Liberal incumbent Randeep Sarai is set to return to Ottawa.
Sarai is poised to take the Surrey Centre riding once again for the Liberals, after a night of close races in Surrey ridings.
As of 1 a.m., Sarai had 19,699 votes to Conservative challenger Rajvir Dhillon's 17,803.
Historically, Surrey residents in this riding have voted Liberal, with Sarai winning each federal election since its creation (2015, 2019 and 2021 federal elections). NDP candidates came second in all three elections, followed by Conservative candidates in third place.
This time around, Dhillon gave Sarai a run for it, nipping at the Liberal incumbent's heels throughout the night.
In the end, however, the riding that was Sarai's to lose remained Liberal red.
The NDP's Dominic Denofrio is in a distant third, with 2,792 votes.
Sarai thanked his family, staff and supporters for a successful campaign.
He told Surrey Now-Leader his first step will be to sleep in Tuesday morning.
"It's pretty exciting, getting a fourth mandate from Surrey Centre and as you know, Surrey Centre is a tough riding ... it usually swings," he said at the hall.
"I feel very honoured that the residents of Surrey elected me again for a fourth time."
Sarai said his first step will be to tackle what he's been hearing from the riding's constituents about U.S. tariffs and affordability.
"What I heard from the doorsteps ... (is to) make sure that we deal with Donald Trump first of all, and help in a lot of the affordability challenges that people are feeling and build more homes."
He said he appreciated how residents have noticed the work he's been able to do during his tenure as MLA, including opening the riding, the opening of Simon Fraser University's engineering campus in Surrey Centre, and infrastructure investment in expanding SkyTrain.
"I think the residents are much happier that this much-neglected centre is now in the forefront as downtown — as a downtown of the second-largest city in British Columbia."
— with files from Tricia Leslie
