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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 there’s been a single Canada? Well, maybe you haven’t, but I have! And it’s 15,294 persons — 13,812 men, 1,476 women, and 6 persons identifying as non-binary. Among them, 4,693 are (or are believed to be) still alive: 3,426 men, 1,261 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
Click on a number under an F or P column (except P in the Total row) for the list of the persons behind that number.
Juri. Total Men (M) Women (F) Non binary (X)
F P T F P T F P T F P T
8 BC 376 1,028 1,404 325 866 1,191 51 162 213 0 0 0
9 AB 260 988 1,248 241 858 1,099 19 129 148 0 1 1
10 SK 226 798 1,024 215 725 940 11 73 84 0 0 0
11 MB 230 893 1,123 212 813 1,025 18 79 97 0 1 1
6 ON 1,649 1,992 3,641 1,504 1,817 3,321 145 173 318 0 2 2
5 QC 1,314 1,850 3,164 1,183 1,654 2,837 131 196 327 0 0 0
3 NB 225 962 1,187 215 906 1,121 10 56 66 0 0 0
2 NS 267 848 1,115 253 781 1,034 14 66 80 0 1 1
4 PE 78 514 592 75 476 551 3 38 41 0 0 0
7 NL 66 782 848 58 739 797 8 43 51 0 0 0
12 YT 12 134 146 9 97 106 3 36 39 0 1 1
14 NT 14 178 192 10 154 164 4 24 28 0 0 0
13 NU 5 98 103 1 76 77 4 22 26 0 0 0
15 NW 19 82 101 19 82 101 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 PC 0 487 487 0 487 487 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 4,741 11,634 16,375 4,320 10,531 14,851 421 1,097 1,518 0 6 6
Diff. -1,081
Alive		 15,294
4,651
30.4%		 Diff. -1,039
Alive		 13,812
3,403
24.6%		 Diff. -42
Alive		 1,476
1,242
84.1%		 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. Similarly, a person elected to federal seats in different provinces — a recent example: Pierre Poilievre in Ontario and Alberta — is counted for each province. However, the overall total is then ajusted.

The small number of elected women is glaring, but it is interesting to note that most of them (84.1%) are still alive compared to the average (30.4%). Even though most Canadian women have had the right to vote for a century, 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, 2026 :: PoliCan.ca (Maurice Y. Michaud)
Pub.: 12 Nov 2022 08:02 ET
Rev.: 21 Jul 2026 16:58 ET (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, explanatory articles and opinions found in this website — are the intellectual property of Maurice Y. Michaud.