Jagmeet Singh
 Jagmeet Singh      (lawyer, politician) | |
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| Born | January 2, 1979 Scarborough, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Western Ontario, Osgoode Hall Law School |
| Religion | Sikh |
| Siblings | Gurratan Singh |
| Member of | WEF/Young Global Leaders/2018 |
| Party | New Democratic Party (Canada) |
Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal is a Canadian politician[1] who has served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2017. Singh has sat as the member of Parliament (MP) since 2019.
He was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2018.
Singh began his career as a criminal defence lawyer. His political career began in 2011 where he contested the 2011 federal election in the federal riding of Bramalea—Gore—Malton which resulted in a narrow victory for Conservative opponent Bal Gosal; he became a member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) in the overlapping provincial riding later that year. In 2015, he became deputy leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party, serving under leader Andrea Horwath until 2017. Singh announced his candidacy for the federal New Democratic Party leadership following a leadership review that resulted in a leadership election to replace Tom Mulcair. Singh was elected leader on October 1, 2017, with a first round vote of 53.8 per cent in a field of four. In the 2019 federal election, the New Democrats under Singh won 24 seats and dropped from third party to fourth party status. In the 2021 federal election, the NDP under Singh won 25 seats and remained the fourth party.[2]
