Female Candidates in Canadian elections

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.

colspan="7"|Gender breakdown !rowspan=2 colspan="2"|Party !rowspan=2|Leader's gender !colspan=4|Candidates !Total !Female !Male !% female
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 * Conservative
 * M
 * align="right"|308
 * align="right"|38
 * align="right"|270
 * align="right"|12.3%


 * Liberal
 * M
 * align="right"|308
 * align="right"|79
 * align="right"|229
 * align="right"|25.6%


 * Bloc Québécois
 * M
 * align="right"|75
 * align="right"|23
 * align="right"|52
 * align="right"|30.1%


 * New Democrats
 * M
 * align="right"|308
 * align="right"|108
 * align="right"|200
 * align="right"|35.1%


 * Green
 * M
 * align="right"|308
 * align="right"|72
 * align="right"|236
 * align="right"|23.4%


 * Christian Heritage
 * M
 * align="right"|45
 * align="right"|8
 * align="right"|37
 * align="right"|17.8%


 * Progressive Canadian
 * F
 * align="right"|25
 * align="right"|1
 * align="right"|24
 * align="right"|4.0%


 * Marxist-Leninist
 * F
 * align="right"|69
 * align="right"|24
 * align="right"|45
 * align="right"|34.8%


 * Marijuana
 * M
 * align="right"|23
 * align="right"|1
 * align="right"|22
 * align="right"|4.3%


 * Canadian Action
 * F
 * align="right"|34
 * align="right"|8
 * align="right"|26
 * align="right"|23.5%


 * Communist
 * M
 * align="right"|21
 * align="right"|7
 * align="right"|14
 * align="right"|33.3%


 * Libertarian
 * M
 * align="right"|10
 * align="right"|1
 * align="right"|9
 * align="right"|10.0%


 * First Peoples National
 * M
 * align="right"|5
 * align="right"|0
 * align="right"|5
 * align="right"|0.0%


 * Western Block
 * M
 * align="right"|4
 * align="right"|1
 * align="right"|3
 * align="right"|25.0%


 * Animal Alliance
 * F
 * align="right"|1
 * align="right"|1
 * align="right"|0
 * align="right"|100.0%


 * 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
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 * align="center" colspan="7"|Source: Elections Canada
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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 %