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  2. List of women elected to Canadian Parliament - Wikipedia

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    This represents a gain of three seats from the previous record of 100 women in the 43rd Canadian Parliament, of whom 98 were elected in the 2019 federal election, [1] followed by two more at subsequent by-elections in 2020. Women have been elected to the House of Commons from every province and territory in Canada.

  3. Women in Canadian politics - Wikipedia

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    Representation by women has been a significant issue in Canadian politics since 1900. The first woman elected to a provincial legislature in Canada was Louise McKinney in the 1917 Alberta general election, while the first woman elected to the House of Commons was Agnes Macphail, in the 1921 Canadian federal election. Although female ...

  4. Women in the 43rd Canadian Parliament - Wikipedia

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    The number of women in the Canadian Parliament has been slowly but steadily increasing since the 1980s [9] and has reached its highest point following the 2019 Canadian federal election where women made up 29.6% [10] of the Canadian Parliament which is higher than the global average of 25.5% [11] and very close to the 1995 United Nations goal ...

  5. Results breakdown of the 2021 Canadian federal election ...

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    [7] [8] [9] Votes obtained by individual PPC candidates were larger than the margin of victory in 21 ridings, where the Conservative candidate was in second place (12 in Ontario, five in BC, two in Alberta, one in Quebec and one in Newfoundland). Of those seats, 14 went to the Liberals, six to the NDP, and one to the Bloc.

  6. Women in the 44th Canadian Parliament - Wikipedia

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    The number of women in the Canadian Parliament has been slowly but steadily increasing since the 1980s [9] and has reached its highest point following the 2021 Canadian federal election where women made up 30.5% [10] of the Canadian House of Commons, higher than the global average of 25.7% [11] and surpassing the 1995 United Nations goal of 30% ...

  7. List of women appointed to the Canadian Senate - Wikipedia

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    First black member, and longest serving member of the Senate [3] [4] Joyce Fairbairn: Alberta: June 29, 1984 January 18, 2013 Liberal: Pierre Trudeau: First woman to serve as Leader of the Government of the Senate [3] [5] Brenda Robertson: New Brunswick: December 21, 1984 May 23, 2004 Progressive Conservative: Brian Mulroney [3] Eileen Rossiter ...

  8. Women in Canadian provincial and territorial legislatures

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    In 2021, a by-election resulted in NWT gaining a majority of women representatives, a first for Canada. [2] The province with the highest percentage of women in their legislature is Quebec at 46.4%. Women currently represent 35.3 per cent (273 out of 772) of all provincial and territorial legislators across Canada as a whole.

  9. Category:Lists of women politicians in Canada - Wikipedia

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    List of women appointed to the Canadian Senate; V. ... Women in the 27th Canadian Parliament This page was last edited on 20 September 2022, at 06:25 (UTC). ...