How many people have been elected so far?
(And name them while you're at it!)

by Maurice Y. Michaud (he/him)

Edith B. Rogers (1894–1985)
© Photo — 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 14,276 persons — 12,919 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.
   
• F. 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	British Columbia
Level	Federal
Gender	♀ Women
Alive	⊕ Yes –or– ⊖ No
Results	46

Elected members
Legend }				⊕ Alive: 38 ⊖ Deceased: 8	✓ In office: 11 ‡ Died in office: 0  PAR  Party and year at first election
Who					First election
1.	♀	⊕		Lisa Marie Barron ✓	NDP	2021	Nanaimo—Ladysmith
2.	♀	⊕		Catherine Bell	NDP	2006	Vancouver Island North
3.	♀	⊕		Dawn Black	NDP	1988	New Westminster—Burnaby
4.	♀	⊕		Rachel A. Blaney ✓	NDP	2015	North Island—Powell River
5.	♀	⊖		Margaret L. Bridgman	REF	1993	Surrey North
6.	♀	⊕		Dona Cadman	CPC	2008	Surrey North
7.	♀	⊖		Iona Campagnolo	LIB	1974	Skeena
8.	♀	⊕		A. Kim Campbell	PC	1988	Vancouver Centre
9.	♀	⊖		Pat Carney	PC	1980	Vancouver Centre
10.	♀	⊕		Laurel Collins ✓	NDP	2019	Victoria
11.	♀	⊕		Mary Collins	PC	1984	Capilano
12.	♀	⊕		Jean A. Crowder	NDP	2004	Nanaimo—Cowichan
13.	♀	⊕		Libby Davies	NDP	1997	Vancouver East
14.	♀	⊕		Kerry-Lynne Findlay ✓	CPC	2011	Delta—Richmond East
15.	♀	⊕		Hedy M. Fry ✓	LIB	1993	Vancouver Centre
16.	♀	⊕		Pamela Goldsmith-Jones	LIB	2015	West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country
17.	♀	⊕		Tracy Gray ✓	CPC	2019	Kelowna—Lake Country
18.	♀	⊕		Nina Grewal	CPC	2004	Fleetwood—Port Kells
19.	♀	⊕		Sharon R. Hayes	REF	1993	Port Moody—Coquitlam
20.	♀	⊕		Betty Zane Hinton	CA	2000	Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys
21.	♀	⊖		Simma Holt	LIB	1974	Vancouver Kingsway
22.	♀	⊕		Lynn Hunter	NDP	1988	Saanich—Gulf Islands
23.	♀	⊕		Tamara N. Jansen	CPC	2019	Cloverdale—Langley City
24.	♀	⊕		Daphne G. Jennings	REF	1993	Mission—Coquitlam
25.	♀	⊖		Pauline Jewett	NDP	1979	New Westminster—Coquitlam
26.	♀	⊕		Jenny Wai Ching Kwan ✓	NDP	2015	Vancouver East
27.	♀	⊖		V. Joy Langan	NDP	1988	Mission—Coquitlam
28.	♀	⊕		M.R. Sophia Leung	LIB	1997	Vancouver Kingsway
29.	♀	⊖		Grace W. MacInnis	NDP	1965	Vancouver Kingsway
30.	♀	⊕		Sheila Malcolmson	NDP	2015	Nanaimo—Ladysmith
31.	♀	⊕		Elizabeth E. May ✓	GRN	2011	Saanich—Gulf Islands
32.	♀	⊕		Cathy McLeod	CPC	2008	Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo
33.	♀	⊕		Valerie Meredith	REF	1993	Surrey—White Rock—South Langley
34.	♀	⊖		Margaret Anne Mitchell	NDP	1979	Vancouver East
35.	♀	⊕		Joyce Murray ✓	LIB	2008	Vancouver Quadra
36.	♀	⊕		Penny Priddy	NDP	2006	Surrey North
37.	♀	⊕		Carla D. Qualtrough ✓	LIB	2015	Delta
38.	♀	⊕		Denise Savoie	NDP	2006	Victoria
39.	♀	⊕		Nelly Shin	CPC	2019	Port Moody—Coquitlam
40.	♀	⊕		Jinny J. Sims	NDP	2011	Newton—North Delta
41.	♀	⊕		Anna Marina Terrana	LIB	1993	Vancouver East
42.	♀	⊕		Dianne L. Watts	CPC	2015	South Surrey—White Rock
43.	♀	⊕		Jody Wilson-Raybould	LIB	2015	Vancouver Granville
44.	♀	⊕		Alice Wong	CPC	2008	Richmond
45.	♀	⊕		Wai Young	CPC	2011	Vancouver South
46.	♀	⊕		Bonita Zarrillo ✓	NDP	2021	Port Moody—Coquitlam