Examination of the performance of fixed parameter controllers has resulted in the development of pole shifting strategies for speed governor control of multimachine power system. For a pole shifting controller design an input signal is incorporated in the self tuner. This input signal is of a composite output term of the terminal voltage and the rotor speed deviation of each generating unit. The control is based on a criterion which automatically generates a pole-shifting factor to shift the closed loop poles of the system towards the origin in the z domain without violating the control constraints. The pole-shifting factor is depicted on line at each sampling instant depending on the error measurements of the terminal voltage of each generating unit. The output of the pole shifting controller is fed in the summing point of the speed governor of each unit of the multimachine power system. Digital simulations of a 9 bus, 3 machine of a multimachine power system are performed and the comparisons of conventional governor control and self tuning control performances are presented. Nonlinear digital simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed technique to damp out the oscillation and work effectively over a wide range of loading conditions.