Surrey-Guildford

This article is about the Canadian electoral district. For the British constituency in Surrey, England, of a similar name, see Guildford (UK Parliament constituency).

Surrey-Guildford

British Columbia electoral district
File:2023 326 Surrey-Guildford.svg Location in Surrey
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Garry Begg New Democratic
District created	2015
First contested	2017
Last contested	2024
Demographics
Census division	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivision	Surrey

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.

Geography

The district is named after the Surrey neighbourhood of Guildford.

Demographics

Population, 2014	58,037
Area (km2)	42

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

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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

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

See also

• List of British Columbia provincial electoral districts
• Canadian provincial electoral districts

External links

• Detailed map of Surrey-Guildford district (pdf)