To date, no provincial or territorial legislative assembly has achieved exact gender parity between women and men. The Northwest Territories had near-parity after its 2019 election, which saw the election of 9 women out of a total of 19 MLAs.[1] In 2021, a by-election resulted in NWT gaining a majority of women representatives, a first for Canada.[2] The province with the highest percentage of women in their legislature is Quebec at 46.4%.
Women currently represent 35.3 per cent (273 out of 772) of all provincial and territorial legislators across Canada as a whole.