B.C. Election 2026: Surrey voters to decide hotly contested ridings

It’s election day across B.C. and voters in Surrey are headed to the polls.

On this page, you’ll see updates for the following Surrey ridings:

• Surrey-Serpentine
• Surrey North
• Surrey City Centre
• Surrey Guildford
• Surrey-Newton
• Surrey-Cloverdale
• Surrey-Fleetwood
• Surrey-Panorama
• Surrey South
• Surrey-White Rock

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The riding, which combines parts of Whalley, Green Timbers and Guildford, was first contested in 2024, and narrowly won by the NDP. The area has typically been a NDP stronghold, but is expected to be a close race once again, after coming down to a difference of only 1.6 per cent in 2024.

NDP’s incumbent Amna Shah is contesting the seat once again against the Conservative party’s Zeeshan Wahla who came very close to winning in the last election. Raman Sharma from CentreBC and Oliver Wildfong from OneBC are also hoping the votes swing their ways.

Former B.C. Conservative MLA Elenore Sturko flipped this constituency two years ago with a close 672-vote margin over then NDP incumbent Mike Starchuk, and it will be a key riding for the Conservatives to hold in 2026, or the NDP to flip back in deciding which party will carry the all-important 10-seat Surrey block in the B.C. legislature.

Surrey-Cloverdale is one of the city’s evolving constituencies, from a more rural, agricultural zone to growing suburban neighbourhoods, which is accelerating with the arrival of the SkyTrain extension along Fraser Highway.

For 2026, the riding will also be a test of whether this election will see any vote splitting on the right. Marketing executive Nicholas Cartmell will be the Conservative standard bearer against the NDP’s Stephen Dooley. Then CentreBC and OneBC are also running candidates Sargy Chima and Travis Marchenski. Second-time Green candidate Pat McCutcheon is also in the race.

The family-oriented neighbourhoods along Fraser Highway that the constituency is comprised of have been core support for the NDP with the seat being held by incumbent Jagrup Brar for 14 of the last 17 years since first being elected in 2009.

The 2024 election, however, was a close race, Brar winning with 48 per cent of the ballot, just three points ahead of B.C. Conservative Avtar Gill at 45 per cent. The riding will be important for the NDP to hold in 2026, with hopes that the centre-right CentreBC and OneBC, both of which are running candidates in the riding might help split the vote in their favour.

Brar faces Conservative Garry Purewal, Centre B.C. Paul Brar, OneBC Carolyn Hofbauer and the Greens, second-time candidate Tim Binnema.

The most hotly contested seat of 2024, Surrey Guildford will be one to watch election night. Garry Begg from the NDP has held the seat for three terms now, but almost lost it in the 2024 election, beating out the Conservatives by a mere 22 votes. Whether he can hold onto it for a fourth term remains to be seen.

Garry Thind is contesting the seat for the Conservative party. Thind is running provincially for the first time, but has served as a school trustee in Surrey for more than a decade. If he is indeed successful on election night, a byelection will be called locally, as Thind is one of six trustees who was elected last week in Surrey.

A Green candidate, Jodi Murphy is hoping for the seat, as well as James Yaroshuk, who is not affiliated with any party.

The Newton seat in Surrey has long seen an NDP candidate in power. The 2024 newcomer Jessie Sunner took it over from the popular Harry Bains who held it from 2017 until the last election when he decided to not run again. Harj Dhaliwal from the Conservative party is hoping to flip the community, which is the largest town centre in Surrey.

Challenging the two is Harman Preet Singh from CentreBC.

The riding has been a safe NDP one since 2005, an area with a large South Asian population.

The Conservative party won the new riding at the time, made up of Green Timbers and parts of Whalley, in 2024 quite comfortably, unseating the incumbent NDP MLA at the time, Rachna Singh.

Candidate Mandeep Dhaliwal is hoping to hold onto the seat, while the NDP’s Sahib Thind is hoping to swing it back to the New Democrats. Also contesting the seat are Tanya Gupta from OneBC, Jag Bhandari who is unaffiliated, Parm Bhandol from CentreBC and Yudhbir Gill of the Green Party.

The B.C. Conservatives’ Bryan Tepper flipped this constituency in the 2024 by just 351 votes over then incumbent, veteran NDP MLA Jinny Sims in one of Surrey’s closer races. Two years later, the NDP will be anxious to flip the seat back in its bid to hold on to government.

A largely suburban riding carved out in the 2008 electoral redistribution out surrounding Surrey constituencies, it started out as a B.C. Liberal seat held by both Stephanie Cadieux and Marvin Hunt. It remains a largely suburban riding of younger families and retirees.

Simms has history here, however, having held the seat from 2017 to 2024, and 2026’s campaign will have a more crowded ballot with the incumbent and Sims joined by CentreBC candidate Manav Manor and Green candidate Nolen Scott.

Combining parts of Cloverdale, Panorama and Fleetwood, the Serpentine riding is named after the river that runs through this area of Surrey. Comprising of mostly residential, the riding includes many parks and schools in the neighbourhoods consisting of many families.

This was another new riding that was contested for the first time in 2024, when the Conservative party’s Linda Hepner was elected by a slight margin of just over two per cent. Hepner decided not to run again, with Jessy Sahota running under the party’s banner. Challenging him are Judy Higginbotham from CentreBC, Todd Holowchak of OneBC, Sikander Kang from the NDP and Errol Povah from the Freedom Party of BC.

This constituency was drawn out in the 2015 electoral distribution to capture rapidly-growing neighbourhoods in South Surrey. It has been reliably right of centre since its creation, won in 2024 by the B.C. Conservatives’ Brent Chapman in one of the party’s easier wins, twenty points better than the NDP’s Haroon Ghaffar.

It looks like an easy hold in 2026 for the Conservatives, who are running a high-profile candidate in Megan Knight, most recently mayor of White Rock, but she will be on a crowded ballot starting with CentreBC Leader Elenore Sturko, who was last MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale. The NDP have nominated Paris Tahlan, the Greens Bill McConnell and unaffiliated candidate Denis Hurtubise.

The riding, which takes in the historic bedroom community of White Rock and fast-growing, affluent neighbourhoods of South Surrey, was won comfortably by the B.C. Conservatives’ Trevor Halford in 2024. Just two years later, it looks like a dependable piece in the party’s base in vote-rich Surrey that the Conservatives will be working to build on.

The 2026 election will be a rematch of 2024, Halford against the NDP’s Darryl Walker, a popular former White Rock Mayor, but with a field that is more crowded that 2024. Upstart centre-right CentreBC is running Waqas Rana, the further right OneBC’s candidate is Amanda James and the Greens are running Christine Kinney. Former Surrey Leader reporter Kevin Daikiw rounds out the field.