From Sukumar Sen To Rajiv Kumar, here is the list of Chief Election Commissioners of India

Updated: Monday, May 16, 2022, 10:06 [IST]

New Delhi, May 16: Rajiv Kumar, the senior-most member of the Election Commission, on Sunday took charge as Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India.

From Sukumar Sen To Rajiv Kumar, here is the list of Chief Election Commissioners of India — Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar

He has been serving in ECI as Election Commissioner since September 1, 2020. He is the 25th Chief Election Commissioner of the country.

Here is the list of 25 Chief Election Commissioners of the country:

Chief Election Commissioner of India		Tenure
S.No.	Name	From	To
1	Sukumar Sen	21 March 1950	19 December 1958
2	K. V. K. Sundaram	20 December 1958	30 September 1967
3	S. P. Sen Verma	1 October 1967	30 September 1972
4	Dr. Nagendra Singh	1 October 1972	6 February 1973
5	T. Swaminathan	7 February 1973	17 June 1977
6	S. L. Shakdhar	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	J. M. 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	H. S. Brahma	16 January 2015	18 April 2015
20	Dr. 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	Incumbent