Surrey-Panorama Ridge

Surrey-Panorama Ridge
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
District created	1999
District abolished	2009
First contested	2001
Last contested	2005
Demographics
Census division(s)	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivision(s)	Surrey

Surrey-Panorama Ridge was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 2001 to 2009. The district was created in the 1999 redistribution from the southern half of Surrey-Newton, and the western portion of Surrey-Cloverdale.^[1] It was abolished following the 2008 redistribution, with a large portion going to the new Surrey-Panorama riding.

Demographics

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

Surrey-Panorama Ridge
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Surrey-Newton and Surrey-Cloverdale
37th	2001–2004		Gulzar Cheema	Liberal
37th	2004–2005		Jagrup Brar	New Democratic
38th	2005–2009		Jagrup Brar	New Democratic
*Riding abolished*

B.C. General Election 2005: Surrey-Panorama Ridge^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Jagrup Brar	11,553	53.17	-0.42
	Liberal	Bob Hans	8,573	39.45	+6.10
	Green	Romeo D. De La Pena	1,370	6.30	-2.07
	Marijuana	Troy Allan Chan	234	1.08	–
Total			21,730	100.00

Surrey-Panorama Ridge by-election, 28 October 2004^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Jagrup Brar	6,740	53.59	+33.68
	Liberal	Mary Polak	4,194	33.35	-25.59
	Green	Adriane Carr	1,053	8.37	-0.46
	Conservative	David James Evans	276	2.19	–
	Reform	Shirley Abraham	246	1.96	-0.55
	Independent	Joe Pal	68	0.54	–
Total Valid Votes			12,577	100.00
Total Rejected Ballots			41	0.33
Turnout			12,618	52.15

B.C. General Election 2001: Surrey-Panorama Ridge^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gulzar Cheema	9,590	58.94	–
	NDP	Bruce Ralston	3,240	19.91	–
	Green	Sunny Athwal	1,437	8.83	–
	Unity	Heather Stilwell	1,123	6.90	–
	Marijuana	Randy Caine	424	2.61	–
	Reform	Shirley Ann Abraham	408	2.51	–
	Action	Ed Weiland	50	0.30	–
Total Valid Votes			16,272	100.00
Total Rejected Ballots			128	0.79
Turnout			16,400	69.04