List of electoral firsts in Canada

This article lists notable achievements of women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and gay/lesbian/bisexual and transgender people in Canadian politics and elections in Canada.

This list includes: First women in cabinet (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Saskatchewan have not yet had a female premier.)

Year that status Indians were granted the right to vote in federal elections: 1960.

Year that status Indians were granted the right to vote in Quebec provincial elections: 1969[21] Note: Hardial Bains was the first South Asian Canadian to lead a political party.

He founded and led the Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada from 1970 to 1997

Agnes Macphail , Canada's first Woman MP
Kim Campbell, Canada's first female Prime Minister
Svend Robinson, Canada's first openly gay MP
Rt. Hon Lincoln Alexander, first African-Canadian MP in Canada and the first African-Canadian Lt. Governor of Ontario
Jean Augustine, first Black woman elected to the House of Commons
Michaëlle Jean, Canada's first Black Governor General
Douglas Jung, Canada's first Chinese MP
Conrad Santos, First Filipino Canadian elected in Canada
Henry Nathan, Canada's First Jewish MP
Moe Sihota, first South Asian Canadian elected to provincial parliament in Canada