List of governors of Sikkim

Governor of Sikkim
Emblem of Sikkim
Incumbent Om Prakash Mathur since 31 July 2024
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhavan, Gangtok
Appointer	President of India
Term length	At the pleasure of the president
Inaugural holder	B. B. Lal
Formation	18 May 1975; 51 years ago (1975-05-18)
Website	rajbhavansikkim.gov.in

This is a list of the governors of Sikkim, a state in northeast India.

British Political Officers

• May 1889 - Mar 1908 John Claude White (b. 1853 - d. 1918)
• May 1904 - Sep 1904 Charles Alfred Bell (b. 1870 - d. 1945)

• Sep 1906 - Jan 1907 Charles Alfred Bell (s.a.)

• Mar 1908 - 16 Apr 1918 Charles Alfred Bell (1st time) (s.a.)
• 10 Aug 1911 – 8 Nov 1911 James Leslie Rose Weir (b. 1883 - d. 1950)

• 13 Oct 1913 – 5 Oct 1914 Basil John Gould (b. 1883 - d. 1956)

• 16 Apr 1918 - Jan 1920 William Lachlan Campbell (b. 1880 - d. 1937)

• Jan 1920 - Dec 1920 Charles Alfred Bell (2nd time) (s.a.)
• 7 Dec 1920 – 24 Jan 1921 John Bartley (acting) (b. 1886 - d. 1954)
• Jan 1921 - Mar 1921 William Frederick Travers O'Connor (b. 1870 - d. 1943)

• Mar 1921 – 18 Jun 1921 David Macdonald (b. 1870 - d. 1962)
• 19 Jun 1921 – 6 Jun 1926 Frederick Marshman Bailey (b. 1882 - d. 1967)

• 7 Jun 1926 - 16 Dec 1926 Frederick Williamson (1st time) (b. 1891 - d. 1935)

• 16 Dec 1926 – 16 Oct 1928 Frederick Marshman Bailey (s.a.)

                            (2nd time)

• 16 Oct 1928 – 2 Apr 1931 James Leslie Rose Weir (1st time) (s.a.)
• 3 Apr 1931 - Aug 1931 Frederick Williamson (2nd time) (s.a.)

                            (acting)

• 5 Nov 1931 – 3 Jan 1933 James Leslie Rose Weir (2nd time) (s.a.)
• 4 Jan 1933 - 17 Nov 1935 Frederick Williamson (3rd time) (s.a.)
• 18 Nov 1935 – 22 Dec 1935 Richmond Keith Molesworth Battye (b. 1905 - d. 1958)

                            (acting)

• 22 Dec 1935 - May 1937 Basil John Gould (1st time) (s.a.)
• May 1937 - Nov 1937 Hugh Edward Richardson (acting) (b. 1905 - d. 2000)
• Nov 1937 - Jun 1945 Basil John Gould (2nd time) (s.a.)

• Jun 1945 - 14 Aug 1947 Arthur John Hopkinson (b. 1894 - d. 1953)

Indian Political Officers

• 15 Aug 1947 - Sep 1948 Arthur John Hopkinson (s.a.)
• Sep 1948 - Feb 1952 Harishwar Dayal (s.a.)
• Mar 1952 - Mar 1955 Balraj Krishna Kapur (b. 1910 - d. ....)
• 1955 - 1961 Apa Parshuram Rao Pant (b. 1912 - d. 1992)
• 23 Oct 1961 - 3 Jan 1964 Inder Jeet Bahadur Singh (b. 1914 - d. 1987)
• 3 Jan 1964 - 11 Feb 1964 J.L. Malhautra (acting) (b. 1915)
• 11 Feb 1964 - 1966 Avtar Singh (b. 1921)
• 1966 - 27 Jun 1967 Vincent Herbert Coelho (b. 1917 - d. 2004)
• 3 Jul 1967 - May 1970 Nedyam Balachandran Menon (b. 1921 - d. 2006)
• Aug 1970 - 19 Sep 1974 Kayatyani Shankar Bajpai (s.a.)
• 19 Sep 1974 - 16 May 1975 Gurbachan Singh

Governors of Sikkim

List of governors of Sikkim

#	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Term in Office	Home State	Appointed by
1.	B. B. Lal		18 May 1975	9 January 1981	5 years, 236 days	Not Known	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
2.	Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan		10 January 1981	17 June 1984	3 years, 159 days	Maharashtra	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
3.	Kona Prabhakar Rao		18 June 1984	30 May 1985	346 days	Andhra Pradesh	Zail Singh
–	Bhishma Narain Singh		31 May 1985	20 November 1985	173 days	Jharkhand
4.	T.V. Rajeswar		21 November 1985	1 March 1989	3 years, 100 days	Tamil Nadu
5.	S.K. Bhatnagar		2 March 1989	7 February 1990	342 days	Not Known	R. Venkataraman
6.	Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani		8 February 1990	20 September 1994	4 years, 224 days	Maharashtra
7.	P. Shiv Shankar		21 September 1994	11 November 1995	355 days	Andhra Pradesh	Shankar Dayal Sharma
–	K.V. Raghunatha Reddy		12 November 1995	9 February 1996	89 days
8.	Chaudhary Randhir Singh		10 February 1996	17 May 2001	5 years, 96 days	Haryana
9.	Kidar Nath Sahani		18 May 2001	25 October 2002	1 year, 160 days	Delhi	K. R. Narayan
10.	V. Rama Rao		26 October 2002	12 July 2006	3 years, 259 days	Andhra Pradesh	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
—	R.S. Gavai		13 July 2006	12 August 2006	30 days	Maharashtra
(10).	V. Rama Rao		13 August 2006	25 October 2007	1 year, 73 days	Andhra Pradesh
11.	Sudarshan Agarwal		25 October 2007	8 July 2008	257 days	Punjab	Pratibha Patil
12.	Balmiki Prasad Singh		9 July 2008	30 June 2013	4 years, 356 days	Bihar
13.	Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil		1 July 2013	26 August 2018	5 years, 56 days	Maharashtra	Pranab Mukherjee
14.	Ganga Prasad		26 August 2018	12 February 2023	4 years, 170 days	Bihar	Ramnath Kovind
15.	Lakshman Acharya		13 February 2023	30 July 2024	1 year, 168 days	Uttar Pradesh	Draupadi Murmu
16.	Om Prakash Mathur		31 July 2024	Incumbent	2 years, 83 days	Rajasthan

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