S.No | Chief Election Commissioners | Term of Office |
1 | Sukumar Sen | 21 March 1950 – 19 December 1958 |
2 | K.V.K. Sundaram | 20 December 1958 – 30 September 1967 |
3 | S.P. Sen Verma | 01 October 1967 – 30 September 1972 |
4 | Dr. Nagendra Singh | 01 October 1972 – 6 February 1973 |
5 | T. Swaminathan | 07 February 1973 – 17 June 1977 |
6 | S.L. Shakdhar | 18 June 1977 –17 June 1982 |
7 | R.K. Trivedi | 18 June 1982 – 31 December 1985 |
8 | R.V.S. Peri Sastri | 01 January 1986 – 25 November 1990 |
9 | Smt V.S. Rama Devi | 26 November 1990 – 11 December 1990 |
10 | T.N. Seshan | 12 December 1990 – 11 December 1996 |
11 | M.S. Gill | 12 December 1996 –13 June 2001 |
12 | J.M. Lyngdoh | 14 June 2001 – 7 February 2004 |
13 | T.S. Krishna Murthy | 08 February 2004 –15 May 2005 |
14 | B.B. Tandon | 16 May 2005 – 29 June 2006 |
15 | N. Gopalaswamy | 30 June 2006 – 20 April 2009 |
16 | Navin Chawla | 21 April 2009 – 29 July 2010 |
17 | S.Y. Qureshi | 30 July 2010 – 10 June 2012 |
18 | V. S. Sampath | 11 June 2012 – 15 January 2015 |
19 | H.S.Brahma | 16 January 2015 –18 April 2015 |
20 | Dr. Nasim Zaidi | 19 April 2015 – 05 July 2017 |
21 | Shri A K Joti | 06 July 2017 – 22 January 2018 |
22 | Shri Om Prakash Rawat | 23 January 01– December 2018 |
23 | Shri Sunil Arora | 02 December 2018 – Incumbent |