List of all Chief Election Commissioners and Election Commissioners of India (1950-2025)

The election committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed Gyanesh Kumar as India’s new chief election commissioner (CEC). He will replace Rajiv Kumar, who will retire on Tuesday at the age of 65.

Rajiv Kumar played a CEC role in May 2022 and played a crucial role in overseeing key elections, including the 2024 Lok Sabha poll and multiple state parliamentary elections. His tenure focuses on enhancing election transparency and encouraging more voters to participate. With his retirement, Gyanesh Kumar will now be in charge of the Election Commission of India (ECI), introducing new leadership.

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Election Commissioner Shri Gyanesh Kumar was appointed as India’s chief election commissioner, effective at 19.02.25#ECI #cec pic.twitter.com/nhfvrxti43

– Spokesperson ECI (@spokespersoneci) February 17, 2025

India’s Chief Election Commissioner – Briefing

The Chief Election Commissioner of India is the head of the Election Commission of India. The President of India appoints the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India, whose term is 6 years or up to 65 years, whichever is earlier. CEC in India is usually a member of the Indian civil service system and is mainly derived from Indian administrative services.

According to the 1991 Election Commission (the conditions of service and conditions of commercial transactions of the Election Commission), the Chief Election Commissioner’s salary is the same as the judge of the Supreme Court of India. Currently, the CEC salary is Rs 2.5 lakh per month.

It is difficult to be the chief election commissioner who was once appointed by the President of India, as two-thirds of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members need to vote against the CEC for misconduct or misconduct.

List of all chief election commissioners in India

India’s chief election specialist		term of office
s.no.	Name	from	arrive
1	Sukumar sen	March 21, 1950	December 19, 1958
2	KVK Sundaram	December 20, 1958	September 30, 1967
3	SP Sen Verma	October 1, 1967	September 30, 1972
4	Dr. Nagendra Singh	October 1, 1972	February 6, 1973
5	T. Swaminathan	February 7, 1973	June 17, 1977
6	SL Shakdhar	June 18, 1977	June 17, 1982
7	RK Trivedi	June 18, 1982	December 31, 1985
8	RVS Peri Sastri	January 1, 1986	November 25, 1990
9	VS Ramadevi	November 26, 1990	December 11, 1990
10	TN Seshan	See more : Picture Puzzle IQ Test: Can You Spot The Mug Of Hot Chocolate In 5 Seconds? December 12, 1990	December 11, 1996
11.	Ms. Jill	December 12, 1996	June 13, 2001
12	JM lyngdoh	June 14, 2001	February 7, 2004
13	TS Krishnamurthy	February 8, 2004	May 15, 2005
14	BB Tandon	May 16, 2005	June 29, 2006
15	N. Gopalaswami	June 30, 2006	April 20, 2009
16	Navin Chawla	April 21, 2009	July 29, 2010
17	sy quraishi	July 30, 2010	June 10, 2012
18	vs Sampath	June 11, 2012	January 15, 2015
19	HS Brahma	January 16, 2015	April 18, 2015
20	Dr. Nasim Zaidi	April 19, 2015	July 5, 2017
twenty one	Achal Kumar Jyoti	July 6, 2017	January 22, 2018
See more : Visual Test: If you have 50/50 Vision Find the Number 16 among 15 in 15 Secs twenty two	Om Prakash Rawat	January 23, 2018	December 1, 2018
twenty three	Sunil Arora	December 2, 2018	April 12, 2021
twenty four	Sushil Chandra	April 13, 2021	May 14, 2022
25	Rajiv Kumar	May 15, 2022	February 18, 2025
26	Shri Gyanesh Kumar	February 19, 2025	January 26, 2029

Indian Election Commissioner – Briefing

Until October 1989, the committee was a member body, but later adopted a parliamentary bill to add two other election commissioners. Therefore, the Election Commission is currently composed of the Chief Election Commissioner and two other Election Commissioners. The decision of the committee was made by a majority vote.

history

The committee originally had only one chief election commissioner in 1950. On October 16, 1989, two other committees were appointed for the first time, but they had little solution to the constitutional work, so the President issued a notice on January 1, 1990 to abolish the ECS post. The Government once again made the Election Commission a three-person agency on October 1, 1993. The 1989 Election Commissioner Amendment made the Commission a multi-member body. Since then, the concept of a three-person committee has been operating, making decisions with a majority vote. The official website was launched on February 28, 1998.

List of all election commissioners in India

Indian Election Specialist		term of office
s.no.	Name	from	arrive
1	vs seigell	October 16, 1989	January 2, 1990
2	SS Dhanoa	October 16, 1989	January 2, 1990
3	gvg krishnamurty	October 1, 1993	September 30, 1999
4	Ashok Lavasa	October 23, 2018	August 31, 2020
5	Anup Chandra Pandey	June 9, 2021	February 14, 2024
6	Arun Goel	November 21, 2022	March 9, 2024

Who is Gyanesh Kumar?

Source: Indian Election Commission

Gyanesh Kumar is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) official in 1988 for Kerala cadres. He owns B.Tech of Civil Engineering at IIT Kanpur and further studies commercial financing at ICFAI, Environmental Economics at Harvard University in India and the United States.

Throughout his career, he has held several key positions in the Kerala government, including Assistant Collector of Ernakulam, Sub-collector of Adoor and Ena Collector of Ernakulam. He has also served as MD at SC/ST, Kerala State Cooperative Bank and the Kerala National Development Corporation of the Trivandrum Airport Development Association. In addition, he is also the Municipal Commissioner, Director of Industry and Commerce in Cochin, Secretary of Goshree Islands Development Authority and Project Director of Kerala Transportation Projects. He also served as the resident commissioner of the House of Representatives of Kerala, New Delhi.

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