List of All Current South Asian MP’s In Canada

Canadian Desi’s have come a long way from the times when they weren’t allowed to vote to now, when a Canadian Desi is leading a major federal party. More on this struggle some other day in a different series of articles.

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The following is a list of current South Asian Origin Member of Parliament in Canada. This list would change depending on how the elections in 2019 go, however we are working on another list that would comprise of all the Canadian Desi’s that have served the Parliament as a Member in the past so stay tuned for that! Some interesting facts on this list are:

• There are a total of 23 MPs in Canada that are of South Asian Origin out of the 338 seats which is about 6.8% ratio.
• As of 2016, population of South Asians in Canada is 1.96 Million which is 5.4% of the total Canadian Population.
• 18 of these MPs are from Liberal Party, 2 MPs are from Conservative and 1 MP from NDP. The other two Independent MPs once belonged to Liberal as well.
• The ratio of these South Asian MPs are: 78% Liberal, 8.69% Conservative, 4.34% NDP and 8.69% Independent.
• In Contrast, the ratio of Candidates across all other ethnicities in Canada is as follows: Liberal at 53.25%, followed by Conservatives at 28.70% and NDP at 12%. Independents are at 1.18%.

S.No.	Name	Party	Electoral District
1	Deepak Obhrai	Conservative	Calgary Forest Lawn
2	Darshan Kang	Independent	Calgary Skyview
3	Amarjeet Sohi	Liberal	Edmonton Millwoods
4	Jagmeet Singh	NDP	Burnaby South
5	Jatinder Sidhu	Liberal	Mission/ Matsqui /Fraser Canyon
6	Randeep Sarai	Liberal	Surrey Centre
7	Sukh Dhaliwal	Liberal	Surrey-Newton
8	Harjit Sajjan	Liberal	Vancouver South
9	Ramesh Sangha	Liberal	Brampton Centre
10	Raj Grewal	Independent	Brampton East
11	Ruby Sahota	Liberal	Brampton North
12	Sonia Sidhu	Liberal	Brampton South
13	Kamal Khera	Liberal	Brampton West
14	Raj Saini	Liberal	Kitchener Centre
15	Bob Saroya	Conservative	Markham/ Unionville
16	Iqra Khalid	Liberal	Mississauga—Erin Mills
17	Navdeep Bains	Liberal	Mississauga—Malton
18	Gagan Sikand	Liberal	Mississauga—Streetsville
19	Chandra Arya	Liberal	Nepean
20	Arif Virani	Liberal	Parkdale—High Park
21	Salma Zahid	Liberal	Scarborough Centre
22	Bardish Chagger	Liberal	Waterloo
23	Anju Dhillon	Liberal	Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle

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