At the state level, Chief Minister in India is the voted head of the government of a sub-national for example constituent federal state. They are enthroned with most of the executive powers. By legislators of the political party or coalition, the chief minister is elected and the election also requites an assembly majority. Chief minister serves a five-year term with a precondition of re-election. By an inference the term Chief minister, is often enforced to various other high ministerial offices, e.g. in a princely state before or during the British raj.

In India, there are a total of thirty Chief Ministers selected by all twenty-eight states and two out of the seven union territories. They are:

State	Name	Assuming Date	Party
Andhra Pradesh	Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy	5/14/2004	Indian National Congress
Arunachal Pradesh	Dorjee Khandu	4/9/2007	Indian National Congress
Assam	Tarun Kumar Gogoi	5/17/2001	Indian National Congress
Bihar	Nitish Kumar	11/24/2005	Janata Dal (United)
Chhattisgarh	Raman Singh	12/7/2003	Bharatiya Janata Party
Delhi	Sheila Dikshit	12/3/1998	Indian National Congress
Goa	Digambar Kamat	6/8/2007	Indian National Congress
Gujarat	Narendra Modi	10/7/2001	Bharatiya Janata Party
Haryana	Bhupinder Singh Hooda	3/5/2005	Indian National Congress
Himachal Pradesh	Virbhadra Singh	3/6/2003	Indian National Congress
Jammu and Kashmir	Ghulam Nabi Azad	11/2/2005	Indian National Congress
Jharkhand	Madhu Koda	9/18/2006	Independent
Karnataka	B.S. Yedurupaya	2/3/2006	BJP
Kerala	V.S. Achuthanandan	5/18/2006	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Madhya Pradesh	Shivraj Singh Chauhan	11/29/2005	Bharatiya Janata Party
Maharashtra	Vilasrao Deshmukh	11/1/2004	Indian National Congress
Manipur	Okram Ibobi Singh	3/2/2002	Indian National Congress
Meghalaya	D.D. Lapang	3/10/2007	Indian National Congress
Mizoram	Pu Zoramthanga	12/4/1998	Mizo National Front
Nagaland	Neiphiu Rio	3/6/2003	Nagaland People`s Front
Orissa	Naveen Patnaik	5/17/2004	Biju Janata Dal
Pondicherry	N. Rangaswamy	10/27/2001	Indian National Congress
Punjab	Parkash Singh Badal	2/28/2007	Shiromani Akali Dal
Rajasthan	Vasundhara Raje Scindia	12/8/2003	Bharatiya Janata Party
Sikkim	Pawan Kumar Chamling	12/12/1994	Sikkim Democratic Front
Tamil Nadu	M. Karunanidhi	5/12/2006	DMK
Tripura	Manik Sarkar	3/11/1998	CPI-M
Uttarakhand	B. C. Khanduri	3/12/2007	Bharatiya Janata Party
Uttar Pradesh	Mayawati	5/13/2007	Bahujan Samaj Party
West Bengal	Buddhadeb Bhattacharya	10/6/2000	CPI-M