Surrey (provincial electoral district)
Surrey was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1966 to 1983. The area it covered was formerly part of the electoral district of Delta. It returned one member to the Legislative Assembly of B.C. from 1966 to 1975 and two members thereafter.
For other historical and current ridings in Vancouver or the North Shore see Vancouver (electoral districts). For other Greater Vancouver area ridings please see New Westminster (electoral districts).
Demographics
Population, 1966 | |
Population change, 1966–1986 | |
Area (km²) | |
Population density (people per km²) |
Notable MLAs
Electoral history
28th British Columbia election, 1966 | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
New Democratic | Ernest Hall | 7,039 | 48.20% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Roderick Anthony Archer | 6,254 | 42.82% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Renaldo Angelo Masi | 1,234 | 8.45% | unknown | ||
Communist | Jean Maryl MacLaren | 77 | 0.53% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 14,604 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 119 | |||||
Turnout | % |
29th British Columbia election, 1969 | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
New Democrat | Ernest Hall | 9,398 | 47.23% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Anthony (Tony) Hatcher | 8,921 | 44.83% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Robert Jacobs | 1,581 | 7.94% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 19,900 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 223 | |||||
Turnout | % |
30th British Columbia election, 1972 | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
New Democratic | Ernest Hall | 12,574 | 52.49% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | James B. Wallace | 5,877 | 24.53% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | William Nick (Bill) Vander Zalm | 3,995 | 16.68% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | William Earl (Bill) Reid | 1,415 | 5.91% | unknown | ||
Communist | Frederick Joseph Bianco | 95 | 0.40% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 23,956 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 395 | |||||
Turnout | % |
31st British Columbia election, 1975 | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
Social Credit | William Nick (Bill) Vander Zalm | 14,341 | 53.35% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Ernest Hall | 11,214 | 41.72% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Donald Alvin Ross | 1,257 | 4.68% | unknown | ||
Communist | Frederick Joseph Bianco | 67 | 0.25% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 26,879 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 386 | |||||
Turnout | % |
32nd British Columbia election, 1979 1 | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
Social Credit | William Nick (Bill) Vander Zalm | 29,693 | 24.88% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Ernest Hall | 28,644 | 24.00% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Michael Garry Watkins | 28,497 | 23.87% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Dalton O. Jones | 26,306 | 22.04% | – | unknown | |
Progressive Conservative | Brian Kent Westwood | 5,834 | 4.89% | unknown | ||
Communist | Timothy George Gidora | 204 | 0.17% | unknown | ||
Communist | Josephine P. Arland | 183 | 0.15% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 119,361 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 1,368 | |||||
Turnout | % | |||||
1 Seat increased to two members from one. |
33rd British Columbia election, 1983 | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
Social Credit | Rita Margaret Johnston | 38,081 | 25.24% | – | unknown | |
Social Credit | William Earl (Bill) Reid | 37,370 | 24.76% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Ernest Hall | 34,082 | 22.59% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Carol Langford | 32,748 | 21.70% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Frank Nelson Wright | 2,531 | 1.68% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Judith E. Higginbotham | 1,673 | 1.11% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Donald Peter McKinnon | 1,651 | 1.09% | unknown | ||
Western Canada Concept | David J. Bannister | 1,181 | 1.25% | unknown | ||
Green | Jack Boulogne | 692 | 0.46% | – | unknown | |
Communist | Viola Swann | 185 | 0.12% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 150,894 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 1,018 | |||||
Turnout | % |
The riding was reconstituted into three ridings for the 1986 election: Surrey-Newton, Surrey-Guildford-Whalley and Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale. These were later reconstituted into the following ridings:
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