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At some point during Soviet era. This list of 1937 Soviet deputies may contain a few. Possibly:
At some point during Soviet era. This list of 1937 Soviet deputies may contain a few. Possibly:
Possibly some of those listed at #Former Yugoslav countries. Need to determine if any were elected from constituencies in Bosnia.
Some of those listed at #Former Yugoslav countries. Need to determine which ones were elected from constituencies in Croatia.
No details.
During Ethiopian era? Maybe in the elections in the 1950s? No elected parliament since independence
At some point during Soviet era. This list of 1937 Soviet deputies may contain a few. Possibly:
Possibly some of those listed at #Former Yugoslav countries. Need to determine which ones were elected from constituencies in Kosovo.
At some point during Soviet era. This list of 1937 Soviet deputies may contain a few. Possibly:
No details.
At some point during Soviet era. This list of 1937 Soviet deputies may contain a few. Possibly Domakha Emelyanovna Otyan?
No details.
Possibly some of those listed at #Former Yugoslav countries. Need to determine if any were elected from constituencies in Montenegro.
Contrary to IPU claim, there were women members before 1989. Possibly Anna Frank?
Some of those listed at #Former Yugoslav countries. Need to determine which ones were elected from constituencies in Macedonia.
Was Ayla Halit Kazım also a member of the TRNC's provisional parliament?
Some of those listed at #Former Yugoslav countries. Need to determine which ones were elected from constituencies in Serbia.
Some of those listed at #Former Yugoslav countries. Need to determine which ones were elected from constituencies in Slovenia.
No details.
At some point during Soviet era. This list of 1937 Soviet deputies may contain a few. Possibly:
Possibly Vaelua Lopa[1]?
At some point during Soviet era. This list of 1937 Soviet deputies may contain a few. Possibly:
At some point during Soviet era. This list of 1937 Soviet deputies may contain a few. Possibly:
From the Martin book and parliamentary record
Assembly
House of Nationalities
19 women elected in 1980. Were there women in the provisional parliament after independence?
28 women elected in 1979
Five women elected in 1982, only one name (Colette Samoya Kirura) so far.
Need to identify first elected women – 12 were elected in the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election
12 women elected in 1970.
14 women elected in 1963, possibly including Nima Ba and Loffo Camara
Missing names of some of the first directly-elected women and need certainty on how many.
16 women elected in 1980.
Two women elected in 1975. Possibly Khaddaja mint Emir[2] and Mariem Mint Sidel Moktar[3]?
69 women elected in 1948.
30 women appointed in 2013.
18 women elected in 1979.
Ten women elected in 1946
Two elected in 1992. Possibly in this Le Monde article.
Although the more definitive sources state that three women were elected, some give five names, with María Guzmán and Angélica Sanabia de Rojas as the additional ones.[4] Were these two actually elected, or possibly substitutes?
Although Lomasontfo Dludlu is stated to be the first woman elected in 1993, the results in the official gazette also list Ellenah Nyawo as having been elected. To add to the confusion, the Mart Martin book also claims that Mary Mdziniso was elected to the House of Representatives in the 1972 elections, as opposed to remaining an appointed member of the Senate.
Grace de Zirión is also claimed to be the first deputy in 1955[5]
Massouma al-Mubarak was appointed to the cabinet in 2005 and ministers sit in the National Assembly on an ex officio basis. However, I cannot find any sources that confirms she actually sat in the legislature, although the one woman mentioned here is almost certainly her.
Hermila Galindo reportedly first Congresswoman[6] in 1952.[7] Some sources also claim she was elected in 1917 but her victory was annulled.
One woman (Maria Augusta da Silva) was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1975 (preceding the currently listed women). However, this body had 'an exclusive mandate' to produce a constitution, so I'm not clear on whether it members would count as members of a parliament?
Some sources (including the Bundestag) state that 37 women were elected in 1919. However, their list includes Gertrud Lodahl, who was not elected initially, but entered the Reichstag as a replacement for an elected member who resigned a month after the election.
I have listed Hnin Mya as being elected in 1932, but there are sources stating she was elected in 1929.[8] However, this may be conflation with the fact that women's suffrage was introduced in 1929 (general elections were held in 1928 and 1932).
Regarding the addition of members of the Central Council of Ukraine, that body a post/mid-conflict non-elected body, and members of these types of legislatures are specifically excluded from this list, as noted at the top of the list. Several countries had these non-elected, transitional type of legislatures with female members before they had women elected to parliament (including Albania, France, Italy and a few others), but members of these bodies do not typically appear to be considered the first female MPs. Listing the post-independence members is also not appropriate; many countries in the list were colonies or part of another country at the time that they had their first female parliamentarians.
Re China/Taiwan, this revised listing is incorrect, as Taiwan was not part of China in 1928 (it was then under Japanese control); the first women representatives of Taiwan were only elected in 1948, following Taiwan's return to Chinese control at the end of WWII. Number 57 11:51, 5 March 2021 (UTC)