Surrey-Whalley

Surrey-Whalley

British Columbia electoral district
Location in Surrey
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Bruce Ralston New Democratic
First contested	1991
Last contested	2020
Demographics
Population (2001)	48,686
Area (km²)	25.25
Pop. density (per km²)	1,928.2
Census division(s)	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivision(s)	Surrey

Surrey-Whalley is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. The riding's name was resurrected from a former riding in the same area, with similar but not identical boundaries. The newly created riding of Surrey-Whalley kept the majority of the original Surrey-Whalley riding and added a portion of Surrey-Green Timbers.

Under the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution the riding will be renamed Surrey City Centre.

Member of the Legislative Assembly

On account of the realignment of electoral boundaries, most incumbents did not represent the entirety of their listed district during the preceding legislative term. Its MLA is Bruce Ralston. He was first elected in 2005, and was re-elected in the 2009 election. He represents the British Columbia New Democratic Party.

Surrey-Whalley
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Surrey prior to 1986.
34th	1986–1991		Joan Smallwood	New Democratic
35th	1991–1996
36th	1996–2001
37th	2001–2004		Elayne Brenzinger	Liberal
	2004–2005			Independent
	2005–2005			Democratic Reform
38th	2005–2009		Bruce Ralston	New Democratic
39th	2009–2013
40th	2013–2017
41st	2017–2020
42nd	2020–present

Election results

Graph of the election results in Surrey-Whalley (minor parties are combined into "Others")

2020 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Bruce Ralston	10,994	70.94	+12.32	$21,604.97
	Liberal	Shaukat Khan	4,052	26.15	−3.93	$28,029.77
	Vision	Jag Bhandari	228	1.47	–	$0.00
	Communist	Ryan Abbott	223	1.44	+0.9	$123.40
Total valid votes			15,497	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			236	1.50	+0.62
Turnout			15,733	40.59	−10.96
Registered voters			38,764
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+8.13
Source: Elections BC

2017 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Bruce Ralston	10,315	58.62	−2.81	$59,997
	Liberal	Sargy Chima	5,293	30.08	+0.54	$75,151
	Green	Rita Anne Fromholt	1,893	10.76	–	$322
	Communist	George Gidora	96	0.54	–	$0
Total valid votes			17,597	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			157	0.88	−0.56
Turnout			17,754	51.55	+5.27
Registered voters			34,440
Source: Elections BC

2013 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Bruce Ralston	10,405	61.43	$112,496
	Liberal	Kuljeet Kaur	5,004	29.54	$34,568
	Conservative	Sunny Chohan	1,110	6.55	$40,961
	Vision	Jag Bhandari	420	2.48	$9,375
Total valid votes			16,939	100.00
Total rejected ballots			248	1.44
Turnout			17,187	46.28
Source: Elections BC

2009 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Bruce Ralston	10,453
	Liberal	Radhia Benalia	4,083
	Green	Bernadette Kennan	1,189

2005 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Bruce Ralston	8,903	55.00
	Liberal	Barbara Steele	4,949	30.57
	Green	Roy Whyte	1,238	7.65
	Democratic Reform	Elayne Brenzinger	607	3.75
	Marijuana	Melady Belinda Earl	302	1.87
	Independent	Joe Pal	139	0.86
	Platinum	Neil Gregory Magnuson	50	0.31
Total			16,188	100.00

B.C. General Election 2001: Surrey-Whalley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Elayne Brenzinger	6,693	45.73%		$53,614
	NDP	Joan Smallwood	4,536	30.99%		$42,735
	Green	Terry McComas	1,652	11.28%	–	$100
	Unity	John A. Conway	838	5.73%		$2,880
	Marijuana	Khalid Damien Arnaout	544	3.72%		$394
	Reform	Mike Runté	374	2.55%		$7,957
Total valid votes			14,637	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			85	0.58%
Turnout			14,722	66.79%

1996 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Joan K. Smallwood	7,396	50.14%	$37,063
	Liberal	Judy Higginbotham	4,576	31.02%	$46,879
	Reform	John A. Conway	1,302	8.83%	$6,238
	Progressive Democrat	Vlad Marjanovic	968	6.56%	$591
	Green	Jens M. Haeusser	243	1.65%	$100
	Social Credit	Dora Fehr	115	0.78%
	Libertarian	Donald A. Roberts	82	0.56%
	Natural Law	Valerie Hubert	70	0.47%	$118
Total valid votes			14,752
Total rejected ballots			147	0.99%
Turnout			14,899	65.38%

B.C. General Election 1991: Surrey-Whalley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Joan K. Smallwood	7,243	47.77%		$37,199
	Liberal	Daphne E. Edwards	4,862	32.06%		$2,676
	Social Credit	John A. Conway	2,922	19.27%	–	$27,880
	Green	Imtiaz N. Popat	137	0.90%	–	$189
Total valid votes			15,164	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			340	2.19%
Turnout			15,504	69.78%

External links

• BC Stats - 2001
• Results of 2001 election (pdf)
• 2001 Expenditures (pdf)
• Results of 1996 election
• 1996 Expenditures
• Results of 1991 election
• 1991 Expenditures
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia