Jag Sahota

Jagdeep Kaur Sahota (born in 1978) is a Canadian Punjabi politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Calgary Skyview from 2019 to 2021 as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. She was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election.^[2] She was defeated in the 2021 federal election, losing to George Chahal of the Liberal Party. Sahota tried to regain her seat as the party nominee for 2025 federal election but the party appointed someone else.^[3][4]

Jagdeep Kaur Sahota
Shadow Minister for Women and Gender Equality
Member of Parliament for Calgary Skyview
In office October 21, 2019 – September 20, 2021
Preceded by	Darshan Kang
Succeeded by	George Chahal
Personal details
Born	1978 (age 46–47)[1] Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Party	Conservative Party of Canada
Residence(s)	Calgary, Alberta
Profession	Lawyer

She previously ran in the 2015 Alberta general election for Calgary-McCall, losing to Irfan Sabir.^[1]

Electoral record

Federal

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election: Calgary Skyview
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	George Chahal	20,092	42.4	+14.06	$107,596.46
	Conservative	Jag Sahota	17,111	36.1	-16.39	$82,418.22
	New Democratic	Gurinder Singh Gill	7,690	16.2	+1.28	$14,336.31
	People's	Harry Dhillon	1,720	3.6	+2.41	$3,904.85
	Green	Janna So	432	0.9	-0.68	$0.00
	Independent	Lee Aquart	184	0.4	–	$4,123.83
	Marxist–Leninist	Daniel Blanchard	111	0.2	-0.06	$0.00
	Centrist	Nadeem Rana	93	0.2	–	$674.40
Total valid votes/expense limit			47,433	–	–	$116,250.12
Total rejected ballots			502
Turnout			47,935	54.88	-5.24
Eligible voters			87,347
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+15.23
Source: Elections Canada[5]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election: Calgary Skyview
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Jag Sahota	26,533	52.49	+12.74	$102,315.20
	Liberal	Nirmala Naidoo	14,327	28.34	-17.54	$62,601.08
	New Democratic	Gurinder Singh Gill	7,540	14.92	+6.90	none listed
	Green	Signe Knutson	800	1.58	-0.30	$0.00
	People's	Harry Dhillon	603	1.19		$8,416.69
	Christian Heritage	Joseph Alexander	483	0.96		none listed
	Canada's Fourth Front	Harpreet Singh Dawar	136	0.27		none listed
	Marxist–Leninist	Daniel Blanchard	130	0.26	+0.06	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			50,552	99.03
Total rejected ballots			497	0.97	+0.29
Turnout			51,049	60.12	-0.61
Eligible voters			84,915
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+15.14
Source: Elections Canada[6][7]

Provincial

v t e 2015 Alberta general election: Calgary-McCall
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Irfan Sabir	3,812	29.95	+27.80
	Wildrose	Happy Mann	3,367	26.45	-3.79
	Progressive Conservative	Jagdeep Sahota	2,317	18.20	-11.09
	Liberal	Avinash Khangura	2,224	17.47	-19.22
	Independent	Burhan Khan	1,010	7.81
Total valid votes			12,730	98.50
Rejected, spoiled and declined			194	1.50
Turnout			12,924	42.90	-1.91
Eligible voters			30,125
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+23.51
Source(s) "2015 Provincial General Election Results". Elections Alberta. Archived from the original on 2021-04-11. Retrieved 2017-08-01.