Libby Davies is a Canadian Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party, representing the riding of Vancouver East in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Before being elected to Parliament, she participated in many grass-roots political organizations in Vancouver. She served four consecutive terms on the Vancouver City Council starting in 1982. She was first elected to Parliament in 1997 and reelected in 2000.

She is the federal NDP spokeswoman for postsecondary education, Human Resources Development Canada, social policy, and housing and homelessness; her principal issues include affordable housing and the elimination of poverty.

During a parliamentary debate on October 29 2001, she revealed that she was in a relationship with a female partner, Kimberly Elliott, thereby becoming the first openly Queer female MP. [1] (Her caucus mate Svend Robinson had come out as gay in 1988, becoming the first MP to do so.)

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