List of chief ministers from the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

As of August 2013, eight leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) have held the post of chief minister. A chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-nine states and two union territories. 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 assembly's confidence, the chief minister's term is usually for a maximum of five years; there are no limits to the number of terms he/she can serve.^[1]

Chief Ministers from CPI(M)
State	Name	Portrait	Took office (tenure length)
Kerala	E.M.S. Namboodiripad^{[lower-greek 1]}		000000001967-03-06-00006 March 1967 (7007838512000000000♠2 years, 240 days)
	E.K. Nayanar		000000001980-01-25-000025 January 1980 (First time) (7007547128000000000♠1 year, 268 days) 000000001987-03-26-000026 March 1987 (Second time) (7008133401600000000♠4 years, 83 days) 000000001996-05-20-000020 May 1996 (Third time) (7008157161600000000♠4 years, 358 days)
	V.S. Achuthanandan		000000002006-05-18-000018 May 2006 (7008157420800000000♠4 years, 361 days)
	Pinarayi Vijayan		000000002016-05-25-000025 May 2016 (7007169344000000000♠196 days)
Tripura^[2]	Nripen Chakraborty	–	000000001978-01-05-00005 January 1978 (7008318254400000000♠10 years, 31 days)
	Dasarath Deb	–	000000001993-04-10-000010 April 1993 (7008155174400000000♠4 years, 335 days)
	Manik Sarkar		000000001998-03-11-000011 March 1998 (7008591451200000000♠18 years, 271 days)
West Bengal	Jyoti Basu		000000001977-06-21-000021 June 1977 (7008737748000000000♠23 years, 138 days)
West Bengal	Buddhadeb Bhattacharya		000000002000-11-06-00006 November 2000 (7008331819200000000♠10 years, 188 days)

References

↑ 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.
↑ "Tripura Legislative Assembly".

↑ Before the split in the Communist Party of India in 1964, E.M.S. Namboodiripad had served as Chief Minister of Kerala 1957-1959 whilst being a CPI leader

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