Is this election the beginning of change in Brampton?
It is often said the path to election victory runs through the 905, and on the face of it, the Liberals won 5 of 6 ridings in Brampton, but if you scratch a little deeper and look at the numbers, this night could have been very different.
Amarjeet Gill is the new Conservative MP in Brampton West, beating Kamal Khera who had been the Liberal MP since 2015. In Brampton’s six ridings, there were five Liberal incumbents, two of them running in newly drawn ridings. The other four won, but they were all in really tight races, separated by a few percentage points and the largest margin being just over 1,800 votes.
This proves that the time the Conservatives are putting into courting the South Asian vote in this area is working. Pierre Poilievre held large rallies in this area, and the ground game for many first-time candidates turned out to be quite strong.
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Amandeep Sodhi is the new Liberal MP who won in Brampton Centre over another first timer, Taran Chahal, but she won by 176 votes.
If we go back to the polls sometime soon, could Gill’s win be the beginning of a blue wave in Brampton?
Brampton West: Amarjeet Gill (CON) 20,986 49.96
Kamal Khera (LIB) (Incumbent) 19,954 47.5
Brampton Centre:
Amandeep Sodhi (LIB) 18,491 47.85
Taran Chahal (CON) 18,315 47.4
Brampton-North Caledon:
Ruby Sahota (LIB) (Incumbent) 22,346 48.82
Amandeep Judge (CON) 21,809 47.65
Brampton South:
Sonia Sidhu (LIB) (Incumbent) 21,477 49.16
Sukhdeep Kang (CON) 20,844 47.71
Brampton East:
Maninder Sidhu (LIB) (Incumbent) 23,350 48.52
Bob Dosanjh Singh (CON) 21,533 44.75
Brampton-Chinguacousey Park:
Shafqat Ali (LIB) 21,168 48.75
Tim Iqbal (CON) 19,339 44.54
Raju Mudhar is a Toronto-based reporter for the Star
covering breaking news. Reach him via email: rmudhar@thestar.ca
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