--- title: "Surrey election 2026: elector organizations and their candidates | voche.me" canonical_url: "https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties" last_updated: "2026-10-10T03:55:25.793Z" meta: description: "The elector organizations with candidates in the 2026 Surrey election, how many candidates each runs for each office, and what voche.me has checked." "og:description": "The elector organizations with candidates in the 2026 Surrey election, how many candidates each runs for each office, and what voche.me has checked." "og:title": "Surrey election 2026: elector organizations and their candidates" "twitter:description": "The elector organizations with candidates in the 2026 Surrey election, how many candidates each runs for each office, and what voche.me has checked." "twitter:title": "Surrey election 2026: elector organizations and their candidates" --- ** SURREY MUNICIPAL ELECTION 2026 # 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. [Compare all parties ](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/compare) [All 97 candidates](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/candidates) **9**Parties [**19**Independent candidates](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/independents) [**4**Issues compared](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/compare) **15**Seats being filled 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 20261 Mayor7 Councillor6 School Trustee14 candidates](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/surrey-now) [

Conservative

Conservative: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 20261 Mayor8 Councillor9 candidates](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/conservative) [

Imagine Surrey

Imagine Surrey: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 20261 Mayor8 Councillor9 candidates](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/imagine-surrey) [

New Surrey+

New Surrey+: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 20261 Mayor8 Councillor9 candidates](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/new-surrey) [

Safe Surrey Coalition

Safe Surrey Coalition: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 20261 Mayor8 Councillor9 candidates](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/safe-surrey-coalition) [

Surrey Connect Public IA

Surrey Connect Public IA: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 20261 Mayor8 Councillor9 candidates](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/surrey-connect-public-ia) [

Surrey First

Surrey First: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 20261 Mayor8 Councillor9 candidates](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/surrey-first) [

Surrey First Education

Surrey First Education: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 20266 School Trustee6 candidates](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/surrey-first-education) [

Our Surrey

Our Surrey: candidates in the Surrey municipal election 20264 School Trustee4 candidates](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/our-surrey) 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.See the parties running](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/mayor) [

Councillor

Eight councillor seats, elected across the whole city.See the parties running](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/councillor) [

School Trustee

Six trustee seats on the Surrey Board of Education, elected by voters in Surrey and on Barnston Island.See the parties running](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/school-trustee) 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.CouncillorCompare all parties](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/issues/housing) [

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).CouncillorCompare all parties](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/issues/taxes-and-budget) [

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.CouncillorCompare all parties](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/issues/governance) [

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.School TrusteeCompare all parties](https://voche.me/bc/surrey-2026/parties/issues/schools) ### 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. ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](/bc/surrey-2026/sitemap.md) for all pages.