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 (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	Northwest Territories
Level	Territorial
Gender	♀ Women
Alive	⊕ Yes
Results	23

Elected members
Legend }					✓ In office: 8  PAR  Party and year at first election
Who					First election
1.	♀	⊕		Diane Archie	IND	2019	Inuvik Boot Lake
2.	♀	⊕		Wendy Bisaro	IND	2007	Frame Lake
3.	♀	⊕		Paulie Chinna	IND	2019	Sahtu
4.	♀	⊕		Caitlin Cleveland ✓	IND	2019	Kam Lake
5.	♀	⊕		Caroline Cochrane	IND	2015	Range Lake
6.	♀	⊕		Nellie J. Cournoyea	IND	1979	Western Arctic
7.	♀	⊕		Julie Green	IND	2015	Yellowknife Centre
8.	♀	⊕		Jane M.O. Groenewegen	IND	1995	Hay River
9.	♀	⊕		Lucy Kuptana ✓	IND	2023	Nunakput
10.	♀	⊕		Sandy Lee	IND	1999	Range Lake
11.	♀	⊕		Jeannie Marie-Jewell	IND	1987	Slave River
12.	♀	⊕		Frieda Martselos	IND	2019	Thebacha
13.	♀	⊕		Rebecca Mike	IND	1991	Baffin Central
14.	♀	⊕		Shauna Morgan ✓	IND	2023	Yellowknife North
15.	♀	⊕		Katrina Nokleby	IND	2019	Great Slave
16.	♀	⊕		Lena Pedersen	IND	1970	Central Arctic
17.	♀	⊕		Kate Reid ✓	IND	2023	Great Slave
18.	♀	⊕		Lesa Semmler ✓	IND	2019	Inuvik Twin Lakes
19.	♀	⊕		Lynda Sorenson	IND	1979	Yellowknife South
20.	♀	⊕		Manitok Catherine Thompson	IND	1995	Aivilik
21.	♀	⊕		Caroline Wawzonek ✓	IND	2019	Yellowknife South
22.	♀	⊕		Jane Weyallon Armstrong ✓	IND	2021	Monfwi
23.	♀	⊕		Sheryl Yakeleya ✓	IND	2023	Dehcho