Surrey First candidates in 2026 and how each one did

Surrey First ran nine candidates in Surrey's October 17, 2026 election: Linda Annis for mayor and eight people for City Council. None of the nine was elected. Surrey First Education, a separate organization with a similar name, ran six candidates for school trustee and won five of the six seats.

Every vote count below is copied from the City of Surrey's official results file at electionresults.surrey.ca, which the City last updated on October 20, 2026 at 10:34 am. The file prints each candidate's elector organization. Chief Election Officer Gib van Ert signed the Declaration of Official Election Results on October 21, 2026. Both were read on November 14, 2026.

Surrey First and Surrey First Education

Elections BC's register of elector organizations, as of November 14, 2026, lists two separate groups. Surrey First Electors Society runs under the name Surrey First in the City of Surrey, for mayor and council. Surrey First Education Society runs under the name Surrey First Education in the Surrey School District, for school trustee. The Surrey First page and the Surrey First Education page on this site cover each one.

Surrey First's candidate for mayor

Linda Annis launched her campaign for mayor with Surrey First on September 3, 2025, Global News reported. She was then in her second term on council, and the report says she received the most votes of any councillor elected in 2022. The Surrey Now-Leader described the 2026 team as "the Surrey First slate led by mayoral candidate Linda Annis" in its report on the party's platform on October 6, 2026.

Seven people ran for mayor. Annis finished fourth with 16,572 votes. Doug McCallum of the Safe Surrey Coalition won with 42,745 votes, and the declaration names him mayor.

Surrey First's council candidates

Sixty-six people ran for the eight council seats. The City's file lists eight of them with Surrey First:

Bose came closest. Cheney Cloke of the Safe Surrey Coalition won the eighth and last seat with 26,326 votes, 219 more than Bose. The Surrey Now-Leader reported on October 18, 2022 that Annis and Bose of Surrey First were among the councillors elected that year.

The City's Mayor and Council page lists the nine members sworn in on November 2, 2026: McCallum, Harry Bains, Doug Elford, Meera Gill, Mandeep Nagra, Suhana Gill, Allison Patton, Laurie Guerra and Cloke. The City's results file shows Bains with Surrey Connect Public IA and the other eight with the Safe Surrey Coalition.

Surrey First Education's trustee candidates

Twenty-four people ran for six school trustee seats. The City's file lists six of them with Surrey First Education:

The sixth seat went to Michelle Ceniza of SURREY NOW, with 34,188 votes, 1,507 more than Tymoschuk. In 2022 all six Surrey First Education trustees were re-elected, the Surrey Now-Leader reported on October 16, 2022, and Tymoschuk was one of them.

The seat Garry Thind may leave

Thind also won a seat in the provincial legislature on October 24, 2026. The Peace Arch News reported on November 10, 2026, in a story by Tom Zillich, that Surrey's Chief Election Officer wrote to Christine Boyle, the Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs, on November 4. He asked her to use section 167 of the Local Government Act to order that "the candidate who received the next highest number of valid votes" take Thind's trustee seat. By the City's count, that candidate is Tymoschuk.

The paper reported that the officer asked for an answer by November 18, that Thind is to be sworn in as an MLA on November 19, and that a trustee byelection would cost $840,000, paid entirely by Surrey Schools. Boyle could not be reached for comment on November 10, the paper reported. The brief of November 11 has the details of the officer's letter.

Where to follow the people elected

The five Surrey First Education trustees and every other person elected are on the Surrey promise tracker, with each promise they made and the record behind its status. Every candidate's total, for all three races, is on the Surrey results page. A resident who wants to know who fills Thind's trustee seat can check this site's Surrey news after November 18, the date the Chief Election Officer set for the minister's answer.