Amarjeet Sohi — brand, terms, 2025 outcome

Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarjeet_Sohi ; https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/liberal-amarjeet-sohi-projected-to-lose-edmonton-southeast-riding-in-canada-federal-election-2025-1.7521097 ; https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/amarjeet-sohi-edmonton-mayor-election-1.7652728 Retrieved: 2026-07-05

Deeply multi-term public figure. City councillor for Ward 12, 2007-2015 (three terms), then federal Liberal MP for Edmonton Mill Woods 2015-2019 (Trudeau cabinet: Infrastructure & Communities, then Natural Resources), lost his seat 2019, then Mayor of Edmonton 2021-2025 (one term). Brand: centre-left / progressive, Liberal-affiliated. NDP canvassing roots, elected as a federal Liberal cabinet minister. Immigrant, former bus driver, survived 21 months' wrongful imprisonment in India — a signature compassion-and-lived-experience narrative. Led the council branded "progressive." 2025 outcome: did not seek re-election as mayor. Announced a return to federal politics as the Liberal candidate in Edmonton Southeast in the April 2025 federal election; lost to Conservative Jagsharan Singh Mahal. Retired from municipal politics. Self-styled progressive: Yes (centre-left / Liberal; not socialist).