Chief Election Commissioners of India From 1950 to till date

1.	Sukumar Sen	21 March 1950 to 19 December 1958
2.	KVK Sundaram	20 December 1958 to 30 September 1967
3.	SP Sen Verma	1 October 1967 to 30 September 1972
4.	Dr Nagendra Singh	1 October 1972 to 6 February 1973
5.	T Swaminathan	7 February 1973 to 17 June 1977
6.	SL Shakdhar	18 June 1977 to 17 June 1982
7.	RK Trivedi	18 June 1982 to 31 December 1985
8.	RVS Peri Sastri	1 January 1986 to 25 November 1990
9.	Smt VS Ramadevi	26 November 1990 to 11 December 1990
10.	T.N. Seshan	12 December 1990 to 11 December 1996
11.	MS Gill	12 December 1996 to 13 June 2001
12.	JM Lyngdoh	14 June 2001 to 7 February 2004
13.	TS Krishna Murthy	8 February 2004 to 15 May 2005
14.	BB Tandon	16 May 2005 - 29 June 2006
15.	N Gopalaswami	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 - 07 August 2012
19.	Dr. Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi	07 August 2012 - Incumbent