THE Safe Surrey Coalition on Friday evening announced that “upon further review from our legal advisors of the Local Elections Act section 148,” it had decided to no longer pursue a judicial recount of Saturday’s vote for Mayor of Surrey.

The SSC had announced on Monday evening that with less than a 1,000-vote difference in Saturday’s count in the municipal election for the Mayor’s post, its candidate incumbent Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum was “not conceding at this point in time.”

Earlier, on Saturday night McCallum had conceded the election.

Surrey Connect’s Brenda Locke bagged 33,111 of the votes as compared to McCallum’s 32,338 votes — a difference of only 973 votes.

Her party also won four of the eight seats on Council.

The VOICE reported on Saturday: “The difference in votes narrowed to only around 500 as the results of the last two polls were being counted. That caused some dread in Locke’s camp. But then Locke’s lead started increasing again and she won by 973 votes.”