SURREY, B.C. - Jessy Sahota has won Surrey-Serpentine River for the Conservative Party of BC in the Oct. 24, 2026 provincial election.
Sahota took 10,106 votes, 58.10% of the valid ballots, finishing 4,428 votes ahead of BC NDP candidate Sikander Kang, who received 5,678 votes (32.64%). The riding is fully counted, with all five advance ballot boxes and all 65 final-day ballot boxes reported, and 17,394 valid votes cast. The results are Elections BC’s preliminary results as of 12:49 a.m. PT on Oct. 25; results remain preliminary until Elections BC’s final count, which runs Nov. 6 to 10, 2026.
Full results: Surrey-Serpentine River
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessy Sahota | Conservative Party of BC | 10,106 | 58.10% |
| Sikander Kang | BC NDP | 5,678 | 32.64% |
| Judy Higginbotham | CentreBC | 890 | 5.12% |
| Todd Holowchak | OneBC | 593 | 3.41% |
| Errol Povah | Freedom Party of BC | 127 | 0.73% |
Sahota was one of three Surrey candidates to pass 10,000 votes on Saturday night, alongside Trevor Halford in Surrey-White Rock (14,337) and Megan Knight in Surrey South (12,556). The margin is a sharp contrast with the riding’s first election in 2024, when Conservative Linda Hepner, a former Surrey mayor, won it by just 435 votes over the NDP’s Baltej Singh Dhillon.
Hepner, the riding’s outgoing MLA, did not run again, leaving an open seat that both major parties targeted. Sahota, a former police officer, carried the Conservative banner this time, while the NDP fielded Kang, a physiotherapist and clinic operator. CentreBC’s Judy Higginbotham, a Surrey city councillor for 25 years before this run, finished third with 890 votes.
Public safety was a defining issue in Surrey throughout the campaign, and Sahota was one of the Conservative voices on it: when the party launched its Anti-Extortion Action Plan in Surrey on Oct. 13, he spoke for the plan’s pledge of specialized investigators and clear reporting and protection pathways for businesses and families facing extortion threats.
What it means for Serpentine River and Clayton
Surrey-Serpentine River covers fast-growing residential neighbourhoods in east Surrey, including Clayton, where new housing keeps adding families faster than services can follow. Residents here will now look to a Conservative government in Victoria, and to Sahota as their MLA, on the files that dominate daily life in the riding: school space in Clayton and the surrounding neighbourhoods, road and transit capacity for commuters heading out of east Surrey each morning, health care access as the new Cloverdale hospital and the Surrey Memorial Hospital expansion move ahead, and policing and public safety, including the extortion threat that has hit Surrey businesses hard.
Part of a Conservative majority
Sahota’s win is one piece of a province-wide Conservative victory. In Elections BC’s preliminary count, the Conservative Party of BC, led by Lorne Doerkson, is leading in 64 of 93 districts, ahead of the BC NDP at 27 and the BC Greens at 2. A party needs 47 seats for a majority, and Apna News called the Conservative majority on Saturday night. The result ends nine years of BC NDP government, and Premier David Eby announced Saturday night that he intends to resign as BC NDP leader. In Surrey, Conservative candidates led in all 10 of the city’s ridings in the preliminary count.
Full riding-by-riding numbers are on the Apna News live results hub and update as Elections BC reports. This story will be updated after the final count, Nov. 6 to 10.
Source: Elections BC news release / official results, October 24, 2026
Correction (Oct. 25, 2026): An earlier version of this story described Sahota’s result as the largest margin and highest vote total of any Surrey candidate. That was incorrect: Trevor Halford in Surrey-White Rock and Megan Knight in Surrey South both recorded higher vote totals and larger margins. The story has been corrected, and its results have been updated to Elections BC’s preliminary count as of 12:49 a.m. PT on Oct. 25, 2026.
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