2026 Surrey municipal election
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October 17, 2026
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The 2026 Surrey municipal election will be held on October 17, 2026, on the same day as the municipal elections held throughout British Columbia.[1] Voters will elect a mayor along with eight city councillors and six school trustees for the Surrey Board of Education (School District 36 Surrey) through plurality-at-large voting; a seventh board of education seat, representing White Rock, is elected separately by that city.[1][2]
Incumbent mayor Brenda Locke of Surrey Connect, who defeated Doug McCallum by 973 votes in the 2022 municipal election, is seeking re-election.[3][4] McCallum, a former four-term mayor, returns to lead the Safe Surrey Coalition.[5][6] Surrey First councillor Linda Annis is running for mayor; Surrey First's last mayoral candidate finished third in 2022.[7] Two new parties are also contesting the election: Imagine Surrey, led by former MLA Mike Starchuk,[8] and the Conservative Electors Association, a municipal conservative party chaired by former member of Parliament Kerry-Lynne Findlay. Its mayoral candidate is lawyer Honveer Singh Randhawa.[9][10]
Following the 2022 election, the provincial government ordered the policing transition to proceed despite Locke's opposition, and the Surrey Police Service became the city's police of jurisdiction in 2024.[4]
Public safety, extortion-related crime affecting the city's South Asian business community, affordability, traffic congestion, and Metro Vancouver regional governance have been identified as central issues heading into 2026.[4][11][9] In April 2026, Surrey City Council unanimously requested a provincial public inquiry into Metro Vancouver governance, citing financial stewardship concerns including a cost overrun on the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant from an original $700-million estimate to approximately $3.86 billion.[12]
Mayoral election
Opinion polling
Various organizations conduct opinion polls to gauge voter intention ahead of the election. The lead is calculated by subtracting the polling percentage of the first-place party from that of the second-place party.
Table of polls
| Polling firm | Last date of polling | Link | SC | SSC | SF | IS | CEA | Others | Margin of error | Sample size | Polling method | Lead | |
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| Doug McCallum announces his re-election bid with the Safe Surrey Coalition.[6] | |||||||||||||
| Honveer Singh Randhawa is named Conservative Electors Association mayoral candidate for Surrey.[9] | |||||||||||||
| Incumbent mayor Brenda Locke announces her re-election bid with Surrey Connect.[3] | |||||||||||||
| Imagine Surrey is founded; Mike Starchuk launches his mayoral campaign.[8] | |||||||||||||
| Mainstreet Research | October 22, 2025 | [13] | 4% | 7% | 11% | — | 25% | 53% | ±3.5 pp | 803 | IVR | 14 | |
| Linda Annis announces her mayoral candidacy with Surrey First.[7] | |||||||||||||
| 2022 election | October 15, 2022 | [14][15] | 28.14% | 27.31% | 21.05% | N/a | N/a | 23.51% | N/a | 118,908 | N/a | 0.83 | |
Party abbreviations: SC = Surrey Connect; SSC = Safe Surrey Coalition; SF = Surrey First; IS = Imagine Surrey; CEA = Conservative Electors Association.
2022 results
Results of the 2022 mayoral election are shown below. Turnout was 34.54 per cent.[14][15]
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brenda Locke (elected) | Surrey Connect | 33,311 | 28.14% | |
| Doug McCallum (incumbent) | Safe Surrey Coalition | 32,338 | 27.31% | |
| Gordie Hogg | Surrey First | 24,916 | 21.05% | |
| Jinny Sims | Surrey Forward | 14,895 | 12.58% | |
| Sukh Dhaliwal | United Surrey | 9,629 | 8.13% | |
| Amrit Birring | People's Council Surrey | 2,270 | 1.92% | |
| John Milton Wolanski | Independent | 646 | 0.55% | |
| Kuldip Pelia | Independent | 385 | 0.33% | |
City council election
Eight seats on Surrey City Council are elected at large through plurality-at-large voting.[1] Following the 2022 election, the council consisted of four Surrey Connect councillors (plus Mayor Locke), two Safe Surrey Coalition councillors, and two Surrey First councillors.[14]
Candidates by party
Listed in order of seats held at the time of the 2026 election.
Surrey Connect
Incumbent mayor Brenda Locke leads the Surrey Connect slate. Six of eight council candidates have been announced:[16][17]
- Harry Bains (incumbent)
- Gord Hepner (incumbent)
- Pardeep Kooner (incumbent)
- Rob Stutt (incumbent)
- Rona Tepper
- Noemi Victorino
Safe Surrey Coalition
Former mayor Doug McCallum leads the Safe Surrey Coalition slate. The full slate had not been publicly confirmed as of April 2026.[5][6][b]
Surrey First
Mayoral candidate Linda Annis leads the Surrey First slate of eight council candidates:[18][19]
- Deb Antifaev
- Mike Bose (incumbent)
- Janet Brown
- Bilal Cheema
- Jasroop Gosal
- Gagan Nahal
- Taj Sandhu
- Clint Stewart
Imagine Surrey
Mayoral candidate Mike Starchuk leads a slate of eight council candidates:[20][21]
- Yousef Aldabainah
- Chandan Chahal
- Perminder Chohan
- Narima Dela Cruz
- Ashiyana Hanif
- William Li
- Margaret Mubanda
- Kevin Wilkie
Conservative Electors Association
In Surrey, mayoral candidate Honveer Singh Randhawa leads the association's local slate. Six council candidates had been announced as of April 2026:[9]
- Ricky Bajwa
- Lita Cabal
- Cheney Cloke
- Rasinder Kaur
- Holly Verchere
- James Yu
School board election
Six of the seven seats on the Surrey Board of Education (School District 36 Surrey) will be contested by Surrey voters; the seventh seat, representing White Rock, is elected separately by voters in that city.[2]
2022 results
All six Surrey seats were won by Surrey First Education candidates Terry Allen, Bob Holmes, Laurie Larsen, Garry Thind, Gary Tymoschuk, and Shawn Wilson. The White Rock seat was won by acclamation by independent trustee Laurae McNally.[22]
