Editing Heerhugowaard (section)

== Government ==
The former municipal council of Heerhugowaard consisted of 31 seats, which were divided as follows:
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="16"|'''City council seats'''
|-
|'''Party'''||'''1998'''||'''2002'''||'''2006'''||'''2010'''||'''2014'''||'''2018'''
|-
|[[Heerhugowaardse Onafhankelijke Partij]]||5||4||3||5||5||7
|-
|Senioren HHW||-||-||-||-||3||5
|-
||[[Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie|VVD]]||7||5||5||5||4||5
|-
|[[Christen-Democratisch Appèl|CDA]]||6||5||4||3||4||4
|-
|[[Democraten 66|D66]]||2||2||-||2||3||3
|-
|[[GroenLinks]]||-||3||2||3||1||2
|-
|Nederland Duurzaam||-||-||-||-||1||2
|-
|[[Partij van de Arbeid (Nederland)|PvdA]]||6||4||7||4||3||2
|-
|[[ChristenUnie]]||-||1||1||1||1||1
|-
|[[Socialistische Partij (Nederland)|SP]]||-||-||-||-||3||-
|-
|Burgerbelang||1||5||7||4*||2*||-
|-
|Lijst Marjan Jongejan||-||-||-||-||1*||-
|-
|Verenigde Senioren Partij||-||-||-||2||-||-
|-
|[[Trots op Nederland]]||-||-||-||1||-||-
|-
|Lijst Piet Carnas||-||-||-||1*||-||-
|-
|'''Total'''||'''27'''||'''29'''||'''29'''||'''31'''||'''31'''||'''31'''
|}
''* = separation of Burgerbelang

Elections were held in November 2021 for the newly merged municipality of Dijk en Waard, that included Heerhugowaard, which commenced work in January 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 November 2021 |title= Dijk en Waard municipal election 2021 |url=https://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/verkiezingen/detail/GR20211124/687431 |access-date=9 June 2024|website=verkiezingsuitslagen.nl|language=nl}}</ref>