Conductor politician

Served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2017 and served as member of Parliament (MP) for Burnaby South from 2019 to 2025

Elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 2011, representing Bramalea—Gore—Malton until his entry into federal politics

A practicing Sikh of Punjabi descent, Singh is an Indo-Canadian, and the first non-White or non-Christian politician to be elected to lead a major federal political party in Canada

Criminal defence lawyer, starting a law firm with his brother Gurratan

During the 2025 federal election, with the NDP expected to lose official party status and having himself been projected to have lost his race in the riding of Burnaby Central, he announced that he would resign as party leader once an interim leader was chosen in advance of the next party leadership election