How many people have been elected so far?
(And name them while you're at it!)

by Maurice Y. Michaud (he/him)

Edith Blanche Rogers (1894–1985)
© Photo 1935 — Public domain

Have you ever wondered how many people have been elected to Parliament or the legislative assemblies since they've been in existence? Well, maybe you haven't, but I have! And it's 14,277 persons — 12,920 men, 1,352 women, and 5 persons identifying as non-binary. Among them, 4,549 are (or are believed to be) still alive: 3,406 men, 1,138 women, and all non-binary individuals.

Although they are not legion, some people never sat in the legislature to which they were elected. A few examples:

• Percival Baker (1867–1921) was the elected United Farmers of Alberta candidate in Ponoka in the 1921 general election, but he had had an accident while chopping down trees on his farm three weeks prior to the election and he died the day after his election.
   
• Théodore-Louis-Antoine Broët (1870–1908), a Québec Liberal born in France, was elected in Lac-Saint-Jean in the 1908 general election, but he died on September 14, 1908, before the first sitting of the 12th assembly.
   
• Ann Sloat (1928–2017) was elected as the Progressive Conservative MPP in a December 1984 by-election in Wentworth North, but the Ontario legislature was not in session and she lost the seat in the 1985 general election.

These people are still part of this count.

The following interactive table shows how many people have been elected to each legislature.

• The number in an F (Federal) or P (Provincial/Territorial) cell for each jurisdiction leads to the corresponding list of people.
  • Numbers in the first row for a jurisdiction lead to the full list.
  • Those in the second row lead to only those who are still alive.
• However, for the last row (Total), only the F cells are active and lead to the corresponding list of people.
• Finally, the "Diff." rows at the end of the table adjust the counts so that the same person is counted only once.

Parliamentarian list

Here is the list of the elected people meeting the following search criteria.

Jurisdiction	British Columbia
Level	Federal
Gender	♀ Women
Alive	⊕ Yes
Results	38

Elected members
Legend }					✓ In office: 11  PAR  Party and year at first election
Who					First election
1.	♀	⊕		Lisa Marie Barron ✓	NDP	2021	Nanaimo—Ladysmith
2.	♀	⊕		Catherine Bell	NDP	2006	Vancouver Island North
3.	♀	⊕		Dawn Black	NDP	1988	New Westminster—Burnaby
4.	♀	⊕		Rachel A. Blaney ✓	NDP	2015	North Island—Powell River
5.	♀	⊕		Dona Cadman	CPC	2008	Surrey North
6.	♀	⊕		Kim Campbell	PC	1988	Vancouver Centre
7.	♀	⊕		Laurel Collins ✓	NDP	2019	Victoria
8.	♀	⊕		Mary Collins	PC	1984	Capilano
9.	♀	⊕		Jean A. Crowder	NDP	2004	Nanaimo—Cowichan
10.	♀	⊕		Libby Davies	NDP	1997	Vancouver East
11.	♀	⊕		Kerry-Lynne Findlay ✓	CPC	2011	Delta—Richmond East
12.	♀	⊕		Hedy M. Fry ✓	LIB	1993	Vancouver Centre
13.	♀	⊕		Pamela Goldsmith-Jones	LIB	2015	West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country
14.	♀	⊕		Tracy Gray ✓	CPC	2019	Kelowna—Lake Country
15.	♀	⊕		Nina Grewal	CPC	2004	Fleetwood—Port Kells
16.	♀	⊕		Sharon R. Hayes	REF	1993	Port Moody—Coquitlam
17.	♀	⊕		Betty Zane Hinton	CA	2000	Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys
18.	♀	⊕		Lynn Hunter	NDP	1988	Saanich—Gulf Islands
19.	♀	⊕		Tamara N. Jansen	CPC	2019	Cloverdale—Langley City
20.	♀	⊕		Daphne G. Jennings	REF	1993	Mission—Coquitlam
21.	♀	⊕		Jenny Kwan ✓	NDP	2015	Vancouver East
22.	♀	⊕		M.R. Sophia Leung	LIB	1997	Vancouver Kingsway
23.	♀	⊕		Sheila Malcolmson	NDP	2015	Nanaimo—Ladysmith
24.	♀	⊕		Elizabeth E. May ✓	GRN	2011	Saanich—Gulf Islands
25.	♀	⊕		Cathy McLeod	CPC	2008	Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo
26.	♀	⊕		Val Meredith	REF	1993	Surrey—White Rock—South Langley
27.	♀	⊕		Joyce Murray ✓	LIB	2008	Vancouver Quadra
28.	♀	⊕		Penny Priddy	NDP	2006	Surrey North
29.	♀	⊕		Carla D. Qualtrough ✓	LIB	2015	Delta
30.	♀	⊕		Denise Savoie	NDP	2006	Victoria
31.	♀	⊕		Nelly Shin	CPC	2019	Port Moody—Coquitlam
32.	♀	⊕		Jinny Sims	NDP	2011	Newton—North Delta
33.	♀	⊕		Anna Marina Terrana	LIB	1993	Vancouver East
34.	♀	⊕		Dianne Watts	CPC	2015	South Surrey—White Rock
35.	♀	⊕		Jody Wilson-Raybould	LIB	2015	Vancouver Granville
36.	♀	⊕		Alice Wong	CPC	2008	Richmond
37.	♀	⊕		Wai Young	CPC	2011	Vancouver South
38.	♀	⊕		Bonita Zarrillo ✓	NDP	2021	Port Moody—Coquitlam