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Chief Election Commissioners of India and the year their term began: GK quiz

15 questions, each built from one row of the official list below — the correct option is that row exactly as the source prints it, and the wrong options are other rows of the same list. No AI wrote these questions. Free: your first 2 answers need no account, then sign up free to finish; your answers are not saved anywhere.

Source: Election Commission of India - Former CEC/EC ↗ · read on 27 Oct 2026 · the page says: Site footer: Last Updated: October 15, 2026

  1. Question 1 of 15

    In which year did T Swaminathan become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  2. Question 2 of 15

    In which year did Mr. J.M. Lyngdoh become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  3. Question 3 of 15

    In which year did Mr. B.B. Tandon become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  4. Question 4 of 15

    In which year did Sh. A K Joti become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  5. Question 5 of 15

    In which year did Shri V.S.Sampath become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  6. Question 6 of 15

    In which year did Navin B. Chawla become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  7. Question 7 of 15

    In which year did SP Sen Verma become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  8. Question 8 of 15

    In which year did TN Seshan become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  9. Question 9 of 15

    In which year did RK Trivedi become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  10. Question 10 of 15

    In which year did Mr. Sushil Chandra become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  11. Question 11 of 15

    In which year did Dr. Nasim Zaidi become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  12. Question 12 of 15

    In which year did Shri. H.S.Brahma become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  13. Question 13 of 15

    In which year did Mr. Sunil Arora become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  14. Question 14 of 15

    In which year did KVK Sundaram become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

  15. Question 15 of 15

    In which year did Mr. T.S. Krishna Murthy become Chief Election Commissioner of India?

The official list (25 rows)

Chief Election CommissionerYear term began
Sukumar Sen1950
KVK Sundaram1958
SP Sen Verma1967
Dr Nagendra Singh1972
T Swaminathan1973
SL Shakdhar1977
RK Trivedi1982
RVS Peri Sastri1986
Smt VS Ramadevi1990
TN Seshan1990
Dr. MS Gill1996
Mr. J.M. Lyngdoh2001
Mr. T.S. Krishna Murthy2004
Mr. B.B. Tandon2005
Mr. N. Gopalaswami2006
Navin B. Chawla2009
Dr. S.Y.Quraishi2010
Shri V.S.Sampath2012
Shri. H.S.Brahma2015
Dr. Nasim Zaidi2015
Sh. A K Joti2017
Mr. O. P. Rawat2018
Mr. Sunil Arora2018
Mr. Sushil Chandra2021
Shri Rajiv Kumar2022

Left out or changed by Shishya: Only the 25 former CECs printed on the page (Sukumar Sen '21 March 1950 to 19 December 1958' ... Shri Rajiv Kumar '15 May 2022 to 18 February 2025'). The serving CEC is not on this page and could not be read from an ECI page (client-rendered), so not included. Names kept exactly as printed, including honorifics (Mr., Shri, Dr., Smt). Reverse null because start years repeat (1990, 2015, 2018).

Names and spellings are kept as the source prints them. Spotted a change on the official page? The list is re-read from the source, never from other sites.

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