List of Chief Election Commissioners
Name Took Office Left Office
1. Sukumar Sen 21 -03- 1950 19 -12- 1958
2. Kalyan Sundarar 20 -12- 1958 30 -09- 1967
3 . S. P. Sen Verm 1 -10- 1967 30 -09- 1972
4 . Nagendra Singh 1 -10- 1972 6 -02- 1973
5 . T. Swaminathan 7 -02- 1973 17 -06- 1977
6 . S. L. Shakdhar 18 -06- 1977 17 -06- 1982
7 . R. K. Trivedi 18 -06-1982 31 -12- 1985
8. R. V. S. Peri Sastr 1 -01 1986 25 -11- 1990
9. V. S. Ramadevi 26 -11-1990 11 -12- 1990
10 .T. N. Seshan 12 -12- 1990 11 -12- 1996
11. M. S. Gill 12 -12- 1996 13 -06- 2001
12 .J. M. Lyngdoh 14 -06- 2001 7 -02- 2004
12.T. S. Krishnamurthy 8 -02- 2004 15 -05- 2005
13.B. B. Tandon 16 -05- 2005 29 -06- 2006
14.N. Gopalaswami 30 -06-2006 20 -04- 2009
15.Navin Chawla 21 -04- 2009 29 -07- 2010
16. S. Y. Quraishi 30 -07- 2010 10 -06- 2012
17. V. S. Sampath 10-06- 2012 incumbent