Surrey was a provincial electoral district in the

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from 1966 to 1983. The area it covered was formerly part of the electoral district of

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. It returned one member to the Legislative Assembly of B.C. from 1966 to 1975 and two members thereafter. It was abolished prior to the 1986 election into Surrey-Guildford-Whalley,

Surrey-Newton Surrey-Newton is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. The riding was first created out of the two-member Surrey district in 1986, which had been in existence since 1966. Surrey had always b ...

and Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale. For other historical and current ridings in Vancouver or the North Shore see

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. For other Greater Vancouver area ridings please see New Westminster (electoral districts).

Demographics

Political geography

Notable elections

Notable MLAs

* Bill Vander Zalm *

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Electoral history

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, Ernest Hall , align="right", 9,398 , align="right", 47.23% , align="right", , align="right", unknown ,

, Robert Jacobs , align="right", 1,581 , align="right", 7.94% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 19,900 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 223 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", ,

, William Nick (Bill) Vander Zalm , align="right", 3,995 , align="right", 16.68% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , Progressive Conservative , William Earl (Bill) Reid , align="right", 1,415 , align="right", 5.91% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 23,956 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 395 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", ,

, Donald Alvin Ross , align="right", 1,257 , align="right", 4.68% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 26,879 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 386 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", , Progressive Conservative , Brian Kent Westwood , align="right", 5,834 , align="right", 4.89% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 119,361 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 1,368 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=7, ¹ Seat increased to two members from one. , Progressive Conservative , Frank Nelson Wright , align="right", 2,531 , align="right", 1.68% , align="right", , align="right", unknown ,

, Judith E. Higginbotham , align="right", 1,673 , align="right", 1.11% , align="right", , align="right", unknown ,

, Donald Peter McKinnon , align="right", 1,651 , align="right", 1.09% , align="right", , align="right", unknown , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total valid votes !align="right", 150,894 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Total rejected ballots !align="right", 1,018 !align="right", !align="right", , - bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3, Turnout !align="right", % !align="right", !align="right", The riding was reconstituted into three ridings for the 1986 election:

, Surrey-Guildford-Whalley and Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale. These were later reconstituted into the following ridings: *

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* Surrey-Guildford-Whalley ** Surrey-Green Timbers **

Surrey-Whalley 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 ri ...

* Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale ** Surrey-White Rock **

Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Cloverdale is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. Demographics Geography 1999 Redistribution Changes to Surrey-Cloverdale include *removal of northwesternmost half to Surrey- ...

Sources

Elections BC Historical Returns
{{DEFAULTSORT:Surrey (Electoral District) Former provincial electoral districts of British Columbia Politics of Surrey, British Columbia