List of Chief Ministers of Karnataka

Chief Minister of Karnataka (Karnataka Mukhya Mantri)
Photo of Siddaramaiah Incumbent Siddaramaiah since 13 May 2013
Residence	"Anugraha", Kumarakrupa Road, Bangalore
Appointer	Governor of Karnataka
Inaugural holder	K. Chengalaraya Reddy
Formation	25 October 1947

The Chief Minister of Karnataka is the chief executive of the south Indian state of Karnataka. As per 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 Karnataka 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 that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.

Since 1947, twenty-two people have been Chief Minister of Mysore (as the state was known before 1 November 1973) and Karnataka. A majority of them belonged to the Indian National Congress party, including inaugural office-holder K. Chengalaraya Reddy. The longest-serving chief minister, D. Devaraj Urs, held the office for over seven years in the 1970s. As a Janata Party member, Ramakrishna Hegde served the most number of discontinuous terms (three), while the Congress's Veerendra Patil had the largest gap between two terms (over eighteen years). One chief minister, H. D. Deve Gowda, went on to become the eleventh Prime Minister of India, while another, B. D. Jatti, served as the country's fifth Vice President. There have been six instances of President's rule in Karnataka, most recently in 2007–08.

The incumbent chief minister is the Congress party's Siddaramaiah, who was sworn in on 13 May 2013.

Chief Ministers of Mysore and Karnataka

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D. Devaraj Urs, Karnataka's longest-serving chief minister, held the office for 7 years, 234 days across 2 terms.

S. R. Bommai of the Janata Party, one of several leaders whose rule was cut short by imposition of President's rule

H. D. Deve Gowda cut short his tenure as chief minister (1994–96) to become the Prime Minister of India.

Following his tenure as the state's 16th chief minister, S. M. Krishna served as Governor of Maharashtra and Union Minister of External Affairs.

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Deve Gowda's son H. D. Kumaraswamy became chief minister in 2006–07.

Former chief minister D. V. Sadananda Gowda is currently serving as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government.

Jagadish Shettar was the third BJP chief minister to serve during the Thirteenth Assembly.

No	Name	Term (tenure length)	Assembly (election)	Party
Chief Minister of Mysore
1	K. Chengalaraya Reddy	25 October 1947 – 30 March 1952 ()	Not established yet	Indian National Congress
2	K. Hanumanthaiah	30 March 1952 – 19 August 1956 ()	First Assembly (1952–57) (1951/52 election) continued...
3	Kadidal Manjappa	19 August 1956 – 31 October 1956 ()
Chief Minister of Mysore (following the state's reorganisation)
4	S. Nijalingappa	1 November 1956 – 16 May 1958 ()	...continued First Assembly (1952–57) (1951/52 election)	Indian National Congress
			Second Assembly (1957–62) (1957 election)
5	B. D. Jatti	16 May 1958 – 9 March 1962 ()
6	S. R. Kanthi	14 March 1962 – 20 June 1962 ()	Third Assembly (1962–67) (1962 election)
(4)	S. Nijalingappa	21 June 1962 – 28 May 1968 ()
			Fourth Assembly (1967–71) (1967 election)
7	Veerendra Patil	29 May 1968 – 18 March 1971 ()
–	Vacant (President's rule)	19 March 1971 – 20 March 1972 ()	Dissolved	N/A
Chief Minister of Karnataka
8	D. Devaraj Urs	20 March 1972 – 31 December 1977 ()	Fifth Assembly (1972–77) (1972 election)	Indian National Congress
–	Vacant (President's rule)	31 December 1977 – 28 February 1978 ()	Dissolved	N/A
(8)	D. Devaraj Urs	28 February 1978 – 7 January 1980 ()	Sixth Assembly (1978–83) (1978 election)	Indian National Congress
9	R. Gundu Rao	12 January 1980 – 6 January 1983 ()
10	Ramakrishna Hegde	10 January 1983 – 29 December 1984 ()	Seventh Assembly (1983–85) (1983 election)	Janata Party
		8 March 1985 – 13 February 1986 ()	Eighth Assembly (1985–89) (1985 election)
		16 February 1986 – 10 August 1988 ()
11	S. R. Bommai	13 August 1988 – 21 April 1989 ()
–	Vacant (President's rule)	21 April 1989 – 30 November 1989 ()	Dissolved	N/A
(7)	Veerendra Patil	30 November 1989 – 10 October 1990 ()	Ninth Assembly (1989–94) (1989 election)	Indian National Congress
–	Vacant (President's rule)	10 October 1990 – 17 October 1990 ()		N/A
12	S. Bangarappa	17 October 1990 – 19 November 1992 ()		Indian National Congress
13	M. Veerappa Moily	19 November 1992 – 11 December 1994 ()
14	H. D. Deve Gowda	11 December 1994 – 31 May 1996 ()	Tenth Assembly (1994–99) (1994 election)	Janata Dal
15	J. H. Patel	31 May 1996 – 7 October 1999 ()
16	S. M. Krishna	11 October 1999 – 28 May 2004 ()	Eleventh Assembly (1999–2004) (1999 election)	Indian National Congress
17	Dharam Singh	28 May 2004 – 28 January 2006 ()	Twelfth Assembly (2004–07) (2004 election)
18	H. D. Kumaraswamy	3 February 2006 – 8 October 2007 ()		Janata Dal (Secular)
–	Vacant (President's rule)	9 October 2007 – 11 November 2007 ()		N/A
19	B. S. Yeddyurappa	12 November 2007 – 19 November 2007 ()		Bharatiya Janata Party
–	Vacant (President's rule)	20 November 2007 – 27 May 2008 ()	Dissolved	N/A
(19)	B. S. Yeddyurappa	30 May 2008 – 31 July 2011 ()	Thirteenth Assembly (2008–13) (2008 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
20	D. V. Sadananda Gowda	4 August 2011 – 12 July 2012 ()
21	Jagadish Shettar	12 July 2012 – 12 May 2013 ()
22	Siddaramaiah	13 May 2013 – present ()	Fourteenth Assembly (2013–18) (2013 election)	Indian National Congress

See also

• List of Diwans of Mysore

Notes

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The modern state of Karnataka (within the blue border), as Mysore State has been known as since 1 November 1973, is composed of the erstwhile princely states of Mysore and Coorg, and the Kannada-speaking districts of the erstwhile states of Bombay, Hyderabad and Madras.

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