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Governor of Karnataka
Incumbent Vajubhai Vala since 1 September 2014
Residence	Raj Bhavan, Bengaluru
Appointer	President of India
Term length	Five years
Inaugural holder	Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
Formation	1 November 1956
Website	www.rajbhavan.kar.nic.in

The Governor of Karnataka is the constitutional head of each of the south Indian state of Karnataka. The governor is appointed by the President of India for a term of five years, and holds office at the President's pleasure. The governor is de jure head of the Government of Karnataka; all its executive actions are taken in the governor's name. However, the governor must act on the advice of the popularly elected council of ministers, headed by the Chief Minister of Karnataka, which thus holds de facto executive authority in the state. The Constitution of India also empowers the governor to act upon his or her own discretion, such as the ability to appoint or dismiss a ministry, recommend President's rule, or reserve bills for the President's assent. Over the years, the exercise of these discretionary powers have given rise to conflict between the elected chief minister and the central government–appointed governor.^[1]

Since 1956, eighteen people have served as the Governor of Mysore (as the state was known before 1 November 1973) and Karnataka. The first was Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, previously the Maharaja of Mysore (1940–50) and the Rajpramukh of Mysore (1950–56). A majority of Karnataka's governors have been politicians (ten), another five have been civil servants. V. V. Giri went on become the fourth President of India, and Gopal Swarup Pathak the country's fourth Vice President.

Governors of Mysore and Karnataka

No	Name		Term of office		Selected former office(s)
1		Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar	1 November 1957	4 May 1963	Maharaja of Mysore, Rajpramukh of Mysore
2		S. M. Shrinagesh	4 May 1963	2 April 1965	Chief of the Army Staff
3		V. V. Giri	2 April 1965	13 May 1967
4		Gopal Swarup Pathak	13 May 1967	30 August 1969	Fourth Vice-President of India
5		Padma Vibhushan Sir Dharma Vira	23 October 1970	1 February 1972	Governor of Punjab, Haryana, and Bengal
6		Chief Minister Mohanlal Sukhadia	1 February 1972	10 January 1975	Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu
7		Uma Shankar Dikshit	10 January 1975	2 August 1977	Governor of Bengal and the Minister of Home Affairs
8		Govind Narain ICS	2 August 1977	15 April 1982	First and the only member of the Imperial Civil Service to have been appointed and served as Governor of Karnataka
9		Ashoknath Banerji IAS	16 April 1982	25 February 1987	First member of the Indian Administrative Service to have served in this office
10		Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah	26 February 1987	5 February 1990	Governor of Bihar, Minister of Home and Parliamentary Affairs
11		Bhanu Pratap Singh	8 May 1990	6 January 1992	Member of Parliament
12		Khurshed Alam Khan	6 January 1992	2 December 1999	Member of Parliament, Governor of Goa
13		Commissioner V. S. Ramadevi	2 December 1999	20 August 2002	Chief Election Commissioner of India, Secretary General of Rajya Sabha, Governor of Himachal Pradesh, the first and only female governor of Karnataka
14		Padma Vibhushan Auditor General T. N. Chaturvedi IAS	21 August 2002	20 August 2007	Comptroller and Auditor General of India
15		Rameshwar Thakur	21 August 2007	24 June 2009	Governor of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh
16		Hans Raj Bhardwaj	24 June 2009	29 June 2014	Union Minister of Law and Justice, Governor of Kerala
17		Konijeti Rosaiah	30 June 2014	31 August 2014	Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Governor of Tamil Nadu
18		Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala	1 September 2014	Incumbent	Speaker of Gujarat Vidhan Sabha

References

External links

• [1]


• Succession of Governors


• Karnataka Raj Bhavan Website