Doug McCallum's Safe Surrey Coalition says it's no longer seeking judicial recount

The party of outgoing Surrey MayorDoug McCallum says it will not seek a judicial recount of results inSaturday's municipal election.

The Safe Surrey Coalition made the announcement in a one-sentence statement to media Friday afternoon.

"Upon further review from our legal advisers of the Local [Government] Act section 148for a judicial recount, the Safe Surrey Coalition has decided to no longer pursue ajudicial recount," it read.

It comes four days after McCallum's political party announced he would not concedethe election to his challenger,Brenda Locke.

On Monday the party said there wasless than a 1,000-vote difference differencebetween McCallum and Locke and its legal advisers wereexploring grounds for a judicial recount.

According to the Local Elections Act, an application for a judicial recount can be made on the basis that votes were not correctly accepted or rejected, that a ballot count did not accurately record the number of votes for a candidate or that they weren't calculated correctly in the official election results.

Officialresults from the City of Surrey show Locke clinched victorywith 973 votes more than McCallum.