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Jagmeet Singh, Leader of the New Democratic Party

Age: 43

Party: New Democratic Party

Riding: Burnaby South

As NDP Leader: First elected as an NDP MPP in the Bramalea-Gore-Malton riding during the 2011 election, becoming the first turban-wearing Sikh to sit in the province’s legislature. Mr. Singh moved to federal politics in 2017, successfully running to replace outgoing NDP leader Thomas Mulcair. In 2019, he ran in a by-election in the B.C. riding Burnaby South, which he has held since.

Biography

Jagmeet Singh Dhaliwal was born in Scarborough, Ont., the eldest of three children to Harmeet Kaur and Jagtaran Singh. The family moved to Newfoundland for his father’s schooling, before returning to Ontario and settling in Windsor. Singh graduated from Western University and Osgoode Hall Law School, then practised as a criminal defence lawyer in Brampton. Mr. Singh married Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu in 2018, and they welcomed a daughter in January, 2022.

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