Four candidates are vying for the MP seat in Surrey-Newton this time out: Incumbent Sukh Dhaliwal (Liberal), Harjit Singh Gill (Conservative), Raj Toor Singh (NDP) and Salman Zafar (Communist Party of Canada).
In its various incarnations, the riding typically swings Liberal or NDP. The last time a Conservative was elected was in 2004 (Gurmant Grewal), when the riding was Newton-North Delta.
The riding's boundaries were re-jigged during a redistribution process that concluded in September 2023, resulting in Surrey-Newton loosing some territory to the Delta riding (that between 64 Avenue and 58 Avenue, and 126 Street to Scott Road) but acquiring a slice from Cloverdale-Langley City (between 144 Street and 146 Street and 64 Avenue to 56 Avenue).
According to Elections Canada, Surrey-Newton as it now stands is 29 square kilometres, with a population of 119,560 and 63,350 voters on its list.
Its boundaries are 88 Avenue to the north from Scott Road to the west and 144 Street to the east, running south on Scott Road to 64 Avenue from where it runs east to 126 Street, and south the Highway 10 (58 Avenue at that point). From its northeastern corner, it runs south from 88 Avenue along 144 Street to 64 Avenue, then jogs east to 146 Street then south to Highway 10 (56 Avenue at that point).
Of the top three contenders over the past several elections, Dhaliwal retained the seat in 2021 against runners-up NDP and Conservative candidates, as he did in 2019 with that same ranking playing out. In 2015, Dhaliwal defeated the NDP's Jinny Sims for the seat, as she defeated him in 2011.
Dhaliwal also won the riding in 2008 and 2006.
