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] subsequently representing East Bengal in the
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 Four others |
|
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 were sworn in 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 Nine others |
|
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] Although
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] No women were elected in
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 |
|