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:

Women

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

People with disabilities

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender

Indigenous people in Canada

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

Acadians

Arab Canadians

Armenian Canadians

Black Canadians

Chinese Canadians

Croatian Canadians

Czech Canadians

Dutch Canadians

Filipino Canadians

German Canadians

Greek Canadians

Hungarian Canadians

Icelandic Canadians

Indian Canadians

Iranian Canadians

Italian Canadians

Japanese Canadians

Jewish Canadians

Korean Canadians

Latvian Canadians

Macedonian Canadians

Maltese Canadians

Muslim Canadians

Norwegian Canadians

Polish Canadians

Portuguese Canadians

Russian Canadians

Slovak Canadians

South Asian Canadians

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

Tamil Canadians

Ukrainian Canadians

Vietnamese Canadians

Elections