ELECTION DAY IN SURREY: What you need to know about voting, 97 candidates, results, more<\/p>\n
Published 7:00 am Saturday, October 17, 2026<\/p>\n
A busy, chaotic, sometimes confusing civic election campaign ends with final voting today (Saturday, Oct. 17).<\/p>\n
Polls are open 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. at 52 voting locations across the city. <\/p>\n
Close to 100 candidates on the Surrey ballot have chased votes for mayor, city council and school board seats in the midst of a snap B.C. election involving 47 MLA candidates in 10 ridings<\/a> here.<\/p>\n In Surrey there are seven candidates for mayor, 66 for city council and 24 for school trustee \u2014 a record total of 97, all fighting for attention in an election campaign held every four years in cities across B.C. Visit tinyurl.com\/SurreyVotesOctober2026<\/a> for links to our candidate questionnaires, or scroll below.<\/p>\n Surrey voters will choose a mayor, eight city councillors and six school trustees.<\/p>\n Voters on Elections BC\u2019s list should have received a voter card in the mail; bring it with you to the polls on election day, along with a piece of ID or two. Curbside and mail-in voting are options.<\/p>\n Check surrey.ca\/election<\/a> for sites, poll station wait times, voting requirements and election results, and visit surreynowleader.com<\/a> for coverage and post-election reaction.<\/p>\n Election results should arrive quickly online after polls close Saturday. <\/p>\n \u201cWe use voting machines, and that speeds things up quite a bit,\u201d said Gib van Ert, Surrey Chief Election Officer.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t actually end the voting until everyone who\u2019s still queuing at 8 p.m. gets in and gets a chance to vote, so it can be a little later than 8 p.m. in practice, depending on how busy a particular voting place is. But once we\u2019ve closed the poll and we can start tabulating, they can come in pretty quickly. Last time we started getting preliminary results by around 9:30 p.m., and not much longer than that for every voting location. The results are all posted on the city\u2019s website.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE: <\/p>\n \u2018High numbers\u2019: Surrey civic election sees 52,605 votes cast in advance, up 47% over 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n SURREY VOTES: Meet your candidates for mayor, council, school board<\/a><\/p>\n Hear what Surrey council and mayor candidates had to say at 2 election forums<\/a><\/p>\n Q&A: Surrey Chief Election Officer on more advance voting sites, 100 names on ballot<\/a><\/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 Troy Van Vliet, Surrey NOW<\/a><\/p>\n CANDIDATES FOR COUNCIL<\/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 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<\/a><\/p>\n Emily Kennedy<\/p>\n Matthew Smed<\/p>\n Lily Tsi<\/p>\n Grace Ziegler<\/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