Iqwinder Gaheer

Iqwinder Singh Gaheer MP (born July 12, 1993) is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Mississauga—Malton in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2021 Canadian federal election.^[1]

Iqwinder Gaheer MP
Member of Parliament for Mississauga—Malton
Incumbent
Assumed office September 20, 2021
Preceded by	Navdeep Bains
Personal details
Born	(1993-07-12) July 12, 1993 (age 31) Punjab, India
Nationality	Canadian
Political party	Liberal
Residence(s)	Mississauga, Ontario
Alma mater	Schulich School of Business, York University (BBA) Harvard Law School (JD)
Occupation	Politician, Lawyer

Early life and career

Gaheer was born in Punjab, India to Maninder Singh, a construction worker and plumber, and Baljit Kaur, a homemaker. Gaheer's father had immigrated to Canada in 1992.^[2] He and the rest of his family joined his father in Canada in 1999.^{[citation needed]} Describing his early life, the Toronto Star wrote, "Gaheer has a compelling, almost made for politics, story. He was born in a small village in the Punjab. He moved to Canada when he was six years old. He spent his summers growing up in Peel working on his father’s plumbing crew."^[3]

Gaheer graduated from Bramalea Secondary School in Brampton.^[2] After completing high school, Gaheer attended the Schulich School of Business, York University where he received his Bachelor of Business Administration.^{[citation needed]} He then went on to attend Harvard Law School from 2016 to 2019, where he served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Beginning in September 2019, Gaheer worked in New York City, in the litigation department of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a large international corporate law firm.

Political career

In his first election in 2021, Gaheer won the Liberal nomination for the riding of Mississauga—Malton by acclamation,^[4] and won the seat with approximately 53 per cent of the total vote.^[5][6] Gaheer was elected chair of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security in November 2024, and held it until Parliament was prorogued in January 2025.^[7]

In the 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, he endorsed Mark Carney.^[8]

Electoral record

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election: Mississauga—Malton
** Preliminary results — Not yet official **
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Iqwinder Singh Gaheer	26,700	53.11	+0.43
	Conservative	Jaspreet Sandhu	21,134	42.04	+11.25
	New Democratic	Inderjeetsingh Ailsinghani	1,362	2.71	–11.03
	People's	Nathan Quinlan	1,077	2.14	+1.84
Total valid votes/expense limit
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			50,273	62.02
Eligible voters			81,055
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+5.41
Source: Elections Canada[9][10]

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election: Mississauga—Malton
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Iqwinder Gaheer	21,766	52.8	-4.7	$75,599.65
	Conservative	Clyde Roach	12,625	30.6	+4.8	$36,598.37
	New Democratic	Waseem Ahmed	5,771	14.0	+1.4	$36,233.25
	Green	Mark Davidson	811	2.0	-0.6	$0.00
	Marxist–Leninist	Frank Chilelli	275	0.7	+0.5	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			41,248	–	–	$109,482.72
Total rejected ballots			435
Turnout			41,683	54.1
Eligible voters			77,095
	Liberal hold		Swing		-4.7
Source: Elections Canada[11]