Toronto, Canada (June 13, 2014) : The only Amritdhari Sikh, Jagmeet Singh has successfully contested his seat in Bramalea-Gore-Malton for Provincial Parliament and defeated his rivals from Liberal and PC party. However, Liberals succeeded in regaining the power by clear majority in the Ontario’s Provincial Parliament.
According information availed from various news media, the NDP’s Singh took home 43.6 per cent of the vote in early results. Former Liberal MPP Kuldip Kular, who lost his seat to Singh in 2011, won 33.8 per cent of the vote. The PC’s Harjit Jaswal won 17.9 per cent, as of 10:38 PM on Election Night.
Singh was the provincial NDP’s first successful foray in Peel region when he won the seat in 2011.