Surrey (electoral district)

Surrey was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1966 to 1983. The area it covered was formerly part of the electoral district of Delta. It returned one member to the Legislative Assembly of B.C. from 1966 to 1975 and two members thereafter. It was abolished prior to the 1986 election into Surrey-Guildford-Whalley, Surrey-Newton and Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale.

For other historical and current ridings in Vancouver or the North Shore see Vancouver (electoral districts). For other Greater Vancouver area ridings please see New Westminster (electoral districts).

Demographics

Population, 1966
Population change, 1966–1986
Area (km²)
Population density (people per km²)

28th British Columbia election, 1966
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Ernest Hall	7,039	48.20%		unknown
	Social Credit	Roderick Anthony Archer	6,254	42.82%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Renaldo Angelo Masi	1,234	8.45%		unknown
	Communist	Jean Maryl MacLaren	77	0.53%		unknown
Total valid votes			14,604	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			119
Turnout			%

29th British Columbia election, 1969
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Ernest Hall	9,398	47.23%		unknown
	Social Credit	Anthony (Tony) Hatcher	8,921	44.83%	–	unknown
	Liberal	Robert Jacobs	1,581	7.94%		unknown
Total valid votes			19,900	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			223
Turnout			%

30th British Columbia election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Ernest Hall	12,574	52.49%		unknown
	Social Credit	James B. Wallace	5,877	24.53%	–	unknown
	Liberal	William Nick (Bill) Vander Zalm	3,995	16.68%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	William Earl (Bill) Reid	1,415	5.91%		unknown
	Communist	Frederick Joseph Bianco	95	0.40%		unknown
Total valid votes			23,956	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			395
Turnout			%

31st British Columbia election, 1975
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	William Nick (Bill) Vander Zalm	14,341	53.35%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Ernest Hall	11,214	41.72%		unknown
	Liberal	Donald Alvin Ross	1,257	4.68%		unknown
	Communist	Frederick Joseph Bianco	67	0.25%		unknown
Total valid votes			26,879	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			386
Turnout			%

32nd British Columbia election, 1979 ¹
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	William Nick (Bill) Vander Zalm	29,693	24.88%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Ernest Hall	28,644	24.00%		unknown
	New Democratic	Michael Garry Watkins	28,497	23.87%		unknown
	Social Credit	Dalton O. Jones	26,306	22.04%	–	unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Brian Kent Westwood	5,834	4.89%		unknown
	Communist	Timothy George Gidora	204	0.17%		unknown
	Communist	Josephine P. Arland	183	0.15%		unknown
Total valid votes			119,361	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			1,368
Turnout			%
¹ Seat increased to two members from one.

33rd British Columbia election, 1983
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Rita Margaret Johnston	38,081	25.24%	–	unknown
	Social Credit	William Earl (Bill) Reid	37,370	24.76%	–	unknown
	New Democratic	Ernest Hall	34,082	22.59%		unknown
	New Democratic	Carol Langford	32,748	21.70%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Nelson Wright	2,531	1.68%		unknown
	Liberal	Judith E. Higginbotham	1,673	1.11%		unknown
	Liberal	Donald Peter McKinnon	1,651	1.09%		unknown
	Western Canada Concept	David J. Bannister	1,181	1.25%		unknown
	Green	Jack Boulogne	692	0.46%	–	unknown
	Communist	Viola Swann	185	0.12%		unknown
Total valid votes			150,894	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			1,018
Turnout			%

The riding was reconstituted into three ridings for the 1986 election: Surrey-Newton, Surrey-Guildford-Whalley and Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale. These were later reconstituted into the following ridings:

v t e British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1979–1991)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo ‡ North Peace River Omineca Prince George North Prince George South Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River
Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen ‡ Columbia River Kamloops ‡ Kootenay Nelson-Creston Okanagan North Okanagan South ‡ Rossland-Trail Shuswap-Revelstoke Yale-Lillooet
Fraser Valley / South LM	Central Fraser Valley ‡ Chilliwack Delta ‡ Dewdney ‡ Langley ‡ Richmond ‡ Surrey (2) †
Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Coquitlam-Moody Maillardville-Coquitlam New Westminster North Vancouver-Capilano North Vancouver-Seymour Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (2) Vancouver South (2) West Vancouver-Howe Sound
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Malahat Esquimalt-Port Renfrew Mackenzie Nanaimo ‡ North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Saanich and the Islands ‡ Victoria (2)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1979 general election 1983 general election 1986 general election Defunct districts
‡ – from 1986–1991, was a 2-seat constituency † – from 1986–1991, was broken into 3 single-seat constituencies Surrey-Guildford-Whalley Surrey-Newton Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale

v t e British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1966–1979)
North / Central	Atlin Cariboo Fort George North Peace River Omineca Prince Rupert Skeena South Peace River
Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen Columbia River Kamloops Kootenay Nelson-Creston North Okanagan Revelstoke-Slocan Rossland-Trail South Okanagan Shuswap Yale-Lillooet
Lower Mainland	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Chilliwack Coquitlam Delta Dewdney Langley New Westminster North Vancouver-Capilano North Vancouver-Seymour Richmond Surrey Vancouver-Burrard (2) Vancouver Centre (2) Vancouver East (2) Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) Vancouver-Point Grey (2) Vancouver South (2) West Vancouver-Howe Sound
Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Cowichan-Malahat Esquimalt Mackenzie Nanaimo Oak Bay-Gordon Head Saanich and the Islands Victoria (2)
See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1966 general election 1969 general election 1972 general election 1975 general election Defunct districts