Global News has declared Doug McCallum the winner in Surrey’s mayoral election.
McCallum defeated Surrey First councillor Tom Gill and Bruce Hayne, a former Surrey First city councillor who ran with Integrity Now.
McCallum served as mayor from 1996 to 2005. He lost to Dianne Watts in 2005 and again to current mayor Linda Hepner in 2014.
He has promised to bring in a regional police force in Surrey and will push to scrap light rail in Surrey with the proposal that SkyTrain be extended down the Fraser Highway to Langley.
Seven of eight council seats went to members of McCallum’s Safe Surrey Coalition. Linda Annis is the sole member of Surrey First, the party that has dominated local politics for a decade, to be elected to council.
WATCH: All you need to know about the 2018 Surrey election
Candidates
Tom Gill
Pauline Greaves
Bruce Hayne
Rajesh Jayaprakash
Doug McCallum
Francois Nantel
Imtiaz Popat
John Wolanski
Council
Neera Agnihotri
Linda Annis
Saira Aujla
Kashmir Besla
Tanvir Bhupal
Brian Calderwood
Roslyn Cassells
Narima Dela Cruz
Avi Dhaliwal
Doug Elford
Maria Foster
Neneng Galento
John Gibeau
Rina Gill
Parshotam Goel
Laurie Guerra
Trevor Halford
Paul Hillsdon
Jack Singh Hundial
Afshan Kamran
Felix Kongyuy
Murali Krishnan
Vera LeFranc (incumbent)
Nicholas Loberg
Brenda Locke
Adam MacGillivray
Mandeep Nagra
Nasima Nastoh
Stuart Parker
Allison Patton
Kuldip Pelia
Steven Pettigrew
Thampy Rajan
Bableen Rana
Major Singh Rasode
Paul Rusan
Bernie Sheppard
Forrest Smith
Mike Starchuk (incumbent)
Barbara Steele (incumbent)
Asad Syed
Upkar Tatlay
Raminder Thomas
Deanna Welters
Dave Woods (incumbent)
Yanni Yu
Derek Zabel
Becky Zhou
Boundary
The City of Surrey is located east of Delta, south of New Westminster and Coquitlam and west of Langley.
Population (2016)
517,887
History
The land that now encompasses Surrey was first inhabited by the Katzie, the Semiahmoo and the Kwantlen First Nations, who established settlements along the Fraser River, at Crescent Beach and elsewhere.
There, they would hunt, gather, and collect shellfish, salmon, oolichans and herring from the river.
New settlement would begin in earnest in the late 19th century, with 200 new residents recorded there by 1880.
Agriculture would grow as an industry; so would logging.
Surrey would become a municipality in 1879 and then a city in September 1993.
Today, it’s B.C.’s second-largest city by population, a number that is expected to exceed Vancouver’s by 2041.
Median after-tax income of households (2015)
$104,953/$111,736
Crime Severity Index (CSI) — 2016
RCMP — municipal/B.C.
116,99 (-7.58)/93.63 (-0.71)
Violent Crime Severity Index (VCSI) — 2016
RCMP — municipal/B.C.
93.36 (-23.72)/74.86 (-9.81)
Political representation
Federal
Sukh Dhaliwal (Liberal) — Surrey Newton
Gordie Hogg (Liberal) — South Surrey-White Rock
Randeep Sarah (Liberal) — Surrey Centre
Ken Hardie (Liberal) – Fleetwood – Port Kells
Provincial
Harry Bains (BC NDP) — Surrey-Newton
Garry Begg (BC NDP) — Surrey-Guildford
Jagrup Brar (BC NDP) — Surrey-Fleetwood
Stephanie Cadieux (BC Liberal) — Surrey South
Marvin Hunt (BC Liberal) — Surrey-Cloverdale
Bruce Ralston (BC NDP) — Surrey-Whalley
Tracy Redies (BC Liberal) — Surrey-White Rock
Jinny Sims (BC NDP) — Surrey-Panorama
Rachna Singh (BC NDP) — Surrey-Green Timbers