SURREY VOTES: Meet your candidates for mayor, council, school board<\/p>\n
Published 7:30 pm Sunday, October 4, 2026<\/p>\n
With 97 names on the ballot, what\u2019s a Surrey voter to do?<\/p>\n
The Oct. 17 municipal election will see voters choose one mayor, eight city councillors and six school trustees. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve grouped answers by slate for those candidates running on slates (presented in alphabetical order by the mayoral candidate\u2019s last name), followed by all the independent council candidates and school board candidates.<\/p>\n
CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR<\/p>\n
Igal Ammons-II, New Surrey+<\/a><\/p>\n Linda Annis, Surrey First<\/a><\/p>\n Brenda Locke, Surrey Connect<\/a><\/p>\n Doug McCallum, Safe Surrey Coalition<\/a><\/p>\n Honveer Singh Randhawa, Conservative Party of Surrey<\/a><\/p>\n Mike Starchuk, Imagine Surrey<\/a><\/p>\n Troy Van Vliet, Surrey NOW<\/a><\/p>\n CANDIDATES FOR COUNCIL<\/p>\n NEW SURREY+<\/p>\n Editor\u2019s note: We sent our council questionnaire to New Surrey+ slate candidates via mayor candidate Igal Ammons II, who replied, \u201cOur council speaks with one voice. What one tells you is the same the other will say in his or her own words.\u201d No biographies were sent.<\/p>\n Here is a link to the group answers that were returned.<\/a><\/p>\n Leanna Chatwin<\/p>\n Messia Ditshimba<\/p>\n Chris Hoffman<\/p>\n Ian de Hoog<\/p>\n Emily Kennedy<\/p>\n Matthew Smed<\/p>\n Lily Tsi<\/p>\n Grace Ziegler<\/p>\n SURREY FIRST<\/p>\n Debra Antifaev<\/a><\/p>\n Mike Bose<\/a><\/p>\n Janet Brown<\/a><\/p>\n Bilal Cheema<\/a><\/p>\n Jasroop Gosal<\/a><\/p>\n Gagan Nahal<\/a><\/p>\n Clint Stewart<\/a><\/p>\n Shina Vermani<\/a><\/p>\n SURREY CONNECT <\/p>\n Harry Bains<\/a><\/p>\n Michael Dunn<\/a><\/p>\n Gordon Hepner<\/a><\/p>\n Pardeep Kooner<\/a><\/p>\n Vera LeFranc<\/a><\/p>\n Rob Stutt<\/a><\/p>\n Rona Tepper<\/a><\/p>\n Noemi Victorino<\/a><\/p>\n SAFE SURREY COALITION <\/p>\n Cheney Cloke<\/a><\/p>\n Doug Elford<\/a><\/p>\n Meera Gill<\/a><\/p>\n Suhana Gill<\/a><\/p>\n Laurie Guerra<\/a><\/p>\n Mandeep Singh Nagra<\/a><\/p>\n Allison Patton<\/a><\/p>\n Beau Simpson<\/a><\/p>\n CONSERVATIVE ELECTORS ASSOCIATION, SURREY <\/p>\n Ricky Bajwa<\/a><\/p>\n Dan B. Carlos<\/a><\/p>\n Mehnaz Javed<\/a><\/p>\n Cordel Pullar<\/a><\/p>\n Harkirat Singh Sidhu<\/a><\/p>\n Manu Sharma<\/a><\/p>\n Calvin Vanderploeg<\/a><\/p>\n Donna Wu<\/a><\/p>\n IMAGINE SURREY <\/p>\n Yousef Aldabainah<\/a><\/p>\n Chandan Chahal<\/a><\/p>\n Perminder Chohan<\/a><\/p>\n Narima Dela Cruz<\/a><\/p>\n Ashiyana Hanif<\/a><\/p>\n William Li<\/a><\/p>\n Margaret Mubanda<\/a><\/p>\n Kevin Wilkie<\/a><\/p>\n SURREY NOW<\/p>\n Gail Beszedes<\/a><\/p>\n Ollivor Dickson<\/a><\/p>\n Jesse Johl<\/a><\/p>\n Rahul Gill<\/a><\/p>\n Enrique Ponce De Leon<\/a><\/p>\n Dr. Werner Spangehl<\/a><\/p>\n James Yu \u2013 no questionnaire received<\/p>\n INDEPENDENT CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES<\/p>\n Intikhab Ahmed <\/a><\/p>\n Lisa Dawn Alexis <\/a><\/p>\n Philip Carless<\/a><\/p>\n Isaac Daniel<\/a><\/p>\n Youssef Khattab<\/a><\/p>\n Jimmy Rico<\/a><\/p>\n Tom Said<\/a><\/p>\n Miguel Ting<\/a><\/p>\n Vik Uppal<\/a><\/p>\n Mila Wong-Kabush<\/a><\/p>\n Salman Zafar<\/a><\/p>\n SCHOOL TRUSTEE CANDIDATES<\/p>\n SURREY FIRST EDUCATION<\/p>\n Terry Allen<\/a><\/p>\n Bob Holmes<\/a><\/p>\n Laurie Larsen<\/a><\/p>\n Garry Thind<\/a>* (NOTE: Thind is now running as the B.C. Conservative candidate in Surrey-Guildford<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Gary Tymoschuk<\/a><\/p>\n Shawn Wilson \u2013 no questionnaire received<\/p>\n SURREY NOW<\/p>\n John Banovich<\/a><\/p>\n Dr. Michelle Ceniza<\/a><\/p>\n Rohit D\u2019Silva<\/a><\/p>\n Vanessa Gilera<\/a><\/p>\n Dr. Vincent Tighe \u2013 no questionnaire received<\/p>\n Venson Wang<\/a><\/p>\n OUR SURREY<\/p>\n Kyle Jones<\/a><\/p>\n Vick Karan<\/a><\/p>\n Dean McGee<\/a><\/p>\n Anne Whitmore<\/a><\/p>\n INDEPENDENT<\/p>\n Harjit Bhullar \u2013 no questionnaire received<\/p>\n Amrit Birring<\/a><\/p>\n Gurleen K Chahal \u2013 no questionnaire received<\/p>\n Noor Cheema<\/a><\/p>\n Gary B. Hee<\/a><\/p>\n Meena Kochher<\/a><\/p>\n Ghulam Mujtaba<\/a><\/p>\n Afzalur Rahman<\/a><\/p>\n WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO VOTE<\/p>\n \u2022 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Voters will receive a voter card. Bring it with you to the polls on election day, along with a piece of ID. If you\u2019re 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\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n