B.C. Election 2026: Rematch of close races on the ballot in Langley and Fraser Valley

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

On this page you’ll see updates for the following Langley and Fraser Valley ridings:

Langley: Langley-Willowbrook, Langley-Abbotsford, and Langley-Walnut Grove.

Fraser Valley: Abbotsford South, Abbotsford West, Abbotsford-Mission, Chilliwack North, and Chilliwack-Cultus Lake.

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They live in three of B.C.’s largest cities by land area, but voters in Langley, Abbotsford and Chilliwack are feeling squeezed. Groceries and gasoline are expensive, traffic is terrible and it’s hard to find a doctor.

That discontent helped Conservatives take back several seats from the NDP in the 2024 provincial election. The blue wave wasn’t enough to carry the party to power, but voters sent eight Tory MLAs to Victoria.

The party wants to keep all eight seats this time around, hoping 2024 was a return to form for the region. Before 2020, when the NDP had a historic breakthrough, Langley, Abbotsford and Chilliwack were a conservative stronghold.

But times have changed. Several ridings were close in 2024, and although Conservative candidates won, it was by a margin of less than five per cent in Langley-Willowbrook and Langley-Walnut Grove. It’s here where increased urbanization could allow the NDP to make inroads.

Several candidates in the Fraser Valley have experience in government. This election will pit former NDP MLAs from 2020 to 2024, like Andrew Mercier in Langley-Willowbrook, Pam Alexis in Abbotsford-Mission, and Kelly Paddon in Chilliwack-Cultus Lake, against Conservative incumbents in seven of the eight ridings.

Only Abbotsford-Mission has a Conservative newcomer after MLA Reann Gasper stepped aside to make way for former Tory leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay to run in a byelection that didn’t happen because of the snap election. Now Findlay’s gone and Darryl Kropp will try to hold onto the seat for the Conservatives. Alexis, the NDP candidate, has been campaigning for 59 days straight.

Raising the stakes — and adding to the uncertainty — is continued change across the region. Since 2024, rapid population growth has started to slow, the SkyTrain line that will eventually link Langley to Surrey and Vancouver is on the horizon, and dump trucks and excavators have ripped up Highway 1 to create more lanes to Abbotsford, but not Chilliwack.

Candidates in all eight ridings east of Surrey have been talking about health care. Emergency rooms are crowded — and, in the case of Mission Hospital, sometimes closed — and it’s hard to find a doctor.

Affordability remains top-of-mind. Commuters in particular feel the increase in gas prices, families are struggling with the high cost of groceries and other necessities, and many people who moved east during COVID-19 in search of affordable homes are facing higher mortgage rates as they have to renew.

All that change will be on voters’ minds, but it remains unclear if it will lead them to choose a new MLA or a new premier.

Former NDP MLA from 2020 to 2024 Andrew Mercier is running against Conservative incumbent Jody Toor in a repeat of 2024. Also running is Anisha Sandhu with the Greens and Shubham Joshi with OneBC. In 2024, Toor won by a 3.8 per cent margin over Mercier.

Misty Van Popta, Conservative incumbent, is running against NDP newcomer Holly Isaac, the Green’s Sam Meyer and CentreBC’s Kyle Stevenson. Van Popta won by a 4.8 per cent margin over NDP incumbent Megan Dykeman in 2024.

Conservative incumbent Harman Bhangdu is running against OneBC’s Shelly Jan, who ran for the Conservatives in 2020, the NDP’s Erin Osborne, the Green’s Melissa Snazell and Libertarian Alex Joehl.

Conservative incumbent Bruce Banman is running against the NDP’s Leah Ballantyne and OneBC’s Robin Roy.

Conservative incumbent Korky Neufeld is running against the NDP’s Jules Cote and CentreBC’s Gurpreet Chahal.

Former NDP MLA from 2020 to 2024 Pam Alexis is running against Conservative newcomer Darryl Kropp in the riding won by Conservative Reann Gasper in 2024. Earlier this year, Gasper stepped aside to make way for former Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay to run in a byelection before Findlay stepped down and the NDP called a snap election. Also running is CentreBC’s Lakhwinder Jhaj and OneBC’s Virender Dass. In 2024, Gasper won by a margin of 10.8 per cent over Alexis, the former mayor of Mission.

In Chilliwack-North, Conservative incumbent Heather Maahs is up against the NDP’s Adila Shaukat and CentreBC’s Dan Grice. Maahs won the riding in 2024 with a 16.9 per cent margin over the NDP candidate.

In a repeat of 2024, Conservative Á’a:líya Warbus is running against the NDP’s Kelli Paddon. In 2024, Warbus won by a 9.2 per cent margin over Paddon, who was MLA for the Chilliwack-Kent riding between 2020 and 2024. Warbus is the daughter of Steven Point, former B.C. lieutenant-governor. She is the first Stó꞉lō person to be elected in the province.