Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh

The chief minister of Madhya Pradesh is the chief executive of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. In accordance with the Constitution of India, the governor is a state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, the state's 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 the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.

Following Madhya Pradesh's reorganisation on 1 November 1999, 19 people have served as its chief minister. Twelve of these belonged to the Indian National Congress, including the inaugural officeholder Ravishankar Shukla. The first non-Congress chief minister was Govind Narayan Singh who defected from the party and lead a Samyukta Vidhayak Dal government from 1967 to 1969. Digvijaya Singh of the Congress became the first officeholder to serve two full five-year terms. He was succeeded by Uma Bharti of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Madhya Pradesh's only woman chief minister. Shivraj Singh Chouhan of the Bharatiya Janata Party was the longest-serving chief minister of the state, serving for over 16 and half years. Chouhan was succeeded by Dr. Mohan Yadav of his own party after the 2023 elections, which was seen as a landslide victory for the BJP.

List of chief ministers of Vindhya Pradesh (1948-1956)

In 1948, the eastern regions of Central India Agency, became the Union of Baghelkhand and Bundelkhand States, and was admitted into the Dominion of India as a Part B state, headed by a Rajpramukh under the advice of a Prime Minister. It was renamed Vindhya Pradesh and converted to a Part C state, headed by a Chief Commissioner, on 1 January 1950. In 1952, a legislative assembly was created and the post of Chief Commissioner was replaced by the Lieutenant Governor.

List of prime ministers of Union of Baghelkhand and Bundelkhand States (UBBS)

#	Name	Tenure			Appointed by	Party
1	Awadhesh Pratap Singh	28 May 1948	14 April 1949	Template:Age in years and days	Martand Singh (Rajpramukh)	Indian National Congress	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |
2	Neil Bruniat Bonerji	15 April 1949	30 April 1949	Template:Age in years and days	Martand Singh (Rajpramukh)	Independent	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |
3	Shreenath Mehta	1 May 1949	31 December 1949	Template:Age in years and days	Martand Singh (Rajpramukh)	Independent	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |

List of chief ministers of Vindhya Pradesh

#	Name	Tenure			Assembly	Appointed by	Party
1	Sambhu Nath Shukla	31 March 1952	31 October 1956	Template:Age in years and days	1st (1952 elections)	K. Santhanam	Indian National Congress	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |

List of chief ministers of Madhya Bharat (1948-1956)

In 1948, the western regions of Central India Agency and the Gwalior and Indore residencies, became the new state of Madhya Bharat. It was admitted into the union as a "Part B" state.

Prime Ministers of Madhya Bharat

#	Portrait	Name	Tenure		Appointed by	Party
1	File:Liladhar Joshi.jpg	Liladhar Joshi	28 May 1948	May 1949	Jivaji Rao Scindia	Indian National Congress	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
2		Gopikrishna Vijayavargiya	May 1949	25 January 1950

List of chief ministers of Madhya Bharat

#	Name	Tenure			Assembly	Appointed by	Party
1	Gopikrishna Vijayavargiya	26 January 1950	18 October 1950	Template:Ayd	Not yet created	Jivaji Rao Scindia	Indian National Congress	rowspan="9" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
2	Takhatmal Jain	18 October 1950	31 March 1952	Template:Ayd
3	Mishrilal Gangwal	31 March 1952	16 April 1955	Template:Ayd	1st (1952 elections)
(2)	Takhatmal Jain	16 April 1955	31 October 1956	Template:Ayd

Chief Minister of Bhopal State (1949-1956)

On 30 April 1949, Sir Hamidullah Khan, the Nawab of Bhopal signed an Instrument of Accession to the Dominion of India. The state of Bhopal was taken over by the Union Government on 1 June 1949, and was declared a "Part C" state.

#	Portrait	Name	Tenure			Assembly	Party
1	File:Shri Shankar Dayal Sharma.jpg	Shankar Dayal Sharma	31 March 1952	31 October 1956	Template:Ayd	1st (1952 elections)	Indian National Congress	rowspan="9" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |

List of chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh

After the independence of India, the state of Madhya Pradesh was created in 1950 from the Central Provinces and Berar and the princely state of Makrai with Nagpur as the capital of the state.

The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 merged the states of Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, and Bhopal were merged into Madhya Pradesh and the Marathi-speaking southern region Vidarbha, which included Nagpur, was ceded to Bombay. In November 2000, as part of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act the southeastern portion of the state was split off to form the new state of Chhattisgarh.

#	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure			Assembly (election)	PartyTemplate:Efn
1	File:RavishankarShukla.jpg	Ravishankar Shukla	N/A	26 January 1950	30 March 1952	Template:Ayd	Not yet created	Indian National Congress	rowspan="9" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
			Saraipali	31 March 1952	31 October 1956		1st (1952 election)
				1 November 1956	31 December 1956
2		Bhagwantrao Mandloi	Khandwa	9 January 1957	31 January 1957	Template:Ayd
3	File:Kailash Nath Katju.jpg	Kailash Nath Katju	Jaora	31 January 1957	14 March 1957	Template:Ayd
				14 March 1957	12 March 1962		2nd (1957 election)
(2)		Bhagwantrao Mandloi	Khandwa	12 March 1962	30 September 1963	Template:Ayd	3rd (1962 election)
4	File:Stamp of India - 2001 - Colnect 160764 - Dwarka Prasad Mishra.jpeg	Dwarka Prasad Mishra	Katangi	30 September 1963	8 March 1967	Template:Ayd
				8 March 1967	30 July 1967		4th (1967 election)
5		Govind Narayan Singh	Rampur-Baghelan	30 July 1967	13 March 1969	Template:Ayd		Samyukta Vidhayak Dal	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
6		Nareshchandra Singh	Pussore	13 March 1969	26 March 1969	Template:Ayd
7	File:Shyama Charan Shukla 2012 stamp of India (cropped).jpg	Shyama Charan Shukla	Rajim	26 March 1969	29 January 1972	Template:Ayd		Indian National Congress	rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
8		Prakash Chandra Sethi	Ujjain North	29 January 1972	22 March 1972	Template:Ayd
				23 March 1972	23 December 1975		5th (1972 election)
(7)	File:Shyama Charan Shukla 2012 stamp of India (cropped).jpg	Shyama Charan Shukla	Rajim	23 December 1975	30 April 1977	Template:Ayd
–	File:Emblem of India.svg	VacantTemplate:Efn (President's rule)	N/A	30 April 1977	23 June 1977	Template:Ayd	Dissolved	N/A
9	File:Kailash Chandra Joshi.JPG	Kailash Chandra Joshi	Bagli	24 June 1977	18 January 1978	Template:Ayd	6th (1977 election)	Janata Party	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
10		Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha	Jawad	18 January 1978	20 January 1980	Template:Ayd
11		Sunderlal Patwa	Mandsaur	20 January 1980	17 February 1980	Template:Ayd
–	File:Emblem of India.svg	VacantTemplate:Efn (President's rule)	N/A	17 February 1980	9 June 1980	Template:Ayd	Dissolved	N/A
12	File:The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Arjun Singh briefing the Media after two day meeting of the National Monitoring Committee on Minorities Education, in New Delhi on July 12, 2006 (cropped).jpg	Arjun Singh	Churhat	9 June 1980	10 March 1985	Template:Ayd	7th (1980 election)	Indian National Congress	rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
				11 March 1985	13 March 1985		8th (1985 election)
13	File:Motilal Vora.jpg	Motilal Vora	Durg	13 March 1985	14 February 1988	Template:Ayd
(12)	File:The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Arjun Singh briefing the Media after two day meeting of the National Monitoring Committee on Minorities Education, in New Delhi on July 12, 2006 (cropped).jpg	Arjun Singh	Kharsia	14 February 1988	25 January 1989	Template:Ayd
(13)	File:Motilal Vora.jpg	Motilal Vora	Durg	25 January 1989	9 December 1989	Template:Ayd
(7)	File:Shyama Charan Shukla 2012 stamp of India (cropped).jpg	Shyama Charan Shukla	Not contested	9 December 1989	5 March 1990	Template:Ayd
(11)		Sunderlal Patwa	Bhojpur	5 March 1990	15 December 1992	Template:Ayd	9th (1990 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
–	File:Emblem of India.svg	VacantTemplate:Efn (President's rule)	N/A	15 December 1992	6 December 1993	Template:Ayd	Dissolved	N/A
14	File:Digvijaya Singh (cropped).jpg	Digvijaya Singh	Chachoura	7 December 1993	1 December 1998	Template:Ayd	10th (1993 election)	Indian National Congress	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
			Raghogarh	1 December 1998	8 December 2003		11th (1998 election)
15	File:Uma Bharati in 2014.jpg	Uma Bharti	Malhara	8 December 2003	23 August 2004	Template:Ayd	12th (2003 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party	rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
16	File:Babulal Gaur (cropped).jpg	Babulal Gaur	Govindpura	23 August 2004	29 November 2005	Template:Ayd
17	File:The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan meeting the Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Ajit Singh, in New Delhi on November 21, 2012 1(cropped).jpg	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Budhni	29 November 2005	12 December 2008	Template:Ayd
				12 December 2008	13 December 2013		13th (2008 election)
				14 December 2013	17 December 2018		14th (2013 election)
18	File:Kamal Nath.png	Kamal Nath	Chhindwara	17 December 2018	23 March 2020	Template:Ayd	15th (2018 election)	Indian National Congress	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |
(17)	File:The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan meeting the Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Ajit Singh, in New Delhi on November 21, 2012 1(cropped).jpg	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Budhni	23 March 2020	13 December 2023	Template:Ayd		Bharatiya Janata Party	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
19	File:PM attends swearing in ceremony of Mohan Yadav and his deputies at Bhopal, in Madhya Pradesh.jpg	Mohan Yadav	Ujjain South	13 December 2023	Incumbent	Template:Ayd	16th (2023 election)

Statistics

#	Chief Minister	Party		Term of office
				Longest continuous term	Total duration of chief ministership
1	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Template:Party name with color	13 years, 17 days	16 years, 282 days
2	Digvijay Singh	Template:Party name with color	10 years, 1 Day	Template:Ayd
3	Ravishankar Shukla	Template:Party name with color	6 years, 340 days	6 years, 340 days
4	Arjun Singh	Template:Party name with color	4 years, 277 days	5 years, 258 days
5	Kailash Nath Katju	Template:Party name with color	5 years, 40 days	5 years, 40 days
6	Shyama Charan Shukla	Template:Party name with color	2 years, 309 days	4 years, 158 days
7	Prakash Chandra Sethi	Template:Party name with color	3 years, 328 days	3 years, 328 days
8	Dwarka Prasad Mishra	Template:Party name with color	3 years, 303 days	3 years, 303 days
9	Sunderlal Patwa	Template:Party name with color/BJP	2 years, 285 days	2 years, 313 days
10	Motilal Vora	Template:Party name with color	2 years, 338 days	3 years, 291 days
11	Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha	Template:Party name with color	2 years, 2 days	2 years, 2 days
12	Govind Narayan Singh	Template:Party name with color	1 year, 226 days	1 year, 226 days
13	Bhagwantrao Mandloi	Template:Party name with color	1 year, 202 days	1 year, 224 days
16	Mohan Yadav*	Template:Party name with color	Template:Age in years and days*	Template:Age in years and days*
14	Babulal Gaur	Template:Party name with color	1 year, 98 days	1 year, 98 days
15	Kamal Nath	Template:Party name with color	1 year, 97 days	1 year, 97 days
17	Uma Bharti	Template:Party name with color	259 days	259 days
18	Kailash Chandra Joshi	Template:Party name with color	208 days	208 days
19	Nareshchandra Singh	Template:Party name with color	13 days	13 days

Timeline

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from: 09/01/1957 till: 30/01/1957 color:inc
from: 11/03/1962 till: 29/09/1963 color:inc text:"Bhagwantrao Mandloi" fontsize:10
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from: 31/01/1957 till: 11/03/1962 color:inc text:"Kailash Nath Kadju" fontsize:10
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from: 26/03/1969 till: 28/01/1972 color:inc
from: 23/12/1975 till: 30/04/1977 color:inc
from: 09/12/1989 till: 01/03/1990 color:inc text:"Shyama Charan Shukla" fontsize:10
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from: 05/03/1990 till: 15/12/1992 color:bjp text:"Sunder Lal Patwa" fontsize:10
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from: 09/06/1980 till: 12/03/1985 color:inc
from: 14/02/1988 till: 23/01/1989 color:inc text:"Arjun Singh" fontsize:10
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from: 13/03/1985 till: 13/02/1988 color:inc
from: 25/01/1989 till: 09/12/1989 color:inc text:"Motilal Vora" fontsize:10
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from: 07/12/1993 till: 07/12/2003 color:inc text:"Digvijaya Singh" fontsize:10
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from: 08/12/2003 till: 23/08/2004 color:bjp text:"Uma Bharti" fontsize:10
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from: 23/08/2004 till: 29/11/2005 color:bjp text:"Babulal Gaur" fontsize:10
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from: 29/11/2005 till: 17/12/2018 color:bjp
from: 23/03/2020 till: 11/12/2023 color:bjp text:"Shivraj Singh Chouhan" fontsize:10
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from: 17/12/2018 till: 23/03/2020 color:inc text:"Kamal Nath" fontsize:10
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from: 11/12/2023 till: $today color:bjp text:"Mohan Yadav" fontsize:10

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External links

• Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh