Image: Mark Strahl / Chilliwack-Hope MP Mark Strahl speaks during a campaign event Monday night. Strahl won re-election with over 54 per cent of the vote.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Federal election

Chilliwack-Hope MP Mark Strahl resoundingly re-elected

Apr 28, 2025 | 7:58 PM

CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack-Hope MP Mark Strahl has been overwhelmingly re-elected, improving on the 46 per cent support he received four years ago.

As of 9 p.m. Monday night, and with 98/243 polls reporting, Strahl received 55.1 per cent of the vote versus Liberal Party candidate Zeeshan Khan’s mark of 32.4 per cent. Strahl received 6,928 votes compared to 4,096 votes for Khan.

Strahl was first elected from the Conservative Party in 2011 and had been seeking his fifth term.

Strahl’s closest election came in 2015 during the Justin Trudeau-mania that swept the country, when he beat Liberal Party candidate Louis De Jaeger by only 42-33 percent. Strahl received 21,315 votes out of 50,312 votes cast (42.3 per cent) compared to 16,965 for De Jaeger (33.7 per cent). NDP candidate Seonaigh McPherson garnered 18.1 per cent, or 9,148 votes, in that election.

Zeeshan Khan, a child and youth care worker at Vedder Middle School, was acclaimed as the Liberal Party candidate roughly five days before the nomination deadline of April 9. He and his supporters worked quickly in mid-April to install over 100 wooden framed signs all over Chilliwack, and canvassed multiple neighbourhoods throughout Chilliwack to introduce himself to the community. He documented many of his interactions with residents at their doorsteps, often posing with voters who expressed support for him and his platform.

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NDP candidate Teri Westerby was third in early results with 1,271 votes (9.2 per cent), followed by Green Party candidate Salina Derish (296 votes, 2.1 per cent) and People’s Party of Canada candidate Jeff Galbraith (131 votes, 0.9 per cent). All three had multiple campaign signs mounted throughout Chilliwack and participated in the all-candidates debate.

United Party of Canada’s Chris Adam, the sixth candidate in Chilliwack-Hope, was not visible in the community with many campaign signs. He had 38 votes, or less than one per cent, as of 9:05 p.m.