List of female Indian chief ministers

Sixteen women have served as the chief minister of an Indian state. Currently, one is in office — Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal. Of the thirteen states to have been headed by a female chief minister, only three—Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh—have had two woman chief ministers. Five of the woman chief ministers belonged to the Indian National Congress, four to the Bharatiya Janata Party and two to the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.

In the Republic of India, a chief minister is the head of government of each of twenty-nine states and two union territories (Delhi and Puducherry). According to the Constitution of India, at the state-level, the governor is de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the state legislative assembly, the 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 he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years; the office is subject to no term limits.

Chronological list of female Indian chief ministers

 incumbent chief minister

S. No.	Name	Portrait	State	Term(s)	Total tenure (days)	Party
1	Sucheta Kriplani		Uttar Pradesh	2 October 1963 – 13 March 1967	1258	Indian National Congress
2	Nandini Satpathy		Odisha	14 June 1972 – 3 March 1973 6 March 1974 – 16 December 1976	1278	Indian National Congress
3	Shashikala Kakodkar		Goa	12 August 1973 – 27 April 1979	2084	Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
4	Anwara Taimur	–	Assam	6 December 1980 – 30 June 1981	206	Indian National Congress
5	Janaki Ramachandran		Tamil Nadu	7 January 1988 – 30 January 1988	23	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
6	Jayalalithaa		Tamil Nadu	24 June 1991 – 12 May 1996 14 May 2001 – 21 September 2001 2 March 2002 – 12 May 2006 16 May 2011 – 27 September 2014 23 May 2015 – 5 December 2016	5238	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
7	Mayawati		Uttar Pradesh	13 June 1995 – 18 October 1995 21 March 1997 – 21 September 1997 3 May 2002 – 29 August 2003 13 May 2007 – 15 March 2012	2562	Bahujan Samaj Party
8	Rajinder Kaur Bhattal		Punjab	21 November 1996 – 12 February 1997	83	Indian National Congress
9	Rabri Devi		Bihar	25 July 1997 – 11 February 1999 9 March 1999 – 2 March 2000 11 March 2000 – 6 March 2005	2746	Rashtriya Janata Dal
10	Sushma Swaraj		Delhi	12 October 1998 – 3 December 1998	52	Bharatiya Janata Party
11	Sheila Dikshit		Delhi	3 December 1998 – 28 December 2013	5504	Indian National Congress
12	Uma Bharti		Madhya Pradesh	8 December 2003 – 23 August 2004	259	Bharatiya Janata Party
13	Vasundhara Raje		Rajasthan	8 December 2003 – 18 December 2008 8 December 2013 – 17 December 2018	3847	Bharatiya Janata Party
14	Mamata Banerjee *		West Bengal	20 May 2011 – present	2948	All India Trinamool Congress
15	Anandiben Patel		Gujarat	22 May 2014 – 7 August 2016	808	Bharatiya Janata Party
16	Mehbooba Mufti		Jammu & Kashmir	4 April 2016 – 20 June 2018	807	Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party