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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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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.

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	Yukon
Level	Territorial
Gender	♂ Men –or– ♀ Women –or– ⚥ Non binary
Alive	⊕ Yes
Results	80

Elected members
Legend }			♂ Men: 57 ♀ Women: 22 ⚥ Non binary: 1	✓ In office: 19 (♂ 11 ♀ 7 ⚥ 1) PAR Party and year at first election
Who				First election
1.	♂	⊕	Ted Adel	LIB	2016	Copperbelt North
2.	♂	⊕	Haakon Arntzen	YP	2002	Copperbelt
3.	♂	⊕	Clarke L. Ashley	PC	1982	Klondike
4.	♂	⊕	Kevin Barr	NDP	2011	Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes
5.	♀	⊕	Annie Blake	NDP	2021	Vuntut Gwitch'in
6.	♀	⊕	Pam Buckway	LIB	1999	Lake Laberge
7.	♂	⊕	Brad Cathers ✓	YP	2002	Lake Laberge
8.	♂	⊕	Nils Clarke ✓	LIB	2016	Riverdale North
9.	♀	⊕	Yvonne Clarke	YP	2021	Porter Creek Centre
10.	♀	⊕	Margaret M. Commodore Joe	NDP	1982	Whitehorse North Centre
11.	♂	⊕	John Devries	PC	1989	Watson Lake
12.	♂	⊕	Currie Dixon ✓	YP	2011	Copperbelt North
13.	♀	⊕	Pat Duncan	LIB	1996	Porter Creek South
14.	♀	⊕	Sue Edelman	LIB	1996	Riverdale South
15.	♂	⊕	Dale Eftoda	LIB	2000	Riverdale North
16.	♂	⊕	Eric Fairclough	NDP	1996	Mayo-Tatchun
17.	♀	⊕	Pauline Frost	LIB	2016	Vuntut Gwitch'in
18.	♂	⊕	Paolo Gallina	LIB	2016	Porter Creek Centre
19.	♂	⊕	Douglas Graham	PC	1978	Whitehorse Porter Creek West
20.	♀	⊕	Elizabeth Hanson	NDP	2010	Whitehorse Centre
21.	♂	⊕	Trevor Harding	NDP	1992	Faro
22.	♂	⊕	Jeremy Harper ✓	LIB	2021	Mayo-Tatchun
23.	♂	⊕	Glenn Hart	YP	2002	Riverdale South
24.	♂	⊕	Dean Hassard	YP	2002	Pelly-Nisutlin
25.	♂	⊕	Stacey Hassard ✓	YP	2011	Pelly-Nisutlin
26.	♀	⊕	Marian C. Horne	YP	2006	Pelly-Nisutlin
27.	♂	⊕	Don Hutton	LIB	2016	Mayo-Tatchun
28.	♂	⊕	Don Inverarity	LIB	2006	Porter Creek South
29.	♂	⊕	Wade Istchenko ✓	YP	2011	Kluane
30.	♂	⊕	Danny Joe	NDP	1987	Tatchun
31.	♂	⊕	Sam Johnston	NDP	1985	Campbell
32.	♀	⊕	Norma Kassi	NDP	1985	Old Crow
33.	♂	⊕	Dave Keenan	NDP	1996	Ross River-Southern Lakes
34.	♂	⊕	Scott Kent ✓	LIB	2000	Riverside
35.	♂	⊕	Jim Kenyon	YP	2002	Porter Creek North
36.	♂	⊕	Roger S. Kimmerly	NDP	1981	Whitehorse South Centre
37.	♂	⊕	Hector Daniel Lang	IND	1974	Whitehorse Porter Creek
38.	♂	⊕	David Laxton	YP	2011	Porter Creek Centre
39.	♂	⊕	Doug Livingston	NDP	1996	Lake Laberge
40.	♂	⊕	Iain MacKay	LIB	1978	Whitehorse Riverdale South
41.	♂	⊕	Piers McDonald	NDP	1982	Mayo
42.	♂	⊕	James R. McLachlan	LIB	1985	Faro
43.	♂	⊕	Mike McLarnon	LIB	2000	Whitehorse Centre
44.	♀	⊕	Jeanie McLean	LIB	2016	Mountainview
45.	♀	⊕	Patti McLeod	YP	2011	Watson Lake
46.	♀	⊕	Tracy-Anne McPhee	LIB	2016	Riverdale South
47.	♂	⊕	Gary D. McRobb	NDP	1996	Kluane
48.	♂	⊕	David A. Millar	YP	1992	Klondike
49.	♀	⊕	Eleanor Millard	IND	1974	Ogilvie
50.	♂	⊕	Arthur Mitchell	LIB	2005	Copperbelt
51.	♀	⊕	Lois M. Moorcroft	NDP	1992	Mount Lorne
52.	♂	⊕	Richard Mostyn ✓	LIB	2016	Whitehorse West
53.	♂	⊕	Mike Nixon	YP	2011	Porter Creek South
54.	♂	⊕	Steve Nordick	YP	2006	Klondike
55.	♂	⊕	Alan R. Nordling	PC	1986	Whitehorse Porter Creek West
56.	♀	⊕	Kathie E. Nukon	PC	1982	Old Crow
57.	♂	⊕	Darrell Thomas Pasloski	YP	2011	Mountainview
58.	♂	⊕	Antony D.J. Penikett	NDP	1978	Whitehorse West
59.	♀	⊕	Lorraine Peter	NDP	2000	Vuntut Gwitch'in
60.	♂	⊕	Willard L. Phelps	IND	1974	Whitehorse Riverdale
61.	♂	⊕	Douglas G. Phillips	PC	1985	Whitehorse Riverdale North
62.	♂	⊕	Ranj Pillai ✓	LIB	2016	Porter Creek South
63.	♂	⊕	David Paul Porter	NDP	1982	Campbell
64.	♂	⊕	Don Roberts	LIB	2000	Porter Creek North
65.	♂	⊕	Patrick Rouble	YP	2002	Southern Lakes
66.	♂	⊕	Esau A. Schafer	YP	1996	Vuntut Gwitch'in
67.	♂	⊕	Sandy Silver ✓	LIB	2011	Klondike
68.	♂	⊕	David R. Sloan	NDP	1996	Whitehorse West
69.	♂	⊕	Ted Staffen	YP	2002	Riverdale North
70.	♀	⊕	Jan Stick	NDP	2011	Riverdale South
71.	♂	⊕	John Streicker ✓	LIB	2016	Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes
72.	♀	⊕	Elaine Taylor	YP	2002	Whitehorse West
73.	♂	⊕	Howard Tracey	PC	1978	Tatchun
74.	♂	⊕	Jim Tredger	NDP	2011	Mayo-Tatchun
75.	⚥	⊕	Lane E. Tredger	NDP	2021	Whitehorse Centre
76.	♀	⊕	Cynthia Tucker	LIB	2000	Mount Lorne
77.	♀	⊕	Geraldine Van Bibber	YP	2016	Porter Creek North
78.	♂	⊕	Ronald S. Veale	LIB	1981	Whitehorse Riverdale South
79.	♂	⊕	Arthur V. Webster	NDP	1985	Klondike
80.	♀	⊕	Kate White	NDP	2011	Takhini-Kopper King

© 2019, 2024 :: PoliCan.ca  (Maurice Y. Michaud)

Pub.: 12 Nov 2022 08:02

Rev.:  1 May 2024 20:07 (but data presented dynamically)

Well that's interesting!

♂ Mauril B�langer (61)
15 June 1955 — 15 August 2016
Died in office
Times presented: 8 Times elected: 8

2006 Earl Andrew — Public domain

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