Who's running in Surrey-Cloverdale?
- Pat McCutcheon, B.C. Green Party
- Judy Meilleur, Freedom Party of B.C.
- Mike Starchuk, B.C. NDP (Incumbent)
- Elenore Sturko, B.C. Conservative Party
A brief history of Surrey-Cloverdale
Surrey-Cloverdale has seen some severe boundary changes for the 2024 provincial election. The electoral district has lost both West Cloverdale (to Surrey-Serpentine River) and Port Kells (to Surrey-Guildford). It has gained the “panhandle” that jutted up and used to be a part of the riding of Surrey-South—the area between 188th Street and 196th Street that stretched up as high as 76th Avenue. Surrey-Cloverdale also now has the Shannon Hill Park and Hunter Park residential areas attached to it. Those neighbourhoods, below Highway 10, also used to be a part of Surrey-South.
The riding has been around since 1991 and has always been won by a B.C. Liberal Party candidate until 2021 when NDP candidate Mike Starchuk unseated then-MLA Marvin Hunt. The riding has not had a multiple-term MLA since Kevin Falcon won the riding three times in a row from 2001 until 2013.
What to watch for in Surrey-Cloverdale
The riding will be interesting to watch come election night. Elenore Sturko, B.C. Conservative Party candidate, is running in the riding after crossing the floor from the B.C. United Party (former B.C. Liberal Party) to join the B.C. Conservatives as a sitting MLA for the district of Surrey-South. The B.C. United Party collapsed several weeks ago and withdrew from the election, leaving some of the United candidates to run as B.C. Conservatives.
