Jag Sahota
Canadian politician (born 1978)
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Jagdeep Kaur Sahota (born in 1978) is a Canadian Punjabi politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Calgary Skyview from 2019 to 2021 as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. She was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election.[2] She was defeated in the 2021 federal election, losing to George Chahal of the Liberal Party. Sahota tried to regain her seat as the party nominee for 2025 federal election but the party appointed someone else.[3][4]
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Preceded byDarshan Kang
Succeeded byGeorge Chahal
Jagdeep Kaur Sahota | |
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| Shadow Minister for Women and Gender Equality | |
| Member of Parliament for Calgary Skyview | |
| In office October 21, 2019 – September 20, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Darshan Kang |
| Succeeded by | George Chahal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1978 (age 47–48)[1] |
| Party | Conservative Party of Canada |
| Profession | Lawyer |
She previously ran in the 2015 Alberta general election for Calgary-McCall, losing to Irfan Sabir.[1]
Electoral record
Federal
| 2021 Canadian federal election: Calgary Skyview | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | George Chahal | 20,092 | 42.36 | +14.02 | $102,944.51 | |||
| Conservative | Jag Sahota | 17,111 | 36.07 | –16.42 | $82,418.22 | |||
| New Democratic | Gurinder Singh Gill | 7,690 | 16.21 | +1.29 | $15,396.31 | |||
| People's | Harry Dhillon | 1,720 | 3.63 | +2.44 | $3,904.85 | |||
| Green | Janna So | 432 | 0.91 | –0.67 | none listed | |||
| Independent | Lee Aquart | 184 | 0.39 | – | $4,123.83 | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Daniel Blanchard | 111 | 0.23 | –0.03 | none listed | |||
| Centrist | Nadeem Rana | 93 | 0.20 | – | $674.40 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 47,433 | 98.95 | – | $116,250.12 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 502 | 1.05 | +0.08 | |||||
| Turnout | 47,935 | 54.50 | –5.62 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 87,956 | |||||||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +15.22 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[5][6] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Calgary Skyview | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Jag Sahota | 26,533 | 52.49 | +12.74 | $102,742.88 | |||
| Liberal | Nirmala Naidoo | 14,327 | 28.34 | –17.54 | $53,661.28 | |||
| New Democratic | Gurinder Singh Gill | 7,540 | 14.92 | +6.90 | $59,503.13 | |||
| Green | Signe Knutson | 800 | 1.58 | –0.30 | none listed | |||
| People's | Harry Dhillon | 603 | 1.19 | – | $8,416.69 | |||
| Christian Heritage | Joseph Alexander | 483 | 0.96 | – | $8,970.10 | |||
| Canada's Fourth Front | Harpreet Singh Dawar | 136 | 0.27 | – | $7,170.00 | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Daniel Blanchard | 130 | 0.26 | +0.06 | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 50,552 | 99.03 | – | $110,470.52 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 497 | 0.97 | +0.29 | |||||
| Turnout | 51,049 | 60.12 | –0.61 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 84,915 | |||||||
| Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +15.14 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[7][8] | ||||||||
Provincial
| 2015 Alberta general election: Calgary-McCall | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Irfan Sabir | 3,812 | 29.95 | +27.80 | ||||
| Wildrose | Happy Mann | 3,367 | 26.45 | -3.79 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jagdeep Sahota | 2,317 | 18.20 | -11.09 | ||||
| Liberal | Avinash Khangura | 2,224 | 17.47 | -19.22 | ||||
| Independent | Burhan Khan | 1,010 | 7.81 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 12,730 | 98.50 | ||||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 194 | 1.50 | ||||||
| Turnout | 12,924 | 42.90 | -1.91 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 30,125 | |||||||
| New Democratic gain from Liberal | Swing | +23.51 | ||||||
Source(s)
"2015 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Archived from the original on 2021-04-11. Retrieved 2017-08-01. | ||||||||
