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NDP leader Jagmeet Singh celebrates his Burnaby South byelection win with his wife Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu as they arrive at his election night party in Burnaby, B.C., Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward
OTTAWA—NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has won his do-or-die bid to capture a British Columbia seat in the House of Commons.
With more than half the polls reporting results in Burnaby South, Singh had just over 38 percent of the vote, comfortably ahead of Liberal Richard T. Lee’s 26 percent and Conservative Jay Shin’s 22 percent.