Surrey-Green Timbers

Surrey-Green Timbers

British Columbia electoral district
Location in Surrey
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
First contested	1991
Last contested	2020
Demographics
Population (2001)	53,132
Area (km²)	16.80
Census division(s)	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivision(s)	Surrey

Surrey-Green Timbers is a former provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada, in use from 1991 to 2024. As per the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution, the riding was dissolved prior to the 2024 election, with its territory divided between Surrey North, Surrey City Centre and Surrey-Newton.

Demographics

Population, 2001	53,132
Population Change, 1996–2001	6.7%
Area (km2)	16.80
Pop. Density (people per km2)	3,163

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:

Surrey-Green Timbers
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Surrey-Guildford-Whalley prior to 1991.
35th	1991–1996		Sue Hammell	New Democratic
36th	1996–2001
37th	2001–2005		Brenda Locke	Liberal
38th	2005–2009		Sue Hammell	New Democratic
39th	2009–2013
40th	2013–2017
41st	2017–2020		Rachna Singh
42nd	2020–present
Riding dissolved into Surrey North, Surrey City Centre and Surrey-Newton

Election results

Graph of the election results in Surrey-Green Timbers (minor parties combined into "Others")

v t e 2020 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Rachna Singh	8,171	59.59	+1.40	$31,108.56
	Liberal	Dilraj Atwal	5,540	40.41	+7.46	$34,751.00
Total valid votes			13,711	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			224	1.61	+0.56
Turnout			13,935	47.20	–7.41
Registered voters			29,526
Source: Elections BC [1] [2]

v t e 2017 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Rachna Singh	8,945	58.29	+0.23	$58,322
	Liberal	Brenda Locke	5,056	32.95	−1.57	$20,975
	Green	Saira Aujla	1,112	7.25	+3.2	$7,739
	No affiliation	Vikram Bajwa	163	1.06	–	$7,980
	Your Political Party	Kanwaljit Singh Moti	69	0.44	–	$3,612
Total valid votes			15,345	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			163	1.05	−0.14
Turnout			15,508	54.61	+2.29
Registered voters			28,400
Source: Elections BC [3] [4]

v t e 2013 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Sue Hammell	9386	58.06
	Liberal	Amrik Tung	5581	34.52
	Green	Richard Hosein	655	4.05
	Conservative	Lisa Maharaj	444	2.75
	Vision	Harjit Singh Heir	101	0.62
Total valid votes			16167	100.00
Total rejected ballots			194	1.19
Turnout			16361	52.32
Source: Elections BC [5]

v t e 2009 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Sue Hammell	10,965	72.73	+11.91
	Liberal	Rani Mangat	3,624	24.03	−8.51
	Green	Dan Kashagama	488	3.24	−1.20
Total			15,077	100.00

v t e 2005 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Sue Hammell	10,836	60.82	+24.51
	Liberal	Brenda Locke	5,619	31.54	−17.41
	Green	Sebastian Sajda	791	4.44	–
	Marijuana	Amanda Boggan	225	1.26	−2.39
	Emerged Democracy	Rob Norberg	151	0.85	–
	Democratic Reform	Ravi Chand	142	0.80	–
	Communist	Harjit Singh Daudharia	52	0.29	+0.38
Total			17,816	100.00

B.C. General Election 2001: Surrey-Green Timbers

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Brenda Locke	7,539	48.95%	+15.16%	$46,658
	NDP	Sue Hammell	5,592	36.31%	-13.80%	$37,237
	Unity	C. Lewis Robinson	1,067	6.93%	n/a	$7,196
	Marijuana	Dennis Kalsi	561	3.65%	n/a	$394
	Reform	Jim Paterson	538	3.49%	-2.28%	$3,277
	Communist	Harjit Singh Daudharia	103	0.67%	+0.37%	$332
Total valid votes			15,400	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			151	0.98%
Turnout			15,551	66.77%

B.C. General Election 1996: Surrey-Green Timbers

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Sue Hammell	10,278	50.11%	+3.95%	$36,931
	Liberal	Bill Phelps	6,930	33.79%	+0.47%	$39,334
	Reform	Dominic Darmanin	1,183	5.77%	n/a	$7,188
	Progressive Democrat	Gerard Baisch	1,150	5.61%	n/a
	Family Coalition	Gerhard Herwig	255	1.24%	n/a	$2,120
	Green	Romeo De La Pena	228	1.11%	+0.64%	$865
	Progressive Conservative	Cliff Blair	179	0.87%	n/a
	Social Credit	Victoria Kedzierski	114	0.56%	-19.29%	$1,048
	Independent	Don Knight	101	0.49%	n/a	$1,245
	Communist	George Gidora	62	0.30%	n/a	$503
	Natural Law	Ross Ranger	32	0.16%	n/a	$110
Total valid votes			20,512	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			254	1.22%
Turnout			20,766	69.40%

B.C. General Election 1991: Surrey-Green Timbers

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Sue Hammell	8,708	46.16%	n/a	$32,800
	Liberal	Archibald McMurchy	6,324	33.52%	n/a	$4,777
	Social Credit	Russ Burtnick	3,744	19.85%	n/a	$35,747
	Green	Gjhrard Baisch	89	0.47%	n/a
Total valid votes			18,865	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			512	2.64%
Turnout			19,377	72.04%

See also

• List of British Columbia provincial electoral districts
• Canadian provincial electoral districts

References

1. "Statement of Votes — 42nd Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
2. "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
3. "2017 Provincial General Election - Statement of Votes" (PDF). Elections BC . Retrieved December 1, 2020.
4. "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
5. "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved May 17, 2017.

External links

• BC Stats - 2001
• Results of 2001 election (pdf)
• 2001 Expenditures
• Results of 1996 election
• 1996 Expenditures
• Results of 1991 election
• 1991 Expenditures
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

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