List of the first female members of parliament by country
This is a list of the first female members of parliament in each country and territory. Princess Isabel of Brazil could have become the first female parliamentarian in 1871, as the Brazilian constitution reserved a seat in the Senate for the heir presumptive to the throne once they reached 25 years of age. However, she did not take the seat she was entitled to.[ 1] Grand Duchy of Finland , where 19 women were elected to the Eduskunta in 1907 .[ 2] Anna Rogstad of Norway, who took her seat in the Storting as a substitute in 1911,[ 3] Jeannette Rankin of the United States, who was elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 , taking office the following year.
In some cases – such as Grace Schneiders-Howard of Suriname – women were elected before they had the right to vote, having been granted the right to stand as candidates but not active suffrage.[ 4] Vatican City – has never had a female parliamentarian as membership of the Vatican legislature, the Pontifical Commission , is limited to cardinals, all of whom are men.
List of the first female members of parliament by country
Members are listed by when they took office. The list excludes members of provisional, non-elected legislatures constituted during or following conflicts.
Country
Year
Member
Notes
Afghanistan 1965 Roqia Abubakr Khadija Ahrari Masuma Esmati-Wardak Aziza Gardizi Anahita Ratebzad Homeira Seljuqi [ 5]
Albania 1945 Naxhije Dume Liri Gega Ollga Plumbi [ 6]
Algeria 1945 Alice Sportisse Gomez-Nadal
American Samoa 1953 Zilpher Jennings Mabel Reid [ 7]
Andorra 1984
Mercè Bonell [ 8]
Angola 1980 19 women[ 9]
Anguilla 1972 Idalia Gumbs Gumbs was an appointed member of the House of Assembly . She and Albena Lake-Hodge became the first elected members in 1976 [ 10] [ 11]
Antigua and Barbuda 1958 Bertha Higgins [ 12] Higgins was an appointed member of the West Indies Federal Senate. Jacqui Quinn-Leandro was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in 2004 [ 13]
Argentina 1952 Judith Elida Acuña Generosa Aguilar Magdalena Álvarez de Seminario Celia Argumedo Josefa Biondi Josefa Brigada María Rosa Calviño de Gómez Hilda Nélida Castañeira María Elena Casuccio María Caviglia Angélica Esperanza Dacunda Elena Di Girolamo Paulina Escardo Juana Alicia Espejo Esther Fadul Elena Aída Fernicola Francisca Ana Flores Matilde Gaeta Juanita Larrauri Ana Carmen Macri Dominga Ortiz Delia Parodi Hilda Leonor Pineda de Molins Mafalda Piovano Zulema Noemí Pracánico Elvira Rodríguez Leonardi Celina Rodríguez Seferina Rodríguez Carmen Salaber María Urbelina Tejada Isabel Torterola Otilia Villa Maciel [ 14] [ 15]
Armenia 1919 Perchuhi Partizpanyan-Barseghyan Varvara Sahakyan Katarine Zalyan-Manukyan [ 16]
Aruba 1963 Maria Irausquin-Wajcberg [ 17]
Australia 1943 Enid Lyons Dorothy Tangney [ 18]
Austria 1919 Anna Boschek Hildegard Burjan Emmy Freundlich Adelheid Popp Gabriele Proft Therese Schlesinger Amalie Seidel Maria Tusch [ 19]
Bahamas 1967
Doris Sands Johnson Johnson was an appointed member of the Senate. Janet Bostwick was the first woman elected to the House of Assembly in 1982[ 20]
Bahrain 2000
Mariam Al Jalahma Bahia Al Jishi Alees Samaan Mona Al-Zayani [ 21] The four were appointed members.[ 22] Lateefa Al Gaood became the first elected member of the Consultative Council in 2006
Bangladesh 1947 Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah Ikramullah was indirectly elected to the Constituent Assembly of India ,[ 23] Constituent Assembly of Pakistan .[ 24]
Barbados 1949
Muriel Hanschell Hanschell was an appointed member of the Legislative Council. Edna Ermyntrude Bourne became the woman elected to the House of Assembly in 1951 [ 25]
Belgium 1921 Marie Janson Janson was an indirectly-elected member of the Senate. Lucie Dejardin was the first directly-elected member of the Chamber of Representatives in 1929 [ 26]
Belize 1961 Gwendolyn Lizarraga [ 27]
Benin 1979 28 women[ 28]
Bermuda 1948 Hilda Aitken Edna Watson [ 29]
Bhutan 1979 Hiranyamayee Lama [ 30]
Bolivia 1956 Emma Gutiérrez [ 31]
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1945
Botswana 1974 Gaositwe K. T. Chiepe Kebatshabile Disele Chiepe became the first female directly-elected member in a 1977 by-election[ 32]
Brazil 1933 Carlota Pereira de Queirós [ 33]
British Virgin Islands 1965
Emogene Creque [ 34] Creque was an appointed member of the Legislative Council. Eileene L. Parsons and Ethlyn Smith became the first two women elected in 1995 [ 34]
Brunei 2011
Zasia binti Sirin Salbiah binti Sulaiman [ 35] Sirin and Sulaiman were both appointed; Brunei has not held parliamentary elections since 1965 .
Bulgaria 1945 Stoyanka Ancheva Ekaterina Avramova Tsola Dragoycheva Stanka Ivanova Tsvetana Keranova Elena Ketskarova Mara Kinkel Venera Klincharova Vyara Makedonska Stefana Markova Ekaterina Nikolova Rada Todorova Mata Tyurkedzhieva Maria Toteva Vera Zlatareva [ 36]
Burkina Faso 1959 Célestine Ouezzin Coulibaly [ 37]
Burundi 1982 Colette Samoya Kirura
Cambodia 1958 Tong Siv Eng [ 38]
Cameroon 1955
Dorcas Idowu [ 39] [ 40] Idowu was an appointed member of the Southern Cameroons House of Assembly. Julienne Keutcha was the first elected member of the National Assembly in 1960 [ 40]
Canada 1921 Agnes Macphail [ 41]
Cape Verde 1975 Isaura Gomes [ 42]
Cayman Islands 1961
Annie Huldah Bodden [ 43] Bodden was an appointed member of the Legislative Assembly. Mary Evelyn Wood became the first elected member in 1962 [ 44]
Central African Republic 1964 Marthe Matongo [ 45]
Chad 1962 Bourkou Louise Kabo [ 46]
Chile 1951
Inés Enríquez Frödden [ 47]
China 1928
Soong Mei-ling Tao Hsuan Tcheng Yu-hsiu [ 48] [ 49] The Legislative Yuan was fully appointed until 1948, when 83 women became the first elected female members: Bai Lianzhen , Amina Bughra , Chang Ping-chiang , Chang Wei-chen , Chao Mao-hua , Chen Jianchen , Chen Jiujing , Chen Mingxian , Chen Yi Yun , Cheng Xiaofu , Cheng Xiu , Cheng Yizhi , Chou Hui-ying , Chou Min , Cui Puzhen , Cui Renqiu , Deng Jixing , Ding Chengfang , Fang Jida , Fei Hsia , Fu Ching-yen , Fu Yan , Hsieh Er , Hsing Shu-yen , Hu Manqi , Huang Jiewen , Huang Peilan , Huang Zhiquan , Huang Chen-hua , Ji Qingyi , Lee Hsiu-fen , Li Hui-min , Li Man-kuei , Li Tianlin , Li Xiangheng , Lin Shen , Ling Yingzhen , Liu Heng-ching , Liu Muzhen , Liu Puren , Liu Woying , Liu Yuzhong , Lou Yiwen , Lu Yun-chang , Luo Heng , Ma Runmin , Ma Shucheng , Mao Tan-yun , Ni Yujie , Pao Yi-min , Pi Yi-shu , Qian Ying , Qiao Jiafu , Rashida , Shih Min-chi , Sun Chi-hsu , Suo Zhaoshiya , Tan Tiwu , Tang Gouzhen , Tcheng Yu-hsiu , Tung Tao-yun , Wang Ai-fen , Wang Chang-hui , Wang Chunbi , Wang Der-zheng , Wang Hsiao-hua , Wang Hsiao-ying , Wang Lubing , Wang Tung-chen , Wei Pei-lan , Wong Tsun-yin , Wu Chi-mei , Wu Jingbin , Wu Lin , Wu Yunfang , Xia Jingru , Xiang Runkun , Yang Pao-lin , Yang Chongrui , Yeh Yeh-chin , Yu Ruzhou , Zhang Guangren and Zhuang Jing . He Meizhi and Nie Yanghua had also been elected, but their election was overturned
Colombia 1958 Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid Anacarsis Cardona de Salonia María Paulina Nieto de Caro [ 50]
Comoros 1993 Sittou Raghadat Mohamed [ 51]
Congo 1963 Mambou Aimée Gnali Micheline Golengo Pierrette Kombo [ 52]
Cook Islands 1947
Tararo Jane Ariki [ 53] Tararo was an indirectly-elected member of the Legislative Council; the first directly-elected women were Poko Ingram and Teupoko'ina Utanga Morgan in 1961 [ 54]
Costa Rica 1953 Ana Rosa Chacón María Teresa Obregón Zamora Estela Quesada [ 55]
Croatia 1945
Cuba 1936 Rosa Anders Causse María Caro Más María Gómez Carbonell María Antonia Quintana Herrero Balbina Remedios Herminia Rodríguez Fernández Consuelo Vázquez Bello [ 56]
Curaçao 1949 Angela Altagracia de Lannoy-Willems [ 57]
Cyprus 1960 Kadriye Hulusi Hacıbulgur [ 58] Constantia Varda Hacıbulgur and Varda were elected to the Communal Chambers , legislative bodies for the Greek and Turkish communities that sat alongside the House of Representatives. Ayla Halit Kazım became the first female member of the House of Representatives in 1963.
Czech Republic 1920 Fanny Blatny Anna Chlebounová Maria Deutsch Božena Ecksteinová Emma Maria Herzig Betty Karpíšková Irene Kirpal Luisa Landová-Štychová Anna Malá Ludmila Pechmanová-Klosová Anna Perthen Eliška Purkyňová Augusta Rozsypalová Františka Skaunicová Fráňa Zemínová [ 59] Božena Viková-Kunětická had been elected to the Bohemian Diet in 1912, but was not allowed to take her seat[ 60]
DR Congo 1970 12 women[ 9]
Denmark 1918
Karen Ankersted Nina Bang Marie Christensen Inger Gautier Schmit Marie Hjelmer Olga Knudsen Helga Larsen Elna Munch Mathilde Malling Hauschultz [ 61] Ankersted, Larsen, Munch and Malling Hauschultz were elected to the Folketing on 22 April 1918, while Christensen, Bang, Hjelmer, Knudsen and Gautier Schmidt were elected to the Landsting on 11 May 1918. Both houses of parliament had their first session on 28 May 1918.[ 62]
Djibouti 2003 Hawa Ahmed Youssouf Ismahan Abdi Douksieh Hasna Hassan Ali Mariam Ibrahim Farah Kadidja Mohamed Ali Hasna Mohamed Dato Aïcha Mohamed Robleh [ 63]
Dominica 1940 Elma Napier [ 64]
Dominican Republic 1942 Milady Félix de L'Official Isabel Mayer Josefa Sánchez de González [ 65]
Ecuador 1945
Nela Martínez [ 66]
Egypt 1957 Rawya Ateya Amina Shukri [ 67]
El Salvador 1956 Rosa Amelia Guzmán Inés Inocente González Blanca Ávalos de Méndez María Isabel Rodríguez [ 68]
Equatorial Guinea 1968 Cristina Makoli Lorenza Matute [ 69]
Estonia 1917 Anna Leetsmann [ 70]
Eswatini 1967 Mary Mdziniso [ 71] [ 72] Mdziniso was an appointed member of the Senate. Lomasontfo Dludlu was the first elected member of the House of Assembly in 1993 [ 73]
Ethiopia 1957 Senedu Gebru [ 74]
Falkland Islands 1950
Madge Biggs [ 75] Biggs was an appointed member of the Legislative Council. Marjorie Vinson became the first elected member in 1964 [ 76]
Faroe Islands 1964
Malla Samuelsen [ 77]
Fiji 1966 Loloma Livingston Irene Jai Narayan Losalini Raravuya Dovi [ 78]
Finland 1907 Ida Aalle-Teljo Eveliina Ala-Kulju Hedvig Gebhard Aleksandra Gripenberg Lucina Hagman Anni Huotari Hilda Käkikoski Mimmi Kanervo Liisi Kivioja Sandra Lehtinen Dagmar Neovius Alli Nissinen Maria Paaso-Laine Hilja Pärssinen Hilma Räsänen Maria Raunio Miina Sillanpää Jenny Upari Iida Vemmelpuu [ 79]
France 1945 Denise Bastide Madeleine Braun Germaine Degrond Marie-Madeleine Dienesch Eugénie Éboué-Tell Germaine François Mathilde Gabriel-Péri Émilienne Galicier Denise Ginollin Lucie Guérin Rose Guérin Solange Lamblin Irène Laure Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux Francine Lefebvre Rachel Lempereur Madeleine Léo-Lagrange Jeanne Léveillé Mathilde Méty Raymonde Tillon Marie Oyon Germaine Peyroles Germaine Poinso-Chapuis Renée Prévert Gilberte Roca Simone Rollin Marcelle Rumeau Hélène Solomon-Langevin Alice Sportisse Gomez-Nadal Hélène de Suzannet Marie Texier-Lahoulle Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier Jeannette Vermeersch [ 80]
French Polynesia 1961
Céline Oopa [ 81]
Gabon 1961 Virginie Ambougou Antoinette Tsono [ 82]
Gambia 1968
Lucretia St. Clair Joof St. Clair Joof was an appointed member of the House of Representatives. Nyimasata Sanneh-Bojang became the first elected member in 1982 [ 83]
Georgia 1919 Liza Nakashidze-Bolkvadze Minadora Orjonikidze Kristine Sharashidze Anna Sologashvili Eleonora Ter-Parsegova-Makhviladze [ 84]
Germany 1919 Lore Agnes Marie Baum Gertrud Bäumer Margarete Behm Anna Blos Clara Bohm-Schuch Minna Bollmann Elisabeth Brönner Hedwig Dransfeld Wilhelmine Eichler Elise Ekke Anna von Gierke Frieda Hauke Else Höfs Anna Hübler Marie Juchacz Wilhelmine Kähler Katharina Kloss Frida Lührs Ernestine Lutze Clara Mende Agnes Neuhaus Antonie Pfülf Johanna Reitze Elfriede Ryneck Elisabeth Röhl Minna Schilling Käthe Schirmacher Maria Schmitz Louise Schroeder Anna Simon Johanna Tesch Christine Teusch Helene Weber Marie Zettler Luise Zietz [ 85] [ 86]
Ghana 1954 Mabel Dove Danquah [ 74]
Gibraltar 1959 Dorothy Ellicott [ 87]
Greece 1953 Eleni Skoura [ 88]
Grenada 1952
Eva Sylvester [ 89]
Guam 1946 Rosa Aguigui Reyes [ 90]
Guatemala 1956 Rosa Castañeda de Mora [ 91]
Greenland 1959 Elisabeth Johansen [ 92]
Guinea 1963 14 women[ 9]
Guinea Bissau 1972 Carmen Pereira
Guernsey 1924 Marie Randall [ 93]
Guyana 1953 Jessie Burnham Janet Jagan Jane Phillips-Gay [ 94]
Haiti 1961 Madame Max Adolphe Aviole Paul-Blanc [ 95]
Honduras 1957 Herlinda Blanco de Bonilla Carmen Griffin de Lefreve Carmen Meléndez de Cálix [ 96]
Hong Kong 1965
Ellen Li Li was an appointed member of the Legislative Council. Emily Lau became the first directly-elected female member in 1991 [ 97]
Hungary 1920 Margit Slachta [ 98]
Iceland 1922 Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason [ 99]
India 1938
Radhabai Subbarayan [ 100]
Indonesia 1935
Cornelia Razoux Schultz-Metzer [ 101] Razoux Schultz-Metzer was an appointed member of the Volksraad . 17 women were elected to the People's Representative Council in 1955 , including Sundari Abdul Rachman , Salawati Daud , Marijamah Djunaedi , Hadinijah Hadi Ngabdulhadi , Suzanna Hamdani , Sunarjo Mangunpuspito , Moedikdio , Djunah Pardzaman , Soepeni Poedjoboentoro , Umi Sardjono , Soemari , Sutijah Suryahadi , Lastari Sutrasno , Rahmah el Yunusiyah
Iran 1963 Mehrangiz Dowlatshahi Nayereh Ebtehaj-Samii Showkat Malek Jahanbani Mehrangiz Manouchehrian Shams ol-Moluk Mosahab Nezhat Nafisi Farrokhroo Parsa Hajar Tarbiat [ 102]
Iraq 1980 16 women[ 9]
Republic of Ireland 1919 Constance Markievicz Markievicz had been elected to the British House of Commons , but did not take her seat. Instead she attended the first session of the Dáil Éireann , the breakaway Irish parliament, in January 1919.
Isle of Man 1933
Marion Shimmin [ 103]
Israel 1949 Rachel Cohen-Kagan Hasya Drori Beba Idelson Fayge Ilanit Hannah Lamdan Ada Maimon Golda Meir Dvora Netzer Shoshana Persitz Esther Raziel-Naor Yehudit Simhonit [ 104]
Italy 1946 Adele Bei Bianca Bianchi Laura Bianchini Filomena Delli Castelli Elisabetta Conci Maria Federici Nadia Gallico Spano Angela Gotelli Angela Maria Guidi Cingolani Nilde Iotti Maria Maddalena Rossi Teresa Mattei Lina Merlin Angiola Minella Rita Montagnana Maria Nicotra Teresa Noce Ottavia Penna Buscemi Elettra Pollastrini Vittoria Titomanlio Maria De Unterrichter Jervolino [ 105]
Ivory Coast 1965 Hortense Aka-Anghui Gladys Anoma Jeanne Gervais [ 106]
Jamaica 1944 Iris Collins [ 107]
Japan 1946 Hatsu Ando Michiko Fujiwara Hanako Honda Hatsu Imai Toshiko Karasawa Shidzue Katō Chiyo Kimura Tsuruyo Kondo Mitsu Kōro Haru Koshihara Toshiko Matsuo Kiyoko Miki Hideko Mogami Yone Moriyama Kiyo Murashima Tama Nakayama Ito Niizuma Misu Nomura Kimi Ohashi Yoshie Ōishi Tei Saito Chiyo Sakakibara Hisa Sawada Tenkoko Sonoda En Sugawara Keiko Sugita Kiyo Takeda Utako Takeuchi Shigeyo Takeuchi Tatsu Tanaka Satoko Togano Fusa Tomita Haru Wazaki Shizue Yamaguchi Harue Yamashita Tsuko Yamashita Hisa Yoneyama Fumiko Yoneyama Sei Yoshida [ 108] [ 109]
Jersey 1948 Ivy Forster [ 110]
Jordan 1989
Leila A. Sharaf [ 111] Sharaf was an appointed member of the Senate. Toujan al-Faisal became the first elected member of the House of Representatives in 1993 [ 112]
Kenya 1938 Sidney Farrar [ 113]
Kiribati 1971 Tekarei Russell [ 114]
Kuwait 2009 Aseel al-Awadhi Rola Dashti Salwa al-Jassar Massouma al-Mubarak [ 115]
Laos 1958 Khampheng Boupha [ 116]
Latvia 1920 Aspazija Zelma Cēsniece-Freidenfelde Klāra Kalniņa Apolonija Laurinoviča Valērija Seile Berta Vesmane [ 117]
Lebanon 1963 Myrna Bustani [ 118]
Lesotho 1965
Ellen 'Maposholi Molapo Molapo was an appointed member of the Senate. The first women elected to Parliament were 'Mamoshebi Kabi , Mats'eliso Moshabesha and Khauhelo Deborah Raditapole in 1993 [ 119]
Liberia 1960 Ellen Mills Scarbrough [ 120] [ 121]
Liechtenstein 1986 Emma Eigenmann [ 122]
Lithuania 1920 Magdalena Galdikienė Ona Muraškaitė-Račiukaitienė Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Emilija Spudaitė-Gvildienė Salomėja Stakauskaitė [ 123]
Luxembourg 1919 Marguerite Thomas-Clement [ 124]
Madagascar 1964
Elise Rasoamampionona [ 125]
Malawi 1964 Rose Chibambo [ 126]
Malaysia 1955 Halimahton Abdul Majid [ 127]
Maldives 1953
Fatima Ibrahim Didi Didi was an appointed member of the Senate. Moomina Haleem became the first elected member of the People's Majlis in 1975 [ 128]
Mali 1959 Aoua Kéita [ 129]
Malta 1947 Agatha Barbara [ 130]
Marshall Islands 1974 Carmen Bigler [ 131]
Mauritania 1975 2 women[ 9]
Mauritius 1948 Emilienne Rochecouste Denise De Chazal
Mexico 1954
Aurora Jiménez de Palacios [ 132] Elvia Carrillo Puerto was elected to Congress in 1924 but was not allowed to take her seat[ 133]
Micronesia 2021 Perpetua Sappa Konman [ 134]
Monaco 1963 Roxane Noat-Notari [ 135]
Montserrat 1961 Margaret Rose Kelsick [ 136]
Morocco 1993 Latifa Bennani-Smires Badia Skalli [ 137]
Mozambique 1977 Alcinda Abreu Maria Arruvaia Monica Chitupila Carlota Chiwanga Cecilia Chongo Celeste Cossa Justina Gaspar Helena da Gloria Melita Guambe Maria Laice Rosinha Lisboa Graça Machel Celeste Manhica Isabel Martins Salomé Moiane Felipa Muniveda Esperança Muthemba Teresa Nhalingue Marina Pachinuapa Felizarda Paulino Maria Rafael Ana Sansão Leopoldina dos Santos Cristina Tembe Teresa Tembo Maria Veloso [ 138]
Myanmar 1932 Hnin Mya [ 139]
Nauru 1986 Ruby Thoma [ 140]
Nepal 1959 Dwarika Devi Thakurani Kamal Rana [ 141] Four women had been members to the fully-appointed Advisory Assembly in 1952.[ 142]
Netherlands 1918 Suze Groeneweg [ 61]
New Caledonia 1977 Edwige Antier Marie-Paule Serve [ 143]
New Zealand 1933 Elizabeth McCombs [ 144]
Nicaragua 1957 Olga Núñez Abaunza [ 145]
Niger 1989 Roukayatou Abdou Issaka Bibata Adamou Dakaou Souna Hadizatou Diallo Aïssata Karidjo Mounkaïla Marie Lebihan [ 146]
Nigeria 1960
Wuraola Esan [ 147] Esan was an appointed member of the Senate. Esther Soyannwo was elected to the House of Representatives in 1964 but was forced to give up her seat before she sat in Parliament due to the controversy her election caused. Abiola Babatope , Justina Eze and Veronica Nnaji became the first elected members in 1979 .[ 148]
Niue 1975 Lapati Paka Patricia Rex [ 149]
North Korea 1948 69 women[ 9]
North Macedonia 1945
Northern Mariana Islands 1977 Felicidad Ogumoro [ 7]
Norway 1911
Anna Rogstad [ 3] Rogstad was a substitute member.[ 3] Karen Platou became the first woman elected to the Storting in 1921 [ 150]
Oman 1994 Shakour bint Mohammed al-Ghamari Taiba al-Mawali [ 151] Al-Ghamari and al-Mawali were indirectly elected to the Consultative Assembly. Rahila Al Riyami and Lujaina Mohsin Darwish were the first women directly elected in 2000 [ 152]
Pakistan 1947 Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah Jahanara Shahnawaz Ikramullah and Shahnawaz were indirectly elected to the Constituent Assembly.[ 23] Nasim Wali Khan was the first woman directly elected to the National Assembly in 1977 , she did not take her seat.[ 153] Abida Hussain was the first directly elected woman to take her seat in 1985 [ 154]
Palau 1975 Akiko Sugiyama [ 155]
Palestine 1996 Hanan Ashrawi Dalal Salameh Jamila Saidam Rawya Shawa Intissar al-Wazir [ 156]
Panama 1945 Esther Neira de Calvo Gumercinda Páez [ 157]
Papua New Guinea 1951 Doris Booth [ 158] Booth was an appointed member of the Legislative Council. Josephine Abaijah became the first woman elected to the House of Assembly in 1972 .
Paraguay 1963 Dolores de Miño Bienvenida de Sánchez [ 159]
Peru 1956 Manuela Billinghurst Alicia Blanco Montesinos Lola Blanco Montesinos María Colina Lozano Matilde Pérez Palacio Carlota Ramos de Santolaya Irene Silva de Santolalla María Eleonora Silva Silva Juana Ubilluz de Palacios [ 160]
Pitcairn Islands 1974 Thelma Brown Carol Warren [ 161]
Philippines 1941 Elisa Ochoa [ 162]
Poland 1919 Gabriela Balicka Jadwiga Dziubińska Irena Kosmowska Maria Moczydłowska Zofia Moraczewska [ 163] Three more women – Anna Piasecka , Zofia Sokolnicka and Franciszka Wilczkowiakowa – were elected the following year in constituencies where elections had been delayed.[ 164] [ 163]
Portugal 1934 Domitila de Carvalho Maria Guardiola Maria Cândida Parreira [ 165]
Puerto Rico 1932 María Luisa Arcelay [ 7]
Qatar 2017
Hessa Sultan al-Jaber Aisha Yousef al-Mannai Reem al-Mansoori Hind Abdul Rahman al-Muftah [ 166] All four were appointed to the Consultative Assembly.[ 166] 2021 , the first general election.[ 167]
Romania 1946 Florica Bagdasar Ana Bărbulescu Constanța Crăciun Maria Ilie Lazăr Elena Livezeanu Mihaela Manase Maria Marian Mariana Negură Ana Pauker Eugenia Rădăceanu Maria Rosetti Janeta Safir Maria Sevastru Alexandra Sidorovici Elena Stoia Olimpia Ţenescu Elena Teodorescu Maria Tonciulescu [ 168] [ 169]
Russia 1917 Yevgenia Bosch Catherine Breshkovsky Vera Figner Alexandra Kollontai Olga Matveevskaya Maria Perveeva Elena Rozmirovich Anastasia Sletova-Chernova Maria Spiridonova Varvara Yakovleva [ 170]
Rwanda 1965 Angèle Mukakayange [ 171]
Saint Kitts and Nevis 1984 Constance V. Mitcham [ 172]
Saint Lucia 1951 Marie Grace Augustin [ 173] Augustin was an appointed member of the Legislative Council. Heraldine Rock was the first woman elected to the House of Assembly in 1974 [ 174]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1957 Ivy Joshua [ 175]
Samoa 1970 Faimaala Filipo [ 176]
San Marino 1974 Clara Boscaglia Anna Maria Casali Fausta Morganti [ 177] Marina Busignani Reffi was also elected, but gave up her seat to allow her husband to enter parliament.[ 178]
São Tomé and Príncipe 1975 Alda Bandeira Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo Julieta da Graça do Espírito Santo Maria Aurora Lopes Lurdes de Maria Lima Pires dos Santos Fernanda Pontífice [ 179]
Saudi Arabia 2013
30 women[ 180]
The Consultative Assembly is a fully appointed body and no elections have ever been held[ 180]
Senegal 1963 Caroline Faye Diop [ 181]
Serbia 1945
Seychelles 1948 Marie-Cécile Collet Collet was an appointed member. Hilda Stevenson-Delhomme became the first elected member in 1951 .[ 182]
Sierra Leone 1957 Ella Koblo Gulama [ 183]
Singapore 1951 Elizabeth Choy Vilasini Menon [ 184]
Slovakia 1920 Anna Sychravová [ 185]
Slovenia 1945
Solomon Islands 1965 Lilly Ogatina Poznanski Poznanski was indirectly elected. Hilda Kari was the first woman directly elected to the National Parliament in 1989 .[ 186]
Somalia 1979 18 women[ 9]
South Africa 1933 Leila Reitz [ 187]
South Korea 1946 Hwang Shin-duk Park Hyun-sook Park Seung-ho Shin Eui-kyung [ 188] The four were appointed members. Louise Yim became the first woman elected to parliament in 1949 [ 189]
Spain 1931 Clara Campoamor
Margarita Nelken Victoria Kent [ 190]
Thirteen women had previously been members of the fully-appointed National Assembly [ 190]
Sri Lanka 1931 Adeline Molamure [ 191]
Sudan 1965 Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim [ 192]
Suriname 1938 Grace Schneiders-Howard [ 4]
Sweden 1921 Kerstin Hesselgren Agda Östlund Elisabeth Tamm Nelly Thüring Bertha Wellin [ 193]
Switzerland 1971 Elisabeth Blunschy Tilo Frey Hedi Lang Lise Girardin Josi Meier Gabrielle Nanchen Martha Ribi Hanna Sahlfeld-Singer Liselotte Spreng Hanny Thalmann Lilian Uchtenhagen Nelly Wicky [ 194]
Syria 1960
Widad Haroun Jihan al-Mosli [ 195] Haroun and al-Mosli were appointed members of the National Assembly of the United Arab Republic. Hana Hamwi , Boshra Kanafani , Munuar Mackluta , Salma Najeeb and Hajar Sadek became the first women elected to parliament in 1973 .[ 196]
Taiwan 1948 Hsieh Er Lin Shen
Tanzania 1955
Sheroo Keeka Elifuraha Marealle K.F. Walker [ 197] The three were appointed. Lady Marion Chesham and Sophia Mustafa became the first elected members in 1958 .
Thailand 1949 Orapin Chaiyakan [ 198]
Togo 1961 Joséphine Hundt [ 199]
Tonga 1975 Mele Siuʻilikutapu [ 200]
Trinidad and Tobago 1946 Audrey Jeffers [ 201] Jeffers was an appointed member of the Legislative Council. Isabel Ursula Teshea became the first elected member of the House of Representatives in 1961 [ 202]
Tunisia 1959 Radhia Haddad [ 203]
Turkey 1935 Bahire Bediş Morova Aydilek Mihri Bektaş Hatı Çırpan Nakiye Elgün Sabiha Gökçül Erbay Mebrure Gönenç Hatice Sabiha Görkey Ferruh Güpgüp Seniha Nafız Hızal Ayşe Şekibe İnsel Benal Nevzat İstar Arıman Fatma Şakir Memik Fatma Esma Nayman Huriye Baha Öniz Türkan Örs Baştuğ Fakihe Öymen Meliha Ulaş [ 204]
Turks and Caicos Islands 1984 Rosita Butterfield [ 205]
Tuvalu 1989 Naama Maheu Latasi [ 206]
Uganda 1954
Alice Boase Barbara Saben [ 207] Boase and Saben were appointed members of the Legislative Council. Florence Alice Lubega and Sugra Visram were indirectly elected in 1962 , while Theresa Odongo-Oduka became the first directly elected woman in 1980 .[ 207]
Ukraine 1917 Yevgenia Bosch Catherine Breshkovsky Maria-Ivanna Hrushevska , Zinayida Mirna , Vira Nechayivska , Valeriya O'Connor-Vilinska , Olimpiada Pashchenko , Sofia Rusova , Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska and Lyubov Yanovska were members of the fully-appointed Central Council of the People's Republic of Ukraine , which was established in March 1917, eight months before the elections in which Bosch and Breshkovsky were elected to the Russian Constituent Assembly from Ukrainian constituencies.
United Arab Emirates 2007 Najla Faisal Al Awadhi Fatima Al Mazrouei Fatma Al Marri Amal Al Qubaisi Aisha Al Roumi Rawiyah Al Samahi Alia Al Suwaidi Nidal Al Tunaiji Maysa Ghadeer [ 208] Amal Al Qubaisi was the only elected member; the other eight were appointed[ 209]
United Kingdom 1919 Nancy Astor Constance Markievicz had been elected to parliament in 1918 , but did not take her seat.
United States of America 1917 Jeannette Rankin [ 61]
United States Virgin Islands 1955 Lucinda Sewer Millin [ 7]
Uruguay 1943 Sofía Álvarez Vignoli Magdalena Antonelli Moreno Julia Arévalo de Roche Isabel Pinto de Vidal [ 210]
Vanuatu 1965
Agnes Terei [ 211] Terei was an appointed member of the Advisory Council. Tessa Fowler and Mary Gilu were the first women elected to the Representative Assembly in 1975.
Vatican City –
All members of the Pontifical Commission are cardinals, limiting membership to men.
Venezuela 1946 Mercedes Carvajal de Arocha Nieves de Entrena Mercedes Fermín Carmen Gracián de Malpica Inés Labrador de Lara Analuisa Llovera Cecilia Núñez Amparo Monroy Power Catalina Romero Isaura Saavedra Panchita Soublette Saluzzo Luisa del Valle Silva [ 212]
Vietnam 1946 10 women[ 213]
Wallis and Futuna 1992 2 women[ 214]
Yemen 1978 6 women in South Yemen
Five women had previously been members of the all-appointed Supreme People's Council of South Yemen.[ 215]
Zambia 1963
Gwendoline Konie Konie was an appointed member of the Legislative Council; Ester Banda , Margaret Mbeba and Nakatindi Yeta Nganga were the first women elected in 1964
Zimbabwe 1920 Ethel Tawse Jollie
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