Garry Begg

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Garry Begg
MLA
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Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General of British Columbia
In office
November 18, 2024 – July 17, 2025
PremierDavid Eby
Preceded byMike Farnworth
Succeeded byNina Krieger
Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly
for Surrey-Guildford
Incumbent
Assumed office
May 9, 2017
Preceded byRiding Established
Personal details
Born
Ontario[1]
PartyNew Democratic Party
SpouseVal Begg

Garry Begg is a Canadian politician who has served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 2017, representing the electoral district of Surrey-Guildford.[2]

Biography

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Born in Ontario, Begg had a 38-year career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), eight of which was spent in Surrey;[1][3] he attained the rank of inspector with the force.[4] He previously ran in the 2015 federal election as the federal New Democratic Party's candidate in Fleetwood—Port Kells,[4] but was not elected.[5]

In the 2017 provincial election, he ran in the newly established riding of Surrey-Guildford as a BC NDP candidate against Liberal Amrik Virk, also a former RCMP inspector. Begg defeated Virk to become a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia,[2][3] and served as government caucus whip in his first term.[6][7] He retained his seat in the 2020 provincial election.[8]

Begg faced a tight race against BC Conservative candidate Honveer Singh Randhawa in the 2024 election, with initial results indicating that Randhawa was leading by 103 votes.[9] After mail-in and absentee ballots were counted, Elections BC posted updated results on October 28, with Begg winning by 27 votes;[10][11] that figure was later revised to 21 votes.[12] As the margin was less than 1/500th of the total ballots cast, an automatic judicial recount was triggered.[10][11] The recount was completed on November 8, with Begg re-elected by a margin of 22 votes, allowing the NDP to hold on to a majority government.[12][13]

He was named to the Eby ministry on November 18, 2024 to serve as Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General.[1][7][14] He was succeeded by Nina Krieger in July 2025.[15]

He and his wife Val have two children.[1][6]

Electoral record

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Provincial elections

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2024 British Columbia general election: Surrey-Guildford
Party Candidate Votes %
New Democratic Garry Begg 8,947 46.83
Conservative Honveer Singh Randhawa 8,925 46.81
Green Manjeet Singh Sahota 824 4.32
Independent Kabir Qurban 370 1.94
Total valid votes 19,066 100.00
Source: Elections BC[16]
2020 British Columbia general election: Surrey-Guildford
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[17][18]
2017 British Columbia general election: Surrey-Guildford
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[19][20]

Federal elections

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2015 Canadian federal election: Fleetwood—Port Kells
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Ken Hardie 22,871 46.90 +31.24 $50,601.97
Conservative Nina Grewal 14,275 29.27 -18.56 $77,785.90
New Democratic Garry Begg 10,463 21.46 -11.60 $100,039.24
Green Richard Hosein 1,154 2.37 -0.20 $3,625.85
Total valid votes/expense limit 48,763 100.00   $206,797.64
Total rejected ballots 269 0.55 –
Turnout 49,032 65.25 –
Eligible voters 75,150
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +24.90
Source: Elections Canada[21][22][23]

References

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