On Saturday Elenore Sturko won the Surrey South by-election over the BC NDP’s Pauline Greaves with 52 per cent of the vote. Sturkos received 5,568 out of 10,742 votes. “Thank you to the voters of Surrey South for your confidence in me, I am incredibly grateful to be your next MLA,” she said in a tweet. Thank you to the voters of Surrey South for your confidence in me, I am incredibly grateful to be your next MLA. pic.twitter.com/n03hYasBZM —@elenoresturko The NDP’s Pauline Greaves came in second with 3,221 votes. In 2020 Greaves, a teacher at Langara School of Management, lost the riding to BC Liberal’s Stephanie Cadieux who won the riding with 1,176 more votes. Cadieux resigned in April to take a post in the federal government as the country’s first accessibility chief. BC Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon welcomed Sturko to his caucus in a message posted on social media. We are excited to welcome her https://t.co/GqEbnJyt2D —@KevinFalcon Major issues for the by-election included health care, the cost of living and the future of the Massey Tunnel. Harman Bhangu, who owns a trucking company, came third as the BC Conservative Party candidate with 1,364 votes, while Simon Fraser University student Simran Sarai, who ran for the BC Green Party, came fourth with 368 votes . Jason Bax representing the Libertarian Party received 221 votes. With Sturko’s win for the BC Liberals, the party has 27 seats in the legislature. The BC NDP has 57, while the BC Green Party has two. There is an independent. Although preliminary results from the initial count have been released, the final results will not be announced until September 14.
