Chandigarh, Oct 25 : Seven Punjab-origin Canadians won the British Columbia provincial elections whose results were declared late Saturday, media reports said.
All of them are from Premier John Horgan’s New Democratic Party (NDP).
The winnners included Raj Chouhan who was nominated by the NDP for re-election in Burnaby-Edmonds ahead of the scheduled 2021 election. This was his fifth consecutive win.
Also Chandigarh-born Rachna Singh retained her Surrey Green Timbers seat for the second time by defeating Liberal Dilraj Atwal, also a Punjabi.
The other winners from Punjab are Ravi Kahlon from Delta North; Aman Singh from Richmond-Queensborough; Harry Bains from Surrey Newton, Jagrup Singh Brar from Surrey Fleetwood and Niki Sharma from Vancouver-Hastings.
Voters across British Columbia cast ballots on Saturday in the province’s 42nd general election.
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