| Chief Minister of Karnataka | |
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| Karnāṭakada Mukhya Mantri | |
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| Government of Karnataka | |
| Style | The Honourable (Formal) Mr./Mrs. Chief Minister (Informal) |
| Type | Head of Government |
| Status | Leader of the Executive |
| Abbreviation | CM |
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| Residence | Anugraha, Bangalore |
| Seat | Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru |
| Nominator | Members of the Government of Karnataka in Karnataka Legislative Assembly |
| Appointer | Governor of Karnataka by convention based on appointees ability to command confidence in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly |
| Term length | At the confidence of the assembly Chief minister's term is for 5 years and is subject to no term limits.[1] |
| Precursor | Dewan of Mysore |
| Inaugural holder |
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| Formation | 1 November 1956 |
| Deputy | Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka |
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| Website | cm |
The chief minister of Karnataka is the chief executive officer of the government of the Indian state of Karnataka. As per the Constitution of India, the governor of Karnataka is the state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister, a template applicable to all other Indian states. Following elections to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, the governor usually invites the political party (or a coalition of political parties) with a majority of assembly seats to form the government in the state. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he/she has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years, renewable, and is subject to no term limits.[1]
Historically, this office replaced that of the dewan of Mysore of the erstwhile Kingdom of Mysore with India's constitution into a republic. Since 1947, there have been a total of twenty-three chief ministers of Mysore (as the state was known before 1 November 1973) and Karnataka. A majority of them belonged to the Indian National Congress (INC) party, including the inaugural officeholder K. C. Reddy. The longest-serving chief minister, D. Devaraj Urs, held the office for over seven years in the 1970s. INC's Veerendra Patil had the largest gap between two terms (over eighteen years). One chief minister, H. D. Deve Gowda, went on to become the eleventh prime minister of India, whereas another, B. D. Jatti, served as the country's fifth vice president. B. S. Yediyurappa who was the first chief minister from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), served as the chief minister of the state for four terms in 2007, 2008, 2018 and 2019, the only one to do so. S. R. Bommai served as the chief minister representing the Janata Parivar, whose son Basavaraj Bommai became chief minister representing the BJP in 2021 becoming the second father-son duo to serve office after HD Deve Gowda and HD Kumaraswamy. There have been six instances of president's rule in Karnataka, most recently from 2007 to 2008.
- ^ a b Durga Das Basu (1960). Introduction to the Constitution of India. Nagpur: LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa. pp. 241, 245. ISBN 978-81-8038-559-9.