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Chief Minister of Karnataka
Seal of Karnataka.svg
Emblem of Karnataka
Siddaramaiah at the function Akshaya Patra Foundation in Karnataka.jpg
Incumbent
Siddaramaiah

since 20 May 2023
Government of Karnataka
Style The Honourable (Formal)
Mr./Mrs. Chief Minister (Informal)
Abbreviation CM
Member of
  • Cabinet
  • Karnataka Legislature
Reports to
Residence Anugraha, Bangalore
Seat Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru
Nominator Members of the Government of Karnataka in Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Appointer Governor of Karnataka by convention based on appointees ability to command confidence in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Term length At the confidence of the assembly
Chief minister's term is for 5 years and is subject to no term limits.
Precursor Dewan of Mysore
Inaugural holder
  • K. Chengalaraya Reddy (as the chief minister of Mysore;before state's reorganization)
  • S. Nijalingappa (as the chief minister of Mysore;after state's reorganization)
  • D. Devaraj Urs (as the chief minister of Karnataka)
Formation 1 November 1956 (68 years ago) (1956-11-01)
Deputy Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka
Salary
  • 200,000 (US$3,400)/monthly
  • 2,400,000 (US$41,000)/annually

The Chief minister of Karnataka is the chief executive officer of the government of the Indian state of Karnataka. As per the Constitution of India, the governor of Karnataka is the state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister, a template applicable to all other Indian states. Following elections to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, the governor usually invites the political party (or a coalition of political parties) with a majority of assembly seats to form the government in the state. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he/she has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years, renewable, and is subject to no term limits.

Historically, this office replaced that of the dewan of Mysore of the erstwhile Kingdom of Mysore with India's constitution into a republic. Since 1947, there have been a total of twenty-three chief ministers of Mysore (as the state was known before 1 November 1973) and Karnataka. A majority of them belonged to the Indian National Congress (INC) party, including the inaugural officeholder K. C. Reddy. The longest-serving chief minister, D. Devaraj Urs, held the office for over seven years in the 1970s. INC'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, whereas another, B. D. Jatti, served as the country's fifth vice president. B. S. Yediyurappa who was the first chief minister from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), served as the chief minister of the state for four terms in 2007, 2008, 2018 and 2019, the only one to do so. S. R. Bommai served as the chief minister representing the Janata Parivar, whose son Basavaraj Bommai became chief minister representing the BJP in 2021 becoming the second father-son duo to serve office after HD Deve Gowda and HD Kumaraswamy. There have been six instances of president's rule in Karnataka, most recently from 2007 to 2008.

Prime ministers of Mysore State

# Portrait Prime Minister
(Lifespan)
Constituency
Term of office Election
(Term)
Party Government Appointed by
(Dewan)
1 K. C. Reddy.jpg K. Chengalaraya Reddy
(1902–1976)
25 October
1947
26 January
1950
2 years, 93 days Not held Indian National Congress Reddy Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar

Chief ministers of Mysore State

# Portrait Chief Minister
(Lifespan)
Constituency
Term of office Election
(Term)
Party Government Appointed by
(Rajpramukh)
Chief Ministers of Mysore State (1950–1956)
1 K. C. Reddy.jpg K. Chengalaraya Reddy
(1902–1976)
26 January
1950
30 March
1952
2 years, 64 days Not held Indian National Congress Reddy Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
2 Kengal Hanumanthaiah.gif Kengal Hanumanthaiah
(1908–1980)
MLA for Ramanagara
30 March
1952
19 August
1956
4 years, 142 days 1952
(1st)
Hanumanthaiah
3 Kadidal Manjappa
(1908–1992)
MLA for Tirthahalli
19 August
1956
31 October
1956
73 days Manjappa

Chief Ministers of Karnataka

# Portrait Chief Minister
(Lifespan)
Constituency
Term of office Election
(Term)
Party Government Appointed by
(Governor)
Chief Minister of Mysore (following the state's reorganization)
4 Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa stamp (cropped).jpg S. Nijalingappa
(1902–2000)
MLA for Molakalmuru
1 November
1956
16 May
1958
1 year, 196 days 1952
(1st)
Indian National Congress Nijalingappa I Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
1957
(2nd)
Nijalingappa II
5 Basappa Danappa Jatti, 5th Vice President of India.jpg B. D. Jatti
(1912–2002)
MLA for Jamkhandi
16 May
1958
14 March
1962
3 years, 302 days Jatti
6 No image available.svg S. R. Kanthi
(1908–1969)
MLA for Hungund
14 March
1962
21 June
1962
99 days 1962
(3rd)
Kanthi
(4) Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa stamp (cropped).jpg S. Nijalingappa
(1902–2000)
MLA for Bagalkot, until 1967
MLA for Shiggaon, from 1968
21 June
1962
29 May
1968
5 years, 343 days Nijalingappa III S. M. Shrinagesh
Nijalingappa IV G. S. Pathak
1967
(4th)
7 No image available.svg Veerendra Patil
(1924–1997)
MLA for Chincholi
29 May
1968
18 March
1971
2 years, 293 days Patil I
President's rule was imposed during the period (19 March 1971 – 20 March 1972)
8 No image available.svg D. Devaraj Urs
(1915–1982)
MLA for Hunsur
20 March
1972
31 October
1973
1 year, 225 days 1972
(5th)
Indian National Congress (R) Urs I Mohanlal Sukhadia
Chief Minister of Karnataka
 – No image available.svg D. Devaraj Urs
(1915–1982)
MLA for Hunsur
1 November
1973
31 December
1977
4 years, 60 days 1972
(Continued)
Indian National Congress (R) Urs I
(Continued)
Mohanlal Sukhadia
(Continued)
President's rule was imposed during the period (31 December 1977 – 28 February 1978)
(8) No image available.svg D. Devaraj Urs
(1915–1982)
MLA for Hunsur
28 February
1978
12 January
1980
1 year, 318 days 1978
(6th)
Indian National Congress (I) Urs II Govind Narain
9 R. Gundu Rao
(1937–1993)
MLA for Somwarpet
12 January
1980
6 January
1983
2 years, 359 days Gundu Rao
10 No image available.svg Ramakrishna Hegde
(1926–2004)
MLA for Kanakapura, until 1985
MLA for Basavanagudi, from 1985
10 January 1983 7 March 1985 2 years, 56 days 1983
(7th)
Janata Party Hegde I Ashoknath Banerji
8 March 1985 13 August 1988 3 years, 158 days 1985
(8th)
Hegde II
Hegde III
11 Somappa Rayappa Bommai 132.jpg S. R. Bommai
(1924–2007)
MLA for Hubli Rural
13 August
1988
21 April
1989
251 days S. R. Bommai Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah
President's rule was imposed during the period (21 April – 30 November 1989)
(7) No image available.svg Veerendra Patil
(1924–1997)
MLA for Chincholi
30 November
1989
10 October
1990
314 days 1989
(9th)
Indian National Congress Patil II Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah
(Continued)
President's rule was imposed during the period (10 October – 17 October 1990)
12 No image available.svg S. Bangarappa
(1933–2011)
MLA for Soraba
17 October
1990
19 November
1992
2 years, 33 days 1989
(Continued)
Indian National Congress Bangarappa Bhanu Pratap Singh
13 The Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Dr. M. Veerappa Moily addressing the National Editors' Conference, organised by Press Information Bureau, in New Delhi on March 24, 2013.jpg M. Veerappa Moily
(born 1940)
MLA for Karkala
19 November
1992
11 December
1994
2 years, 22 days Moily Khurshed Alam Khan
14 The former Prime Minister, Shri H.D. Deve Gowda calling on the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on June 03, 2015 (cropped 2).jpg H. D. Deve Gowda
(born 1933)
MLA for Ramanagara
11 December
1994
31 May
1996
1 year, 172 days 1994
(10th)
Janata Dal Deve Gowda
15 No image available.svg J. H. Patel
(1930–2000)
MLA for Channagiri
31 May
1996
11 October
1999
3 years, 133 days Patel
16 India-eam-krishna (cropped).jpg S. M. Krishna
(born 1932)
MLA for Maddur
11 October
1999
28 May
2004
4 years, 230 days 1999
(11th)
Indian National Congress Krishna
17 Dharam Singh.jpg Dharam Singh
(1936–2017)
MLA for Jevargi
28 May
2004
28 January
2006
1 year, 245 days 2004
(12th)
Dharam Singh T. N. Chaturvedi
18 JDS chief Kumaraswamy.jpg H. D. Kumaraswamy
(born 1959)
MLA for Ramanagara
3 February
2006
8 October
2007
1 year, 247 days Janata Dal (Secular) Kumaraswamy I
President's rule was imposed during the period (8 October – 12 November 2007)
19 The Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri B.S. Yediyurappa.jpg B. S. Yediyurappa
(born 1943)
MLA for Shikaripura
12 November
2007
19 November
2007
7 days 2004
(Continued)
Bharatiya Janata Party Yediyurappa I Rameshwar Thakur
President's rule was imposed during the period (20 November 2007 – 29 May 2008)
(19) The Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri B.S. Yediyurappa.jpg B. S. Yediyurappa
(born 1943)
MLA for Shikaripura
30 May
2008
5 August
2011
3 years, 67 days 2008
(13th)
Bharatiya Janata Party Yediyurappa II Rameshwar Thakur
(Continued)
20 D.V. Sadananda Gowda.jpg D. V. Sadananda Gowda
(born 1953)
MLC
5 August
2011
12 July
2012
342 days Sadananda Gowda H. R. Bhardwaj
21 Jagdish Shettar, in Belagavi.jpg Jagadish Shettar
(born 1955)
MLA for Hubli-Dharwad Central
12 July
2012
13 May
2013
305 days Shettar
22 The Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri Siddaramaiah calling on the Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Shri Ananthkumar, in New Delhi on June 05, 2014 (cropped).jpg Siddaramaiah
(born 1947)
MLA for Varuna
13 May
2013
17 May
2018
5 years, 4 days 2013
(14th)
Indian National Congress Siddaramaiah I
(19) The Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri B.S. Yediyurappa.jpg B. S. Yediyurappa
(born 1943)
MLA for Shikaripura
17 May
2018
20 May
2018
3 days 2018
(15th)
Bharatiya Janata Party  – Vajubhai Vala
(18) JDS chief Kumaraswamy.jpg H. D. Kumaraswamy
(born 1959)
MLA for Channapatna
23 May
2018
23 July
2019
1 year, 61 days Janata Dal (Secular) Kumaraswamy II
(19) The Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri B.S. Yediyurappa.jpg B. S. Yediyurappa
(born 1943)
MLA for Shikaripura
26 July
2019
28 July
2021
2 years, 2 days Bharatiya Janata Party Yediyurappa III
23 Shri Basavaraj Bommai calling on the Union Minister for Defence, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on July 30 2021.jpg Basavaraj Bommai
(born 1960)
MLA for Shiggaon
28 July
2021
20 May
2023
1 year, 296 days Basavaraj Bommai Thawar Chand Gehlot
(22) The Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri Siddaramaiah calling on the Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Shri Ananthkumar, in New Delhi on June 05, 2014 (cropped).jpg Siddaramaiah
(born 1947)
MLA for Varuna
20 May
2023
Incumbent 1 year, 219 days 2023
(16th)
Indian National Congress Siddaramaiah II

See also

  • Dewan of Mysore
  • List of Diwans of Mysore
  • List of deputy chief ministers of Karnataka
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