Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender is the MLA for Surrey-Fleetwood.
A count of about 2,000 absentee ballots which began Monday is now complete, and BC Liberal candidate Fassbender won the seat by 200 votes.
Elections BC made it official Wednesday. On Tuesday night, the Fassbender campaign's Twitter account @Fassbender4MLA said Fassbender's final vote count put him 200 votes ahead of Brar. That has not been confirmed by Elections BC.
Fassbender was ahead of his NDP opponent Jagrup Brar by 265 votes on election night, but in the results released Tuesday, his lead had slipped by 99 votes to 166. Brar is a three-term MLA who was first elected in Surrey-Panorama in a 2004 byelection.
Fassbender told The Times on Wednesday morning that he is excited to win the seat, but the win is "bittersweet" as it marks an end to his time as Langley City mayor. He was first elected as mayor in 2005, after serving one term as a councillor.
"There was consensus building with council and on staff to develop a Downtown Master Plan, and we worked with council to get the Gateway of Hope (homeless shelter) in place. It was satisfying to be part of the solution on those issues," he said.
Fassbender said he is looking forward to working on many of the same issues he tackled as mayor from a provincial perspective, including policing, health care and transportation.
He intends to submit his resignation as mayor in early July and expects there will be a byelection in September.
Fassbender said he expects the premier to name a new cabinet sometime in early June.
The vote counts in the other seven Surrey ridings have been completed.
In Surrey-Tynehead, Liberal candidate and former Langley RCMP Insp. Amrik Virk was declared the winner. His final count was 9,172 votes, to 7,539 for Avtar Bains of the NDP, 2,040 for Barry Sikora of the BC Conservatives and 298 for Sukhi Gill of the B.C. Vision Party.
The vote count is also complete in both Langley ridings. Mary Polak won the Langley seat with 14,039 votes. Andrew Mercier of the NDP received 7,403; John Cummins of the BC Conservatives had 3,242 and Wally Martin of the Green Party received 2,608 votes.
The absentee ballots added another 2,830 to the total votes cast. Participation in the Langley riding was up by 3,809 voters (16 per cent) from the 2009 election turnout.
In Fort Langley-Aldergrove, final vote totals give incumbent Liberal Rich Coleman 15,989 votes. Shane Dyson of the NDP received 7,511 votes and Rick Manuel of the BC Conservatives received 2,615.
Green Party candidate Lisa David received 2,229 votes and independent Kevin Mitchell got 672 votes. There were 4,620 more voters taking part in the 2013 election than in 2009, an increase of just under 16 per cent.