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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 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:

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) 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
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 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 354
143		 972
327		 1,326
470		 308
105		 840
222		 1,148
327		 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 13
0		 82
0		 95
0		 13
0		 82
0		 95
0		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0
6 ON 1,589
411		 1,972
511		 3,561
922		 1,464
306		 1,805
367		 3,269
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 222
57		 767
246		 989
303		 211
49		 705
195		 916
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
3,414		 15,112
4,717		 4,204
988		 9,515
2,555		 13,719
3,543		 377
315		 1,011
854		 1,388
1,169		 0
0		 5
5		 5
5
Diff. -835
-167		 14,277
4,550
31.9%		 Diff. -799
-136		 12,920
3,407
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 North-Western Territories
Level Provincial
Gender ♂ Men
Alive ⊕ Yes –or– ⊖ No
Results 82
Elected members
Legend } ⊕ Alive: 0
⊖ Deceased: 82		 ✓ In office: 0
‡ Died in office: 2
 PAR  Party and year at first election
Who First election
1. ♂ ⊖ Thomas J. Agnew  IND  1897 Prince Albert West
2. ♂ ⊖ George M. Mac) Annable  LIB  1901 Moose Jaw
3. ♂ ⊖ Joseph McKay Bannerman  IND  1894 East Calgary
4. ♂ ⊖ R.B. Bennett  LICO  1898 West Calgary
5. ♂ ⊖ John Betts  IND  1888 Prince Albert
6. ♂ ⊖ Charles-Eugène Boucher  IND  1892 Batoche
7. ♂ ⊖ Robert G. Brett  IND  1888 Red Deer
8. ♂ ⊖ George William Brown  IND  1894 North Regina
9. ♂ ⊖ George Hedley Vicars Bulyea  IND  1894 South Qu'Appelle
10. ♂ ⊖ Daniel Campbell  IND  1891 Whitewood
11. ♂ ⊖ Hugh S. Cayley  IND  1888 Calgary
12. ♂ ⊖ Joseph Clementson  IND  1894 Whitewood
13. ♂ ⊖ James Clinkskill  IND  1888 Battleford
14. ♂ ⊖ John W. Connell  IND  1898 Souris
15. ♂ ⊖ Oswald A. Critchley  IND  1894 West Calgary
16. ♂ ⊖ Alfred Ernest Cross  IND  1898 East Calgary
17. ♂ ⊖ George S. Davidson  IND  1888 South Qu'Appelle
18. ♂ ⊖ Anthony S. de Rosenroll  LICO  1898 Wetaskiwin
19. ♂ ⊖ Leverett G. DeVeber  IND  1898 Lethbridge
20. ♂ ⊖ James P. Dill  IND  1891 Wolseley
21. ♂ ⊖ William Eakin  IND  1894 Saltcoats
22. ♂ ⊖ William Elliott  LICO  1898 Wolseley
23. ♂ ⊖ Edward Fearon  IND  1894 Medicine Hat
24. ♂ ⊖ William T. Finlay  LICO  1902 Medicine Hat
25. ♂ ⊖ Charles W. Fisher  LIB  1903 Banff
26. ♂ ⊖ Charles Fisher  IND  1898 Batoche
27. ♂ ⊖ Archibald B. Gillis  IND  1894 Whitewood
28. ♂ ⊖ Horace A. Greeley  IND  1898 Medicine Hat
29. ♂ ⊖ Frederick William Alpin Gordon Haultain  IND  1888 Macleod
30. ♂ ⊖ James B. Hawkes  LICO  1898 South Regina
31. ♂ ⊖ James Hoey  IND  1888 Kinistino
32. ♂ ⊖ Fredrik R. Insinger  IND  1892 Wallace
33. ♂ ⊖ David F. Jelly  IND  1888 North Regina
34. ♂ ⊖ George H. Knowling  IND  1891 Souris
35. ♂ ⊖ Richard S. Lake  LICO  1898 Grenfell
36. ♂ ⊖ Louis-Joseph-Alphonse Lambert  IND  1903 St. Albert
37. ♂ ⊖ John Lineham  IND  1888 Calgary
38. ♂ ⊖ Thomas MacNutt  LICO  1902 Saltcoats
39. ♂ ⊖ Charles A. Magrath  IND  1891 Lethbridge
40. ♂ ⊖ Daniel Maloney  IND  1894 St. Albert
41. ♂ ⊖ Matthew McCauley  IND  1896 Edmonton
42. ♂ ⊖ Ewan C. McDiarmid  IND  1898 Cannington
43. ♂ ⊖ Donald H. McDonald  IND  1896 North Qu'Appelle
44. ♂ ⊖ Alexander D. McIntyre  LICO  1902 Mitchell
45. ♂ ⊖ Joseph A. McIntyre  IND  1898 Mitchell
46. ♂ ⊖ Thomas McKay  IND  1891 Prince Albert
47. ♂ ⊖ Samuel McLeod  IND  1898 Prince Albert East
48. ♂ ⊖ William F. Meyers  IND  1891 Kinistino
49. ♂ ⊖ Hillyard Mitchell  IND  1888 Batoche
50. ♂ ⊖ Daniel Alexander Mowat  IND  1891 South Regina
51. ♂ ⊖ John R. Neff  IND  1888 Moosomin
52. ♂ ⊖ Charles Nolin  IND  1891 Batoche
53. ♂ ⊖ Francis R. Oliver  IND  1888 Edmonton
54. ♂ ⊖ Samuel S. Page  IND  1891 Cannington
55. ♂ ⊖ Thomas Alfred Patrick  LICO  1897 Yorkton
56. ♂ ⊖ William Plaxton  IND  1888 Prince Albert
57. ♂ ⊖ Joseph Benjamin Prince  IND  1898 Battleford
58. ♂ ⊖ M.F. Antonio Prince  IND  1891 St. Albert
59. ♂ ⊖ Joel Reaman ‡  IND  1888 Wallace
60. ♂ ⊖ John L. Reid  IND  1894 Prince Albert West
61. ♂ ⊖ Benjamin P. Richardson  IND  1888 Wolseley
62. ♂ ⊖ James Hamilton Ross  IND  1888 Moose Jaw
63. ♂ ⊖ Alexander C. Rutherford  LICO  1902 Strathcona
64. ♂ ⊖ John H. Secord  IND  1888 South Regina
65. ♂ ⊖ Richard Secord  IND  1902 Edmonton
66. ♂ ⊖ John W. Shera  IND  1898 Victoria
67. ♂ ⊖ Arthur L.W. Sifton  LICO  1899 Banff
68. ♂ ⊖ John A. Simpson  IND  1894 Red Deer
69. ♂ ⊖ William H. Sinclair ‡  LICO  1902 Saskatoon
70. ♂ ⊖ Alexander S. Smith  IND  1898 Moosomin
71. ♂ ⊖ William Sutherland  IND  1888 North Qu'Appelle
72. ♂ ⊖ Peter Talbot  LICO  1902 Lacombe
73. ♂ ⊖ Alexander G. Thorburn  IND  1888 Whitewood
74. ♂ ⊖ Frank F. Tims  IND  1894 Victoria
75. ♂ ⊖ John G. Turriff  IND  1888 Souris
76. ♂ ⊖ Thomas A. Tweed  IND  1888 Medicine Hat
77. ♂ ⊖ Frédéric E. Villeneuve  IND  1898 St. Albert
78. ♂ ⊖ Richard A. Wallace  IND  1898 High River
79. ♂ ⊖ Francis E. Wilkins  IND  1891 Red Deer
80. ♂ ⊖ Herbert C. Wilson  IND  1888 Edmonton
81. ♂ ⊖ John W. Woolf  LIB  1902 Cardston
82. ♂ ⊖ John J. Young  IND  1902 East Calgary


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Pub.: 12 Nov 2022 08:02
Rev.: 24 Apr 2024 10:53 (but data presented dynamically)

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