Female Candidates in Canadian elections
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[edit] 2006 general election
- Overall - 23% of candidates were female. 19% of Members of Parliament elected in 2006 were women.
- Conservative Party - 14 women out of 124 seats, or 11.3 per cent of the party's seats
- Liberal Party - 21 women out of 103 seats, or 20.4 per cent of the party's seats.
- Bloc Quebecois - 16 women out of 51 seats, or 31.4 per cent of the party's seats.
- New Democratic Party - 12 women out of 29 seats, or 41.4 per cent of the party's seats.
Template:Election-table colspan="7"|Gender breakdown
|- bgcolor=CCCCCC
!rowspan=2 colspan="2"|Party
!rowspan=2|Leader's
gender
!colspan=4|Candidates
|- bgcolor=CCCCCC
!Total
!Female
!Male
!% female
|-
Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Conservative/row
|Conservative
|M
|align="right"|308
|align="right"|38
|align="right"|270
|align="right"|12.3%
Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal/row
|Liberal
|M
|align="right"|308
|align="right"|79
|align="right"|229
|align="right"|25.6%
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|Bloc Québécois
|M
|align="right"|75
|align="right"|23
|align="right"|52
|align="right"|30.1%
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|New Democrats
|M
|align="right"|308
|align="right"|108
|align="right"|200
|align="right"|35.1%
Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Green/row
|Green
|M
|align="right"|308
|align="right"|72
|align="right"|236
|align="right"|23.4%
Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Christian Heritage/row
|Christian Heritage
|M
|align="right"|45
|align="right"|8
|align="right"|37
|align="right"|17.8%
Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives/row
|Progressive Canadian
|F
|align="right"|25
|align="right"|1
|align="right"|24
|align="right"|4.0%
Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Marxist-Leninist/row
|Marxist-Leninist
|F
|align="right"|69
|align="right"|24
|align="right"|45
|align="right"|34.8%
Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Marijuana/row
|Marijuana
|M
|align="right"|23
|align="right"|1
|align="right"|22
|align="right"|4.3%
Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Canadian Action/row
|Canadian Action
|F
|align="right"|34
|align="right"|8
|align="right"|26
|align="right"|23.5%
Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Communist/row
|Communist
|M
|align="right"|21
|align="right"|7
|align="right"|14
|align="right"|33.3%
Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Libertarian/row
|Libertarian
|M
|align="right"|10
|align="right"|1
|align="right"|9
|align="right"|10.0%
Template:Canadian politics/party colours/All Nations/row
|First Peoples National
|M
|align="right"|5
|align="right"|0
|align="right"|5
|align="right"|0.0%
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|Western Block
|M
|align="right"|4
|align="right"|1
|align="right"|3
|align="right"|25.0%
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|Animal Alliance
|F
|align="right"|1
|align="right"|1
|align="right"|0
|align="right"|100.0%
Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Independents/row
|colspan=2|Independent
|align="right"|90
|align="right"|8
|align="right"|82
|align="right"|8.9%
|-
| colspan="3"|Total
| align="right"|1634
| align="right"|380
| align="right"|1254
| align="right"|23.3%
|-
| align="center" colspan="7"|Source: Elections Canada
|-
|}
[edit] 2004 federal election
- 21% of the MPs elected in 2004 were women
Number of female candidates - Elected - Percentage elected
- Total 391 65 16.62 %
- New Democratic Party 96 5 5.20 %
- Green Party of Canada 78 0 0 %
- Liberal Party of Canada 75 34 45.33 %
- Conservative Party of Canada 36 12 33.33 %
- Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada 28 0 0 %
- Bloc Québécois 18 14 77.77 %
- Christian Heritage Party of Canada 15 0 0 %
- Canadian Action Party 12 0 0 %
- Communist Party of Canada 11 0 0 %
- Marijuana Party of Canada 9 0 0 %
- Independent 7 0 0 %
- Libertarian Party of Canada 2 0 0 %
- No affiliation to a recognised party 2 0 0 %
- Progressive Canadian Party 2 0 0 %
[edit] External links
- [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/asp/WomenElect.asp?lang=E&source=hoc Library of Parliament ; Women Candidates in General Elections
1921 to Date]
