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Name Party Electoral district First elected/previously elected Larry Maguire: Conservative: Brandon—Souris: 2013 Marty Morantz: Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley
Resigned to seek the BC NDP nomination for Langley-Abbotsford in the 2024 British Columbia general election [14] June 24, 2024 Toronto—St. Paul's: Don Stewart: Vacant Conservative: Elected in a by-election August 31, 2024 Halifax: Andy Fillmore: Liberal: Vacant Resigned to run in the 2024 Halifax mayoral election: September 16, 2024 LaSalle ...
Endorse candidates for election to the House of Commons. To obtain the right to put the party name on the ballot, under the names of the candidates it endorses, a political party must register with the chief electoral officer. As of 2022, there were 22 registered political parties operating at the federal level in Canada.
The House of Commons of Canada (French: Chambre des communes du Canada) is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the bicameral legislature of Canada. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body whose members are known as members of Parliament (MPs).
The number of seats in parliament has varied as new provinces joined the country and as population distribution between the provinces changed; there are currently 338 House MPs and 105 Senators (when there are no vacancies). Canada uses a Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the leader of the party with the most seats in the ...
The modern-day Parliament of Canada came into existence in 1867, in which year the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland passed the British North America Act, 1867, uniting the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada—with the Province of Canada split into Quebec and Ontario—into a single federation called ...
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 are organized alphabetically, by age ...
The 44th Canadian Parliament is the session of the Parliament of Canada which began on 22 November 2021, with the membership of the House of Commons, having been determined by the results of the 2021 federal election held on 20 September.