SURREY — The nomination period has come to a close, the numbers are in, and Surrey's municipal council race just got a whole lot more crowded.
There’s no shortage of choices in the upcoming municipal election in Surrey, with seven mayoral candidates and 36 councillor candidates filing their papers to run in the Nov. 15, 2014 municipal elections. Here they are:
Mayoral candidates:
Vikram Bajwa – Independent
John Edwards – Independent
Linda Hepner – Surrey First
Doug McCallum – Safe Surrey Coalition
Barinder Rasode – One Surrey Electors Association
Grant Rice – Independent
John Wolanski – Independent
Council candidates:
Maz Artang – One Surrey Electors Association
Saira Aujla – Independent
Merv Bayda - One Surrey Electors Association
Tanvir Bhupal – Independent
Cliff Blair – Independent
Michael Bose - One Surrey Electors Association
Darlene Bowyer - One Surrey Electors Association
Obi Canuel – Independent
Narima Dela Cruz - One Surrey Electors Association
Nav Dhanoya – Independent
Jas Dhillon – Independent
Fiona Dionne – Independent
Kal Dosanjh - One Surrey Electors Association
Rita Elvins – Independent
Shawn Francis – Independent
Stephen Gammer – TeamSurrey
Touraj Ghanbar-zadeh – Independent
Rina Gill – Safe Surrey Coalition
Tom Gill – Surrey First
Laurie Guerra – Safe Surrey Coalition
Bruce Hayne – Surrey First
Gary Hoffman – Independent
Vera LeFranc – Surrey First
Brenda Locke – TeamSurrey
Mary Martin – Surrey First
Jim McMurtry – Independent
Martin Rooney – Independent
Rick Scorsese – Independent
Beau Simpson – Safe Surrey Coalition
Mike Starchuk – Surrey First
Barbara Steele – Surrey First
Justin Thind – Safe Surrey Coalition
Judy Villeneuve – Surrey First
Dave Woods – Surrey First
Brian Young - One Surrey Electors Association
James Duncan - Independent
School board
(The seventh position on the Surrey Board of Education is reserved for a White Rock-elected trustee, as the Surrey School District also includes White Rock. In White Rock, incumbent trustee Laurae McNally has won by acclamation)
Terry Allen – Surrey First
Balraj Atwal
Rayman Bhuller
Sukhy Dhillon
Rina Diaz
Charlene Dobie
Patricia Enair
Sikandar Hayat
Bob Holmes – Surrey First
Nicole Joliet
Laurie Larsen – Surrey First
David Matta
Niovi Patsicakis
Kirsty Peterson
Baljit Sabharwal
Sara Sharma
Jonathan Silveira
Harman Singh
Forrest Smith
Julie Tapley
Garry Thind – Surrey First
Gary Tymoschuk – Surrey First
Shawn Wilson – Surrey First