List of the first female members of parliament by country

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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] Instead, the first female parliamentarians came from the Grand Duchy of Finland, where 19 women were elected to the Eduskunta in 1907.[2] The first female parliamentarian in a fully-independent country was Anna Rogstad of Norway, who took her seat in the Storting as a substitute in 1911,[3] while the first woman directly elected to parliament in an independent country was 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] In many cases, the first female parliamentarians were appointed rather than elected members. Only one sovereign country – the 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] 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

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