Surrey, October 15: The City of Surrey will have a new mayor for the next four years.
Brenda Locke won the race for the city’s top job by defeating her nearest challenger, incumbent Mayor Doug McCallum.
Former Liberal MLA and MP Gordie Hogg was third, while NDP MLA and former MP Jinny Sims, and Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal – two big-name candidates who entered the race against McCallum – were in fourth and fifth place, respectively.
After a tumultuous four-year term that saw several councillors – including Locke – leave his Safe Surrey Coalition, McCallum was the focal point of the mayoral campaign.
Speaking to supporters after she learned the news, Locke mentioned McCallum by name.
“Surrey, you sure did have something to say – and you said it tonight,” Locke told the cheering crowd.
“You sent a very big message to Doug, to his crew, to his land speculators, to his buddies, to the political establishment in Surrey.”
‘WE NEED TO KEEP THE RCMP’
Locke’s biggest campaign promise was to reverse the city’s transition to a municipal police force.
Creating the Surrey Police Service was McCallum’s biggest campaign promise from the 2018 election. The SPS has been deploying officers alongside the Surrey RCMP for nearly a year.
