Stephen Dooley is on Elections BC's list of accepted nominations for Surrey-Cloverdale, with the affiliation BC NDP. In 2024 Conservative Elenore Sturko won the district, and she is now running in Surrey South. voche.me found no campaign website, party candidate page, news report or public statement from Stephen Dooley on 2026-10-02.
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BC NDP2026
Stephen DooleyBritish Columbia provincial election
Stephen DooleyMLAv.
Candidate research / October 2, 2026
A researched record of Stephen Dooley's candidacy in Surrey-Cloverdale for the BC NDP. voche.me found no published commitment from him on 2026-10-02. The commitments below are the party's, from its platform page and releases page, and none of them names him.
No public appearance by the candidate was confirmed on 2026-10-02. One forum that invites NDP candidates in the district is listed as unconfirmed. The two voting dates come from Elections BC.
Checked October 2, 2026 · All event times are Pacific time. Recheck the organizer before travelling.
Attendance is identified for each event. Unconfirmed listings are not confirmed candidate appearances.
5:30 p.m. start
Public forumAttendance unconfirmed
Provincial Candidates Forum for the 10 Surrey and White Rock districts
To be announced by the organizers
The organizers invited candidates from five parties, including the NDP. No list of who will attend was published on 2026-10-02.
The Surrey Now-Leader reports that the Surrey & White Rock Board of Trade, the Cloverdale District Chamber of Commerce and the White Rock Business Improvement Association will hold the forum for candidates in all 10 districts in Surrey and White Rock, and that the board of trade streams its forums online.
On dates without a confirmed appearance the public schedule is unknown; the candidate may still have activities that day. This static page changes only when its research is updated.
01 / Introduction
About Stephen Dooley
Elections BC lists Stephen Dooley as the BC NDP candidate for MLA in Surrey-Cloverdale. The list shows nominations that Elections BC has accepted. On the copy stamped October 1, 2026 11:00:06 PM, the only other accepted candidate in the district is Pat McCutcheon of the BC Green Party. Nominations close at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026.
In 2024, Conservative Elenore Sturko won Surrey-Cloverdale with 10,268 votes (48.31 percent). Mike Starchuk of the BC NDP had 9,682 votes (45.56 percent), Pat McCutcheon of the BC Green Party had 1,150 votes (5.41 percent), and Judy Meilleur of the Freedom Party of BC had 153 votes (0.72 percent). voche.me found no Dooley in the 2024, 2020 or 2017 provincial results on 2026-10-02.
The Cloverdale Reporter wrote on September 28, 2026 that Sturko, now leader of CentreBC, is running in Surrey South, and that the Conservative Party had named Nicholas Cartmell for Surrey-Cloverdale. That report said no NDP candidate had been named yet in the district.
On 2026-10-02 the BC NDP's online list of 2026 candidates held 52 names, and none was for Surrey-Cloverdale. The party's Surrey-Cloverdale page does not name him. voche.me found no page that gives his background, job or reasons for running, and has not contacted the campaign.
Published positions and selected commitments, separated by election cycle. Status labels describe the evidence reviewed, not a numerical score or a complete audit of the platform. Council approval is different from delivery.
7 commitments shown · Checked Oct 2
2026 · HousingCampaign pledge
BC NDP housing plan
The BC NDP platform page lists keeping housing costs down as a heading. It says zoning changes adopted by 97 percent of local governments make room for 300,000 more homes across B.C. The page does not name Dooley.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. voche.me found no 2026 statement by Dooley on housing.
What still needs checking
Does Dooley name a housing measure for Surrey-Cloverdale during the campaign?
A BC NDP release of October 1, 2026, listed on the party's releases page, says David Eby will suspend a portion of the provincial gas tax to cut gas prices by up to 30 cents a litre, and will act against price gouging. The release does not name Dooley.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. voche.me found no 2026 statement by Dooley on costs.
What still needs checking
Does Dooley speak on gas prices or other costs during the campaign?
The BC NDP platform page lists health care as a heading and says the party will keep recruiting and training doctors, nurses and other health care workers. The page does not name Dooley.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. voche.me found no 2026 statement by Dooley on health care.
What still needs checking
Does Dooley name a health care measure for Surrey-Cloverdale during the campaign?
The BC NDP platform page lists safe, inclusive communities as a heading and says the government hired over 250 more RCMP officers and added 240 police training seats. The page does not name Dooley.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text describing past actions. voche.me found no 2026 statement by Dooley on public safety.
What still needs checking
Does Dooley speak on public safety during the campaign?
The BC NDP platform page lists protecting air, land and water as a heading and says the Province is on track to protect 30 percent of B.C. by 2030. The page does not name Dooley.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. voche.me found no 2026 statement by Dooley on climate or the environment.
What still needs checking
Does Dooley speak on climate or the environment during the campaign?
The BC NDP platform page lists education as a heading and says 250 new or upgraded schools are complete or underway across B.C. The page does not name Dooley.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. voche.me found no 2026 statement by Dooley on schools.
What still needs checking
Does Dooley speak on Surrey schools during the campaign?
No public role is on record for this candidate in the sources voche.me read, so voche.me found no voting record to review.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
Recent appearances / Read and watch
Talks, interviews & statements
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Accountability / Findings, disputes and responses
Controversies & public scrutiny
Records are labelled by type, including official findings, civil proceedings and political disputes where applicable. Each entry identifies the response found in the sources and the latest status verified for this page.
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News coverage / Original publishers
Read the reporting
A dated reading list from independent publishers. The headings below are voche.me summaries; follow each link for the original article, context and any corrections.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
Research / 11 linked sources
Check the evidence
Sources checked October 2, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
No campaign website, social media account, news report, interview or public statement from this candidate was found on 2026-10-02, so his background, his positions on every scored issue and his reasons for running are unknown. The address stephendooley.bcndp.ca, the pattern the party uses for its candidates' pages, did not load: it sends the reader back to the same address in a loop, and so did stevedooley.bcndp.ca. The BC NDP's online candidate list held 52 names on 2026-10-02 and did not include Surrey-Cloverdale, and no party release found names him. The party's Surrey-Cloverdale page names no candidate and links only to the party's main social media accounts. BC Ballot lists him as filed with Elections BC and gives no other detail. VoteMate's 2026 page for the district did not list him on this date. Searches for the name return a Stephen Dooley who was named executive director of Simon Fraser University's Surrey campus in 2013. No page voche.me read ties that person to this candidacy, so nothing about him is used. voche.me found no Dooley in the provincial results for 2024, 2020 or 2017, or in Elections Canada's candidate table for the 2021 federal election. voche.me did not search the 2025 federal results or Surrey's civic election results. No portrait was found that the candidate or the party published. The organizers of the October 15 forum have not published who will attend. Campaign finances and endorsements were not found on this date. Nominations close October 3, 2026, so other candidates may still be added. The questionnaire has not been sent.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-02: the Elections BC candidate list and key dates page, the 2024 statement of votes, the 2020 and 2017 provincial results, the BC NDP candidate list, releases page, platform page and Surrey-Cloverdale page, BC Ballot, VoteMate's district page, two 2026 reports from the Cloverdale Reporter and the Surrey Now-Leader, and searches for his name in news feeds and on the sites of three Surrey papers.
voche.me found no campaign website, social media account, news report or statement from this candidate on this date. The party commitments below are the BC NDP's own text, and none of it names him. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date.
03 / Background
Experience & community
Background not supplied
Work, public service and community involvement will appear here when supplied. No experience has been added to this profile.
04 / Questions & answers
Questions for the candidate
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
Why are you running in Surrey-Cloverdale, and what would you do first as MLA?
No response has been submitted.
Which school, hospital or clinic project in Cloverdale would you ask the Province to fund, and by when?
No response has been submitted.
What would you do about traffic and transit between Cloverdale and the rest of Surrey?
No response has been submitted.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
Facts voche.me can state about Stephen Dooley's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Stephen Dooley?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Stephen Dooley's own campaign.
What party is Stephen Dooley running with?
Stephen Dooley is running for MLA with BC NDP.
Does Stephen Dooley currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Stephen Dooley.
How many sources does this Stephen Dooley profile cite?
This profile lists 6 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Stephen Dooley's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Stephen Dooley 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 Stephen Dooley 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.
