List of chief ministers 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 1956, 18 people 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 is the longest-serving and current incumbent.

Precursor states

Vindhya Pradesh (1948-1956)

In 1948, the eastern regions of Central India Agency, became the Union of Baghelkhand and Bundelkhand States later renamed to Vindhya Pradesh in 1952. It was admitted into the union as a "Part B" state.

No	Portrait	Name	Tenure			Assembly	Appointed by	Party
1		Awadhesh Pratap Singh	28 May 1948	15 April 1949	Template:Age in years and days	Not yet created	Rameshwar Prasad Singh	Independent	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |
2		S. N. Mehta	15 April 1949	31 March 1952	Template:Age in years and days		Martand Singh	Indian National Congress	rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" |
3		Sambhu Nath Shukla	31 March 1952	31 October 1956	Template:Age in years and days	1st (1952 elections)

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.

No	Portrait	Name	Tenure			Assembly	Appointed by	Party
1		Liladhar Joshi	28 May 1948	May 1949		Not yet created	Jivaji Rao Scindia	Indian National Congress	rowspan="9" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
2		Gopi Krishna Vijayvargiya	May 1949	18 October 1950
3		Takhatmal Jain	18 October 1950	31 March 1952	Template:Ayd
4		Mishrilal Gangwal	31 March 1952	16 April 1955	Template:Ayd	1st (1952 elections)
(3)		Takhatmal Jain	16 April 1955	31 October 1956	Template:Ayd

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.

No	Portrait	Name	Tenure			Assembly	Party
1		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.

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure			Assembly Template:Small	PartyTemplate:Efn
1		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 Template:Small
				1 November 1956	31 December 1956
2		Bhagwantrao Mandloi	Khandwa	9 January 1957	31 January 1957	Template:Ayd
3		Kailash Nath Katju	Jaora	31 January 1957	14 March 1957	Template:Ayd
				14 March 1957	12 March 1962		2nd Template:Small
(2)		Bhagwantrao Mandloi	Khandwa	12 March 1962	30 September 1963	Template:Ayd	3rd Template:Small
4		Dwarka Prasad Mishra	Katangi	30 September 1963	8 March 1967	Template:Ayd
				8 March 1967	30 July 1967		4th Template:Small
5		Govind Narayan Singh	Rampur-Baghelan	30 July 1967	13 March 1969	Template:Ayd		Samyukta Vidhayak Dal
6		Nareshchandra Singh	Pussore	13 March 1969	26 March 1969	Template:Ayd
7		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 Uttar	29 January 1972	22 March 1972	Template:Ayd
				23 March 1972	23 December 1975		5th Template:Small
(7)		Shyama Charan Shukla	Rajim	23 December 1975	30 April 1977	Template:Ayd
–		VacantTemplate:Efn (President's rule)	N/A	30 April 1977	23 June 1977	Template:Ayd	Dissolved	N/A
9		Kailash Chandra Joshi	Bagli	24 June 1977	18 January 1978	Template:Ayd	6th Template:Small	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
–		VacantTemplate:Efn (President's rule)	N/A	17 February 1980	9 June 1980	Template:Ayd	Dissolved	N/A
12		Arjun Singh	Churhat	9 June 1980	10 March 1985	Template:Ayd	7th Template:Small	Indian National Congress	rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
				11 March 1985	13 March 1985		8th Template:Small
13		Motilal Vora	Durg	13 March 1985	14 February 1988	Template:Ayd
(12)		Arjun Singh	Kharsia	14 February 1988	25 January 1989	Template:Ayd
(13)		Motilal Vora	Durg	25 January 1989	9 December 1989	Template:Ayd
(7)		Shyama Charan Shukla		9 December 1989	5 March 1990	Template:Ayd
(11)		Sunderlal Patwa	Bhojpur	5 March 1990	15 December 1992	Template:Ayd	9th Template:Small	Bharatiya Janata Party	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
–		VacantTemplate:Efn (President's rule)	N/A	15 December 1992	6 December 1993	Template:Ayd	Dissolved	N/A
14		Digvijaya Singh	Chachoura	7 December 1993	1 December 1998	Template:Ayd	10th Template:Small	Indian National Congress	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
			Raghogarh	1 December 1998	8 December 2003		11th Template:Small
15		Uma Bharti	Malhara	8 December 2003	23 August 2004	Template:Ayd	12th Template:Small	Bharatiya Janata Party	rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
16		Babulal Gaur	Govindpura	23 August 2004	29 November 2005	Template:Ayd
17		Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Budhni	29 November 2005	12 December 2008	Template:Ayd
				12 December 2008	13 December 2013		13th Template:Small
				14 December 2013	17 December 2018		14th Template:Small
18		Kamal Nath	Chhindwara	17 December 2018	23 March 2020	Template:Ayd	15th Template:Small	Indian National Congress	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
(17)		Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Budhni	23 March 2020	Incumbent	Template:Ayd		Bharatiya Janata Party	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |

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External links

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