NDP MLA Harwinder Sandhu
(BEN BULMER / iNFOnews.ca)
October 19, 2024 - 9:33 PM
BC NDP incumbent Harwinder Sandhu has reclaimed her seat in the legislature for the Vernon-Lumby riding.
Sandhu took the seat by beating BC Conservative candidate Dennis Giesbrecht, independent Kevin Acton, and Libertarian Party candidate Robert Johnson.
This will be the second term for Sandhu, who won the seat in 2020, ending decades of BC Liberal and Social Credit rule.
Prior to winning the seat in 2020, she'd run provincially for the BC NDP in Kelowna-Mission and the federal NDP in the North Okanagan-Shuswap.
A nurse by career, Sandhu moved to Canada from India more than 25 years ago and in 2012 took a job at the Vernon Jubilee Hospital and moved to the Okanagan.
She was widowed a little more than a decade ago, leaving her as a single mom with two children. She has since remarried and had a son.
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