SURREY VOTES: Meet your candidates for mayor, council, school board
Published 7:30 pm Sunday, October 4, 2026
With 97 names on the ballot, what’s a Surrey voter to do?
The Oct. 17 municipal election will see voters choose one mayor, eight city councillors and six school trustees.
To help you sort them all out, the Surrey-Now-Leader, Peace Arch News and Cloverdale Reporter provided candidates with questionnaires, giving them all the same word limits and given the same response deadlines. Information in the questionnaires linked below was provided by the candidates.
We’ve grouped answers by slate for those candidates running on slates (presented in alphabetical order by the mayoral candidate’s last name), followed by all the independent council candidates and school board candidates.
CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR
Doug McCallum, Safe Surrey Coalition
Honveer Singh Randhawa, Conservative Party of Surrey
CANDIDATES FOR COUNCIL
NEW SURREY+
Editor’s note: We sent our council questionnaire to New Surrey+ slate candidates via mayor candidate Igal Ammons II, who replied, “Our council speaks with one voice. What one tells you is the same the other will say in his or her own words.” No biographies were sent.
Here is a link to the group answers that were returned.
Leanna Chatwin
Messia Ditshimba
Chris Hoffman
Ian de Hoog
Emily Kennedy
Matthew Smed
Lily Tsi
Grace Ziegler
SURREY FIRST
SURREY CONNECT
SAFE SURREY COALITION
CONSERVATIVE ELECTORS ASSOCIATION, SURREY
IMAGINE SURREY
SURREY NOW
James Yu – no questionnaire received
INDEPENDENT CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES
SCHOOL TRUSTEE CANDIDATES
SURREY FIRST EDUCATION
Garry Thind* (NOTE: Thind is now running as the B.C. Conservative candidate in Surrey-Guildford.)
Shawn Wilson – no questionnaire received
SURREY NOW
Dr. Vincent Tighe – no questionnaire received
OUR SURREY
INDEPENDENT
Harjit Bhullar – no questionnaire received
Gurleen K Chahal – no questionnaire received
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO VOTE
• Advance voting is set for Oct. 7, 10, 14 and 15 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 10 voting places around the city.
• General voting is set for Saturday, Oct. 17 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voters may cast their ballot at any one of the 52 voting locations around the city.
• Voters will receive a voter card. Bring it with you to the polls on election day, along with a piece of ID. If you’re not already registered to vote, bring two pieces of acceptable identification that provide evidence of your identity and place of residence. One item must contain the voter’s signature.
• See the City of Surrey’s election page at surrey.ca/election for all the details.