SURREY, B.C. - The City of Surrey has posted the official results of the 2026 municipal election, confirming Doug McCallum as the city’s elected mayor and settling the full makeup of city council and the school board for the coming term.
The posting follows the Declaration of Official Election Results, signed on October 21, 2026, by Chief Election Officer Gib van Ert, KC. The declaration is the formal certification of the vote. Until it was signed, the outcome rested on the preliminary counts released on election night. The City has now added an Official results section to its 2026 municipal election page, where residents can view the certified outcome of all three races.
In the mayoral race, McCallum received 42,741 votes, or 31.94 per cent of the ballots cast, defeating incumbent mayor Brenda Locke, who received 30,886 votes, or 23.08 per cent. Locke finished second in the field, 11,855 votes behind McCallum. The result returns McCallum to the mayor’s office at City Hall, four years after he was voted out in the 2022 election.
Eight councillors were elected to Surrey City Council. Harry Bains topped the council poll with 31,362 votes, the highest total of any council candidate. Also elected were Doug Elford, Meera Gill, Mandeep Singh Nagra, Suhana Gill, Allison Patton and Laurie Guerra. Cheney Cloke took the eighth and final seat, finishing 232 votes ahead of Mike Bose in the closest finish of the council race.
Seven of the eight elected councillors ran with McCallum’s Safe Surrey Coalition, giving the mayor’s slate a clear majority on council. Bains, who ran with Surrey Connect, is the lone councillor elected from outside the coalition, and he did it while drawing the most council votes in the city.
Voters also elected six school trustees to the Surrey Board of Education: Terry Allen, Garry Thind, Laurie Larsen, Bob Holmes, Shawn Wilson and Michelle Ceniza.
Turnout reached 134,437 ballots cast, equal to 37.35 per cent of eligible voters. Polls for the general local election closed at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 17, 2026.
The full official results, including the vote totals for every candidate for mayor, councillor and school trustee, are available in the Official results section of the City’s 2026 municipal election page.
With the declaration signed and posted, the results are now final. The mayor and the eight councillors form the city council that will govern Surrey for the term ahead, while the six trustees join the Board of Education for Surrey School District 36. British Columbia holds general local elections every four years, so the council and board chosen on October 17 will set budgets, land use and school priorities in Surrey for the next four years.
The City also reminds campaigns and residents that election signs must come down soon. Under the notice posted on the election page, signs must be removed within 14 days following general voting day, and no later than 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, October 31, 2026.
Source: City of Surrey, October 23, 2026
