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Women in the 25th Canadian Parliament
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The number of women sitting in the House of Commons remained at five during the [[25th Canadian Parliament]]; the number of women senators remained at six. 26 women ran for seats in the Canadian House of Commons in the [[Canadian federal election, 1962|1962 federal election]]; four women out of five incumbents were reelected. [[Margaret Aitken]] was defeated when she ran for reelection;<ref></ref> [[Isabel Hardie]] became the first woman elected to the House of Commons from the [[Northwest Territories]].<ref></ref>
== Party Standings ==
{| border="1" cellpadding="4" width="610" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" class="sortable"
|- bgcolor="CCCCCC"
!Party
!Total women candidates
!% women candidates of total candidates
!Total women elected
!% women elected of total women candidates
!% women elected of total elected
|-
|[[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
| (of 265)
|2.6%
| (of 116)
|42.9%
|2.6%
|-
|[[New Democratic Party|NDP]]
| (of 218)
|3.2%
| (of 19)
|0%
|0%
|-
|[[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
| (of 263)
|2.3%
| (of 99)
|33.3%
|2.0%
|-
|[[Social Credit Party of Canada|Social Credit]]
| (of 230)
|1.7%
| (of 30)
|0%
|0%
|-
|Independent
| (of 11)
|9.1%
| (of 0)
|0%
| -
|-
|[[Communist Party of Canada]]
| (of 12)
|8.3%
| (of 0)
|0%
| -
|-class="sortbottom"
|colspan="6" align="center"|Table source:<ref name="parl"></ref>
|}
== Members of the House of Commons ==
{| border="1" cellpadding="4" width="610" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="100%" class="sortable"
|- bgcolor="CCCCCC"
!
!Name
!Party
!Electoral district
!Notes
|-
| [[Ellen Fairclough]]
| [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
| [[Hamilton West (Canadian electoral district)|Hamilton West]]
| cabinet member
|-
|[[Isabel Hardie]]
| [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
|[[Northwest Territories (electoral district)|Northwest Territories]]
|
|-
| [[Judy LaMarsh]]
| [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
| [[Niagara Falls (electoral district)|Niagara Falls]]
|
|-
| [[Margaret Mary Macdonald]]
| [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
| [[Kings (electoral district)|Kings]]
|
|-
| [[Jean Casselman Wadds]]
| [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
| [[Grenville—Dundas]]
|
|}
</table>
==Senators==
{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
!
!Senator
!Appointed on the advice of
!Term
!from
!Party
|-
|[[Muriel McQueen Fergusson]]
|[[Louis St. Laurent|St. Laurent]]
|1953.05.19 - 1975.05.23
|New Brunswick
|Liberal
|-
|[[Marianna Beauchamp Jodoin]]
|[[Louis St. Laurent|St. Laurent]]
|1953.05.19 - 1966.06.01
|Quebec
|Liberal
|-
|[[Nancy Hodges]]
|[[Louis St. Laurent|St. Laurent]]
|1953.11.05 - 1965.06.12
|British Columbia
|Liberal
|-
|[[Florence Elsie Inman]]
|[[Louis St. Laurent|St. Laurent]]
|1955.07.28 - 1986.05.31
|Prince Edward Island
|Liberal
|-
|[[Olive Lillian Irvine]]
|[[John Diefenbaker|Diefenbaker]]
|1960.01.14 - 1969.11.01
|Manitoba
|Progressive Conservative
|-
|[[Josie Alice Quart]]
|[[John Diefenbaker|Diefenbaker]]
|1960.01.14 - 1969.11.01
|Quebec
|Progressive Conservative
|}
== References ==
[[Category:Women members of the House of Commons of Canada]]
[[Category:Lists of female political office-holders in Canada]]
September 22, 2018 at 04:30AM
