More women than men elected to sit as B.C. MLAs for first time

The results of who has been elected to sit as an MLA in B.C. have now been released, and those results mark a milestone for women.

The B.C. Legislature X account noted that of the 93 elected MLAs, 44 are men while 49 are women, representing 52.7 per cent of the seats.

The Senate is closer to gender-parity, with 45 women being appointed to be a senator of the 92, representing 48.9 per cent.The B.C. Legislature’s timeline of women’s suffrage notes the first woman was elected to serve in the province in a byelection in 1918. “Following Smith’s victory, newspapers joked about the difficulties of adapting to the presence of a woman in provincial politics.”

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