Category:Politicians

For the purposes of this category and its subcategories, a politician is someone who:

• holds or held an elective governmental office;
• works or worked for government in a policy-making capacity;
• is or was associated, as a candidate or full-time staff member, with a political party which has won elections.

This is a container category. Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories.

This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:Women politicians The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.