Seventeen Indo-Canadians, including NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, won Canada’s parliamentary elections on Tuesday with Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returning to power in the snap polls.
Canadians gave 49-year-old Trudeau’s Liberal Party a victory in Monday’s parliamentary elections, but his gamble to win a majority of seats failed and nearly mirrored the result of two years ago.
The Liberals won the most seats of any party. Trudeau’s Liberals were leading or elected in 156 seats — one less than they won in 2019, and 14 short of the 170 needed for a majority in the House of Commons, according to Canadian media reports. This is Trudeau’s third federal election win, but his critics say the poll was a waste of time.
The Conservatives have held onto their main opposition status and are expected to win about 122 seats, reports suggested. All three Indo-Canadian ministers – Harjit Sajjan, Anita Anand and Bardish Chagger – in the dissolved Cabinet emerged victorious along with 42-year-old New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh from Burnaby South. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan was re-elected from Vancouver-South, with nearly 49 per cent of the vote share. The Liberals’ Anand was declared the winner in Oakville with a nearly 46 percent vote share. Liberal incumbent Chagger was declared the winner of Waterloo with a 44.8 percent vote share. Among other winners from the Liberal Party are Kamal Khera from Brampton West (55 percent), Ruby Sahota from Brampton North (54 per cent), Sonia Sidhu from Brampton South (50 per cent), Maninder Sidhu from Brampton East (55 percent), Sukh Dhaliwal from Surrey-Newton (54 percent), George Chahal from Calgary Skyview in Alberta (42 percent), Arif Virani from Parkdale-High Park (42 percent), Randeep Sarai from Surrey Centre (44 percent), Anju Dhillon from Dorval-Lachine-LaSalle (52 percent), Chandra Arya from Nepean (44 per cent), and First-time candidate Iqwinder Gaheer from Mississauga-Malton (53 percent).
Meanwhile, among the Conservative Party, Tim Uppal from Edmonton Mill Woods (38 percent) and Jasraj Singh Hallan from Calgary Forest Lawn seat (44 per cent) have retained their seats.
