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Federal Election Day: Housing a main issue as Langley, Surrey voters head to the polls

Article content It's election day across Canada and B.C. residents in Langley and parts of Surrey are heading to the polls to choose new MPs to represent them in the ridings of: Article content • Cloverdale-Langley City • Langley Township-Fraser Heights Article content Article content Article content Surrey and Langley share both the ridings of Cloverdale-Langley City and the newly configured and renamed Langley Township-Fraser Heights. And before the federal election call, both seats were held by Conservatives. Article content But that might be about to change. Article content The political polling analysis website showed the Tories and the Liberals in very tight races in both ridings, with the Grits projected to win both seats by a small margin as of April 22. Article content Article content Article content Cloverdale-Langley City Article content Conservative candidate Tamara Jansen is the incumbent, having won a byelection last year after Liberal MP John Aldag resigned for an unsuccessful provincial bid as an NDP candidate. Article content Jansen, a local businesswoman, was first elected in the riding in 2019, but lost to Aldag in 2021. He got 20,877 votes to Jansen's 19,223. The NDP came in third with 10,587 votes. Article content The NDP candidate is Vanessa Sharma, a union organizer, who is projected to take just six per cent of the vote, for third place. The other two candidates are Kevin Wilkie of the Green party and Jim McMurtry of the People's Party of Canada.