OneBC candidate for MLA in Surrey-Fleetwood, who says she grew up in Surrey, is a former head chef and manages a family business.
Carolyn Hofbauer is the OneBC candidate in Surrey-Fleetwood. Four other candidates are on the Elections BC list for the district, including Jagrup Brar of the BC NDP, who won it in 2024. Her OneBC page describes her as a lifelong Surrey resident, a former head chef and a manager of a family business. It states no policy position of her own. voche.me found no public office held by her and no earlier run for office on 2026-10-03.
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A researched record of Carolyn Hofbauer's OneBC candidacy in Surrey-Fleetwood, her OneBC candidate page and the OneBC platform. voche.me found no public office held by her, so it found no voting record to review, on 2026-10-03.
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Elections BC lists Carolyn Hofbauer as the OneBC candidate in Surrey-Fleetwood. On the copy of its candidate list stamped October 3, 2026 at 4:00 p.m., four other candidates are accepted in the district: Tim Binnema (BC Green Party), Jagrup Brar (BC NDP), Paul Brar (CentreBC) and Garry Purewal (Conservative Party). The Surrey Now-Leader reported on September 28, 2026 that OneBC had announced her as its candidate.
Jagrup Brar won Surrey-Fleetwood in 2024 with 9,923 votes (48.61 percent). Avtar Gill of the Conservative Party had 9,170 votes (44.92 percent) and Tim Binnema of the BC Green Party had 1,321 votes (6.47 percent). No candidate named Hofbauer appears in the district's 2024 results. BC Ballot, a candidate tracker, shows no previous run on record for her.
Her OneBC page says she grew up in Surrey's Newton neighbourhood, attended Frank Hurt Secondary School and later studied music, English and history at what is now Kwantlen Polytechnic University. It says she worked as a substitute teacher during those years. It says she worked as a chef at Fresgo Inn, then as head chef at The Vault Restaurant in Cloverdale for nearly a decade, and that she now manages BC Firearms Academy with her husband, a family business.
The page says her involvement in politics began in college, and that she has since volunteered on campaigns, knocked on doors, made calls and worked in campaign offices. It does not name the campaigns. It says she is running to bring her experience as a mother, small business owner and lifelong Surrey resident to provincial politics.
voche.me has not confirmed her education, her jobs or her business role with the schools, employers or registries that would hold those records. voche.me has not contacted the campaign.
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OneBC's priorities page lists: 25 percent tax cuts for every tax bracket, including corporate tax.
OneBC's priorities page lists: 2 percentage points off the provincial sales tax.
OneBC's priorities page lists: an audit of British Columbia's more than 176,000 regulations to reduce what it calls bureaucratic bloat.
OneBC's priorities page lists: balanced budgets within 4 years, with part of later surpluses used to pay down debt.
OneBC's priorities page lists: private health care alongside fully funded public health care, and moving administration and human resources spending to frontline employees.
OneBC's priorities page lists: bringing back standardized testing in reading, writing and mathematics, and removing SOGI 123 and politicized content from classrooms.
OneBC's priorities page lists: an end to safe supply and drug consumption programs, a roll back of decriminalization, and involuntary drug rehabilitation and housing for the severely addicted.
OneBC's priorities page lists: no provincial participation in any federal buy-back or confiscation program for legally acquired firearms, provincial legal representation for firearms owners, and a provincial firearms storage program.
OneBC's priorities page lists: repeal DRIPA and declare UNDRIP to have no force and effect in BC. The page uses these short names and does not spell them out.
OneBC's priorities page lists: eliminate the Step Code, which the page says raises housing costs with unnecessary green building requirements.
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Lists the candidates in the Surrey ridings. For Surrey-Fleetwood it says OneBC has announced Carolyn Hofbauer as its candidate, and gives no other detail about her.
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Surrey Now-Leader · Tom Zillich · September 28, 2026
No campaign website was found by search or on the OneBC pages. The OneBC pages link only to the party's own social media accounts, and voche.me found no account of hers that a page ties to this candidacy. A Facebook search address returned HTTP 404. Four full web search engines could not be used for her name on this date: DuckDuckGo returned a challenge page, Bing returned unrelated pages, Mojeek returned HTTP 403 and Brave returned HTTP 429. The name search used Google News, which found one report of her candidacy, and direct reads of the party, Elections BC, Surrey Now-Leader and BC Ballot pages. A Google News search also returned an obituary for a person named Carolyn Hofbauer in Illinois. It has no stated link to this candidate and voche.me left it out. Her OneBC page says she manages BC Firearms Academy. voche.me read the home page of bcfirearmsacademy.ca, which describes a firearms safety course school with a location in Surrey. The page does not name her, so voche.me could not confirm her role. Her education, her jobs, the campaigns she volunteered on, her positions on the OneBC platform, all-candidates meetings in Surrey-Fleetwood, campaign finances and endorsements were not found on this date.
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-03: the Elections BC candidate list, the 2024 statement of votes, Elections BC's page of key dates, OneBC's candidate page on her, its candidates, home and priorities pages, the Surrey Now-Leader report of September 28, 2026 and the BC Ballot page for the district.
No campaign website or social media account of hers was found. The statements about her life and work are on her OneBC page and are the campaign's account. voche.me could not use a full web search engine for her name on this date, so the name search used a news search and direct page reads. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date.
Listed by Elections BC with the affiliation OneBC. The Surrey Now-Leader reported on September 28, 2026 that OneBC had announced her as its candidate.
Elections BC candidate listHer OneBC page says she worked as a chef at Fresgo Inn and then as head chef at The Vault Restaurant in Cloverdale for nearly a decade. voche.me has not confirmed these jobs with the employers.
OneBC candidate pageHer OneBC page says she manages BC Firearms Academy, a family business, with her husband. voche.me has not confirmed this with a business registry or the business.
OneBC candidate pageHer OneBC page says she has volunteered on campaigns, knocked on doors, made calls and worked in campaign offices. It names no campaign or year.
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