{"id":154210,"date":"2024-10-20T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/20\/bc-election-2024-brar-hopes-to-hold-surrey-fleetwood-for-ndp\/"},"modified":"2024-10-20T04:53:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T04:53:00","slug":"bc-election-2024-brar-hopes-to-hold-surrey-fleetwood-for-ndp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/20\/bc-election-2024-brar-hopes-to-hold-surrey-fleetwood-for-ndp\/","title":{"rendered":"PROJECTED: NDP&#8217;s Brar set to win Surrey-Fleetwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jagrup Brar is set to hold Surrey-Fleetwood for the NDP.<\/p>\n<p>Three candidates campaigned to win votes in the riding, where New Democrat&nbsp;<a data-ga-action=\"OutboundLink\" data-ga-category=\"OutboundLink\" data-ga-label=\"https:\/\/www.leg.bc.ca\/members\/42nd-Parliament\/Brar-Jagrup\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leg.bc.ca\/members\/42nd-Parliament\/Brar-Jagrup?utm_source=surrey%20now-leader&amp;utm_campaign=surrey%20now-leader%3A%20outbound&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brar<\/a>&nbsp;has been the MLA since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, Brar was challenged by&nbsp;Conservative Party candidate&nbsp;Avtar Gill and B.C. Green hopeful&nbsp;Tim Binnema.<\/p>\n<p>By 8:45 p.m. Saturday,&nbsp;Brar was leading with 48 per cent of votes over Gill&#39;s 46 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>By 9:45 p.m., Brar led with 9,531 votes over Gill&#39;s 8,944, with all but one ballot box counted.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Brar was first voted into office during a byelection in Surrey-Panorama Ridge in 2004, winning the riding again in the 2005 B.C. general election before shifting his focus to the Fleetwood riding in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>A first-time political candidate, Gill, the president and CEO of Scott Road Insurance Services, said he demonstrated &quot;exceptional business acumen and leadership skills&quot; to be MLA in the riding.<\/p>\n<p>With Fleetwood&nbsp;now a hotbed for construction activity due to the future arrival of SkyTrain line and stations, voters in the riding will look to the B.C. government to help manage the resulting growth.<\/p>\n<p>During the fall election campaign, Brar said he knows that life is getting expensive for families in Surrey. &quot;That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;ve been working to make life more affordable,&quot; he said. &quot;As part of the BC NDP government, I helped to eliminate the unfair bridge tolls, saving families thousands of dollars. I advocated to lower car insurance and build more affordable homes to help young families. Now we&rsquo;re also building a new Skytrain line and making our community safer.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Fraser Highway cuts through the middle of Surrey-Fleetwood, a 15-square-kilometre riding with a population of&nbsp;60,668.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jagrup Brar is set to hold Surrey-Fleetwood for the NDP. Three candidates campaigned to win votes in the riding, where New Democrat&nbsp;Brar&nbsp;has been the MLA since 2009. This time around, Brar was challenged by&nbsp;Conservative Party candidate&nbsp;Avtar Gill and B.C. Green hopeful&nbsp;Tim Binnema. By 8:45 p.m. Saturday,&nbsp;Brar was leading with 48 per cent of votes over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":154215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-news","category-regional-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PROJECTED: NDP&#039;s Brar set to win Surrey-Fleetwood - The Interior News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2024\/10\/20\/bc-election-2024-brar-hopes-to-hold-surrey-fleetwood-for-ndp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PROJECTED: NDP&#039;s Brar set to win Surrey-Fleetwood - The Interior News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jagrup Brar is set to hold Surrey-Fleetwood for the NDP. 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