List of governors of Sikkim

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

Powers and functions

The Governor enjoys many different types of powers:

Executive powers related to administration, appointments and removals,
Legislative powers related to lawmaking and the state legislature, that is Vidhan Sabha or Vidhan Parishad, and
Discretionary powers to be carried out according to the discretion of the Governor.

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	B.B. Lal	16 May 1975	9 January 1981
2	Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan	10 January 1981	17 June 1984
3	Kona Prabhakar Rao	18 June 1984	30 May 1985
4	Bhishma Narain Singh (additional charge)	31 May 1985	20 November 1985
5	T.V. Rajeswar	21 January 1985	1 March 1989
6	S.K. Bhatnagar	2 March 1989	7 February 1990
7	Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani	8 February 1990	20 September 1994
8	P. Shiv Shankar	21 September 1994	11 November 1995
9	K.V. Raghunatha Reddy (additional charge)	12 November 1995	9 February 1996
10	Chaudhary Randhir Singh	10 February 1996	17 May 2001
11	Kidar Nath Sahani	18 May 2001	25 October 2002
12	V. Rama Rao	26 October 2002	12 July 2006
13	R.S. Gavai (acting)	13 July 2006	12 August 2006
14	V. Rama Rao	13 August 2006	25 October 2007
15	Sudarshan Agarwal	25 October 2007	8 July 2008
16	Balmiki Prasad Singh	9 July 2008	30 June 2013
17	Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil^[1]	1 July 2013	Incumbent