Surrey-Newton

Harj Dhaliwal is the Conservative Party of BC candidate for Surrey-Newton on Elections BC’s accepted nominations list for the 2026 provincial election. A Surrey-based construction-industry executive with Kanin Construction Management, he previously spent about eleven years teaching at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and nearly five years as Associate Dean of Marketing Management at BCIT. He holds a BA in Political Science (Western University), an MBA (University of Victoria), and a PhD in organizational behaviour/leadership (Capella University). He has long volunteered in Surrey soccer as a coach, club executive, and former chair of the South Fraser District Association, and has served as an appointed director on the BC SPCA board.

Harman Preet Singh is the CentreBC candidate for Surrey-Newton on Elections BC’s final candidate list for the October 24, 2026 provincial election. Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026. Party pages and news results checked for this update did not turn up a separate biography.

Jessie Sunner is the BC NDP candidate for Surrey-Newton and the sitting MLA, first elected in 2024. She was appointed Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills in July 2025 after serving as Parliamentary Secretary for Anti-Racism Initiatives. Before politics she was a human-rights lawyer and trade unionist with the Hospital Employees’ Union. She holds a B.A. in criminology from Simon Fraser University and a law degree from the University of Calgary.