List of female Indian chief ministers - wikipedia List of female Indian chief ministers The three incumbent woman chief ministers in India -- Vasundhara Raje, Mamata Banerjee and Mehbooba Mufti Sixteen women have served as the chief minister of an Indian state. Currently, three are in office -- Vasundhara Raje, Mamata Banerjee and Mehbooba Mufti. 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 premiers. 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 Key * incumbent chief minister No Name Portrait State Term ( s ) Total tenure Party Sucheta Kriplani Uttar Pradesh 2 October 1963 -- 13 March 1967 1258 days Indian National Congress Nandini Satpathy -- Orissa 14 June 1972 -- 3 March 1973 6 March 1974 -- 16 December 1976 1278 days Indian National Congress Shashikala Kakodkar Goa 12 August 1973 -- 27 April 1979 2084 days Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party Syeda Anwara Taimur -- Assam 6 December 1980 -- 30 June 1981 206 days Indian National Congress Janaki Ramachandran -- Tamil Nadu 7 January 1988 -- 30 January 1988 23 days 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 days 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 days Bahujan Samaj Party 8 Rajinder Kaur Bhattal -- Punjab 21 January 1996 -- 12 February 1997 388 days 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 days Rashtriya Janata Dal 10 Sushma Swaraj Delhi 12 October 1998 -- 3 December 1998 52 days Bharatiya Janata Party 11 Sheila Dikshit Delhi 3 December 1998 -- 28 December 2013 5504 days Indian National Congress 12 Uma Bharati Madhya Pradesh 8 December 2003 -- 23 August 2004 259 days Bharatiya Janata Party 13 Vasundhara Raje * Rajasthan 8 December 2003 -- 18 December 2008 8 December 2013 -- present 3255 days Bharatiya Janata Party 14 Mamata Banerjee * West Bengal 20 May 2011 -- present 2356 days All India Trinamool Congress 15 Anandiben Patel Gujarat 22 May 2014 -- 7 August 2016 808 days Bharatiya Janata Party 16 Mehbooba Mufti * Jammu and Kashmir 4 April 2016 -- present 575 days Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party See also List of female Indian governors List of current Indian chief ministers References Jump up ^ Durga Das Basu. Introduction to the Constitution of India. 1960. 20th Edition, 2011 Reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. ISBN 978 - 81 - 8038 - 559 - 9. Lists of chief ministers of Indian states ( and current incumbents ) Andhra Pradesh N. Chandrababu Naidu Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu Assam Sarbananda Sonowal Bihar Nitish Kumar Chhattisgarh Raman Singh Delhi Arvind Kejriwal Goa Manohar Parrikar Gujarat Vijay Rupani Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti Jharkhand Raghubar Das Karnataka Siddaramaiah Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis Manipur N. Biren Singh Meghalaya Mukul Sangma Mizoram Lal Thanhawla Nagaland T.R. Zeliang Odisha Naveen Patnaik Puducherry V. Narayanasamy Punjab Amarinder Singh Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje Sikkim Pawan Kumar Chamling Tamil Nadu Edappadi K. Palaniswami Telangana K. Chandrasekhar Rao Tripura Manik Sarkar Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat West Bengal Mamata Banerjee Women chief ministers From the Bharatiya Janata Party From the Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_female_Indian_chief_ministers&oldid=808064927 '' Categories : Indian women Chief Ministers Lists of Indian female political office - holders Lists of Chief Ministers of Indian states Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from March 2013 Talk About Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia മലയാളം ଓଡ଼ିଆ தமிழ் తెలుగు Edit links This page was last edited on 31 October 2017, at 17 : 36. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: who became the first woman chief minister of a state in india
Answer: Sucheta Kriplani