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Linda Hepner To Be The New Mayor Of Surrey

Darpan News Desk Darpan, 15 Nov, 2014 09:49 PM
    The city of Surrey has chosen Linda Hepner as its new mayor.
     
    The Surrey First candidate pulled a decisive victoryagainst main challengers, Doug McCallum (Safe Surrey Coalition) and Barinder Rasode (One Surrey).
     
    "Surrey has spoken loud and clear," Hepner said in her address. "We are not going back, we are going forward."
     
    She thanked her challengers and acknowledged the members of her party Surrey First, who, she said, would be "going to help me over the next four years."
     
    She ended her address with thanks for Dianne Watts.
     
    "I want to say a few words about someone who has been more than a friend to me the past nine years," she said. "We’ve worked hard together. We’ve campaigned together, and through it all we’ve done everything we could to make sure politics came second and Surrey came first.”
     
    At the time of her victory speech, the results stood as: Hepner 43109 votes; McCallum 23091 votes and Rasode 18198 votes
     
    There were also four independent candidates in the race, John Edwards, Grant Rice, John Wolanski and Bajwa Vikram.

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