Editing Richmond, British Columbia (section)

===Municipal===
Richmond's municipal council is elected using an at-large electoral system.
 
Like [[Vancouver]], but unlike most cities in [[British Columbia]], Richmond runs on a political system of locally based [[political parties]], or [[slate (elections)|slate]]s. For the most part, however, their organization is weak, and they may collapse or change names from one election to another.

Local government includes a 9-member [[city council]] and a 7-member [[Board of education|school board]]. City council consists of a mayor and 8 councillors. The current mayor of Richmond is Malcolm Brodie, who is serving his 6th term as mayor. The last elections were held in October 2018.

In the 2018 city elections, the RCA (Richmond Citizen's Association) party, the Richmond First party, and the RITE Richmond party all won 2 seats, the Richmond Community Coalition won one seat, and there is one independent. On the Richmond Board of Education, the Richmond Education Party won three seats, the Richmond First Party won two seats, and there are two independents.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.richmond.ca/cityhall/elections/2018results/results.htm?PageMode=HTML |title=2018 Election Results |publisher=Richmond.ca |date=24 October 2018 |access-date=13 April 2020 |archive-date=24 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124043509/https://www.richmond.ca/cityhall/elections/2018results/results.htm?PageMode=HTML |url-status=live }}</ref>