page_title: List of chief ministers of Karnataka
section_title: Chief ministers of Mysore and Karnataka
hierarchical_section_title: List of chief ministers of Karnataka / Chief ministers of Mysore and Karnataka
caption_attribution_description: English: Indian Minister of External Affairs S.M. Krishna in New Delhi
context_page_description: The Chief Minister of Karnataka is the chief executive of the Indian state of Karnataka. As per the Constitution of India, the governor is a state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, the state's governor usually invites the party 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 1947, twenty-two people have been Chief Minister of Mysore or Karnataka. A majority of them belonged to the Indian National Congress party, including inaugural office-holder K. Chengalaraya Reddy. The longest-serving chief minister, D. Devaraj Urs, held the office for over seven years in the 1970s. The Janata Party's Ramakrishna Hegde has the second-longest tenure, while the Congress's Veerendra Patil had the largest gap between two terms. One chief minister, H. D. Deve Gowda, went on to become the eleventh Prime Minister of India, while another, B. D.
caption: Following his tenure as the state's 16th chief minister, S. M. Krishna served as Governor of Maharashtra and Union Minister of External Affairs.
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