Surrey-Newton

The riding was first created out of the two-member Surrey district in 1986, which had been in existence since 1966. Surrey had always been a battleground between the NDP and Social Credit, trading back and forth between the two parties. The riding was represented by Premier Rita Johnston, who was a prominent Cabinet minister in the Vander Zalm government between 1986 and 1991.

In 1991, Penny Priddy defeated the sitting Premier in a realigning election that saw Social Credit experience massive defeats all across the province. During the NDP government (1991-2001), Priddy emerged as a prominent Cabinet minister in portfolios such as Women's Equality, Tourism and Culture, Health, Labour and Children and Families.

Although the riding was won by the Liberals during their 2001 landslide victory, it has been a relatively safe NDP seat since 2005. The riding is home to a large South Asian community, whose population has exploded in Surrey since the early 1990s. The shift towards the NDP can largely be attributed to the party's inroads in the Indo-Canadian community.

Demographics

Population, 2001	50,281
Population Change, 1996–2001	16.4%
Area (km²)	21
Pop. Density (people per km²)	2,388

Geography

1999 Redistribution

Surrey-Newton has its entire southern half removed.

Member of Legislative Assembly

Its MLA is Harry Bains. He was first elected in 2005, and was re-elected in 2009 and 2013. He represents the New Democratic Party of British Columbia.

Parliament	Years		Party
34th	1986-1991	Rita Johnston	Social Credit
35th	1991–1996	Penny Priddy	NDP
36th	1996–2001	Penny Priddy	NDP
37th	2001–2005	Tony Bhullar	Liberal
38th	2005–2009	Harry Bains	NDP
39th	2009–2013
40th	2013–present

Election results

B.C. General Election 1991: Surrey-Newton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	NDP	Penny Priddy	10,193	42.28%		$47,584
	Social Credit	Rita Johnston	7,796	32.33%	–	$126,919
	Liberal	A. Charles McKinney	5,923	24.57%		$1,942
	Green	Paul George	197	0.82%	–	$2,740
Total valid votes			24,109	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			638	2.58%
Turnout			24,747	76.28%

B.C. General Election 1996: Surrey-Newton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	NDP	Penny Priddy	13,969	49.54%		$42,833
	Liberal	Indra Thind	9,788	34.71%		$54,778
	Progressive Democrat	Ian Brown	1,841	6.53%	–	$100
	Reform	Liaqat Bajwa	1,244	4.41%		$12,184
	Family Coalition	Bill Stilwell	577	2.05%	–	$890
	Green	Maureen A. MacDonald	340	1.21%	–	$100
	Conservative	John Keith Bannister	217	0.77%		$931
	Social Credit	Neil Maharaj	174	0.62%	–	$3,600
	Natural Law	Shane Laporte	48	0.17%		$118
Total valid votes			28,198	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			244	0.86%
Turnout			28,442	71.33%

B.C. General Election 2001: Surrey-Newton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Tony Bhullar	6,750	49.45%		$51,429
	NDP	Param Grewal	3,949	28.93%		$32,318
	Green	David Walters	1,673	12.26%	–	$2,471
	Unity	Paul Joshi	498	3.65%		$4,578
	Marijuana	Stephen Kawamoto	364	2.20%		$394
	Reform	Margaret Bridgman	159	0.96%		$1,285
Total valid votes			13,649	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			92	0.67%
Turnout			13,741	65.51%

British Columbia general election, 2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Harry Bains	10,741	57.89%
	Liberal	Daniel Igali	6,473	34.89%
	Green	Dan Deresh	876	4.72%
	Democratic Reform	Harry Grewal	268	1.44%
	Work Less	Gordon Scott	123	0.66%
	Platinum	Jeff Robert Evans	72	0.39%
Total			18,553	100.00%

British Columbia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	New Democratic	Harry Bains	10,709	68.93%	+11.04
	Liberal	Ajay Caleb	4,011	25.82%	−9.07
	Green	Trevor Loke	759	4.89%	+0.17
	Communist	George Gidora	58	0.37%	–

B.C. General Election 2013: Surrey-Newton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Harry Bains
	Helping Hand	Alan Saldanha
	Liberal	Sukhminder Virk
	Conservative	Satinder Singh
Total Valid Votes
Total Rejected Ballots
Turnout

References

External links

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (2009–)

North / Central	Cariboo-Chilcotin Cariboo North Nechako Lakes North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mackenzie Prince George-Valemount Skeena Stikine

Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen Columbia River-Revelstoke Kamloops-North Thompson Kamloops-South Thompson Kelowna-Lake Country Kelowna-Mission Kootenay East Kootenay West Fraser-Nicola Nelson-Creston Penticton Shuswap Vernon-Monashee Westside-Kelowna

Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford-Mission Abbotsford South Abbotsford West Chilliwack Chilliwack-Hope Delta North Delta South Fort Langley-Aldergrove Langley Maple Ridge-Mission Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Richmond Centre Richmond East Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Fleetwood Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Newton Surrey-Panorama Surrey-Tynehead Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Deer Lake Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby-Lougheed Burnaby North Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam Port Moody-Coquitlam Powell River-Sunshine Coast Vancouver-Fairview Vancouver-False Creek Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena Vancouver-West End West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Sea to Sky

Vancouver Island	Alberni-Pacific Rim Comox Valley Cowichan Valley Esquimalt-Royal Roads Juan de Fuca Nanaimo Nanaimo-North Cowichan North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Parksville-Qualicum Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Swan Lake

See also:	Electoral boundary redistribution of 2008 List of British Columbia general elections 2013 general election Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (2001–2009)

North / Central	Bulkley Valley-Stikine Cariboo North Cariboo South North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mount Robson Prince George North Prince George-Omineca Skeena

Southern Interior	Columbia River-Revelstoke East Kootenay Kamloops Kamloops-North Thompson Kelowna-Lake Country Kelowna-Mission Nelson-Creston Okanagan-Westside Okanagan-Vernon Penticton-Okanagan Valley Shuswap West Kootenay-Boundary Yale-Lillooet

Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford-Clayburn Abbotsford-Mount Lehman Chilliwack-Kent Chilliwack-Sumas Delta North Delta South Fort Langley-Aldergrove Langley Maple Ridge-Mission Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Richmond Centre Richmond East Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Newton Surrey-Panorama Ridge Surrey-Tynehead Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Burquitlam Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Port Moody-Westwood Vancouver-Burrard Vancouver-Fairview Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Garibaldi

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni-Qualicum Comox Valley Cowichan-Ladysmith Esquimalt-Metchosin Malahat-Juan de Fuca Nanaimo Nanaimo-Parksville North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Powell River-Sunshine Coast Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Hillside

See also:	1999 electoral redistribution 2001 general election 2005 general election 2008 electoral redistribution Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1991–2001)

North / Central	Bulkley Valley-Stikine Cariboo North Cariboo South North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mount Robson Prince George North Prince George-Omineca Skeena

Southern Interior	Columbia River-Revelstoke Kamloops Kamloops-North Thompson Kootenay Nelson-Creston Okanagan-Boundary Okanagan East Okanagan-Penticton Okanagan-Vernon Okanagan West Shuswap Rossland-Trail Yale-Lillooet

Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford Chilliwack Delta North Delta South Fort Langley-Aldergrove Langley Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Matsqui Mission-Kent Richmond Centre Richmond East Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Newton Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam Port Moody-Burnaby Mountain Vancouver-Burrard Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Little Mountain Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Garibaldi

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni Comox Valley Cowichan-Ladysmith Esquimalt-Metchosin Malahat-Juan de Fuca Nanaimo North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Parksville-Qualicum Powell River-Sunshine Coast Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Hillside

See also:	List of British Columbia general elections 1991 general election 1996 general election Defunct districts

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

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