Surrey-White Rock is a
provincial
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electoral district
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for the
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
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, Canada. During the 2008 re-distribution of riding boundaries, Surrey-White Rock kept the majority of its existing region.
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Demographics
Geography
The riding is bounded on the south and west by
Semiahmoo Bay
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, on the east by
Highway 99, and on the north by 24th Avenue. The riding contains the southwest corner of
Surrey
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, the city of
White Rock, and the
Semiahmoo Indian Reserve
The Semiahmoo Indian Reserve ( ) is a 129.1-hectare Indian reserve in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia, located on Semiahmoo Bay between the City of White Rock and Peace Arch Park, which sits astride the international boundary with Washingto ...
.
History
This riding has elected the following Members of Legislative Assembly:
Member of Legislative Assembly
The current
MLA is
Trevor Halford. He was elected in 2020. The previous
MLA was
Tracy Redies, first elected in 2017, she was the former CEO of Coast Capital Savings and now the CEO for
Science World. And before Redies was
Gordon Hogg, a former mayor of White Rock first elected in a 1997
by-election
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. Hogg, Redies and Halford all represent the
British Columbia Liberal Party
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.
Election results
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NDP
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Government
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, Matt Todd
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NDP
NDP may stand for:
Computing
* Neighbor Discovery Protocol, an Internet protocol
* Nortel Discovery Protocol, a layer two Internet protocol, also called SONMP
* Nondeterministic programming, a type of computer language
Government
* National ...
, David Thompson
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, Kathy Burden
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NDP
NDP may stand for:
Computing
* Neighbor Discovery Protocol, an Internet protocol
* Nortel Discovery Protocol, a layer two Internet protocol, also called SONMP
* Nondeterministic programming, a type of computer language
Government
* National ...
, Donna Osatiuk
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References
External links
BC StatsResults of 2001 election (pdf)2001 Expenditures (pdf)1996 ExpendituresWebsite of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
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British Columbia provincial electoral districts
Politics of Surrey, British Columbia
White Rock, British Columbia
Provincial electoral districts in Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley