The 41st Canadian Parliament includes a record number of female Members of Parliament , with 76 women elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election .[ 1] 40th Canadian Parliament . By contrast, the 112th United States Congress had 72 women sitting in the 435-seat United States House of Representatives , and the 113th United States Congress has 81.
Of those 76 women, 38 were elected for the first time in the 2011 election. This included former PSAC president Nycole Turmel , who was the first woman to hold the position. She later accepted the role of interim leader of the NDP with the unanimous support of caucus, after Jack Layton took a temporary leave of absence to fight a second bout of cancer. Layton died on August 22, 2011, at which time Turmel formally assumed the title of Leader of the Opposition . She held the post until the election of Thomas Mulcair as leader of the NDP, and was the second woman to serve as Leader of the Opposition (the first was Deborah Grey ).
The Green Party 's Elizabeth May was the first woman leader of a political party to be elected to the House of Commons since former NDP leader Alexa McDonough . As they hold only two seats, the Greens are not recognized as having official party status in the House of Commons .
As well as a record number of women overall, the 41st Parliament will also contain a record number of younger women, with 18 women MPs who were under the age of 40 on election day, compared to just five in the previous Parliament.[ 2]
The longest-serving women in the 41st Parliament are Hedy Fry and Diane Ablonczy , who were first elected in the 1993 election .
Three women who were elected in the 2011 election have since resigned their seats and four women have been elected in by-elections . As of November 17, 2014, there are 77 women currently serving in the House of Commons, and 258 women have served overall in the body's history.
Party Total women candidates % women candidates of total candidates Total women elected % women elected of total women candidates % women elected of total elected New Democrats 124 (of 308) 40.3% 40 (of 103) 32.3% 38.8% Conservative 68 (of 307) 22.1% 28 (of 166) 41.2% 16.9% Liberal 90 (of 308) 29.2% 7 (of 34) 6.7% 20.6% Green 99 (of 304) 32.6% 1 (of 1) 1.0% 100.0% Bloc Québécois 24 (of 75) 32.0% 1 (of 4) 4.2% 25.0% Table source:[ 3]
† denotes women who were newly elected in the 2011 election and are serving their first term in office. †† denotes women who were not members of the 40th Parliament, but previously served in another parliament.
Name Party Electoral district Notes Diane Ablonczy Conservative Calgary—Nose Hill Eve Adams † Liberal Mississauga—Brampton South Crossed the floor to the Liberal Party from Conservative Party on February 9, 2015. Leona Aglukkaq Conservative Nunavut Stella Ambler † Conservative Mississauga South Rona Ambrose Conservative Edmonton—Spruce Grove Niki Ashton New Democrat Churchill Paulina Ayala † New Democrat Honoré-Mercier Joyce Bateman † Conservative Winnipeg South Centre Carolyn Bennett Liberal St. Paul's Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe † New Democrat Pierrefonds—Dollard Kelly Block Conservative Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar Françoise Boivin †† New Democrat Gatineau Charmaine Borg † New Democrat Terrebonne—Blainville Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet † New Democrat Hochelaga Ruth Ellen Brosseau † New Democrat Berthier—Maskinongé Lois Brown Conservative Newmarket—Aurora Chris Charlton New Democrat Hamilton Mountain Olivia Chow New Democrat Trinity—Spadina Resigned from the House of Commons on March 12, 2014. Joan Crockatt Conservative Calgary Centre Elected in a by-election on November 26, 2012. Jean Crowder New Democrat Nanaimo—Cowichan Pat Davidson Conservative Sarnia—Lambton Libby Davies New Democrat Vancouver East Anne-Marie Day † New Democrat Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles Rosane Doré Lefebvre † New Democrat Alfred-Pellan Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North Linda Duncan New Democrat Edmonton—Strathcona Kerry-Lynne Findlay † Conservative Delta—Richmond East Diane Finley Conservative Haldimand—Norfolk Judy Foote Liberal Random—Burin—St. George's Chrystia Freeland Liberal Toronto Centre Elected in a by-election on November 25, 2013. Mylène Freeman † New Democratic Party Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel Hedy Fry Liberal Vancouver Centre Cheryl Gallant Conservative Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke Shelly Glover Conservative Saint Boniface Nina Grewal Conservative Fleetwood—Port Kells Sadia Groguhé † New Democrat Saint-Lambert Sana Hassainia † New Democrat Verchères—Les Patriotes Carol Hughes New Democrat Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing Roxanne James † Conservative Scarborough Centre Yvonne Jones Liberal Labrador Elected in a by-election on May 13, 2013. Alexandrine Latendresse † New Democrat Louis-Saint-Laurent Hélène Laverdière † New Democrat Laurier—Sainte-Marie Hélène LeBlanc † New Democrat LaSalle—Émard Kellie Leitch † Conservative Simcoe—Grey Megan Leslie New Democrat Halifax Laurin Liu † New Democrat Rivière-des-Mille-Îles Irene Mathyssen New Democrat London—Fanshawe Elizabeth May † Green Saanich—Gulf Islands Leader of the Green Party. Cathy McLeod Conservative Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo Élaine Michaud † New Democrat Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier Christine Moore † New Democrat Abitibi—Témiscamingue Isabelle Morin † New Democrat Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine Marie-Claude Morin † New Democrat Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot Maria Mourani Bloc Québécois Ahuntsic Joyce Murray Liberal Vancouver Quadra Peggy Nash †† New Democrat Parkdale—High Park Bev Oda Conservative Durham Resigned from the House of Commons on July 31, 2012. Tilly O'Neill-Gordon Conservative Miramichi Annick Papillon † New Democrat Québec Ève Péclet † New Democrat La Pointe-de-l'Île Pat Perkins Conservative Whitby—Oshawa Elected in a by-election on November 17, 2014. Manon Perreault † New Democrat Montcalm Anne Minh-Thu Quach † New Democrat Beauharnois—Salaberry Lisa Raitt Conservative Halton Francine Raynault † New Democrat Joliette Michelle Rempel † Conservative Calgary Centre-North Lise St-Denis † New Democrat Saint-Maurice—Champlain Denise Savoie New Democrat Victoria Resigned from the House of Commons on August 31, 2012. Djaouida Sellah † New Democrat Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert Jinny Sims † New Democrat Newton—North Delta Judy Sgro Liberal York West Gail Shea Conservative Egmont Rathika Sitsabaiesan † New Democrat Scarborough—Rouge River Joy Smith Conservative Kildonan—St. Paul Susan Truppe † Conservative London North Centre Nycole Turmel † New Democrat Hull—Aylmer Interim Leader of the Official Opposition from August 23, 2011, to March 23, 2012. Alice Wong Conservative Richmond Lynne Yelich Conservative Blackstrap Wai Young † Conservative Vancouver South
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