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Canadian politician
Gender:
Female
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Birth:
1979(Montreal, Urban agglomeration of Montreal, Montreal Region, Canada)
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Education:
Concordia University
Université de Montréal
The details
Biography
Introduction
Anju Dhillon MP is a Canadian Liberal politician, who was elected to represent the riding of Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election. She is the first person of South Asian descent to be elected from the province of Quebec.
Dhillon was born and raised in Montreal, and began volunteering for Paul Martin's campaigns at age 13.For ten years she was vice-president (female) for youth of the federal liberal riding association in LaSalle-Émard, and was subsequently its vice-president (female). Dhillon attended Concordia University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in political science, and then studied law at Université de Montréal, later becoming the first Canadian Sikh to practice law in Quebec.
Electoral record
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Anju Dhillon | 29,974 | 54.89 | +25.49 | $97,977.49 | |||
| New Democratic | Isabelle Morin | 11,769 | 21.55 | -19.57 | $52,909.84 | |||
| Conservative | Daniela Chivu | 6,049 | 11.08 | -3.07 | $25,233.35 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Jean-Frédéric Vaudry | 5,338 | 9.78 | -1.76 | – | |||
| Green | Vincent J. Carbonneau | 1,245 | 2.28 | -0.72 | – | |||
| Independent | Soulèye Ndiaye | 230 | 0.42 | – | $3,623.98 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 54,605 | 100.0 | $224,217.32 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 593 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 55,198 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 85,587 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||