The Governor is directly elected by the people of the province for a four-year term.

The current governor of Tierra del Fuego is Gustavo Melella, elected in 2019.

[1] The office of Governor was created in 1884, when it was a position appointed by the Government of Argentina.

Argentina claims Argentine Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands as part of its territory (although these regions are governed as overseas territories of the United Kingdom) and in 1957 they were added to the National Territory of Tierra del Fuego (which became known as Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands).

On 17 May 1991, Tierra del Fuego became a full-fledged province of the Argentine Republic.