Brenda Locke elected mayor of Surrey, CBC News projects

Brenda Locke is currently leading in the race for the top job in Metro Vancouver’s fastest-growing city.

As of 8:55 p.m., the former city councillor was in the lead with 28.13 per cent of the vote after 97 of 130 polls had been counted.

Close behind her is incumbent Doug McCallum with 26.61 per cent of the vote. Locke is a former member of McCallum’s Safe Surrey Coalition before she left in 2019.

In third place, Gordie Hogg is currently holding almost 22 per cent of the vote.

Surrey residents cast their ballots for a mayor, eight councillors and six school trustees. 

CBC will be breaking down races across the province with live results and regional coverage, and the preliminary results of the votes for Surrey’s mayor and council will be updating live at the bottom of this page throughout the night.

The candidates

Incumbent mayoral candidate, McCallum, has an uneven electoral history in the city of Surrey.

He was first elected mayor of what is now B.C.’s second-largest city in 1996, serving three consecutive terms with wins in 1999 and 2002. 

After losing the mayoral race in 2005, he mounted a similarly failed bid for nomination with the federal Conservatives, and later attempted to return to municipal politics with a run for mayor in 2014 — a race he also lost.

But he found success four years later, when he beat out rivals to return to the mayor’s chair in 2018, taking home 41 per cent of the vote ahead of seven rivals for the job.

He faces a similarly crowded field this time around, with eight people running for mayor, including six parties with a slate of mayoral and council candidates.

The consists of McCallum and eight council candidates.

 Locke, who served on council for four years, is running for mayor with , which also has eight council candidates, as does the  party, led by former MLA and MP Gordie Hogg, and , which is led by Surrey-Newton Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal.

Another well-known politician trying to make the jump to mayor is Jinny Sims, NDP MLA for Surrey-Panorama, who is running for mayor under the banner along with seven council candidates. Then there is Amrit Birring and the People’s Council Surrey, plus 11 independent council candidates and two independents running for mayor.

Throughout the campaign there have been big promises ranging from new stadiums to major transit upgrades, as well as ongoing debate over Surrey’s transition from the RCMP to a municipal police force.

Live results:

Polls close at 8 p.m. PT.

Surrey mayor

Surrey council