Nine parties.
One ballot.
On October 17, 2026 Surrey votes for Mayor (1 seat), Councillor (8 seats) and School Trustee (6 seats). Nine parties have candidates on the official list, along with 19 candidates with no party. Every party here is covered on the same four issues.
EVERY PARTY, LARGEST SLATE FIRST
The parties running in 2026
Order here follows how many candidates each party is running, taken from the official City of Surrey candidate list. It is not a ranking of anything else.
SURREY NOW
SURREY NOW: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 2026
Conservative
Conservative: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 2026
Imagine Surrey
Imagine Surrey: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 2026
New Surrey+
New Surrey+: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 2026
Safe Surrey Coalition
Safe Surrey Coalition: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 2026
Surrey Connect Public IA
Surrey Connect Public IA: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 2026
Surrey First
Surrey First: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 2026
Surrey First Education
Surrey First Education: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 2026
Our Surrey
Our Surrey: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 2026
BY RACE
Who is contesting each race
Not every party runs for every office. Four parties are not running a mayoral candidate at all, and two are contesting a single race.
Mayor
One seat, chosen by every voter in the city. The mayor leads Council and is one of its nine members.
Councillor
Eight councillor seats, elected across the whole city.
School Trustee
Six trustee seats on the Surrey Board of Education, elected by voters in Surrey and on Barnston Island.
SIDE BY SIDE
Compare every party on one issue
These pages put all nine parties next to each other on a single subject, with the source beside each position. They are the fastest way to see where the real disagreements are.
Housing
Section 479 of the Local Government Act lets a local government, by bylaw, divide the municipality into zones and regulate the use and density of land, buildings and other structures within each zone. In Surrey, Council adopts those bylaws.
Budget
Under the Community Charter a municipality adopts a five-year financial plan by bylaw each year (section 165), and Council then sets the year’s property tax rates by bylaw before May 15 (section 197).
Governance
The City of Surrey says the mayor is the head and chief executive officer of the City, leads Council and may return a bylaw, resolution or proceeding to Council for reconsideration. Council has nine members and acts as a group at an official meeting.
Schools
The City of Surrey says Surrey’s school trustees determine educational goals and priorities, set district budgets according to them, establish policies and plan for the future of the district.
How these pages are built
Every party gets the same pages, so the shape of a page never suggests that one party matters more than another. What differs is how much each party has published. Where a party has published nothing on a subject, the page says so and gives the date we looked, rather than leaving a blank. Pages with nothing sourced on them are kept out of search results until they have something.
A party's own website proves what the party claims, not that the claim is true. Those sources are marked. Candidate affiliations come only from the official City of Surrey candidate list.