SURREY, B.C. - Jodi Murphy does not give up on Surrey-Guildford. The BC Green Party candidate is on the ballot in the riding for the third time, after campaigns in 2017 and 2020, and she is running on a record built in operations management, small business and community safety work rather than in politics.
Murphy is a Surrey-Guildford resident with experience in operations management and bookkeeping who now owns a small business in Surrey. Her party biography says she spent a decade managing technical services supporting British Columbia’s pulp and paper industry, then worked with several research start-ups in the province’s biotechnology sector. More recently she started her Surrey business while also working in an accounting role for the Province.
Her education matches that varied career: a Bachelor of Science from UBC, a management diploma, a certificate in accounting, and additional leadership training. She has volunteered as a first aid attendant, served in leadership roles on workplace safety committees, and overseen processes and training related to hazardous materials. In the community, she worked with the Save Hawthorne Park group in Surrey and later contributed to a federal Green campaign in the riding.
“Like so many hard-working British Columbians, I expect better from our government,” Murphy says in her party biography. Her top three priorities this campaign are improving nurse-to-patient ratios and ending reliance on for-profit staffing in health care, protecting food security by restricting foreign and corporate farmland ownership, and reforming forest tenures so they are not concentrated in a small number of large companies.
Her first-100-days list is unusually specific for a challenger: a transparent public calendar showing constituents what she is doing and who she is meeting with, legislation banning retailers from using surveillance pricing, outreach to every Surrey MLA across party lines to align on education and health care, and meetings with WorkSafeBC leadership. “I’m known for finishing what I start, and getting things done,” she told voters in her candidate questionnaire.
Her previous results show both persistence and the size of the climb. Murphy took 1,840 votes (9.90 per cent) in Surrey-Guildford in 2017 and 1,345 (7.83 per cent) in 2020. In 2024, the Green candidate in the riding, Manjeet Singh Sahota, took 824 votes. But in a riding decided that year by only 22 votes between the NDP and the Conservatives, even a modest Green vote shapes the outcome, and Murphy’s pitch is aimed squarely at voters who feel neither big party speaks for them.
Advance voting in Surrey-Guildford runs October 16 to 21, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., at Holly Elementary School (10719 150 Street, open October 16 to 21), Ellendale Elementary School (14525 110A Avenue, open October 17 to 18), Fraser Wood Elementary School (10650 164 Street, open October 17 to 18), and North Surrey Secondary School (15945 96 Avenue, open October 17 to 18). General voting day is Saturday, October 24.
Photo: Jodi Murphy campaign (BC Green Party, bcgreens.ca)
Sources: bcgreens.ca; Elections BC; Surrey Now-Leader candidate questionnaire via europesays.com
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