Surrey-Guildford
Provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada
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Surrey-Guildford is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada, that was created in the 2015 redistribution from parts of Surrey-Tynehead and Surrey-Whalley. It was first contested in the 2017 election. Surrey-Guildford consists of a large part of what used to be Surrey-Tynehead, a provincial riding that was held by the BC Liberals since Dave Hayer was first elected in 2001, and then re-elected in 2005 and 2009.[1]
 British Columbia electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Location in Surrey | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||
| MLA |
New Democratic | ||
| District created | 2015 | ||
| First contested | 2017 | ||
| Last contested | 2024 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Census division | Metro Vancouver | ||
| Census subdivision | Surrey | ||
Geography
Demographics
| Population, 2014 | 58,037 |
| Area (km2) | 42[2] |
Members of the Legislative Assembly
This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
| Surrey-Guildford | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Surrey-Tynehead and Surrey-Whalley prior to 2017 | ||||
| 41st | 2017–2020 | Garry Begg | New Democratic | |
| 42nd | 2020–2024 | |||
| 43rd | 2024–present | |||
Election results
Graph of the election results in Surrey-Guildford (minor parties combined into "Others")
| 2024 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Garry Begg | 8,938 | 46.95 | −13.64 | ||||
| Conservative | Honveer Singh Randhawa | 8,911 | 46.80 | – | ||||
| Green | Manjeet Singh Sahota | 821 | 4.31 | −3.52 | ||||
| Independent | Kabir Qurban | 369 | 1.94 | – | ||||
| Total valid vote | 19,039 | 100% | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Registered voters | ||||||||
| Source: Elections BC | ||||||||
| 2020 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Garry Begg | 10,403 | 60.59 | +10.99 | $40,309.39 | |||
| Liberal | Dave Hans | 5,139 | 29.93 | −8.21 | $42,168.46 | |||
| Green | Jodi Murphy | 1,345 | 7.83 | −1.98 | $1,281.64 | |||
| Independent | Sam Kofalt | 282 | 1.64 | – | $1,015.24 | |||
| Total valid votes | 17,169 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 148 | 0.85 | +0.14 | |||||
| Turnout | 17,317 | 45.69 | −10.07 | |||||
| Registered voters | 37,905 | |||||||
| Source: Elections BC[3][4] | ||||||||
| 2017 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| New Democratic | Garry Begg | 9,263 | 49.85 | $67,072 | ||||
| Liberal | Amrik Virk | 7,015 | 37.76 | $71,381 | ||||
| Green | Jodi Murphy | 1,840 | 9.90 | $,1838 | ||||
| Christian Heritage | Kevin Pielak | 462 | 2.49 | $1,015 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 18,580 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 133 | 0.71 | ||||||
| Turnout | 18,713 | 55.76 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 33,561 | |||||||
| Source: Elections BC[5][6] | ||||||||
