Women in the 26th Canadian Parliament

The number of women sitting in the House of Commons increased to six during the 26th Canadian Parliament; the number of women senators remained at six. 40 women ran for seats in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1963 federal election; two women out of five incumbents were reelected. Ellen Fairclough, Isabel Hardie and Margaret Mary Macdonald were defeated when they ran for reelection.[1][2][3] Pauline Jewett and Margaret Konantz were elected to the House of Commons in the general election;[4][5] Eloise Jones and Margaret Rideout were elected in by-elections held in June 1964.[6][7]

Judy LaMarsh was named to the Canadian cabinet, becoming the second woman to serve as a federal cabinet minister.[8]

Nancy Hodges resigned her seat in the Senate in June 1965, reducing the number of women senators to five.[9]

Party Standings

Party Total women candidates % women candidates of total candidates Total women elected % women elected of total women candidates % women elected of total elected
NDP 13 (of 232) 5.6% 0 (of 17) 0% 0%
Progressive Conservative 12 (of 265) 4.5% 1 (of 95) 8.3% 1.1%
Liberal 6 (of 265) 2.3% 3 (of 128) 50% 2.3%
Social Credit 6 (of 224) 2.7% 0 (of 24) 0% 0%
Independent 2 (of 9) 22.2% 0 (of 0) 0% -
Communist Party of Canada 1 (of 12) 8.3% 0 (of 0) 0% -
Table source:[10]

Members of the House of Commons

Name Party Electoral district Notes
  Pauline Jewett Liberal Northumberland
  Eloise Jones Progressive Conservative Saskatoon by-election
  Margaret Konantz Liberal Winnipeg South first woman MP from Manitoba
  Judy LaMarsh Liberal Niagara Falls cabinet minister
  Margaret Rideout Liberal Westmorland by-election; first woman MP from New Brunswick
  Jean Casselman Wadds Progressive Conservative Grenville—Dundas


Senators

Senator Appointed on the advice of Term from Party
  Muriel McQueen Fergusson St. Laurent 1953.05.19 - 1975.05.23 New Brunswick Liberal
  Marianna Beauchamp Jodoin St. Laurent 1953.05.19 - 1966.06.01 Quebec Liberal
  Nancy Hodges St. Laurent 1953.11.05 - 1965.06.12 British Columbia Liberal
  Florence Elsie Inman St. Laurent 1955.07.28 - 1986.05.31 Prince Edward Island Liberal
  Olive Lillian Irvine Diefenbaker 1960.01.14 - 1969.11.01 Manitoba Progressive Conservative
  Josie Alice Quart Diefenbaker 1960.01.14 - 1969.11.01 Quebec Progressive Conservative
gollark: This is 9865861812591298612579271274951298451284912497126498162471624916248917240182947190471904812-48-12849`128490184091820948194812904u128 yrqugrfqeyor heresy.
gollark: Sorry, but I ignored the lore, what *is* emptyepsilon?
gollark: I operate a matrix homeserver, although matrix has nonnegligible bee density. We *could* use APIONET #g.
gollark: osmarks.net's source is on git too, it might just be somewhat outdated if I'm doing testing.
gollark: Interesting fact: unlike your "git push and have the site recompile" setups, osmarks.net is always locally compiled on my laptop and submitted to osmarks.net over SCP.

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.