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title: "Surrey declares official 2026 election results, same 15 people elected"
description: "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."
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Surrey's Chief Election Officer, Gib van Ert, declared the official results of the 2026 election on October 21. The signed declaration, published by the City of Surrey, names the same 15 people who led the count on election night, October 17.

[Doug McCallum](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/doug-mccallum) of the Safe Surrey Coalition is mayor with 42,745 votes, according to the City's final count. [Brenda Locke](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/brenda-locke) of Surrey Connect Public IA finished second with 30,886 votes.

## City Council

[Harry Bains](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/harry-bains) of Surrey Connect Public IA had the most council votes, 31,340. The seven other councillors all ran with the Safe Surrey Coalition: [Doug Elford](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/doug-elford), [Meera Gill](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/meera-gill), [Mandeep Singh Nagra](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/mandeep-singh-nagra), [Suhana Gill](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/suhana-gill), [Allison Patton](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/allison-patton), [Laurie Guerra](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/laurie-guerra) and [Cheney Cloke](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/cheney-cloke). With the mayor, the Safe Surrey Coalition holds eight of the nine seats on council.

The closest seat was the last one. Cloke won it with 26,326 votes. [Mike Bose](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/mike-bose) of Surrey First finished ninth with 26,107, which is 219 votes behind.

## Board of Education

Five of the six trustees ran with Surrey First Education: [Terry Allen](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/terry-allen), who led with 47,597 votes, [Garry Thind](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/garry-thind-surrey-2026), [Laurie Larsen](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/laurie-larsen), [Bob Holmes](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/bob-holmes) and [Shawn Wilson](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/shawn-wilson). [Michelle Ceniza](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/michelle-ceniza) of SURREY NOW won the sixth seat with 34,188 votes. [Gary Tymoschuk](/bc/surrey-2026/candidates/gary-tymoschuk) of Surrey First Education was seventh with 32,681.

## What changed in the final count

No winner changed. The City's results file, last updated on October 20 at 10:34 am, shows 134,393 ballots, which is 44 fewer than the 134,437 counted on election night. Most candidates' totals moved by a few votes: McCallum's rose from 42,741 to 42,745. With 359,921 eligible voters, turnout was 37.34 per cent.

The new council holds its first meeting on Monday, November 2. Every candidate's final total is on the [Surrey results page](/bc/surrey-2026/results), and the promises of each person elected are on the [Surrey promise tracker](/bc/surrey-2026/tracker).

## Sitemap

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