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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 Confederation? Well, maybe you haven’t, but I have! And it’s 14,448 persons — 13,025 men, 1,417 women, and 6 persons identifying as non-binary. Among them, 4,612 are (or are believed to be) still alive: 3,411 men, 1,195 women, and all the 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.
  • However, only the F cells are active in the Total row.
  • The "Diff." rows show the adjustments to count the same person only once, and how many are (or are believed to be) still alive.

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 250 985 1,235 232 857 1,089 18 127 145 0 1 1
8 BC 361 1,028 1,389 314 866 1,180 47 162 209 0 0 0
11 MB 227 892 1,119 211 813 1,024 16 78 94 0 1 1
3 NB 223 949 1,172 212 893 1,105 11 56 67 0 0 0
7 NL 62 393 455 55 354 409 7 39 46 0 0 0
2 NS 264 847 1,111 253 780 1,033 11 66 77 0 1 1
14 NT 13 178 191 10 154 164 3 24 27 0 0 0
13 NU 5 85 90 1 67 68 4 18 22 0 0 0
15 NW 19 82 101 19 82 101 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 ON 1,606 1,992 3,598 1,480 1,818 3,298 126 172 298 0 2 2
4 PE 77 510 587 74 474 548 3 36 39 0 0 0
5 QC 1,294 1,843 3,137 1,171 1,648 2,819 123 195 318 0 0 0
10 SK 226 798 1,024 215 725 940 11 73 84 0 0 0
12 YT 12 121 133 9 92 101 3 28 31 0 1 1
Total 4,639 10,703 15,342 13,879 9,623 13,879 383 1,074 1,457 0 6 6
Diff. -894
Alive		 14,448
4,612
31.9%		 Diff. -854
Alive		 13,025
3,411
26.2%		 Diff. -40
Alive		 1,417
1,195
84.3%		 Diff. 0
Alive		 6
6
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.

The small number of elected women is glaring, but it is interesting to note that most of them (84.3%) are still alive compared to the average (31.9%). Even though Canadian women have had the right to vote for 85 years or more, they only started to be elected in more significant numbers to legislative assemblies in the 1980s, and parity with men is mostly still far from being achieved.


© 2005, 2025 :: PoliCan.ca (Maurice Y. Michaud)
Pub.: 12 Nov 2022 08:02
Rev.: 19 Apr 2025 11:47 (but data presented dynamically)

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Given that electoral results are by their very nature public information, such data presented in PoliCan are considered to be in the public domain. However, unless indicated otherwise, all other elements — the concept of consolidating these data into a single format, the detailed research on each election, legislature and candidate, the organization and searchability of the data, the programming allowing the entry and maintenance of the data, as well as the analyses and explanatory articles found in this website — are the intellectual property of Maurice Y. Michaud.