Chief Election Commissioners of India

The following is the list of held the post of the Chief Election Commissioner of India with duration details:

	Chief Election Commissioners	Held the post
1	Sukumar Sen	21-Mar-1950 to 19-Dec-1958
2	K. V. K. Sundaram	20-Dec-1958 to 30-Sep-1967
3	S. P. Sen Verma	1-Oct-1967 to 30-Sep-1972
4	Dr. Nagendra Singh	1-Oct-1972 to 6-Feb-1973
5	T. Swaminathan	7-Feb-1973 to 17-Jun-1977
6	S. L. Shakdhar	18-Jun-1977 to 17-Jun-1982
7	R. K. Trivedi	18-Jun-1982 to 31-Dec-1985
8	R. V. S. Peri Sastri	1-Jan-1986 to 25-Nov-1990
9	V. S. Ramadevi	26-Nov-1990 to 11-Dec-1990
10	T. N. Seshan	12-Dec-1990 to 11-Dec-1996
11	M. S. Gill	12-Dec-1996 to 13-Jun-2001
12	J. M. Lyngdoh	14-Jun-2001 to 7-Feb-2004
13	T. S. Krishnamurthy	8-Feb-2004 to 15-May-2005
14	B. B. Tandon	16-May-2005 to 29-Jun-2006
15	N. Gopalaswami	30-Jun-2006 to 20-Apr-2009
16	Navin Chawla	21-Apr-2009 to 29-Jul-2010
17	Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi	30-Jul-2010 – till date