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, 4,550 are (or are believed to be) still alive: 3,407 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/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.

Parliamentarian list

Here is the list of the elected people meeting the following search criteria.

Jurisdiction	Alberta
Level	Federal
Gender	♀ Women
Alive	⊕ Yes –or– ⊖ No
Results	18

Elected members
Legend }				⊕ Alive: 16 ⊖ Deceased: 2	✓ In office: 6 ‡ Died in office: 0  PAR  Party and year at first election
Who					First election
1.	♀	⊕		Diane Ablonczy	REF	1993	Calgary North
2.	♀	⊕		Rona Chapchuk Ambrose Veitch	CPC	2004	Edmonton—Spruce Grove
3.	♀	⊕		Judith Claire Bethel	LIB	1993	Edmonton East
4.	♀	⊕		Jan Brown	REF	1993	Calgary Southeast
5.	♀	⊖		Cora Taylor Casselman	LIB	1941	Edmonton East
6.	♀	⊕		Joan Crockatt	CPC	2012	Calgary Centre
7.	♀	⊕		Linda Duncan	NDP	2008	Edmonton—Strathcona
8.	♀	⊖		Louise Feltham	PC	1988	Wild Rose
9.	♀	⊕		Laila Goodridge ✓	CPC	2021	Fort McMurray—Cold Lake
10.	♀	⊕		Deborah Cleland Grey	REF	1989	Beaver River
11.	♀	⊕		Stephanie Kusie ✓	CPC	2017	Calgary Midnapore
12.	♀	⊕		A. Anne McLellan	LIB	1993	Edmonton Northwest
13.	♀	⊕		Heather L. McPherson ✓	NDP	2019	Edmonton Strathcona
14.	♀	⊕		Michelle Rempel Garner ✓	CPC	2011	Calgary Centre-North
15.	♀	⊕		Jagdeep Kaur Sahota	CPC	2019	Calgary Skyview
16.	♀	⊕		Bobbie Sparrow	PC	1984	Calgary South
17.	♀	⊕		Shannon Stubbs ✓	CPC	2015	Lakeland
18.	♀	⊕		Rachael Thomas ✓	CPC	2015	Lethbridge