Surrey City Centre: candidates in the 2026 BC election
4 candidates are on the ballot in Surrey City Centre for the provincial election on Saturday, October 24, 2026. They are listed by last name.
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Amna ShahIncumbent
BC NDP
MLA since 2024; previously worked on affordable housing policy with the provincial housing ministry and served on the Surrey Food Bank board of directors.
Sources: Amna Shah campaign page, Surrey Now-Leader: final list of 47 candidates
Raman Sharma
CentreBC
Surrey construction-industry entrepreneur; founded and presides over the Tradesman Association of BC (2016) and runs the Annual Construction Expo; arrived in Canada in 1998.
Sources: CentreBC candidate page, Elections BC 2026 candidate list
Zeeshan Wahla
BC Conservatives
Professional engineer with his own consulting firm, registered in four provinces; immigrated to BC in 2007, lives in Surrey, and was the 2024 Conservative candidate here.
Sources: Conservative candidate page, Surrey Now-Leader: who's running in Surrey ridings
Oliver Wildfong
OneBC
Sources: Elections BC 2026 candidate list, Elections BC 2026 candidate list (CSV)
Candidate list from Elections BC, as of October 18, 2026.
About the riding
Surrey City Centre takes in Surrey City Centre (the Whalley core), the King George Boulevard corridor; southern boundary at 96 Avenue.
In 2024, Amna Shah (BC NDP) won here by 232 votes, 1.6 points.
Questions for Surrey
Everyone answers 13 province-wide questions. Voters in Surrey also get these 3:
- How should the province finish the SkyTrain line and fund TransLink, the regional transit agency, after 2028?
- How should the province respond to extortion, threats demanding money, in Surrey while the city changes police forces?
- How should the province handle Surrey's new hospital under construction, its busy emergency room and its crowded schools?
How and when to vote
- Voting day
- Saturday, October 24, 2026, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Pacific time.
- Advance voting
- Friday October 16 to Wednesday October 21, 2026, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time. Not every location is open every day; check yours.
- Where
- Find advance and election-day locations with the voting-place lookup on elections.bc.ca. District electoral offices also take voters until 4 p.m. on October 24. The October 17 municipal election is a separate vote with its own locations.
- Who can vote
- Canadian citizen, 18 or older on October 24, 2026, and a BC resident since April 23, 2026.
- By mail
- Request a vote-by-mail package online or by phone (1-800-661-8683) by October 18. Elections BC must receive it by 8 p.m. Pacific time on October 24 for it to be counted. If you are not registered or your voter information is out of date, prove your identity and address by uploading ID to Elections BC's ID upload system or by including photocopies of your ID with the returned package.
From Elections BC: ways to vote, vote by mail, 2026 provincial election key dates, who can vote, voter ID, Elections BC home.