List of Chief Election Commissioners of India

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