List of longest-ruling Indian chief ministers
. This list details Chief Ministers of Indian states who have served for longest years consecutively or otherwise.

List of longest-ruling Indian chief ministers

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Table Section Text: . This list details Chief Ministers of Indian states who have served for longest years consecutively or otherwise.

#	Chief Minister	State	Term(s)	Term length

1	Pawan Kumar Chamling	Sikkim	12 December 1994 – present	24 years, 127 days

2	Jyoti Basu	West Bengal	21 June 1977 – 5 November 2000	23 years, 137 days

3	Gegong Apang	Arunachal Pradesh	18 January 1980 – 19 January 1999 4 August 2003 – 9 April 2007	22 years, 8 months, 5days

4	Lal Thanhawla	Mizoram	5 May 1984 – 20 August 1986 24 January 1989 – 3 December 1998 11 December 2008 – 15 December 2018	21 years, 38 days

5	Virbhadra Singh	Himachal Pradesh	8 April 1983 – 8 March 1985 8 March 1985 – 5 March 1990 3 December 1993 – 23 March 1998 6 March 2003 – 30 December 2007 25 December 2012 – 27 December 2017	21 years

6	Manik Sarkar	Tripura	11 March 1998 – 9 March 2018	19 years, 363 days

7	Naveen Patnaik	Odisha	5 March 2000 – present	19 years, 44 days

8	M. Karunanidhi	Tamil Nadu	10 February 1969 – 4 January 1971 15 March 1971 – 31 January 1976 27 January 1989 – 30 January 1991 13 May 1996 – 13 May 2001 13 May 2006 – 15 May 2011	18 years, 293 days

9	Yashwant Singh Parmar	Himachal Pradesh	8 March 1952 – 31 October 1956 1 July 1963 – 28 January 1977	18 years, 30 days

10	Parkash Singh Badal	Punjab, India	27 March 1970 – 14 June 1971 20 June 1977 – 17 February 1980 12 February 1997 – 26 February 2002 1 March 2007 – 11 March 2017	17 years, 261 days

11	Mohan Lal Sukhadia	Rajasthan	13 November 1954 – 13 March 1967 26 April 1967 – 9 July 1971	17 years, 175 days

12	Pratapsingh Rane	Goa	16 January 1980 – 27 March 1990 16 December 1994 – 29 July 1998 2 February 2005 – 4 March 2005 7 June 2005 – 8 June 2007	15 Years, 250 Days

13	S. C. Jamir	Nagaland	18 April 1980 – 5 June 1980 18 November 1982 – 28 November 1986 25 January 1989 – 10 May 1990 22 February 1993 – 6 March 2003	15 years, 200 days

14	Sheila Dikshit	Delhi	3 December 1998 – 28 December 2013	15 years, 25 days

15	Okram Ibobi Singh	Manipur	7 March 2002 – 15 March 2017	15 years, 8 days

16	Tarun Gogoi	Assam	17 May 2001 – 24 May 2016	15 years, 7 days

17	Raman Singh	Chhattisgarh	7 December 2003 – 11 December 2018	15 years, 4 days

18	Sri Krishna Sinha	Bihar	2 April 1946 – 31 January 1961	14 Years, 310 Days

19	Bidhan Chandra Roy	West Bengal	23 January 1948 – 1 July 1962	14 years, 158 days

20	J. 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	14 Years, 126 Days

21	N. Chandrababu Naidu	Andhra Pradesh	1 September 1995 – 13 May 2004 8 June 2014 – present	13 Years, 161 Days

22	Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Madhya Pradesh	29 November 2005 – 16 December 2018	13 years, 17 days

23	Narendra Modi	Gujarat	7 October 2001 – 22 May 2014	12 years, 227 days

24	Nitish Kumar	Bihar	3 March 2000 – 10 March 2000 24 November 2005 – 19 May 2014 24 November 2005 – 19 May 2014 22 February 2015 – present	12 Years, 32 Days

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Pawan Kumar Chamling is currently the longest serving Chief Minister of an Indian State.

final_sentence: Pawan Kumar Chamling is currently the longest serving Chief Minister of an Indian State.