Introduction
Indian Chief Election Commissioners article present the list of Chief Election Commissioners (CEC) of India from 1950 to till date. This article plays a prominent role in GA/GK preparation in many competitive exams.
CEC
The Chief Election Commissioner heads the Election Commission of India, a body constitutionally empowered to conduct free and fair elections to the national and state legislatures and of President and Vice-President. Chief Election Commissioner of India is usually a member of the Indian Civil Service and mostly from the Indian Administrative Service. It is very difficult to remove the authority of the Chief Election Commissioner once elected by the president, as two-thirds of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha need to vote against him for disorderly conduct or improper actions.
Below table contains the list of Chief Election Commissioners of India:
| Name | Term of Office | |
|---|---|---|
| Took Office | Left Office | |
| Sukumar Sen | 21 March 1950 | 19 December 1958 |
| Kalyan Sundaram | 20 December 1958 | 30 September 1967 |
| SP Sen Verma | 1 October 1967 | 30 September 1972 |
| Nagendra Singh | 1 October 1972 | 6 February 1973 |
| T. Swaminathan | 7 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 |
| V. S. Ramadevi | 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 | 07 February 2004 |
| T. S. Krishnamurthy | 08 February 2004 | 15 May 2005 |
| B. B. Tandon | 16 May 2005 | 29 June 2006 |
| N. Gopalaswami | 30 June 2006 | 20 April 2009 |
| Navin Chawla | 21 April 2009 | 29 July 2010 |
| Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi | 30 July 2010 | 10 June 2012 |
| V. S. Sampath | 10 June 2012 | 15 January 2015 |
| Hari Shankar Brahma | 16 January 2015 | 18 April 2015 |
| Dr. Nasim Zaidi | 19 April 2015 | 06 May 2015 |
| Achal Kumar Jyoti | 06 July 2017 | 22 January 2018 |
| Om Prakash Rawat | 23 January 2018 | Till date |