Surrey (electoral district)

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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)

Surrey elected members to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1966 to 1983. The members it elected were:^[1]

29th British Columbia election, 1969
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
New Democrat	Ernest Hall	9,398	47.23%		unknown Template:CANelec Template:Canadian party colour	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
Liberal	William Nick (Bill) Vander Zalm	3,995	16.68%		unknown Template:Canadian party colour	Progressive Conservative	William Earl (Bill) Reid	1,415	5.91%	unknown Template:CANelec
Total valid votes			23,956	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			395
Turnout			%

32nd British Columbia election, 1979 ¹
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
Progressive Conservative	Brian Kent Westwood	5,834	4.89%		unknown Template:CANelec Template:CANelec
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
Progressive Conservative	Frank Nelson Wright	2,531	1.68%		unknown Template:Canadian party colour	Liberal	Judith E. Higginbotham	1,673	1.11%	unknown Template:Canadian party colour	Liberal	Donald Peter McKinnon	1,651	1.09%	unknown Template:CANelec Template:CANelec Template:CANelec
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:

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