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) 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	Newfoundland and Labrador
Level	Provincial
Gender	♀ Women
Alive	⊕ Yes –or– ⊖ No
Results	39

Elected members
Legend }				⊕ Alive: 34 ⊖ Deceased: 5	✓ In office: 9 ‡ Died in office: 1  PAR  Party and year at first election
Who					First election
1.	♀	⊕		Joan M. Aylward	LIB	1996	St. John's Centre
2.	♀	⊕		Cathy Bennett	LIB	2014	Virginia Waters
3.	♀	⊕		Julie Bettney	LIB	1996	Mount Pearl
4.	♀	⊕		Joan Burke Shea	PC	2003	St. George's—Stephenville East
5.	♀	⊕		Siobhán Coady ✓	LIB	2015	St. John's West
6.	♀	⊕		Alison Coffin	NDP	2019	St. John's East—Quidi Vidi
7.	♀	⊕		Helen Conway-Ottenheimer ✓	PC	2019	Harbour Main
8.	♀	⊖		Patricia A. Cowan	LIB	1989	Conception Bay South
9.	♀	⊕		Lisa V. Dempster ✓	LIB	2013	Cartwright—L'Anse Au Clair
10.	♀	⊕		Shannie Duff	PC	1989	St. John's East
11.	♀	⊕		Kathy M.M. Dunderdale	PC	2003	Virginia Waters
12.	♀	⊕		Lela M.A. Evans ✓	PC	2019	Torngat Mountains
13.	♀	⊕		Judy May Foote	LIB	1996	Grand Bank
14.	♀	⊕		Sherry Gambin-Walsh ✓	LIB	2015	Placentia—St. Mary's
15.	♀	⊕		Kathy Goudie	PC	2003	Humber Valley
16.	♀	⊕		Carol Anne Haley	LIB	2015	Burin—Grand Bank
17.	♀	⊕		Mary J. Hodder	LIB	1996	Burin—Placentia West
18.	♀	⊕		Krista L. Howell ✓	LIB	2021	St. Barbe—L'Anse aux Meadows
19.	♀	⊕		Charlene Johnson	PC	2003	Trinity—Bay de Verde
20.	♀	⊕		Yvonne Jean Jones	IND	1996	Cartwright—L'Anse au Clair
21.	♀	⊕		Sandra Kelly	LIB	1996	Gander
22.	♀	⊕		Beth Marshall	PC	2003	Topsail
23.	♀	⊖		Hazel A. McIsaac	LIB	1975	St. George's
24.	♀	⊕		Lorraine Michael	NDP	2006	Signal Hill—Quidi Vidi
25.	♀	⊖		Hazel Newhook	PC	1979	Gander
26.	♀	⊕		Sheila Osborne	PC	1997	St. John's West
27.	♀	⊕		Betty Parsley	LIB	2015	Harbour Main
28.	♀	⊕		Pamela Parsons ✓	LIB	2015	Harbour Grace—Port de Grave
29.	♀	⊕		Tracey Perry	PC	2007	Fortune Bay—Cape La Hune
30.	♀	⊕		Patty Pottle	PC	2007	Torngat Mountains
31.	♀	⊖		Ida M. Reid	PC	1982	Twillingate
32.	♀	⊕		Gerry Rogers	NDP	2011	St. John's Centre
33.	♀	⊕		Sarah Stoodley ✓	LIB	2019	Mount Scio
34.	♀	⊕		Lucy S. Stoyles ✓	LIB	2021	Mount Pearl North
35.	♀	⊕		Susan Sullivan	PC	2007	Grand Falls-Windsor/Buchans
36.	♀	⊕		Anna Thistle	LIB	1996	Grand Falls—Buchans
37.	♀	⊕		V. Lynn Verge	PC	1979	Humber East
38.	♀	⊖		Dianne Carolynn Whalen ‡	PC	2003	Conception Bay East & Bell Island
39.	♀	⊕		Kay Young	LIB	1993	Terra Nova