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==Government and politics==

Surrey is governed by an eight-member City Council and a seven-member [[Surrey School Board|School Board]]. The current Mayor of Surrey is [[Doug McCallum]]. The last elections were held in November 2002, and conservatives won the Mayor's seat, and a majority on both the Council and School Board.

In the recent [[British Columbia general election, 2005|2005 provincial elections]], the [[New Democratic Party of British Columbia]] won 4 of Surrey's seats, all of them in the more urbanized north and center of the city, while the [[British Columbia Liberal Party|BC Liberal Party]] won three seats in the more rural east and south.