of Government
Department:	Government of Uttar Pradesh
Abbreviation:	CM
Residence:	5, Kalidas Marg, Lucknow
Seat:	Lok Bhavan, Lucknow
Termlength:	At the confidence of the assembly
Termlength Qualified:	Chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.^[1]
Salary:	/monthly /annually
Website:	Office of the Chief Minister
Precursor:	Premier of United Provinces
Deputy:	Deputy Chief Minister
Member Of:	Uttar Pradesh Legislature Uttar Pradesh Council of Ministers

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:

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^[2]			Party		Assembly	Appointee(Governor)
			Took office	Left office	Tenure
1		The Nawab of Chhatari	3 April 1937	16 July 1937		Independent		1st Assembly(1937 elections)	Sir Harry Graham Haig
2		Govind Ballabh Pant	17 July 1937	2 November1939		Indian National Congress
-		Vacant(Governor's Rule)	3 November 1939	31 March 1946		N/A		Dissolved	-|- align="center"| (2)| | Govind Ballabh Pant| 1 April 1946| 26 January 1950| | Indian National Congress| width="2px" style="background-color: " ||2nd Assembly(1946 elections)|Sir Francis Verner Wylie|} Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh No Portrait Name Constituency Term of office^[3] Assembly^[4] Party 1 Govind Ballabh Pant 26 January 1950 20 May 1952 Provincial Assembly(1946 elections) Indian National Congress 20 May 1952 28 December 1954 1st 2 Sampurnanand Varanasi South 28 December 1954 9 April 1957 10 April 1957 7 December 1960 2nd 3 Chandra Bhanu Gupta Ranikhet South 7 December 1960 14 March 1962 14 March 1962 2 October 1963 3rd 4 Sucheta Kripalani Menhdawal 2 October 1963 14 March 1967 (3) Chandra Bhanu Gupta Ranikhet 14 March 1967 3 April 1967 4th 5 Charan Singh Chhaprauli 3 April 1967 25 February 1968 Bharatiya Kranti Dal – Vacant (President's rule) N/A 25 February 1968 26 February 1969 Dissolved N/A (3) Chandra Bhanu Gupta Ranikhet 26 February 1969 18 February 1970 5th (1969 election) Indian National Congress (5) Charan Singh Chhaprauli 18 February 1970 1 October 1970 Bharatiya Kranti Dal – Vacant (President's rule) N/A 1 October 1970 18 October 1970 N/A 6 Tribhuvan Narain Singh 18 October 1970 4 April 1971 Indian National Congress (O) 7 Kamalapati Tripathi Chandauli 4 April 1971 13 June 1973 Indian National Congress – Vacant (President's rule) N/A 13 June 1973 8 November 1973 N/A 8 Bara 8 November 1973 4 March 1974 Indian National Congress 5 March 1974 30 November 1975 6th (1974 election) – Vacant (President's rule) N/A 30 November 1975 21 January 1976 N/A 9 Narayan Datt Tiwari Kashipur 21 January 1976 30 April 1977 Indian National Congress – Vacant (President's rule) N/A 30 April 1977 23 June 1977 Dissolved N/A 10 Nidhauli Kalan 23 June 1977 28 February 1979 7th (1977 election) Janata Party 11 Banarasi Das Hapur 28 February 1979 17 February 1980 – Vacant (President's rule) N/A 17 February 1980 9 June 1980 Dissolved N/A 12 Vishwanath Pratap Singh Tindwari 9 June 1980 19 July 1982 8th (1980 election) Indian National Congress 13 19 July 1982 3 August 1984 (9) Narayan Datt Tiwari Kashipur 3 August 1984 10 March 1985 11 March 1985 24 September 1985 9th (1985 election) 14 Vir Bahadur Singh Paniyara 24 September 1985 25 June 1988 (9) Narayan Datt Tiwari Kashipur 25 June 1988 5 December 1989 15 Mulayam Singh Yadav Jaswantnagar 5 December 1989 24 June 1991 10th (1989 election) Janata Dal 16 Kalyan Singh Atrauli 24 June 1991 6 December 1992 11th Bharatiya Janata Party – Vacant (President's rule) N/A 6 December 1992 4 December 1993 Dissolved N/A (15) Mulayam Singh Yadav Jaswantnagar 4 December 1993 3 June 1995 12th Samajwadi Party 17 Mayawati N/A 3 June 1995 18 October 1995 Bahujan Samaj Party – Vacant (President's rule) 18 October 1995 17 October 1996 Dissolved N/A 17 October 1996 21 March 1997 13th (17) Mayawati Harora 21 March 1997 21 September 1997 Bahujan Samaj Party (16) Kalyan Singh Atrauli 21 September 1997 12 November 1999 Bharatiya Janata Party 18 Ram Prakash Gupta MLC 12 November 1999 28 October 2000 19 Rajnath Singh Haidergarh 28 October 2000 8 March 2002 – Vacant (President's rule) N/A 8 March 2002 3 May 2002 Dissolved N/A (17) Mayawati Harora 3 May 2002 29 August 2003 14th Bahujan Samaj Party (15) Mulayam Singh Yadav Gunnaur 29 August 2003 13 May 2007 Samajwadi Party (17) Mayawati MLC 13 May 2007 15 March 2012 15th Bahujan Samaj Party 20 Akhilesh Yadav MLC 15 March 2012 19 March 2017 16th Samajwadi Party 21 Yogi Adityanath MLC 19 March 2017 25 March 2022 17th Bharatiya Janata Party Gorakhpur Urban 25 March 2022 Incumbent 18th External links "Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh". The Indian Express. 15 May 2007. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.

Notes and References

1. [Durga Das Basu]
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20130812234844/http://uplegisassembly.gov.in/CHIEF%20MINISTERS.HTM Chief Ministers
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20130812231236/http://uplegisassembly.gov.in/PRESIDENT%20RULE.htm President's rule
4. http://uplegisassembly.gov.in/CONSTITUTION%20%20&%20DISSOLUTION.htm Date of Constitution & Dissolution of Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha