[4] According to the 2021 Canadian census[5] Languages: 41.8% English, 20.3% Punjabi, 4.4% Urdu, 3.8% Hindi, 3.4% Gujarati, 2.4% Tamil, 1.6% Tagalog, 1.5% Portuguese, 1.1% Spanish Religions: 34.2% Christian (16.3% Catholic, 3.2% Pentecostal, 14.7% Other), 24.4% Sikh, 20.4% Hindu, 10.6% Muslim, 1.1% Buddhist, 8.8% None Median income: $37,600 (2020) Average income: $46,640 (2020) The riding has elected the following members of Parliament: Note: As certified on 5 November 2008 after a recount.

The Greens' Patti Chemelyk is an administrator in the health care industry; Jagtar Shergill of the NDP was a registered insurance broker who had run for the party in 2006 and for Brampton City Council the same year;[16] Conservative Kyle Seeback is a commercial litigation lawyer and former national-level swimmer;[17] and winner Andrew Kania, a Liberal, practiced family law.

[20] Kania had previously sought the party's nomination in Brampton—Springdale, but then-Prime Minister Paul Martin placed Dr. Ruby Dhalla as the candidate.

Kania commented, "I am very thankful to the people of Brampton West for trusting me to represent them in circumstances where the Liberal Party lost about 20 seats.

"[18] On October 23, 2008, Elections Canada announced that a judicial recount had been granted in Brampton West, under an Ontario Superior Court judge.