One hundred candidates seek 15 Surrey mayoral, council and school trustee seats

The nomination period for Surrey’s civic election closed at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, beginning the campaign for the Oct. 17 vote. The city lists 100 candidates on surrey.ca/election: seven for mayor, 67 for city council and 26 for school trustee. That is 16 more candidates than the 84 listed on the ballot in Surrey’s 2022 civic election.

Surrey voters will elect a mayor, eight city councillors and six school trustees. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 52 locations across the city. Advance voting will be available Oct. 7, 10, 14 and 15 at 10 locations listed on surrey.ca. Voters are asked to bring identification and their voter card, which will be mailed in late September or early October.

The city uses Elections BC’s Provincial Voters List to create its list of eligible voters. Accessible options include curbside voting at all locations and mail-in voting. An interactive city map allows voters to find voting locations and check wait times.

The mayoral candidates, listed alphabetically, are Igal Ammons-II, Linda Annis, Brenda Locke, Doug McCallum, Honveer Singh Randhawa, Mike Starchuk and Troy Van-Vliet.

City council candidates are Intikhab Ahmed, Yousef Aldabainah-Barakat, Lisa Dawn Alexis, Debra Antifaev, Harry Bains, Ricky Bajwa, Gail Beszedes, Mike Bose, Janet Brown, Philip Carless, Dan B. Carlos, Chandan Chahal, Leanna Jacinta Chatwin, Bilal Cheema, Perminder Chohan, Cheney Cloke, Isaac Daniel, Ian De Hoog, Narima Dela Cruz, Ollivor Dickson, Messia Ditshimba, Michael Dunn, Doug Elford, Meera Gill, Rahul Gill, Suhana Gill, Jasroop Gosal, Laurie Guerra, Ashiyana Hanif, Gord Hepner, Christopher R. Hoffmann, Mehnaz Javed, Jesse Johl, Emily Kennedy, Youssef Khattab, Brad Kielmann, Pardeep Kooner, Vera LeFranc, William Li, Margaret Mubanda, Mandeep Singh Nagra, Gagan Nahal, Allison Patton, Enrique Ponce De Leon, Cordel Pullar, Jimmy Rico, Tom Said, Manu Sharma, Harkirat Sidhu, Beau Simpson, Matthew J. Smed, Werner Spangehl, Clint Stewart, Rob Stutt, Rona Tepper, Miguel Ting, Lily Tsi, Vik Uppal, Calvin Vanderploeg, Shina Vermani, Noemi Victorino, Kevin Wilkie, Mila Wong-Kabush, Donna Wu, James Yu, Salman Zafar and Grace Zeigler.

School trustee candidates are Terry Allen, John Banovich, Harjit Bhullar, Amrit Birring, Michelle Ceniza, Gurleen K. Chahal, Noor Cheema, Rohit D’SILVA, Tatiana Da Silva, Vanessa Gilera, Gary B. Hee, Bob Holmes, Kyle Jones, Susha Cassidy Jones, Vick Karan, Meena Kochher, Laurie Larsen, Dean McGee, Ghulam Mujtaba, Afzalur Rahman, Garry Thind, Vincent Tighe, Gary Tymoschuk, Venson Wang, Anne Whitmore and Shawn Wilson.