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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:

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) 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.

Number of persons elected
F: Federal    P: Provincial/Territorial    T: Total    number in italic: Alive
Obtain the list of the persons behind these numbers by clicking on one under the F or P column (except Total row).
Juri. Total Men (M) Women (F) Non binary (X)
F P T F P T F P T F P T
9 AB 246
101		 984
409		 1,230
510		 228
85		 856
308		 1,084
393		 18
16		 127
100		 145
116		 0
0		 1
1		 1
1
8 BC 354
143		 972
326		 1,326
469		 308
105		 840
221		 1,148
326		 46
38		 132
105		 178
143		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0
11 MB 223
60		 889
233		 1,112
293		 208
47		 812
169		 1,020
216		 15
13		 76
63		 91
76		 0
0		 1
1		 1
1
3 NB 222
46		 930
237		 1,152
283		 212
39		 882
197		 1,094
236		 10
7		 48
40		 58
47		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0
7 NL 61
31		 391
213		 452
244		 54
25		 352
179		 406
204		 7
6		 39
34		 46
40		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0
2 NS 261
49		 828
235		 1,089
284		 250
40		 766
181		 1,016
221		 11
9		 61
53		 72
62		 0
0		 1
1		 1
1
14 NT 12
6		 158
113		 170
119		 10
5		 134
90		 144
95		 2
1		 24
23		 26
24		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0
13 NU 5
5		 85
77		 90
82		 1
1		 67
60		 68
61		 4
4		 18
17		 22
21		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0
15 NW 14
0		 82
0		 96
0		 14
0		 82
0		 96
0		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0
6 ON 1,589
411		 1,972
511		 3,561
922		 1,464
306		 1,805
367		 3,269
673		 125
105		 166
143		 291
248		 0
0		 1
1		 1
1
4 PE 75
13		 510
119		 585
132		 72
11		 474
89		 546
100		 3
2		 36
30		 39
32		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0
5 QC 1,285
376		 1,842
614		 3,127
990		 1,163
272		 1,648
441		 2,811
713		 122
104		 194
173		 316
277		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0
10 SK 222
57		 767
246		 989
303		 211
49		 705
195		 916
244		 11
8		 62
51		 73
59		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0
12 YT 12
5		 121
80		 133
85		 9
3		 92
57		 101
60		 3
2		 28
22		 31
24		 0
0		 1
1		 1
1
Total 4,581
1,303		 10,531
3,413		 15,112
4,716		 4,204
988		 9,515
2,554		 13,719
3,542		 377
315		 1,011
854		 1,388
1,169		 0
0		 5
5		 5
5
Diff. -835
-167		 14,277
4,549
31.9%		 Diff. -799
-136		 12,920
3,406
26.4%		 Diff. -36
-31		 1,352
1,138
84.2%		 Diff. 0
0		 5
5
100.0%
This table counts the number of persons elected to a legislature. A person elected to more than one legislature is counted for each one, but the total is then ajusted.

While the relatively small number elected women is glaring, it is interesting to note that most of them (84.2%) are still alive compared to the average (31.9%). Even though women have had the right to vote for a bit more than a century in most jurisdictions, they only started to be elected in more significant numbers to legislative assemblies in the 1980s, and parity with men is still very far from being achieved.

Parliamentarian list

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

Jurisdiction British Columbia
Level Provincial
Gender ♀ Women
Alive ⊕ Yes
Results 105
Elected members
Legend } ✓ In office: 37
 PAR  Party and year at first election
Who First election
1. ♀ ⊕ Pam Alexis ✓  NDP  2020 Abbotsford-Mission
2. ♀ ⊕ Brittny Anderson ✓  NDP  2020 Nelson-Creston
3. ♀ ⊕ Suzanne Anton  LIB  2013 Vancouver-Fraserview
4. ♀ ⊕ Michele Babchuk ✓  NDP  2020 North Island
5. ♀ ⊕ Brenda Bailey ✓  NDP  2020 Vancouver-False Creek
6. ♀ ⊕ Donna Barnett  LIB  2009 Cariboo-Chilcotin
7. ♀ ⊕ Lisa Beare ✓  NDP  2017 Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows
8. ♀ ⊕ Dawn Black  NDP  2009 New Westminster
9. ♀ ⊕ Shirley Bond ✓  LIB  2001 Prince George-Mount Robson
10. ♀ ⊕ Lois Boone  NDP  1986 Prince George North
11. ♀ ⊕ Elayne Brenzinger  LIB  2001 Surrey-Whalley
12. ♀ ⊕ Gretchen Brewin  NDP  1991 Victoria-Beacon Hill
13. ♀ ⊕ Susan Brice  LIB  2001 Saanich South
14. ♀ ⊕ Stephanie Cadieux  LIB  2009 Surrey-Panorama
15. ♀ ⊕ Kim Campbell  SC  1986 Vancouver-Point Grey
16. ♀ ⊕ Susie Chant ✓  NDP  2020 North Vancouver-Seymour
17. ♀ ⊕ Katrina Chen ✓  NDP  2017 Burnaby-Lougheed
18. ♀ ⊕ Ida Chong  LIB  1996 Oak Bay-Gordon Head
19. ♀ ⊕ Christy Clark  LIB  1996 Port Moody-Burnaby Mountain
20. ♀ ⊕ Katrine Conroy ✓  NDP  2005 West Kootenay-Boundary
21. ♀ ⊕ Barbara Copping  NDP  1991 Port Moody-Burnaby Mountain
22. ♀ ⊕ Kathy Corrigan  NDP  2009 Burnaby-Deer Lake
23. ♀ ⊕ Elizabeth Cull  NDP  1989 Oak Bay-Gordon Head
24. ♀ ⊕ Judy Darcy  NDP  2013 New Westminster
25. ♀ ⊕ Mitzi Dean ✓  NDP  2017 Esquimalt-Metchosin
26. ♀ ⊕ Megan Dykeman ✓  NDP  2020 Langley East
27. ♀ ⊕ Mable Elmore ✓  NDP  2009 Vancouver-Kensington
28. ♀ ⊕ Sonia Furstenau ✓  GRN  2017 Cowichan Valley
29. ♀ ⊕ Evelyn Gillespie  NDP  1996 Comox Valley
30. ♀ ⊕ Carol Gran  SC  1986 Langley
31. ♀ ⊕ Kelly Greene ✓  NDP  2020 Richmond-Steveston
32. ♀ ⊕ Sue Hammell  NDP  1991 Surrey-Green Timbers
33. ♀ ⊕ Vicki Huntington  IND  2009 Delta South
34. ♀ ⊕ Olga Ilich  LIB  2005 Richmond Centre
35. ♀ ⊕ Joan Isaacs  LIB  2017 Coquitlam-Burke Mountain
36. ♀ ⊕ Carole James  NDP  2005 Victoria-Beacon Hill
37. ♀ ⊕ Rita Johnston  SC  1983 Surrey
38. ♀ ⊕ Anne Kang ✓  NDP  2017 Burnaby-Deer Lake
39. ♀ ⊕ Maurine Karagianis  NDP  2005 Esquimalt-Metchosin
40. ♀ ⊕ Karin Kirkpatrick ✓  LIB  2020 West Vancouver-Capilano
41. ♀ ⊕ Jenny Kwan  NDP  1996 Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
42. ♀ ⊕ Linda Larson  LIB  2013 Boundary-Similkameen
43. ♀ ⊕ Ronna-Rae Leonard ✓  NDP  2017 Courtenay-Comox
44. ♀ ⊕ Brenda Locke  LIB  2001 Surrey-Green Timbers
45. ♀ ⊕ Margaret Lord  NDP  1991 Comox Valley
46. ♀ ⊕ Grace Lore ✓  NDP  2020 Victoria-Beacon Hill
47. ♀ ⊕ Bowinn Ma ✓  NDP  2017 North Vancouver-Lonsdale
48. ♀ ⊕ Margaret MacDiarmid  LIB  2009 Vancouver-Fairview
49. ♀ ⊕ Joy MacPhail  NDP  1991 Vancouver-Hastings
50. ♀ ⊕ Sheila Malcolmson ✓  NDP  2019 Nanaimo
51. ♀ ⊕ Melanie Mark  NDP  2016 Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
52. ♀ ⊕ Darlene Marzari  NDP  1986 Vancouver-Point Grey
53. ♀ ⊕ Jenn McGinn  NDP  2008 Vancouver-Fairview
54. ♀ ⊕ Cathy McGregor  NDP  1996 Kamloops
55. ♀ ⊕ Joan McIntyre  LIB  2005 West Vancouver-Garibaldi
56. ♀ ⊕ Bonnie McKinnon  LIB  1996 Surrey-Cloverdale
57. ♀ ⊕ Wendy McMahon  LIB  2001 Columbia River-Revelstoke
58. ♀ ⊕ Mary McNeil  LIB  2009 Vancouver-False Creek
59. ♀ ⊕ Renee Merrifield ✓  LIB  2020 Kelowna-Mission
60. ♀ ⊕ Michelle Mungall  NDP  2009 Nelson-Creston
61. ♀ ⊕ Joyce Murray  LIB  2001 New Westminster
62. ♀ ⊕ Gwen O'Mahony  NDP  2012 Chilliwack-Hope
63. ♀ ⊕ Shannon O'Neill  NDP  1991 Shuswap
64. ♀ ⊕ Coralee Oakes ✓  LIB  2013 Cariboo North
65. ♀ ⊕ Sheila Orr  LIB  2001 Victoria-Hillside
66. ♀ ⊕ Josie Osborne ✓  NDP  2020 Mid Island-Pacific Rim
67. ♀ ⊕ Kelli Paddon ✓  NDP  2020 Chilliwack-Kent
68. ♀ ⊕ Jackie Pement  NDP  1991 Bulkley Valley-Stikine
69. ♀ ⊕ Joan Phillip ✓  NDP  2023 Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
70. ♀ ⊕ Mary Polak  LIB  2005 Langley
71. ♀ ⊕ Lana Popham ✓  NDP  2009 Saanich South
72. ♀ ⊕ Penny Priddy  NDP  1991 Surrey-Newton
73. ♀ ⊕ Jan Pullinger  NDP  1989 Nanaimo
74. ♀ ⊕ Tracy Redies  LIB  2017 Surrey-White Rock
75. ♀ ⊕ Judith Reid  LIB  1998 Parksville-Qualicum
76. ♀ ⊕ Linda Reid  LIB  1991 Richmond East
77. ♀ ⊕ Linda Reimer  LIB  2013 Port Moody-Coquitlam
78. ♀ ⊕ Jennifer Rice ✓  NDP  2013 North Coast
79. ♀ ⊕ Selina Robinson ✓  NDP  2013 Coquitlam-Maillardville
80. ♀ ⊕ Val Roddick  LIB  1999 Delta South
81. ♀ ⊕ Janet Routledge ✓  NDP  2017 Burnaby North
82. ♀ ⊕ April Sanders  LIB  1996 Okanagan-Vernon
83. ♀ ⊕ Harwinder Sandhu ✓  NDP  2020 Vernon-Monashee
84. ♀ ⊕ Joan Sawicki  NDP  1991 Burnaby-Willingdon
85. ♀ ⊕ Niki Sharma ✓  NDP  2020 Vancouver-Hastings
86. ♀ ⊕ Jane J.K. Shin  NDP  2013 Burnaby-Lougheed
87. ♀ ⊕ Jinny J. Sims ✓  NDP  2017 Surrey-Panorama
88. ♀ ⊕ Rachna Singh ✓  NDP  2017 Surrey-Green Timbers
89. ♀ ⊕ Joan K. Smallwood  NDP  1986 Surrey-Guildford-Whalley
90. ♀ ⊕ M. Lynn Stephens  LIB  1991 Langley
91. ♀ ⊕ Michelle Stilwell  LIB  2013 Parksville-Qualicum
92. ♀ ⊕ Moira Stilwell  LIB  2009 Vancouver-Langara
93. ♀ ⊕ Elenore Sturko ✓  LIB  2022 Surrey South
94. ♀ ⊕ Carole Taylor  LIB  2005 Vancouver-Langara
95. ♀ ⊕ Jackie L. Tegart ✓  LIB  2013 Fraser-Nicola
96. ♀ ⊕ Diane Thorne  NDP  2005 Coquitlam-Maillardville
97. ♀ ⊕ Jane A. Thornthwaite  LIB  2009 North Vancouver-Seymour
98. ♀ ⊕ Claire F. Trevena  NDP  2005 North Island
99. ♀ ⊕ Judi Tyabji  LIB  1991 Okanagan East
100. ♀ ⊕ Erda Sieglinde Walsh  NDP  1996 Kootenay
101. ♀ ⊕ Teresa Wat ✓  LIB  2013 Richmond Centre
102. ♀ ⊕ Jennifer Whiteside ✓  NDP  2020 New Westminster
103. ♀ ⊕ Katherine A. Whittred  LIB  1996 North Vancouver-Lonsdale
104. ♀ ⊕ Jodie Wickens  NDP  2016 Coquitlam-Burke Mountain
105. ♀ ⊕ Naomi Yamamoto  LIB  2009 North Vancouver-Lonsdale


© 2019, 2024 :: PoliCan.ca (Maurice Y. Michaud)
Pub.: 12 Nov 2022 08:02
Rev.:  1 May 2024 20:07 (but data presented dynamically)

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