Chief Election Commissioners of India

Name                     Tenure
Sukumar Sen     21 March 1950-19 December 1958
K.V.K. Sundaram     20 December 1958-30 September 1967
S.P. Sen Verma     01 October 1967-30 September 1972
Dr Nagendra Singh     01 October 1972-6 February 1973
T. Swaminathan     07 February 1973-17 June 1977
S.L. Shakdhar     18 June 1977-17 June 1982
R.K. Trivedi     18 June 1982-31 December 1985
R.V.S. Peri Sastri     01 January 1986-25 November 1990
Smt V.S. Rama Devi     26 November 1990-11 December 1990
T.N. Seshan     12 December 1990-11 December 1996
M.S. Gill     12 December 1996-13 June 2001
J.M. Lyngdoh     14 June 2001 - 7 February 2004
T.S. Krishna Murthy     08 February 2004 - 15 May 2005
B.B. Tandon     16 May 2005 - 29 June 2006
N. Gopalaswamy     30 June 2006 - 20 April 2009
Navin Chawla     21 April 2009 - 29 July 2010
S.Y. Qureshi     30 July - Incumbent