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The 44th Canadian Parliament includes a record number of female Members of Parliament, with 103 women elected to the 338-member House of Commons of Canada (30.5%) in the 2021 election. [1] Of those 103 women, 22 were elected for the first time in the 2021 election.
First Indo-Canadian woman elected to Parliament (of 2) Meili Faille (born 1972) Vaudreuil—Soulanges: June 28, 2004: May 1, 2011: Bloc Québécois [165] First Taiwanese-Canadian woman elected to Parliament Diane Finley (born 1957) Haldimand—Norfolk: June 28, 2004: May 11, 2021: Conservative [166] Minister of Human Resources (2006–2007 ...
Political parties have occasionally achieved balanced representation in their elected caucuses, but mainly as a byproduct of a party collapse – for example, in the 1993 election, the Progressive Conservatives achieved gender parity in their elected caucus, but only by virtue of electing just two Members of Parliament nationwide and losing ...
Name Party Electoral district MP since Larry Maguire: Conservative: Brandon—Souris: 2013 Marty Morantz: Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley
The 43rd Canadian Parliament once again set a record number of female Members of Parliament, with 98 women elected to the 338-member House of Commons of Canada (28.9%) in the 2019 election. [1] Of those 98 women, 31 were elected for the first time in the 2019 election. 2 more women were elected in by-elections in October 2020, reaching the ...
The longest-serving woman in the 42nd Parliament is Hedy Fry, who was first elected in the 1993 election. On April 3, 2017 four women were elected in by-elections. As of December 2017, there are 92 women currently serving in parliament, representing 27.2 per cent of elected Members of Parliament.
1920 opening of Canadian Parliament. Lists of members of the Canadian House of Commons cover the members elected to the House of Commons of Canada, the lower chamber of the bicameral Parliament of Canada. Seats in the House of Commons are distributed roughly in proportion to the population of each province and territory. The lists of members ...
First LGBT member of parliament from Nova Scotia November 27, 2000: February 10, 2019: Bill Siksay: NDP: British Columbia June 28, 2004 May 2, 2011 first LGBT member of parliament to be out at the time of election Mario Silva: Liberal: Ontario June 28, 2004 May 2, 2011 First openly LGBT member of the House of Commons from Ontario Raymond Gravel ...