Bruce Ralston

The Honourable Bruce Ralston MLA


Minister of Jobs, Trade and Technology of British Columbia
Incumbent
Assumed office July 18, 2017
Preceded by	Shirley Bond (Jobs) Jas Johal (Technology)
Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Surrey-Whalley
Incumbent
Assumed office May 17, 2005
Preceded by	Elayne Brenzinger

Personal details
Political party	New Democrat

Bruce Ralston is the current MLA for Surrey-Whalley in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

He was born in Victoria and grew up in Vancouver. He has degrees in history and law from the University of British Columbia and a degree in history from the University of Cambridge in England. He has his own law firm in Surrey.^[1]

He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 election and re-elected in 2009.^[2]

Electoral results

British Columbia general election, 2017: Surrey-Whalley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Bruce Ralston	9,060	58.37
	Liberal	Sargy Chima	4,712	30.36
	Green	Rita Anne Fromholt	1,665	10.73
	Communist	George Gidora	85	0.55
Total valid votes			15,522	100.00
Source: Elections BC^[4]

British Columbia general election, 2013: Surrey-Whalley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Bruce Ralston	10,405	61.43		$112,496
	Liberal	Kuljeet Kaur	5,004	29.54		$34,568
	Conservative	Sunny Chohan	1,110	6.55		$40,961
	Vision	Jag Bhandari (JB)	420	2.48		$9,375
Total Valid Votes			16,939	100
Total Rejected Ballots			248	1.44
Turnout			17,187	46.28

British Columbia general election, 2009: Surrey-Whalley
Party		Candidate	Votes
	New Democratic	Bruce Ralston	10,453
	Liberal	Radhia Benalia	4,083
	Green	Bernadette Kennan	1,189

British Columbia general election, 2005: Surrey-Whalley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Bruce Ralston	8,903	55.00
	Liberal	Barbara Steele	4,949	30.57
	Green	Roy Whyte	1,238	7.65
	Democratic Reform	Elayne Brenzinger	607	3.75
	Marijuana	Melady Belinda Earl	302	1.87
	Independent	Joe Pal	139	0.86
	Platinum	Neil Gregory Magnuson	50	0.31
Total			16,188	100.00

Cabinet post (1)
Provincial Government of John Horgan
Predecessor	Office	Successor
Shirley Bond Jas Johal	Minister of Jobs, Trade and Technology July 18, 2017–	Incumbent

Current members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
New Democrat	Horgan Bains Beare Begg Brar Chandra Herbert Chen Chouhan Chow Conroy D'Eith Darcy Dean Dix Donaldson Eby Elmore Farnworth Fleming Fraser Glumac Heyman James Kahlon Kang Krog Leonard Ma Mark Mungall Popham Ralston Rice Robinson Routledge Routley Simons Simpson Sims Singh Trevena
Liberal	Coleman Ashton Barnett Bernier Bond Cadieux Clovechok Davies de Jong Foster Gibson Hunt Isaacs Johal Kyllo Larson Lee Letnick Martin Milobar Morris Oakes Paton Plecas Polak Redies Reid Ross Rustad Shypitka Stilwell Stone Sturdy Sullivan Sultan Tegart Thomson Thornthwaite Throness Wat Wilkinson Yap
Green	Weaver Furstenau Olsen

Cabinet of Premier of British Columbia John Horgan (2017—present)
John Horgan Harry Bains Lisa Beare Katrina Chen George Chow Katrine Conroy Judy Darcy Adrian Dix Doug Donaldson David Eby Mike Farnworth Rob Fleming Scott Fraser George Heyman Carole James Melanie Mark Michelle Mungall Lana Popham Bruce Ralston Selina Robinson Shane Simpson Jinny Sims Claire Trevena

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