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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.
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 ...
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% ...
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 ...
The 42nd Canadian Parliament includes a record number of female Members of Parliament, with 88 women elected to the 338-member House of Commons of Canada (26%) in the 2015 election. [1] This represents a gain of twelve seats over the previous record of 76 women in the 41st Canadian Parliament.
List of women elected to Canadian Parliament; Women in the 14th Canadian Parliament; Women in the 15th Canadian Parliament; Women in the 16th Canadian Parliament
Women in the 26th Canadian Parliament; Women in the 27th Canadian Parliament This page was last edited on 20 September 2022, at 06:25 (UTC). Text ...
Women were 23.3 per cent of all candidates in the 2006 election, and 24.8 per cent of candidates from the parties that won representation in Parliament.. The NDP nominated the largest proportion of women: more than a third of all New Democratic candidates were women, and nearly a third of all female candidates in the election were New Democrats.