Chief Election Commissioners of India (1950-2022)
In government exams like SSC, Banking, Railways, etc we find many questions from the Indian Polity section. This section is a part of the general awareness paper. Here we are going to provide comprehensive coverage of this section so that students can learn and get most of the questions correct in this section. In this article, we will provide the list of Chief Election Commissioners of India.
Election Commission: An Introduction
- Article 324 of the Constitution enumerates the powers and functions of the Electoral Commission of India. The Chief Election Commissioner is appointed by the President and can only be expelled by Two-Third of the members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha combined.
- The Chief Election Commissioner’s salary is the same as that of the Supreme Court Justice, almost 2.5 lakh per month.
- India’s Chief Election Commissioner serves a term of 6 years or 65 years, whichever comes first. The Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC) is usually a member of the Indian Civil Service and most often the Indian Administrative Service.
Here is the list of Chief Election Commissioners of India:
Serial No.
|
Name
|
Tenure
|
1 |
Sukumar Sen |
21 March 1950 – 19 December 1958 |
2 |
Kalyan Sundaram |
20 December 1958 – 30 September 1967 |
3 |
S. P. Sen Verma |
1 October 1967 – 30 September 1972 |
4 |
Nagendra Singh |
1 October 1972 – 6 February 1973 |
5 |
T. Swaminathan |
7 February 1973 – 17 June 1977 |
6 |
S.L. Shakdher |
18 June 1977 – 17 June 1982 |
7 |
R.K Trivedi |
18 June 1982 – 31 December 1985 |
8 |
R.V.S Peri Sastri |
1 January 1986 – 25 November 1990 |
9 |
V.S. Ramadevi |
26 November 1990 – 11 December 1990 |
10 |
T.N Seshan |
12 December 1990 – 11 December 1996 |
11 |
M.S Gill |
12 December 1996 – 13 June 2001 |
12 |
James Michael Lyngdoh |
14 June 2001 – 7 February 2004 |
13 |
T. S. Krishnamurthy |
8 February 2004 – 15 May 2005 |
14 |
B. B. 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. Quraishi |
30 July 2010 – 10 June 2012 |
18 |
V. S. Sampath |
11 June 2012 – 15 January 2015 |
19 |
Harishankar Brahma |
16 January 2015 – 18 April 2015 |
20 |
Nasim Zaidi |
19 April 2015 – 5 July 2017 |
21 |
Achal Kumar Jyoti |
6 July 2017 – 22 January 2018 |
22 |
Om Prakash Rawat |
23 January 2018 – 1 December 2018 |
23 |
Sunil Arora |
2 December 2018 – 12 April 2021 |
24 |
Sushil Chandra |
13 April 2021 – 14 May 2022 |
25 |
Rajiv Kumar |
15 May 2022 – Present |
Last Updated :
27 Nov, 2022
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