Most Liberal candidates yet to be revealed in Fraser Valley

The Conservatives and the NDP both have full or nearly-full slates of federal candidates for the five Fraser Valley ridings.

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Grace Kennedy
March 25, 2025

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Most federal parties have announced candidates for the majority of the ridings in the Fraser Valley—except the Liberal Party of Canada.

As of Tuesday afternoon, four days after the election call, the Fraser Valley had a Conservative candidate in each of the region’s five ridings. Four of the five candidates are incumbents: Cloverdale-Langley City’s Tamara Jansen, Langley Township-Fraser Heights’ Tako Van Popta, Mission-Matsqui-Abbotsford’s Brad Vis, and Chilliwack-Hope’s Mark Strahl. Newcomer Sukhman Singh Gill is set to campaign in Abbotsford-South Langley.

The Liberals, however, still has no Fraser Valley representatives listed on its website. Nasima Nastoh was announced to party members as the candidate for Langley Township-Fraser Heights on Sunday, but is not yet on the page listing their candidates. As far as we know, candidates have not yet been named in the remaining four Fraser Valley ridings.

The NDP has four candidates for the region that the Current knows about. Lawyer Dharmasena Yakandawela is running in Abbotsford-South Langley and UFV student Jules Côte is running in Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon. Two more candidates, postal worker Holly Isaac for Langley Township-Fraser Heights and school trustee Teri Westerby for Chilliwack-Hope, have been publicly announced but are not yet listed in the NDP’s website.

The Green Party of Canada has announced two candidates for the region: environmental advocate Debora Soutar in Langley Township-Fraser Heights and entrepreneur Salina Derish in Chilliwack-Hope.

The People’s Party of Canada initially had a candidate in each riding at the start of the election call, but has since removed three of the candidates from their website. The removed candidates include Jim McMurtry, a former Abbotsford teacher who was fired after a misconduct hearing relating to residential school denialism and insubordination; Carlos Suarez Rubio, a Langley resident and frequent election campaigner; and Justin Cawker, one of the party’s riding presidents in Langley. Two candidates remain: Navy veteran Jeff Galbraith for Chilliwack-Hope and anti-lead shot advocate Kevin Sinclair for Mission-Matsqui-Abbotsford.

Candidate lists will likely remain in flux over the next two weeks. Candidates have until Monday, April 7 to submit their nomination papers to Elections Canada. The final list of candidates will be released on Wednesday, April 9.

The Current will be updating our regional election hubs with new candidate announcements as they appear. You can find those here.

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