Surrey-Whalley

Surrey-Whalley
British Columbia electoral district
	Location in Surrey
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
First contested	1991
Last contested	2020
Demographics
Population (2001)	48,686
Area (km²)	25.25
Census division(s)	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivision(s)	Surrey

Surrey-Whalley is a former provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada in use from 1991 to 2024.

Under the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution that took effect for the 2024 election, the riding was split along 96 Avenue, with portions to the west becoming part of the new electoral district of Surrey North and portions to the east becoming part of the new electoral district of Surrey City Centre.^[1]

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	2020–2024

Election results

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

v t e 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^[2]^[3]

v t e 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^[4]^[5]

v t e 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^[6]

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

v t e 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%

References

^ "Four more provincial ridings needed for Metro Vancouver: electoral boundaries commission | Urbanized". dailyhive.com. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
^ "Statement of Votes — 42nd Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
^ "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
^ "2017 Provincial General Election - Statement of Votes" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
^ "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
^ "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved May 17, 2017.

External links

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[1] "Four more provincial ridings needed for Metro Vancouver: electoral boundaries commission | Urbanized". dailyhive.com. Retrieved April 24, 2024.

[2] "Statement of Votes — 42nd Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved August 30, 2021.

[3] "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved February 20, 2021.

[4] "2017 Provincial General Election - Statement of Votes" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved December 7, 2020.

[5] "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved September 13, 2020.

[6] "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved May 17, 2017.

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