List of deputy chief ministers of Tamil Nadu

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The Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is the deputy to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, who is head of the government of Tamil Nadu. The deputy chief minister is the second highest ranking member of the Tamil Nadu Council of Ministers.[1] A deputy chief minister also holds a cabinet portfolio in the state ministry. In the legislative assembly system of government, the chief minister is treated as the "first among equals" in the cabinet; the position of deputy chief minister is used to govern the state with the support of a single party member or to bring political stability and strength within a coalition government, or in times of state emergency, when a proper chain of command is necessary. On multiple occasions, proposals have arisen to make the post permanent, but without result. The same goes for the post of deputy prime minister at the national level.

The office has since been only intermittently occupied, having been occupied for a little more than 5 years out of the 12 years since its inauguration. Since 2009 Tamil Nadu has had 2 deputy chief ministers, of which none having at least one full term. The first was former chief minister of Tamil Nadu M. Karunanidhi's third son M. K. Stalin[2] of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party, who was sworn in on 29 May 2009, also home minister in Karunanidhi's fifth ministry. The post was vacant until O. Panneerselvam[3] of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party became the second deputy chief minister in 2017, who took on the role in addition to his finance minister-ship in Edappadi K. Palaniswami's government, Also he remains Tamil Nadu's longest-serving deputy chief minister and was the last person to serve as the deputy chief minister of Tamil Nadu until the post became vacant.

The current government does not have a deputy chief minister and the post has been vacant since 7 May 2021.

List

No. Portrait Name

(Birth–Death)

Elected Constituency Political PartyTemplate:Efn Term of office[4] Chief Minister Appointed by
Assumed Office Left Office Time in Office
1 File:Hon CM Photo.jpg M. K. Stalin
(1953–) 		style="background:Template:Party color;" | Thousand Lights Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 29 May 2009 15 May 2011 Template:Age in years and days M. Karunanidhi style="background-color: Template:Party color"| Surjit Singh Barnala
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2 O. Panneerselvam
(1951–) 		style="background:Template:Party color;" | Bodinayakkanur All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 21 August 2017 6 May 2021 Template:Age in years and days Edappadi K. Palaniswami style="background-color: Template:Party color"| C. Vidyasagar Rao
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Statistics

List of deputy chief ministers by length of term
Template:Tooltip Name Party Length of term
Longest continuous term Total years of premiership
1 O. Panneerselvam style="background-color: Template:Party color" | AIADMK 3 years, 258 days 3 years, 258 days
2 M. K. Stalin style="background-color: Template:Party color" | DMK 1 year, 351 days 1 year, 351 days
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List by party
Political parties by total time-span of their member holding Deputy CMO (30 July 2026)
Template:Tooltip Political party Number of Deputy chief ministers Total days of holding Deputy CMO
1 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 1 1354 days
2 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 1 716 days
Parties by total duration (in days) of holding Deputy Chief Minister's Office

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Living former deputy chief ministers

As of 30 July 2026, there are two living former deputy chief ministers of Tamil Nadu:

See also

Notes

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References

  1. ↑ Of Deputy Chief Ministers and the Constitution. The Hindu(2012-07-13). Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Karunanidhi makes Stalin Deputy Chief Minister. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
  3. ↑ Panneerselvam sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  4. ↑ The ordinal number of the term being served by the person specified in the row in the corresponding period

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