[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":240},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-list":3,"article-\u002Fnews\u002Flocke-reflects-surrey-election-october-29":70,"article-people-\u002Fnews\u002Flocke-reflects-surrey-election-october-29":216},[4,22,34,47,60],{"path":5,"title":6,"description":7,"date":8,"publishedAt":9,"author":10,"category":11,"tags":12,"image":17,"imageAlt":18,"imageCredit":19,"updated":20,"linkedinPostUrl":20,"pinned":21},"\u002Fnews\u002Flocke-reflects-surrey-election-october-29","Outgoing Mayor Brenda Locke says BC provincial election cost her the race","In an interview with the Vancouver Sun, Locke says momentum shifted in the final two to three weeks of the campaign after Premier Eby called a snap provincial vote.","2026-10-29","2026-10-29T07:50:00-07:00","voche.me editors","Election news",[13,14,15,16],"Mayor","Surrey Connect","Safe Surrey Coalition","election results","https:\u002F\u002Fsmartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\u002Fvancouversun\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2026\u002F10\u002Fpng1027-brenda-locke_305983393.jpg","Outgoing Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke in Surrey on October 27, 2026","Arlen Redekop \u002F PNG \u002F Vancouver Sun",null,false,{"path":23,"title":24,"description":25,"date":26,"publishedAt":27,"author":10,"category":11,"tags":28,"image":31,"imageAlt":32,"imageCredit":33,"updated":20,"linkedinPostUrl":20,"pinned":21},"\u002Fnews\u002Fmetro-vancouver-rejects-mccallum-cancel-budget-vote-october-27","Metro Vancouver board will vote on 2027 budget Friday, rejecting McCallum's cancellation call","Surrey's mayor-elect Doug McCallum asked Metro Vancouver to cancel its October 30 meeting. The regional body confirmed the 2027 budget vote will proceed.","2026-10-27","2026-10-27T07:52:00-07:00",[13,15,29,30],"City of Surrey","Metro Vancouver","https:\u002F\u002Fsmartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\u002Fvancouversun\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F0922-surrey-election-newton-1.jpg","Doug McCallum at a Surrey election event","Jason Payne \u002F Vancouver Sun",{"path":35,"title":36,"description":37,"date":38,"publishedAt":39,"author":10,"category":11,"tags":40,"image":44,"imageAlt":45,"imageCredit":46,"updated":20,"linkedinPostUrl":20,"pinned":21},"\u002Fnews\u002Fmccallum-cloverdale-harness-racing-plan-october-21","Doug McCallum sets out steps to bring harness racing back to Cloverdale by fall 2027","Surrey's mayor-elect says the City will rebuild the Cloverdale Fairgrounds barns and racing oval and sign a new racing lease, the Surrey Now-Leader reports. He says the Province must also commit.","2026-10-22","2026-10-22T22:37:00-07:00",[13,15,41,42,43],"Cloverdale Fairgrounds","harness racing","promise tracker","https:\u002F\u002Fsurreynowleader.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002Fsites\u002F8\u002F2026\u002F10\u002FFraserDowns.jpg?w=1024","A harness racing driver in a two wheeled cart behind a brown horse on a snow covered track, with the grandstand behind","Malin Jordan, Cloverdale Reporter",{"path":48,"title":49,"description":50,"date":38,"publishedAt":51,"author":10,"category":11,"tags":52,"image":57,"imageAlt":58,"imageCredit":59,"updated":20,"linkedinPostUrl":20,"pinned":21},"\u002Fnews\u002Fsurrey-official-election-results-october-21","Surrey declares official 2026 election results, same 15 people elected","Surrey's Chief Election Officer declared the official results on October 21, 2026, naming Doug McCallum mayor with the same eight councillors and six trustees as election night.","2026-10-22T22:34:00-07:00",[13,53,54,55,15,56],"Councillor","School Trustee","official results","Surrey First Education","\u002Fimages\u002Fbc-surrey-2026\u002Fcity-hall-1600.webp","Surrey City Hall, a glass and stone building under a wide wooden roof, across an empty paved plaza under a blue sky","Northwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons",{"path":61,"title":62,"description":63,"date":38,"publishedAt":64,"author":10,"category":11,"tags":65,"image":67,"imageAlt":68,"imageCredit":69,"updated":20,"linkedinPostUrl":20,"pinned":21},"\u002Fnews\u002Fsurrey-ward-system-referendum-elford-october-22","Surrey ward system may need a public vote first, Councillor Doug Elford says","Mayor-elect Doug McCallum promised to bring back ward elections in Surrey. Councillor Doug Elford told the Surrey Now-Leader the change will probably need a referendum and could take eight years.","2026-10-22T22:35:00-07:00",[13,53,15,66,43],"ward system","https:\u002F\u002Fsurreynowleader.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002Fsites\u002F8\u002F2026\u002F10\u002FAnnaCityHall.jpg?w=1024","The words City Hall in black letters on a wood panel wall beside a glass front at Surrey City Hall","Surrey Now-Leader file photo",{"id":71,"title":6,"aiMetadata":72,"author":10,"body":84,"candidates":161,"category":11,"date":8,"description":7,"extension":164,"faq":165,"image":17,"imageAlt":18,"imageCheckedAt":190,"imageCredit":19,"imageScene":20,"linkedin":191,"linkedinPostUrl":20,"meta":199,"metaDescription":20,"navigation":201,"path":5,"pinned":21,"primarySourceUrl":202,"publishedAt":9,"seo":203,"seoTitle":20,"sourceId":204,"sourceIsPaywalled":201,"sources":205,"stem":211,"storyType":212,"tags":213,"topicKey":214,"updated":20,"__hash__":215},"news\u002Fnews\u002Flocke-reflects-surrey-election-october-29.md",{"summary":73,"keyTopics":74,"semanticKeywords":79},"Outgoing Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke told the Vancouver Sun she blames Premier David Eby's snap provincial election call for disrupting her re-election campaign. She said things shifted in the final two to three weeks and that a Leger poll found 64% of Surrey residents wanted change by election day.",[75,76,77,15,78],"Surrey election 2026","Brenda Locke","Doug McCallum","Surrey arena project",[80,16,81,15,82,83],"Surrey mayor","Doug McCallum inauguration","Surrey arena cancellation","RCMP transition Surrey",{"type":85,"value":86,"toc":153},"minimark",[87,96,99,102,107,113,116,120,127,130,133,137,140,143,147],[88,89,90,91,95],"p",{},"The Vancouver Sun reports that outgoing Surrey Mayor ",[92,93,76],"a",{"href":94},"\u002Fbc\u002Fsurrey-2026\u002Fcandidates\u002Fbrenda-locke"," says Premier David Eby's decision to call a snap provincial election disrupted her re-election campaign. In a wide-ranging interview, Locke said her internal polling had been steady until the provincial vote was announced, after which she felt a clear shift in the final two to three weeks of the campaign.",[88,97,98],{},"\"This was never a 'change' election until the premier called the provincial election and caused voter confusion,\" Locke told the Sun.",[88,100,101],{},"A Leger poll taken before the October 17 vote found, according to the Sun, that 64 per cent of Surrey residents said they were looking for change. Locke and her Surrey Connect slate ran on a platform of continuing the work of the previous four years.",[103,104,106],"h2",{"id":105},"the-vote-count","The vote count",[88,108,109,112],{},[92,110,77],{"href":111},"\u002Fbc\u002Fsurrey-2026\u002Fcandidates\u002Fdoug-mccallum"," won the mayoral race with 42,745 votes, which is 31.8 per cent of all votes cast, according to the City of Surrey's official results. Locke received 30,886 votes, or 23.0 per cent. Five other candidates split the remaining votes, which Locke said was the core challenge for her side.",[88,114,115],{},"Locke told the Sun the vote split was decisive. \"The people that voted against Doug McCallum far far exceeds the number that did,\" she said.",[103,117,119],{"id":118},"the-arena-and-other-projects","The arena and other projects",[88,121,122,123,126],{},"Locke told the Sun she expects McCallum to move quickly to cancel the 10,000-seat sports and entertainment arena project that her council had underway, along with other large capital projects. McCallum has said publicly that he will not use any public money for a large arena. His ",[92,124,43],{"href":125},"\u002Fbc\u002Fsurrey-2026\u002Ftracker"," on this site records two arena-related commitments: no public money for a large arena, and a forensic audit of the land deals connected to it.",[88,128,129],{},"\"He did that when he got in the last time, and I imagine he'll be looking at doing that again because he's made some pretty significant, costly promises that he has to fund,\" Locke said.",[88,131,132],{},"She said she also hopes the incoming council will continue with fully funded projects that were already under construction, including the new Newton Community Centre.",[103,134,136],{"id":135},"the-policing-transition","The policing transition",[88,138,139],{},"Locke was elected in 2022 on a promise to keep the RCMP and halt the transition to a municipal police force that McCallum had started. Her council voted to stop it, but the province enforced the change. Surrey took the province to court.",[88,141,142],{},"Locke told the Sun: \"We spent $1 million and got a quarter of a billion dollars from that court case.\"",[103,144,146],{"id":145},"what-happens-next","What happens next",[88,148,149,150,152],{},"McCallum and the new council are scheduled to be sworn in at Surrey City Hall on Monday, November 2, at 7 pm. Surrey residents who want to follow what the council does with the arena and other promises can check the ",[92,151,43],{"href":125}," on this site.",{"title":154,"searchDepth":155,"depth":155,"links":156},"",2,[157,158,159,160],{"id":105,"depth":155,"text":106},{"id":118,"depth":155,"text":119},{"id":135,"depth":155,"text":136},{"id":145,"depth":155,"text":146},[162,163],"brenda-locke","doug-mccallum","md",[166,169,172,175,178,181,184,187],{"question":167,"answer":168},"What did Brenda Locke say about why she lost the Surrey mayoral race?","In an interview with the Vancouver Sun, Locke said that Premier David Eby's decision to call a snap provincial election changed the campaign in its last two to three weeks. She said her internal polling had been steady on the issues voters cared about until that point, when momentum shifted. She said it became a change election after the provincial call, which she had not anticipated.",{"question":170,"answer":171},"How many votes did Doug McCallum and Brenda Locke each receive?","According to the City of Surrey's official count, Doug McCallum received 42,745 votes, which was 31.8 per cent of all votes cast. Brenda Locke received 30,886 votes, which was 23.0 per cent. The City recorded 134,393 ballots cast in the mayoral race.",{"question":173,"answer":174},"When does Doug McCallum take office as Surrey's mayor?","The inauguration ceremony for Mayor-elect Doug McCallum and the incoming council is scheduled for Monday, November 2, 2026, at Surrey City Hall. After the ceremony, the new council will hold its first regular council meeting. The term runs from November 2, 2026.",{"question":176,"answer":177},"What did the Leger poll find about what Surrey voters wanted?","According to the Vancouver Sun, a Leger poll taken before the municipal election found that 64 per cent of Surrey residents said they were looking for change. Locke and her Surrey Connect slate ran on a promise to continue the progress of the previous four years, which put them on the opposite side of what the majority of polled residents said they wanted.",{"question":179,"answer":180},"What is Brenda Locke's view of Doug McCallum's plans for the arena project?","Locke told the Vancouver Sun she expects McCallum to move to cancel the 10,000-seat sports and entertainment arena project that was underway during her term. McCallum has said he will not use public money for any large arena. His tracker on this site lists two promises related to the arena: no public money for a large arena, and a forensic audit of the land deals connected to the project.",{"question":182,"answer":183},"What happened with the Surrey policing transition during Locke's term?","Locke was elected in 2022 on a promise to keep the RCMP and halt the transition to a municipal police force that McCallum had started. Her council voted to stop the transition, but the province overrode that decision and enforced the change. Locke told the Vancouver Sun that Surrey then took the province to court, spending $1 million in legal costs, and won $250 million from the settlement.",{"question":185,"answer":186},"Does Brenda Locke plan to run for office again?","Locke told the Vancouver Sun she has no immediate plans to run again. She said she would spend time with family, volunteer and follow what happens at city hall, but added she would never rule it out entirely, given that she had previously said she would not run again before the 2022 election.",{"question":188,"answer":189},"Where can Surrey residents follow the promises Doug McCallum made during the campaign?","The promise tracker at \u002Fbc\u002Fsurrey-2026\u002Ftracker lists every commitment McCallum and the incoming councillors made during the 2026 campaign, along with a record of what has happened since the vote. The tracker covers promises on taxes, public safety, transit, the arena and other issues.","2026-10-29T07:48:00-07:00",{"short":192,"long":193,"hashtags":194},"Outgoing Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke says the BC provincial election call cost her re-election by shifting voter momentum in the campaign's final weeks.","Brenda Locke, who lost the Surrey mayoral race to Doug McCallum on October 17, told the Vancouver Sun that Premier David Eby's snap provincial election call disrupted her campaign in its final weeks. Locke received 30,886 votes to McCallum's 42,745 in the official count. She also said she expects McCallum to move to cancel the 10,000-seat arena project, a move that would affect a promise McCallum made during the campaign.",[195,196,197,198],"SurreyElection2026","BCSurrey","SurreyBC","DougMcCallum",{"sourceName":200},"Vancouver Sun",true,"https:\u002F\u002Fvancouversun.com\u002Fnews\u002Fbrenda-locke-blames-eby-voter-confusion-loss-surrey",{"title":6,"description":7},"vancouver-sun:https:\u002F\u002Fvancouversun.com\u002F?p=2605049",[206,208],{"label":207,"url":202},"Vancouver Sun: Disappointed Brenda Locke reflects on her time as Surrey's mayor",{"label":209,"url":210},"City of Surrey: Official election results","https:\u002F\u002Felectionresults.surrey.ca\u002F","news\u002Flocke-reflects-surrey-election-october-29","reported",[13,14,15,16],"brenda-locke\u002Fstatement","QE65C911YxmfaL6wiK62zi3x70dJkh0bbShp66xA3m8",[217,231],{"slug":162,"name":76,"office":13,"party":218,"portrait":221,"colour":230,"palette":20},{"name":219,"url":220},"Surrey Connect Public IA","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.surrey-connect.ca",{"src":222,"smallSrc":223,"width":224,"height":225,"alt":226,"credit":227,"sourceUrl":228,"position":229},"\u002Fimages\u002Fcandidates\u002Fbrenda-locke-640.webp","\u002Fimages\u002Fcandidates\u002Fbrenda-locke-320.webp",640,800,"Brenda Locke, from City of Surrey candidate profile (surrey.ca).","City of Surrey candidate profile (surrey.ca)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.surrey.ca\u002F2026-municipal-election\u002Fcandidates\u002Fcandidates-office-of-mayor\u002Flocke-brenda","50% 30%","sand",{"slug":163,"name":77,"office":13,"party":232,"portrait":234,"colour":239,"palette":20},{"name":15,"url":233},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.safesurreycoalition.ca",{"src":235,"smallSrc":236,"width":224,"height":225,"alt":237,"credit":227,"sourceUrl":238,"position":229},"\u002Fimages\u002Fcandidates\u002Fdoug-mccallum-640.webp","\u002Fimages\u002Fcandidates\u002Fdoug-mccallum-320.webp","Doug McCallum, from City of Surrey candidate profile (surrey.ca).","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.surrey.ca\u002F2026-municipal-election\u002Fcandidates\u002Fcandidates-office-of-mayor\u002Fmccallum-doug","rose",1793286143816]