Jagdeep Kaur Sahota (born in 1978) is a Canadian Punjabi politician who served as the

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for the riding of

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from 2019 to 2021 as a member of the

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. She was elected to the

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in the

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. She was defeated in the 2021 federal election, losing to

George Chahal Harnirjodh "George" Chahal is a Canadian politician who is the Member of Parliament for Calgary Skyview as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. Before entering federal politics, he was a Councillor for Ward 5 on the Calgary City Council from ...

of the

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. She previously ran in the

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for

Calgary-McCall Calgary-Bhullar-McCall is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. It was created in 1971, and was named after Frederick McCall and the McCall Industrial Park. As of the 2010 redistricting, the industrial ...

, losing to

Irfan Sabir Irfan Sabir (born December 19, 1977) is a Canadian lawyer and politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 2015 and 2019 Alberta general elections to represent the electoral district of Calgary-Bhullar-McCall. He is ...

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