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Canada's electoral history from 1867 to today

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)
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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.

Number of persons elected

Juri.		Total			Men (M)			Women (F)			Non binary (X)
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.		F	P	T	F	P	T	F	P	T	F	P	T
9	AB	247 101	984 409	1,231 510	229 85	856 308	1,085 393	18 16	127 100	145 116	0 0	1 1	1 1
8	BC	355 143	972 326	1,327 469	309 105	840 221	1,149 326	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	12 0	82 0	94 0	12 0	82 0	94 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0
6	ON	1,588 411	1,972 511	3,560 922	1,463 306	1,805 367	3,268 673	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	223 57	767 246	990 303	212 49	705 195	917 244	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
Total		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	Nova Scotia
Level	Provincial
Gender	♀ Women
Alive	⊕ Yes –or– ⊖ No
Results	61

Elected members
Legend }			⊕ Alive: 53 ⊖ Deceased: 8	✓ In office: 18 ‡ Died in office: 2 PAR Party and year at first election
Who				First election
1.	♀	⊕	Barbara Adams ✓	PC	2017	Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage
2.	♀	⊕	Patricia Arab ✓	LIB	2013	Fairview-Clayton Park
3.	♀	⊕	Yvonne Atwell	NDP	1998	Preston
4.	♀	⊖	Fluff Baillie	PC	1999	Pictou West
5.	♀	⊕	Jill Balser ✓	PC	2021	Digby-Annapolis
6.	♀	⊕	Danielle Barkhouse ✓	PC	2021	Chester-St. Margaret's
7.	♀	⊕	Joanne L. Bernard	LIB	2013	Dartmouth North
8.	♀	⊕	Pamela D. Birdsall	NDP	2009	Lunenburg
9.	♀	⊕	Carolyn Anne Bolivar-Getson	PC	2003	Lunenburg West
10.	♀	⊕	Karen Casey	PC	2006	Colchester North
11.	♀	⊕	Claudia Chender ✓	NDP	2017	Dartmouth South
12.	♀	⊖	Maxine E. Cochran	PC	1984	Lunenburg Centre
13.	♀	⊕	Victoria P. Conrad	NDP	2006	Queens
14.	♀	⊕	Kendra Coombes ✓	NDP	2020	Cape Breton Centre
15.	♀	⊕	Susan Corkum-Greek ✓	PC	2021	Lunenburg
16.	♀	⊕	Francene J. Cosman	LIB	1993	Bedford-Fall River
17.	♀	⊕	Marie P. Dechman	PC	1988	Lunenburg West
18.	♀	⊕	Lena M. Diab	LIB	2013	Halifax Armdale
19.	♀	⊕	Rafah DiCostanzo ✓	LIB	2017	Clayton Park West
20.	♀	⊕	Becky Druhan ✓	PC	2021	Lunenburg West
21.	♀	⊖	Cora Helena Etter	PC	1984	Hants East
22.	♀	⊕	Pam Eyking	LIB	2013	Victoria-The Lakes
23.	♀	⊕	Rosemary Godin	NDP	1998	Sackville-Beaver Bank
24.	♀	⊕	Twila Grosse ✓	PC	2023	Preston
25.	♀	⊕	Suzy Hansen ✓	NDP	2021	Halifax Needham
26.	♀	⊕	Ramona C. Jennex	NDP	2009	Kings South
27.	♀	⊕	Sandra L. Jolly	LIB	1988	Dartmouth North
28.	♀	⊕	Becky Kent	NDP	2007	Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage
29.	♀	⊕	Susan Leblanc ✓	NDP	2017	Dartmouth North
30.	♀	⊕	Suzanne L. Lohnes-Croft	LIB	2013	Lunenburg
31.	♀	⊕	Helen MacDonald	NDP	1997	Cape Breton The Lakes
32.	♀	⊕	M. Maureen MacDonald	NDP	1998	Halifax Needham
33.	♀	⊕	Karla MacFarlane	PC	2013	Pictou West
34.	♀	⊕	Melinda J. MacLean	LIB	1974	Colchester
35.	♀	⊕	Marian Borden Mancini	NDP	2015	Dartmouth South
36.	♀	⊕	Tammy Martin	NDP	2017	Cape Breton Centre
37.	♀	⊕	Kim Masland ✓	PC	2017	Queens-Shelburne
38.	♀	⊕	Joan Massey	NDP	2003	Dartmouth East
39.	♀	⊖	Alexa Ann McDonough	NDP	1981	Halifax Chebucto
40.	♀	⊕	Mary Ann McGrath	PC	1999	Halifax Bedford Basin
41.	♀	⊕	Margaret Miller	LIB	2013	Hants East
42.	♀	⊕	Marilyn A. More	NDP	2003	Dartmouth South-Portland Valley
43.	♀	⊕	Lorelei Nicoll ✓	LIB	2021	Cole Harbour-Darmouth
44.	♀	⊕	Eleanor E.T. Norrie	LIB	1993	Truro-Bible Hill
45.	♀	⊖	A. Eileen O'Connell ‡	NDP	1996	Halifax Fairview
46.	♀	⊖	Lila J. O'Connor	LIB	1993	Lunenburg
47.	♀	⊕	Alana Paon	PC	2017	Cape Breton-Richmond
48.	♀	⊕	Denise J. Peterson-Rafuse	NDP	2009	Chester-St. Margaret's
49.	♀	⊖	Gladys M. Porter ‡	PC	1960	Kings North
50.	♀	⊖	Jane Purves	PC	1999	Halifax Citadel
51.	♀	⊕	Mich�le H. Raymond	NDP	2003	Halifax Atlantic
52.	♀	⊕	Kelly Regan ✓	LIB	2009	Bedford-Birch Cove
53.	♀	⊕	Lisa Roberts	NDP	2016	Halifax Needham
54.	♀	⊕	Melissa Sheehy-Richard ✓	PC	2021	Hants West
55.	♀	⊕	Angela E. Simmonds	LIB	2021	Preston
56.	♀	⊕	Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin ✓	PC	2017	Cumberland North
57.	♀	⊕	Judy Streatch	PC	2005	Chester-St. Margaret's
58.	♀	⊕	Michelle Thompson ✓	PC	2021	Antigonish
59.	♀	⊕	C. Joyce Treen	LIB	2013	Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage
60.	♀	⊕	Diana Caroline Whalen	LIB	2003	Halifax Clayton Park
61.	♀	⊕	Lenore E. Zann	NDP	2009	Truro-Bible Hill

© 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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