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)
© 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/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.

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 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 13
0
82
0
95
0
13
0
82
0
95
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 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 Manitoba
Level Federal
Gender Men
Alive Yes –or– No
Results 208
Elected members
Legend } Alive: 47
Deceased: 161
In office: 10
Died in office: 15
 PAR  Party and year at first election
Who First election
1. James A.M. Aikins  CONS  1911 Brandon
2. Reg Alcock  LIB  1993 Winnipeg South
3. George W. Allan  UNIO  1917 Winnipeg South
4. George William Andrews  UNIO  1917 Winnipeg Centre
5. Lloyd Axworthy  LIB  1979 Winnipeg—Fort Garry
6. Leland Bancroft  PROG  1921 Selkirk
7. Andrew G.B. Bannatyne  LIB  1875 Provencher
8. Arthur-Lucien Beaubien  PROG  1921 Provencher
9. David Wilson Beaubier  LC  1930 Brandon
10. James Bezan  CPC  2004 Selkirk—Interlake
11. Thomas W. Bird  PROG  1921 Nelson
12. Edgar D.R. Bissett  LIB  1926 Springfield
13. David Bjornson  PC  1988 Selkirk
14. Daniel Blaikie  NDP  2015 Elmwood—Transcona
15. Bill Blaikie  NDP  1979 Winnipeg—Birds Hill
16. Matthew Robert Blake  UNIO  1917 Winnipeg North
17. Robert Bockstael  LIB  1979 Saint-Boniface
18. David Wesley Bole  LIB  1904 Winnipeg
19. Ferris Bolton  UNIO  1917 Lisgar
20. Charles Stephen Booth  LIB  1940 Winnipeg North
21. Rick Borotsik  PC  1997 Brandon—Souris
22. James L. Bowman  LC  1930 Dauphin
23. Nathaniel Boyd  CONS  1892 Marquette
24. John Bracken  PC  1945 Neepawa
25. George H. Bradbury  CONS  1908 Selkirk
26. John L. Brown  PROG  1921 Lisgar
27. Rod Bruinooge  CPC  2006 Winnipeg South
28. William "Scottie" Bryce  CCF  1943 Selkirk
29. William H. Burns  LC  1930 Portage la Prairie
30. Theodore A. Burrows  LIB  1904 Dauphin
31. Glenlyon Archibald Campbell  CONS  1908 Dauphin
32. John Archibald Campbell  UNIO  1917 Nelson
33. Jim Carr  LIB  2015 Winnipeg South Centre
34. Ben Carr  LIB  2023 Winnipeg South Centre
35. Sir George-Étienne Cartier  CONS  1872 Provencher
36. Gordon C. Chown  PC  1957 Winnipeg South
37. Gordon Churchill  PC  1951 Winnipeg South Centre
38. Lee Clark  PC  1983 Brandon—Souris
39. Gerald Cobbe  LIB  1968 Portage
40. John Crawford  LIB  1904 Portage la Prairie
41. Thomas A. Crerar  UNIO  1917 Marquette
42. Robert Cruise  LIB  1911 Dauphin
43. Robert Cunningham  LIB  1872 Marquette
44. Joseph E. Cyr  LIB  1904 Provencher
45. Thomas M. Daly  CONS  1887 Selkirk
46. Frederick Langdon Davis  UNIO  1917 Neepawa
47. Pierre Delorme  CONS  1871 Provencher
48. Louis Deniset  LIB  1957 Saint-Boniface
49. Walter Dinsdale  PC  1951 Brandon
50. Joseph Dubuc  CONS  1878 Provencher
51. Léo Duguay  PC  1984 Saint-Boniface
52. Terry Duguid  LIB  2015 Winnipeg South
53. Ron Duhamel  LIB  1988 Saint-Boniface
54. Sig Enns  PC  1962 Portage—Neepawa
55. Jake Epp  PC  1972 Provencher
56. Doug Eyolfson  LIB  2015 Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley
57. George Fairfield  PC  1957 Portage—Neepawa
58. Theodore J. Falk  CPC  2013 Provencher
59. Ron Fewchuk  LIB  1993 Selkirk—Red River
60. Albert Ernest Finley  UNIO  1917 Souris
61. Steven Fletcher  CPC  2004 Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia
62. Elmer Forbes  PC  1958 Dauphin
63. Robert Forke  PROG  1921 Brandon
64. Stuart Garson  LIB  1948 Marquette
65. Jon Gerrard  LIB  1993 Portage—Interlake
66. James A. Glen  LIB  1926 Marquette
67. Thomas Greenway  LIB  1904 Lisgar
68. Joseph-Phillippe Guay  LIB  1968 Saint-Boniface
69. Alexander Haggart  CONS  1908 Winnipeg
70. Hannes Marino Hannesson  LC  1925 Selkirk
71. Jack Hare  PC  1978 Saint-Boniface
72. Elijah Harper  LIB  1993 Churchill
73. John Harvard  LIB  1988 Winnipeg—St. James
74. Thomas Hay  UNIO  1917 Selkirk
75. Abraham Albert Heaps  LAB  1925 Winnipeg North
76. Richard Coe Henders  UNIO  1917 Macdonald
77. Howard Hilstrom  REF  1997 Selkirk—Interlake
78. Jake Hoeppner  REF  1993 Lisgar—Marquette
79. Robert Alexander Hoey  PROG  1921 Springfield
80. Felix Holtmann  PC  1984 Selkirk—Interlake
81. John Howden  LIB  1925 Saint-Boniface
82. Albert B. Hudson  LIB  1921 Winnipeg South
83. David Iftody  LIB  1993 Provencher
84. Samuel J. Jackson  LIB  1904 Selkirk
85. Richard Willis Jameson  LIB  1897 Winnipeg
86. Warner Jorgenson  PC  1957 Provencher
87. René Jutras  LIB  1940 Provencher
88. Cyril Keeper  NDP  1980 Winnipeg—St. James
89. William W. Kennedy  LC  1925 Winnipeg South Centre
90. Stanley Knowles  CCF  1942 Winnipeg North Centre
91. Kevin Lamoureux  LIB  2010 Winnipeg North
92. Bob Lane  PC  1979 Winnipeg—St. James
93. Alphonse-Alfred-C. LaRivière  CONS  1889 Provencher
94. Henry George Leader  PROG  1921 Portage la Prairie
95. Branden Leslie  CPC  2023 Portage—Lisgar
96. Laverne M. Lewycky  NDP  1980 Dauphin
97. William J. Lovie  PROG  1921 Macdonald
98. James S. Lynch  LIB  1871 Marquette
99. Sir Hugh John Macdonald  CONS  1891 Winnipeg
100. John Alexander MacDonell  LIB  1896 Selkirk
101. Frederick Donald MacKenzie  LIB  1935 Neepawa
102. John MacLean  PC  1958 Winnipeg North Centre
103. Larry N. Maguire  CPC  2013 Brandon—Souris
104. Jim Maloway  NDP  2008 Elmwood—Transcona
105. Nick Mandziuk  PC  1957 Marquette
106. Inky Mark  REF  1997 Dauphin—Swan River
107. Joseph Martin  LIB  1893 Winnipeg
108. Pat Martin  NDP  1997 Winnipeg Centre
109. Peter Masniuk  PC  1972 Portage
110. James Matthews  LIB  1938 Brandon
111. H. Ralph Maybank  LIB  1935 Winnipeg South Centre
112. Charles Mayer  PC  1979 Portage—Marquette
113. Dan Mazier  CPC  2019 Dauphin—Swan River—Neepawa
114. William Forsythe McCreary  LIB  1900 Selkirk
115. John S. McDiarmid  LIB  1926 Winnipeg South
116. George William McDonald  LIB  1935 Souris
117. Angus A. McKay  CONS  1871 Marquette
118. Dan McKenzie  PC  1972 Winnipeg South Centre
119. Glen McKinnon  LIB  1993 Brandon—Souris
120. Edward J. McMurray  LIB  1921 Winnipeg North
121. Ewan Alexander McPherson  LIB  1926 Portage la Prairie
122. Arthur Meighen  CONS  1908 Portage la Prairie
123. Calvert Miller  PC  1946 Portage la Prairie
124. Robert Milne  PROG  1921 Neepawa
125. C. George Minaker  PC  1984 Winnipeg—St. James
126. John P. Molloy  LIB  1908 Provencher
127. Ronald Moore  CCF  1945 Churchill
128. Marty Morantz  CPC  2019 Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley
129. Alexander Morrison  CONS  1912 Macdonald
130. George Muir  PC  1957 Lisgar
131. Henry A. Mullins  LC  1925 Marquette
132. Rodney Murphy  NDP  1979 Churchill
133. Thomas Gerow Murphy  LC  1925 Neepawa
134. Jack Murta  PC  1970 Lisgar
135. Leslie A. Mutch  LIB  1935 Winnipeg South
136. David Orlikow  NDP  1962 Winnipeg North
137. Edmund Osler  LIB  1968 Winnipeg South Centre
138. Robert-Falcon Ouellette  LIB  2015 Winnipeg Centre
139. Rey Pagtakhan  LIB  1988 Winnipeg North
140. Brian Pallister  CA  2000 Portage—Lisgar
141. William A. Pommer  LIB  1953 Lisgar
142. Arthur W. Puttee  LAB  1900 Winnipeg
143. Laurier Régnier  PC  1958 Saint-Boniface
144. Jim Richardson  LIB  1968 Winnipeg South
145. Robert Lorne Richardson  LIB  1896 Lisgar
146. Louis Riel  IND  1873 Provencher
147. W. Gordon Ritchie  PC  1968 Dauphin
148. William James Roche  CONS  1896 Marquette
149. Robert Rogers  CONS  1911 Winnipeg
150. Arthur Wellington Ross  CONS  1882 Lisgar
151. Arthur Ross  NCP  1940 Souris
152. Doug Rowland  NDP  1970 Selkirk
153. Joseph Royal  CONS  1879 Provencher
154. John Gunion Rutherford  LIB  1897 Macdonald
155. Joseph O'Connell Ryan  LIB  1874 Marquette
156. Terry Sargeant  NDP  1979 Selkirk—Interlake
157. William Bain Scarth  CONS  1887 Winnipeg
158. Frederick Laurence Schaffner  CONS  1904 Souris
159. Ed Schreyer  NDP  1965 Springfield
160. John C. Schultz  CONS  1871 Lisgar
161. Jacob Schulz  CCF  1957 Springfield
162. Thomas Scott  CONS  1880 Selkirk
163. William Henry Sharpe  CONS  1908 Lisgar
164. Bud Sherman  PC  1965 Winnipeg South
165. Clifford Sifton  LIB  1896 Brandon
166. Raymond Simard  LIB  2002 Saint-Boniface
167. Bud Simpson  PC  1957 Churchill
168. John Sinnott  LIB  1945 Springfield
169. Joseph Slogan  PC  1958 Springfield
170. Mark Smerchanski  LIB  1968 Provencher
171. Cecil Smith  PC  1974 Churchill
172. Donald A. Smith  ICON  1871 Selkirk
173. Murray Smith  PC  1958 Winnipeg North
174. Robert Sopuck  CPC  2010 Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette
175. William Davey Staples  CONS  1904 Macdonald
176. James Steedsman  PROG  1921 Souris
177. Eric Stefanson  PC  1958 Selkirk
178. Alistair Stewart  CCF  1945 Winnipeg North
179. Craig Stewart  PC  1968 Marquette
180. Duncan Alexander Stewart  LIB  1902 Lisgar
181. Bernard Munroe Stitt  LC  1930 Nelson
182. James Herbert Stitt  LC  1930 Selkirk
183. Hugh McKay Sutherland  LIB  1882 Selkirk
184. Charles K. Taylor  PC  1972 Churchill
185. Roger-Joseph Teillet  LIB  1962 Saint-Boniface
186. Joseph Thorarinn Thorson  LIB  1926 Winnipeg South Centre
187. Lawrence Toet  CPC  2011 Elmwood—Transcona
188. Victor Toews  CA  2000 Provencher
189. Owen C. Trainor  PC  1953 Winnipeg South
190. John Mouat Turner  LIB  1935 Springfield
191. Mervin C. Tweed  CPC  2004 Brandon—Souris
192. Dan Vandal  LIB  2015 Saint Boniface—Saint Vital
193. Fernand Viau  LIB  1945 Saint-Boniface
194. David Walker  LIB  1988 Winnipeg North Centre
195. William J. Ward  PROG  1921 Dauphin
196. Robert Watson  LIB  1882 Marquette
197. George Weaver  LIB  1949 Churchill
198. William Gilbert Weir  LIB  1930 Macdonald
199. Anton Weselak  LIB  1953 Springfield
200. Howard Primrose Whidden  UNIO  1917 Brandon
201. Brian White  PC  1984 Dauphin—Swan River
202. Dean Whiteway  PC  1974 Selkirk
203. Errick Willis  PRCO  1930 Souris
204. Howard W. Winkler  LIB  1935 Lisgar
205. Robert Wood  LIB  1949 Norquay
206. J.S. Woodsworth  LAB  1921 Winnipeg Centre
207. Val Yacula  PC  1958 Springfield
208. Fred Zaplitny  CCF  1945 Dauphin



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Pub.: 12 Nov 2022 08:02
Rev.:  1 May 2024 20:07 (but data presented dynamically)