Incumbent Liberal Sukh Dhaliwal has ridden the red wave to victory in Surrey-Newton.
Dhaliwal said he felt proud and was ready to get back to work tomorrow.
"I will be on the doorsteps tomorrow, listening to the people, making sure I'm able to listen and take their voice to Ottawa," he said.
As Mark Carney leads the Liberal Party of Canada to what is shaping up to be a minority government, Dhaliwal has won back the seat he has won five times before.
"I'm very proud that they have put confidence in me one more time," Dhaliwal said.
Just before 11 a.m. Tuesday (April 29), with 168 of 169 polls reporting, Dhaliwal was in the lead with 20,006 votes to Conservative Harjit Singh Gill's 17,847.
Raj Toor Singh (NDP) and Salman Zafar (Communist Party of Canada) also ran in the riding, but Singh was a distance third with 2,424 votes, and Zafar snagged just 214.
63.1 per cent of voters in the riding who were registered before election day cast their ballot.
Dhaliwal thanked everyone who voted in this election, even those who did not vote for him.
"Participating in the democratic process is very, very important, and that's what they have done. And I want to thank each and every volunteer for every candidate that worked to make this democratic process work," Dhaliwal said.
He also thanked his volunteers and supporters. "This was not possible without your help," he said.
The crowd at the Royal King Palace was upbeat throughout the night and often cheered when another Liberal had been elected. At the end of the night before Dhaliwal took the stage the crowd lifted him off his feet as they danced in celebration.
— Anna Burns (@AnnaBBurns) April 29, 2025
Conservative Harjit Singh Gill spoke to the Surrey Now-Leader earlier in the night and said he had worked hard for the past 11 months since he was nominated last April. "I knocked on about 16,000 doors," Gill said. He heard from many residents that their main concerns were inflation, children's placement, land order and health care.
In its various incarnations, the riding typically has typically swung Liberal or NDP. The last time a Conservative was elected was in 2004 (Gurmant Grewal), when the riding was Newton-North Delta.
The riding's boundaries were re-jigged during a redistribution process that concluded in September 2023, resulting in Surrey-Newton losing some territory to the Delta riding (that between 64 Avenue and 58 Avenue, and 126 Street to Scott Road) but acquiring a slice from Cloverdale-Langley City (between 144 Street and 146 Street and 64 Avenue to 56 Avenue).
Of the top three contenders over the past several elections, Dhaliwal retained the seat in 2021 against runners-up NDP and Conservative candidates, as he did in 2019 with that same ranking playing out. In 2015, Dhaliwal defeated the NDP's Jinny Sims for the seat, as she defeated him in 2011.
Dhaliwal also won the riding in 2008 and 2006.
Incumbent Liberal Sukh Dhaliwal thanks his supporters after winning his seat in Surrey Newton again. pic.twitter.com/UyfYhrKFKT
— Anna Burns (@AnnaBBurns) April 29, 2025
