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As of 2008, a total of 193 women have served as Members of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons.

In the current session of Parliament, 65 women are currently sitting as MPs, 34 per cent of the total number of women ever to have served in the House.

Name Party Riding Term in office Notes
     Diane Ablonczy Conservative Calgary—Nose Hill 1993 - present
     Margaret Aitken Progressive Conservative York—Humber 1953 - 1962
     Hélène Alarie Bloc Québécois Louis-Hébert 1997 - 2000
     Carole-Marie Allard Liberal Laval East 2000 - 2004
     Rona Ambrose Conservative Edmonton—Spruce Grove 2004 - present
     Edna Anderson Progressive Conservative Simcoe Centre 1988 - 1993
     Ursula Appolloni Liberal York South / York South—Weston 1974 - 1984
     Jean Augustine Liberal Etobicoke—Lakeshore 1993 - 2006
     Eleni Bakopanos Liberal Saint-Denis / Ahuntsic 1993 - 2006
     Vivian Barbot Bloc Québécois Papineau
     Sue Barnes Liberal London West
     Suzanne Beauchamp-Niquet Liberal Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean 1980 - 1984
     Colleen Beaumier Liberal Brampton West
     Monique Bégin Liberal
     Catherine Bell NDP Vancouver Island North 2006 - present
     Carolyn Bennett Liberal St. Paul's
     Sybil Bennett Progressive Conservative Halton 1953 - 1956 First female MP to die while in office.
     Dawn Black NDP New Westminster—Coquitlam 1988 - 1993
2006 - present
(First woman elected to Parliament for two non-consecutive terms?)
     Martha Black Conservative Yukon
     France Bonsant Bloc Québécois Compton—Stanstead
     Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Limoilou
     Diane Bourgeois Bloc Québécois Terrebonne—Blainville
     Bonnie Brown Liberal Oakville
     Paule Brunelle Bloc Québécois Trois-Rivières
     Kim Campbell Progressive Conservative Vancouver Centre 1988 - 1993 First woman to serve as Prime Minister of Canada.
     Brenda Chamberlain Liberal Guelph
     Chris Charlton NDP Hamilton Mountain 2006 - present
     Olivia Chow NDP Trinity—Spadina 2006 - present
     Sheila Copps Liberal Hamilton East 1984 - 2004 First woman to serve as Deputy Prime Minister of Canada; longest-serving woman in parliamentary history.
     Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan 2006 - present
     Pat Davidson Conservative Sarnia—Lambton 2006 - present
     Libby Davies NDP Vancouver East 1997 - present
     Claude DeBellefeuille Bloc Québécois Beauharnois—Salaberry
     Nicole Demers Bloc Québécois Laval
     Johanne Deschamps Bloc Québécois Laurentides—Labelle
     Ruby Dhalla Liberal Brampton—Springdale 2004 - present
     Judy Erola Liberal Nickel Belt 1980 - 1984
     Meili Faille Bloc Québécois Vaudreuil-Soulanges
     Diane Finley Conservative Haldimand—Norfolk
     Raymonde Folco Liberal Laval—Les Îles
     Carole Freeman Bloc Québécois Châteauguay—Saint-Constant
     Hedy Fry Liberal Vancouver Centre 1993 - present
     Christiane Gagnon Bloc Québécois Québec
     Cheryl Gallant Conservative Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke 2000 - present
     Nina Grewal Conservative Fleetwood—Port Kells 2004 - present First woman to serve as a federal MP in the same session of Parliament as her husband (Gurmant Grewal).
     Albina Guarnieri Liberal Mississauga East—Cooksville 1988 - present Tied with Diane Marleau as the longest-serving woman currently in the House.
     Monique Guay Bloc Québécois Rivière-du-Nord
     Helena Guergis Conservative Simcoe—Grey
     Betty Hinton Conservative Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo
     Marlene Jennings Liberal Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine
     Susan Kadis Liberal Thornhill
     Nancy Karetak-Lindell Liberal Nunavut 1997 - present
     Tina Keeper Liberal Churchill 2006 - present
     Francine Lalonde Bloc Québécois La Pointe-de-l'Île
     Carole Lavallée Bloc Québécois Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert
     Alexa McDonough NDP Halifax 1997 - present
     Audrey McLaughlin NDP Yukon 1987 - 1997 First woman to lead a party caucus in the House of Commons.
     Agnes Macphail Progressive Grey Southeast 1921 - 1940 First woman ever elected to the House of Commons.
     Diane Marleau Liberal Sudbury 1988 - present Tied with Albina Guarnieri as the longest-serving woman currently in the House.
     Irene Mathyssen NDP London—Fanshawe 2006 - present
     Maria Minna Liberal Beaches—East York
     Maria Mourani Bloc Québécois Ahuntsic
     Peggy Nash NDP Parkdale—High Park 2006 - present
     Anita Neville Liberal Winnipeg South Centre
     Bev Oda Conservative Durham
     Pauline Picard Bloc Québécois Drummond
     Penny Priddy NDP Surrey North 2006 - present
     Yasmin Ratansi Liberal Don Valley East
     Karen Redman Liberal Kitchener Centre
     Lucienne Robillard Liberal Westmount—Ville-Marie
     Caroline St-Hilaire Bloc Québécois Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher
     Denise Savoie NDP Victoria 2006 - present
     Judy Sgro Liberal York West
     Carol Skelton Conservative Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar 2000 - present
     Joy Smith Conservative Kildonan—St. Paul
     Belinda Stronach Liberal Newmarket—Aurora 2004 - present
     Ève-Mary Thaï Thi Lac Bloc Québécois Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot 2007 - present
     Louise Thibault Bloc Québécois Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques
     Rose-Marie Ur Liberal Lambton—Middlesex / Middlesex—Kent—Lambton 1993 - 2006
     Josée Verner Conservative Louis-Saint-Laurent
     Jean Casselman Wadds Progressive Conservative Grenville—Dundas 1958 - 1968 First woman to serve as an MP in the same session of Parliament as her father (William Earl Rowe).
     Judy Wasylycia-Leis NDP Winnipeg North 1997 - present
     Lynne Yelich Conservative Blackstrap


  1. Gabrielle Bertrand
  2. Judy Bethel
  3. Suzanne Blais-Grenier
  4. Ethel Blondin-Andrew
  5. Anne Blouin
  6. Françoise Boivin
  7. Lise Bourgault
  8. Claudette Bradshaw
  9. Margaret Bridgman
  10. Pauline Browes
  11. Jan Brown
  12. Dianne Brushett
  13. Sarmite Bulte
  14. Catherine Callbeck
  15. Iona Campagnolo
  16. Coline Campbell
  17. Elinor Caplan
  18. Pat Carney
  19. Aileen Carroll
  20. Cora Taylor Casselman
  21. Marlene Catterall
  22. Andrée Champagne
  23. Mary Clancy
  24. Shaughnessy Cohen
  25. Mary Collins
  26. Jennifer Cossitt
  27. Eva Côté
  28. Marlene Cowling
  29. Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral
  30. Maud Debien
  31. Bev Desjarlais
  32. Marion Dewar
  33. Dorothy Dobbie
  34. Michelle Dockrill
  35. Suzanne Duplessis
  36. Ellen Fairclough
  37. Louise Feltham
  38. Sheila Finestone
  39. Liza Frulla
  40. Beryl Gaffney
  41. Marie Gibeau
  42. Jocelyne Girard-Bujold
  43. Barbara Greene
  44. Deborah Grey
  45. Martha Hall Findlay
  46. Isabel Hardie
  47. Louise Hardy
  48. Sharon Hayes
  49. Céline Hervieux-Payette
  50. Bonnie Hickey
  51. Simma Holt
  52. Lynn Hunter
  53. Carole Jacques
  54. Daphne Jennings
  55. Pauline Jewett
  56. Eloise Jones
  57. Marie Thérèse Killens
  58. Margaret Konantz
  59. Karen Kraft Sloan
  60. Judy LaMarsh
  61. Monique Landry
  62. Joy Langan
  63. Sophia Leung
  64. Wendy Lill
  65. Judi Longfield
  66. Flora MacDonald (politician)
  67. Lynn McDonald
  68. Margaret Mary Macdonald
  69. Barbara McDougall
  70. Grace MacInnis
  71. Anne McLellan
  72. Shirley Maheu
  73. Claudy Mailly
  74. Shirley Martin
  75. Val Meredith
  76. Margaret Mitchell (Canadian politician)
  77. Albanie Morin
  78. Joyce Murray
  79. Aideen Nicholson
  80. Dorise Nielsen
  81. Carolyn Parrish
  82. Jean Payne
  83. Lucie Pépin
  84. Beth Phinney
  85. Jean Pigott
  86. Denise Poirier-Rivard
  87. Margaret Rideout
  88. Pierrette Ringuette
  89. Nicole Roy-Arcelin
  90. Diane St-Jacques
  91. Jeanne Sauvé
  92. Hélène Scherrer
  93. Georgette Sheridan
  94. Ann Shipley
  95. Roseanne Skoke
  96. Bobbie Sparrow
  97. Christine Stewart
  98. Jane Stewart
  99. Diane Stratas
  100. Gladys Strum
  101. Monique Tardif
  102. Anna Terrana
  103. Yolande Thibeault
  104. Paddy Torsney
  105. Suzanne Tremblay
  106. Angela Vautour
  107. Pierrette Venne
  108. Monique Vézina
  109. Elsie Wayne
  110. Susan Whelan