Uttar Pradesh has had 21 Chief Ministers across 33 separate terms since Govind Ballabh Pant took office on 26 January 1950. Yogi Adityanath is the incumbent, i…
When the United Provinces was renamed Uttar Pradesh under the new Constitution, veteran freedom fighter Govind Ballabh Pant took oath on 26 January 1950 as its first Chi…
Congress supplied every Uttar Pradesh chief minister through the 1950s. Pant moved to New Delhi as Union Home Minister in 1955; Sampurnanand succeeded him and governed c…
Chandra Bhanu Gupta took office in December 1960. He would go on to serve three separate, non-consecutive terms — an early sign of how often UP's Congress leadership cha…
Sucheta Kripalani was sworn in on 2 October 1963 under the Kamaraj Plan reshuffle, becoming Uttar Pradesh's first woman Chief Minister — and the first woman to lead any…
Charan Singh defected from Congress in April 1967 to lead a Samyukta Vidhayak Dal coalition, becoming UP's first non-Congress Chief Minister and ending Congress's unbrok…
Charan Singh served two separate terms as Chief Minister (1967-68 and 1970), each ending in a coalition collapse. He later became Prime Minister of India in 1979.
Between 1968 and 1980, Uttar Pradesh went under President's Rule six separate times as coalitions collapsed and Congress cycled through leaders — a pattern of instabilit…
Six different chief ministers held office between 1970 and 1977 — Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Kamalapati Tripathi, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, Narayan Dutt Tiwari, Ram Naresh Y…
Congress returned in June 1980 under Vishwanath Pratap Singh, later Prime Minister of India, and held the office through Sripati Mishra, Narayan Dutt Tiwari's second and…
Mulayam Singh Yadav's December 1989 Janata Dal government marked the start of a UP contested mainly by the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the BJP rather th…
Kalyan Singh was sworn in on 24 June 1991. His first term ended on 6 December 1992, the day the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya and his government was dismissed.
The 1990s saw rapid turnover between three rising forces: Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party, Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party, and Kalyan Singh's BJP, including a shor…
Mayawati's first term in June 1995 made her the first Dalit woman to head any Indian state government. She returned in 1997 and again in 2002-03, each time in a BJP-supp…
Mulayam Singh Yadav returned as Chief Minister in August 2003 after Mayawati's BSP-BJP coalition collapsed, governing until the 2007 election — his third and final term.
The BSP won 206 of 403 seats in the 2007 election, its first outright majority. Mayawati completed her only full five-year term, running until March 2012.
Akhilesh Yadav was sworn in on 15 March 2012 at age 38, UP's youngest Chief Minister on record, after the Samajwadi Party won 224 of 403 seats.
The BJP won a landslide 312 of 403 seats in 2017. Yogi Adityanath, then Gorakhpur's sitting MP, was sworn in as Chief Minister on 19 March 2017.
Re-sworn on 25 March 2022 after the BJP won 255 of 403 seats, Yogi Adityanath became the first Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister since 1985 to lead his party back into govern…
As of August 2026, Yogi Adityanath's two consecutive terms since 19 March 2017 total roughly 9 years and 5 months — both the longest continuous run and the longest cumul…
The current Assembly's constitutional term runs into 2027. As of August 26, 2026, the Election Commission of India had not announced a polling schedule for the next elec…
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