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Chief Election Commissioners of India - Summary

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. This power of the Election Commission of India is derived from the Article 324 of the Constitution of India. 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 appointed by the president, as two-thirds of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha need to present and vote against him for disorderly conduct or improper actions.

Here is the Complete list of 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 2010 – 10 June 2012
V. S. Sampath	11 June 2012 – 15 January 2015
H.S.Brahma	16 January 2015 – 18 April 2015
Dr. Nasim Zaidi	19 April 2015 – 05 July, 2017
Shri A K Joti	06 July, 2017 – 22 January, 2018
Shri Om Prakash Rawat	23 January, 01 December, 2018
Shri Sunil Arora	02 December, 2018 – Incumbent