Surrey-Whalley

Surrey-Whalley

British Columbia electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Bruce Ralston New Democratic
Demographics
Census divisions	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivisions	Surrey

Surrey-Whalley is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. The riding's name was resurrected from a former riding in the same area, with similar but not identical boundaries. The newly created riding of Surrey-Whalley kept the majority of the original Surrey-Whalley riding and added a portion of Surrey-Green Timbers.^[1]

Demographics pre 2012

Population, 2001	48,686
Population Change, 1996-2001	3.0%
Area (km²)	25.25
Pop. Density (people per km²)	1,928

Member of 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.

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
34th	1986-1991		Joan Smallwood	NDP
35th	1991–1996
36th	1996–2001
37th	2001–2005		Elayne Brenzinger	Liberal
38th	2005–2009		Bruce Ralston	NDP
39th	2009–2013
40th	2013–present

Election results

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%

British Columbia general election, 1996
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 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%

British Columbia general election, 2005
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%

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

B.C. General Election 2013: Surrey-Whalley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Bruce Ralston
	Vision	Jag Bhandari (JB)
	Liberal	Kuljeet Kaur
	Conservative	Sunny Chohan
Total Valid Votes
Total Rejected Ballots
Turnout

References

1. "Surrey-Whalley B.C. votes". CBC.ca. Retrieved 2009-04-12.

External links

• BC Stats - 2001
• Results of 2001 election (pdf)
• 2001 Expenditures (pdf)
• Results of 1996 election
• 1996 Expenditures
• Results of 1991 election
• 1991 Expenditures
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia