Centre BC candidate for MLA in Surrey City Centre. The party says he founded the Tradesman Association of BC in 2016 and is its president.
Raman Sharma is the Centre BC candidate in Surrey City Centre, where Elections BC lists three candidates: Amna Shah of the BC NDP, Raman Sharma and Zeeshan Wahla of the Conservative Party. The party's page about him says he is a Surrey entrepreneur who arrived in Canada in 1998 and who founded the Tradesman Association of BC, a group that runs training and construction events. The association's own page lists a Raman Sharma as its president, and on March 25, 2026 Member of Parliament Sukh Dhaliwal named a Raman Sharma as president and founder of the association in the House of Commons. The party page names no priority or policy for him, and Centre BC has published no 2026 platform. voche.me found no news report, interview or social media post by him on 2026-10-03.
A researched record of Raman Sharma's candidacy in Surrey City Centre. Elections BC lists him with the affiliation CentreBC. The party's page about him gives a biography and names no priority, policy or promise. The only independent record found is a statement in the House of Commons that names a Raman Sharma as president and founder of the Tradesman Association of BC.
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01 / Introduction
About Raman Sharma
Elections BC lists Raman Sharma as the Centre BC candidate in Surrey City Centre. Elections BC's key dates page says nominations closed at 1 p.m. PT on October 3, 2026. On the list stamped October 3, 2026 04:00:07 PM, the other two candidates in the district are Amna Shah of the BC NDP and Zeeshan Wahla of the Conservative Party.
In the 2024 provincial election Amna Shah of the BC NDP won the district with 6,726 votes (46.70 percent), according to Elections BC's statement of votes. Zeeshan Wahla of the Conservative Party received 6,494 votes (45.08 percent), Colin Boyd of the BC Green Party 877 (6.09 percent), Saeed Naguib, listed as Independent, 160 (1.11 percent) and Ryan Abbott of the Communist Party of BC 147 (1.02 percent). The margin between the first two was 232 votes. A search of that document for the name Raman Sharma found no candidate, and BC Ballot says no previous run is on record for him in provincial, federal or local elections.
Centre BC's page about him says he is a long-time Surrey resident and entrepreneur with more than 28 years in Canada, that he arrived in 1998, and that he has worked in business, construction, community service and civic engagement. It says he founded the Tradesman Association of BC in 2016 and is still its president, that the association offers builder licensing preparation, energy advisor education and safety training, that he founded the Annual Construction Expo and the South Asian Construction Excellence (SACE) Awards, and that he is a director of Unite to Help, a group it describes as running humanitarian and food bank work. These are the party's statements. voche.me has not checked the business history, the arrival year or the Unite to Help directorship against an independent record.
Two other pages bear on the association. The Tradesman Association of BC's own About Us page, which calls the group Tradesman BC, lists a Raman Sharma with the title President beside seven other names, says the group was founded in 2016 and says it introduced the SACE Awards in 2023. In the House of Commons on March 25, 2026, Sukh Dhaliwal, the Liberal Member of Parliament for Surrey Newton, said in a statement that the association would host its 10th annual construction expo in Surrey on March 28 and 29, "Led by president and founder Mr. Raman Sharma". The party names the candidate as the association's president, and both pages name the same title at the same group. Neither page states that the candidate and the person named are the same person.
The party's page quotes no priority, policy or promise for him. It credits him with the view that public leadership is about listening to people, understanding community needs, bringing people together and turning ideas into practical action. Centre BC's policy page says its Policy Committee is still developing its first policy pillars, so no 2026 platform exists for his candidacy to match.
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2026 · GovernanceCampaign pledge
Party to publish its first policy pillars
The party's policy page says its Policy Committee is developing its first major policy pillars on affordability, health care, economic growth, fiscal responsibility, environmental sustainability and Indigenous relations, and that it will share the results in the weeks and months ahead.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is a statement by the party. It gives no step, number, cost or date. It comes from the party, and voche.me found no policy statement by him.
What still needs checking
Which of the six areas will the party publish first, and will he state his own position on each?
voche.me found no elected office held by him in the sources read on 2026-10-03, so it found no voting record to review. The Tradesman Association of BC is a non-profit trades association. Its presidency is a private role.
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Recent appearances / Read and watch
Talks, interviews & statements
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Accountability / Findings, disputes and responses
Controversies & public scrutiny
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News coverage / Original publishers
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Research / 12 linked sources
Check the evidence
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
The WebSearch tool had reached its usage limit on 2026-10-03, so the name search was limited. voche.me tried Bing through a direct request and the results did not concern him, DuckDuckGo showed a CAPTCHA, Brave answered HTTP 429, Mojeek answered HTTP 403, and the site searches of the Western Standard and the Surrey Now-Leader returned pages that did not mention him but may not have filtered by name. An exact-name search of openparliament.ca found one result, the House of Commons statement of March 25, 2026. No news report, interview, debate or all-candidates meeting featuring him as a 2026 candidate was found. The party's page lists no website of his own and no social media account of his own. The five social links on that page lead to the party's accounts, and voche.me read only the party's Bluesky feed, whose 147 posts (replies excluded) from November 6, 2025 to October 2, 2026 do not mention him. The party's statements about him are unchecked: arriving in Canada in 1998, his business and construction work, the founding of the SACE Awards, the Unite to Help directorship, the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Pin, and recognition by Premier David Eby and by Jagrup Brar in the Legislative Assembly. The page also names a long volunteer record with a community organization that voche.me left out. The Tradesman Association of BC's own pages are the association's account of itself, and the counts on them (6000+ expo attendees annually, 1000+ students trained) are its own figures. The party's page and the association's page name him as president, and the Commons statement names a Raman Sharma as president and founder. No page states that these are the same person. Centre BC has published no 2026 platform, so no promise could be attributed to him. Campaign finances and endorsements were not found. The questionnaire has not been sent.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-03: the Elections BC candidate list stamped October 3, 2026 04:00:07 PM, the Elections BC key dates page and the 2024 statement of votes, the Centre BC page about him and the party's Our Team, Our Policy and News pages, the party's 147 public Bluesky posts (replies excluded) from November 6, 2025 to October 2, 2026, the BC Ballot page about him, the Tradesman Association of BC's About Us and home pages, the SACE Awards About page, and the House of Commons transcript for March 25, 2026. The WebSearch tool had reached its usage limit, so voche.me could not run a full name search, and the name search was limited.
His biography here comes from the party's page about him. voche.me has checked one part of it, his role as president of the Tradesman Association of BC, against the association's own page and a statement in the House of Commons. The other claims are unchecked. He has no website of his own that voche.me could find. An empty section records that voche.me found nothing on this date.
03 / Background
Experience & community
Since 2016, by the party's account
President, Tradesman Association of BC
The party's page says he founded the association in 2016 and continues as its president. The association's About Us page lists a Raman Sharma as President and says the group was founded in 2016. In the House of Commons on March 25, 2026, Sukh Dhaliwal, Member of Parliament for Surrey Newton, called a Raman Sharma the association's president and founder. The association and the party are the sources of the title. The Commons statement is one member's praise, made in a Statements by Members slot.
The party's page says he founded and leads the Annual Construction Expo. In the House of Commons on March 25, 2026, Sukh Dhaliwal said the association's 10th annual construction expo would run in Surrey on March 28 and 29, "Led by president and founder Mr. Raman Sharma". The association's About Us page says it launched the expo in 2016. voche.me did not find an attendance count from an independent source.
Founder of the South Asian Construction Excellence (SACE) Awards
The party's page says he founded the SACE Awards. The association's About Us page says the group introduced the awards in 2023, and the SACE Awards site says the association organizes them. Neither page names him as founder, so the founder claim rests on the party's page.
The party's page says he is a director of Unite to Help, which it describes as running humanitarian initiatives, food bank programs, fundraising and community outreach. voche.me found no page from Unite to Help or a registry that lists him, so the claim is unchecked.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
The party's page names no priority for you. Which three provincial decisions would you ask for first in Surrey City Centre, and by which year?
No response has been submitted.
You lead a construction trades association. Which provincial rule or program for builders and trades training would you change, and by how much?
No response has been submitted.
Centre BC has published no 2026 platform. Which of the party's planned policy areas (affordability, health care, economic growth, fiscal responsibility, environmental sustainability, Indigenous relations) do you want the party to settle first, and why?
No response has been submitted.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
Facts voche.me can state about Raman Sharma's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Raman Sharma?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Raman Sharma's own campaign.
What party is Raman Sharma running with?
Raman Sharma is running for MLA with Centre BC.
Does Raman Sharma currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Raman Sharma.
How many sources does this Raman Sharma profile cite?
This profile lists 1 sourced reference, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Raman Sharma's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Raman Sharma in a future interview. They have not been sent yet, so the page says plainly that no answer has been supplied instead of leaving the section blank.
When is the election Raman Sharma is running in?
The 2026 British Columbia election, including the MLA race, is decided on October 24, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
No campaign updates yet
Announcements, event details and messages can be added here, with their source and publication date. No campaign submission has been added.
