List of chief ministers of Sikkim - wikipedia List of chief ministers of Sikkim Chief Minister of Sikkim Incumbent Pawan Kumar Chamling since 12 December 1994 Appointer Governor of Sikkim Inaugural holder Kazi Lhendup Dorjee Formation 16 May 1975 The Chief Minister of Sikkim, an east Indian state, is the head of the Government of Sikkim. As per the Constitution of India, the Governor of Sikkim is the state 's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Sikkim 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 that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister 's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits. Since 1975, Sikkim has had five chief ministers. The first was Kazi Lhendup Dorjee of the Indian National Congress. Pawan Kumar Chamling of the Sikkim Democratic Front has served as Chief Minister of Sikkim since 1994. He has occupied the office longer than all his predecessors put together. Chief ministers of Sikkim Colour key for parties Indian National Congress Sikkim Democratic Front Sikkim Janata Parishad Sikkim Sangram Parishad N / A ( President 's rule ) No Name Term Party Tenure Kazi Lhendup Dorjee 16 May 1975 18 August 1979 Indian National Congress 1555 Days -- Vacant ( President 's rule ) 18 August 1979 18 October 1979 N / A Nar Bahadur Bhandari MLA for Soreong 18 October 1979 11 May 1984 Sikkim Janata Parishad 1668 Days B.B. Gurung MLA for Jorthang - Nayabazar 11 May 1984 25 May 1984 Indian National Congress 13 Days -- Vacant ( President 's rule ) 25 May 1984 8 March 1985 N / A ( 2 ) Nar Bahadur Bhandari MLA for Soreong 8 March 1985 17 June 1994 Sikkim Sangram Parishad 3389 Days ( Total 5057 Days ) Sanchaman Limboo 17 June 1994 12 December 1994 179 Days Pawan Kumar Chamling MLA for Namchi - Singhithang 12 December 1994 Incumbent Sikkim Democratic Front 8628 Days Jump up ^ This column only names the chief minister 's party. The state government he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents ; these are not listed here. ^ Jump up to : When President 's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved. 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. Note : although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies for the specific case of Sikkim as well. Jump up ^ Former Chief Ministers of Tripura. Government of Tripura. Retrieved on 21 August 2013. Jump up ^ Amberish K. Diwanji. `` A dummy 's guide to President 's rule ''. Rediff.com. 15 March 2005. Retrieved on 3 March 2013. External links List on worldstatesmen.org 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 Jai Ram Thakur Jammu and Kashmir Vacant Jharkhand Raghubar Das Karnataka H.D. Kumaraswamy Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis Manipur N. Biren Singh Meghalaya Conrad Sangma Mizoram Lal Thanhawla Nagaland Neiphiu Rio Odisha Naveen Patnaik Puducherry V. Narayanasamy Punjab Amarinder Singh Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje Sikkim Pawan Kumar Chamling Tamil Nadu Edappadi K. Palaniswami Telangana K. Chandrashekhar Rao Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb 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_Chief_Ministers_of_Sikkim&oldid=841262873 '' Categories : Lists of Chief Ministers of Indian states Chief Ministers of Sikkim Sikkim - related lists Talk About Wikipedia Deutsch हिन्दी Bahasa Indonesia नेपाली Edit links This page was last edited on 14 May 2018, at 20 : 41 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

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