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 (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	Yukon
Level	Territorial
Gender	♀ Women
Alive	⊕ Yes –or– ⊖ No
Results	28

Elected members
Legend }				⊕ Alive: 22 ⊖ Deceased: 6	✓ In office: 7 ‡ Died in office: 0  PAR  Party and year at first election
Who					First election
1.	♀	⊕		Annie Blake ✓	NDP	2021	Vuntut Gwitch'in
2.	♀	⊕		Pam Buckway	LIB	1999	Lake Laberge
3.	♀	⊕		Yvonne Clarke ✓	YP	2021	Porter Creek Centre
4.	♀	⊕		Margaret M. Commodore Joe	NDP	1982	Whitehorse North Centre
5.	♀	⊕		Pat Duncan	LIB	1996	Porter Creek South
6.	♀	⊕		Susan J. Edelman	LIB	1996	Riverdale South
7.	♀	⊖		Beatrice Bea) A. Firth	PC	1982	Whitehorse Riverdale South
8.	♀	⊕		Pauline Frost	LIB	2016	Vuntut Gwitch'in
9.	♀	⊕		Elizabeth Hanson	NDP	2010	Whitehorse Centre
10.	♀	⊖		Joyce S. Hayden	NDP	1989	Whitehorse South Centre
11.	♀	⊕		Marian C. Horne	YP	2006	Pelly-Nisutlin
12.	♀	⊕		Norma Kassi	NDP	1985	Old Crow
13.	♀	⊖		Margaret Meg) S. McCall	PC	1978	Klondike
14.	♀	⊖		Alice McGuire	LIB	1978	Kluane
15.	♀	⊕		Jeanie McLean Dendys) ✓	LIB	2016	Mountainview
16.	♀	⊕		Patti McLeod ✓	YP	2011	Watson Lake
17.	♀	⊕		Tracy-Anne McPhee ✓	LIB	2016	Riverdale South
18.	♀	⊕		Eleanor Millard	IND	1974	Ogilvie
19.	♀	⊕		Lois M. Moorcroft	NDP	1992	Mount Lorne
20.	♀	⊕		Kathie E. Nukon	PC	1982	Old Crow
21.	♀	⊕		Lorraine Netro) Peter	NDP	2000	Vuntut Gwitch'in
22.	♀	⊕		Jan Stick	NDP	2011	Riverdale South
23.	♀	⊕		Elaine Taylor	YP	2002	Whitehorse West
24.	♀	⊕		Cynthia Tucker	LIB	2000	Mount Lorne
25.	♀	⊕		Geraldine Van Bibber ✓	YP	2016	Porter Creek North
26.	♀	⊖		Hilda Watson	IND	1970	Carmacks-Kluane
27.	♀	⊕		Kate White ✓	NDP	2011	Takhini-Kopper King
28.	♀	⊖		Florence Whyard	IND	1974	Whitehorse West