2017 New Democratic Party leadership election
The 2017 New Democratic Party leadership election was won by Jagmeet Singh. The election was triggered by Tom Mulcair having lost a vote on leadership review at the party's federal convention held in Edmonton, Alberta, on April 10, 2016, which resulted in a majority of delegates voting in favor of holding a new leadership election. Mulcair declined to partake in the subsequent leadership election and stated that he would remain leader until the party chose a replacement.
Image: MPP Jagmeet Singh at his annual community BBQ in 2014 (cropped 2)
Image: Charlie Angus in 2014 (cropped)
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Image: Guy Caron (cropped)
Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2017. Singh has sat as the member of Parliament (MP) for Burnaby South since 2019. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 2011, representing Bramalea—Gore—Malton until his entry into federal politics. A practicing Sikh of Punjabi descent, Singh is an Indo-Canadian, making him the first Sikh and the first member of a visible minority group to be elected to lead a major federal political party in Canada.
Singh in 2022
Singh at a community BBQ in 2014
Singh speaks at an Ontario Federation of Labour convention several weeks after winning the New Democratic Party leadership election
Singh during a campaign stop at the Broadview subway station in Toronto on October 15, 2019