Jag Sahota

Jagdeep Kaur Sahota


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 44–45)^[1] Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Political party	Conservative Party of Canada
Residence(s)	Calgary, Alberta
Profession	Lawyer

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.

Electoral record

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election: Calgary Skyview
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	George Chahal	20,092	42.4	+14.06	$107,596.46
	Conservative	Jag Sahota	17,111	36.1	-16.39	$82,418.22
	New Democratic	Gurinder Singh Gill	7,690	16.2	+1.28	$14,336.31
	People's	Harry Dhillon	1,720	3.6	+2.41	$3,904.85
	Green	Janna So	432	0.9	-0.68	$0.00
	Independent	Lee Aquart	184	0.4	–	$4,123.83
	Marxist–Leninist	Daniel Blanchard	111	0.2	-0.06	$0.00
	Centrist	Nadeem Rana	93	0.2	–	$674.40
Total valid votes/Expense limit			47,433	–	–	$116,250.12
Total rejected ballots			502
Turnout			47,935	54.88	-5.24
Eligible voters			87,347
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+15.23
Source: Elections Canada^[3]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election: Calgary Skyview
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Jag Sahota	26,533	52.49	+12.74	$102,315.20
	Liberal	Nirmala Naidoo	14,327	28.34	-17.54	$62,601.08
	New Democratic	Gurinder Singh Gill	7,540	14.92	+6.90	none listed
	Green	Signe Knutson	800	1.58	-0.30	$0.00
	People's	Harry Dhillon	603	1.19		$8,416.69
	Christian Heritage	Joseph Alexander	483	0.96		none listed
	Canada's Fourth Front	Harpreet Singh Dawar	136	0.27		none listed
	Marxist–Leninist	Daniel Blanchard	130	0.26	+0.06	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			50,552	99.03
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^[4]^[5]

v t e 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 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2017-08-01.

^ ^a ^b Howell, Trevor (April 28, 2015). "Riding: Calgary-McCall". Calgary Herald. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
^ "Canada election results: Calgary Skyview". Global News. October 21, 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
^ "Election night results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
^ "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved July 9, 2021.

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