Canada:14 Punjabis make history by winning BC Assembly Elections, NDP ahead so far
The NDP won 46 seats, the Conservative Party won 45 seats and the Green Party won 2 seats
Hardam Mann
Surrey (Canada), October 20, 2024-Fourteen Punjabi candidates created history on Sunday by winning the BC Assembly election. Today was the last day of voting for BC's 93-member Legislative Assembly.
The heavy rains and strong winds for the last two days have greatly affected the functioning of the polling and many people could not go to the polling stations to cast their votes. To solve this problem, people were given the facility to vote by phone, still, 57.41 percent of votes have been cast.
According to which 98.5 percent of the votes have been counted so far, NDP has won 46, Conservative Party 45 seats and Green Party 2 seats, but the final results will come out after counting the postal votes.
In these elections, NDP, the leader of the current government, Prime Minister David Abby, and the leader of the Conservative Party, John Rustad, each won their seats, while the leader of the Green Party lost his election.
It is worth noting that in these elections, there were a total of 37 candidates for the 10 assembly seats of Surrey, out of which 21 candidates were Punjabi and a total of 37 Punjabi candidates participated in these elections, out of which 14 were Punjabi candidates.
According to the election results so far, a new record of victory has been established. The details of the winning candidates are as follows-
NDP was the winner.
Raj Chauhan
Jesse Sunnard
Jagroop Brar
Ravi Kahlon
Nikki Sharma
Riya Arora
Harvinder Sandhu
Sunita Dheer
Ravi Parmar
Conservative Party's winning Punjabi candidate-
Mandeep Dhaliwal
Honorable Randhawa
Harman Bhangu
Pair Tour
Steve Cooner
Prominent Punjabi candidates who lost include former minister Rachna Singh, former MLA Jinny Sims, former MLA Aman Singh, Baltej Singh Dhillon, Tejjot Ball, Sim Sandhu, Deepak Suri, Avtar Singh Gill, Kiran Hundal, Dharam Kajal, Jag Singh Sanghera, Sam Atwal, Kamal Grewal, , Sarah Kooner and Manjit Sahota.