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Harwinder Sandhu will carry the banner for the NDP in the North Okanagan Shuswap riding in the next federal election.
Sandhu won the nomination by acclimation at Vernon's Schubert Centre on Saturday.
The wife and mother of three children is a registered nurse at Vernon Jubilee Hospital, where she works as a patient care co-ordinator as well as a Vernon Community Health nurse.
Sandhu moved to Vernon in 2012 from Terrace. her husband, Baljit, also works in healthcare at VJH.
She has been involved with the NDP for a long time and has volunteered at the provincial and federal levels.
In 2017, she ran for MLA in Kelowna-Mission and was recently elected as a provincial NDP executive rep for the Southern Interior Regional Council, which represents 11 constituencies.
Sandhu is also a provincial chair with the BC Nurses Union on its human rights and equity caucus, and is a lobby co-ordinator for the Thompson North Okanagan region for the BCNU, addressing such issues as violence in healthcare.
