Surrey’s final civic election voting numbers show where candidates won or lost on Oct. 17.
A new Surrey city council term of four years starts 7 p.m. Monday (Nov. 2) when mayor-elect Doug McCallum leads an inaugural meeting of his Safe Surrey Coalition-dominated council of eight. Click here to watch.
Incumbent Harry Bains, elected with Surrey Connect, will be sworn in with seven rival Safe Surrey councillors Doug Elford, Meera Gill, Mandeep Singh Nagra, Suhana Gill, Allison Patton, Laurie Guerra and Cheney Cloke.
Civic election voter turnout was 37.3 per cent, or 134,393 of Surrey’s 359,921 registered voters, according to numbers posted on the city’s website. Shown are both Voter Turnout Per Poll and Votes for Candidate Per Poll.
For mayor, McCallum earned many his 42,745 votes (31.96 per cent) in Newton, crushing opponents at Princess Margaret, Kwantlen Park, Frank Hurt, Panorama Ridge, especially during advance voting.
McCallum’s biggest single-poll win at advance locations was Princess Margaret where he earned 2,272 votes compared to 626 for his nearest rival, outgoing mayor Brenda Locke.
She scored big advance-vote wins at Cloverdale Rec Centre, Semiahmoo and Earl Marriott, with smaller poll numbers recorded at general locations (final voting day).
On Oct. 17, McCallum dominated polls at Panorama Ridge, Chimney Hill Elementary and Strawberry Hill Elementary as the only mayoral candidate with more than 1,000 votes in each.
Surrey had 10 advance voting places open on four days (Oct. 7, 10, 14 and 15). Busiest was Semiahmoo where 6,488 votes were cast.
Among general voting locations, Goldstone Park Elementary was busiest with 2,313 votes cast.
Surrey saw 669 mail ballots during the civic election.