Editing Helmond (section)

== Politics ==

=== Municipal council ===
The [[City council (Netherlands)|municipal council]] consists of 37 seats. Below the council since 1998:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="16"|'''Seats'''
|-
|'''Partij'''||'''1998'''||'''2002'''||'''2006'''||'''2010'''
|'''2014'''
|'''2018'''
|'''2022'''
|-
|[[GroenLinks]]||2||1||1||2
|2
|6
|7
|-
|[[People's Party for Freedom and Democracy|VVD]]
|4
|5
|4
|5
|5
|5
|6
|-
|Helder Helmond
| -
| -
|2
|3
|1
|3
|5
|-
|[[Christian Democratic Appeal|CDA]]
|8
|7
|8
|7
|6
|5
|3
|-
|[[Socialistische Partij (Nederland)|SP]]||3||3||4||3
|6
|5
|3
|-
|[[Democraten 66|D66]]||1||1||1||-*
|3
|3
|3
|-
|[[Partij van de Arbeid (Nederland)|PvdA]]||7||5||9||6
|3
|2
|2
|-
|[[50PLUS|50Plus]]*||2||3||1||-
|2
|3
|2
|-
|Lokaal sterk
| -
| -
| -
| -
|6
|3
|2
|-
|[[Forum for Democracy|Forum voor Democratie]]
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
|2
|-
|[[DENK (political party)|Denk]]
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
|1
|-
|Mi Hellemonders
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
|1
|-
|Helmond Aktief||-||1||1||1
|2
|1
| -
|-
|Plan!
| -
| -
| -
| -
|1
|1
| -
|-
|SDOH-D66-HB*
| -
| -
| -
|8
| -
| -
| -
|-
|[[Trots op Nederland]]||-||-||-||2
| -
| -
| -
|-
|SDH-OH||6||6||4||-*
| -
| -
| -
|-
|Helmondse Belangen||2||5||2||-*
| -
| -
| -
|-
|'''Total'''||'''35'''||'''37'''||'''37'''||'''37'''
|'''37'''
|'''37'''
|'''37'''
|}
*The political parties SDH-OH, Helmondse Belangen, and D66 form 1 [[parliamentary group]] in the council, but took part in the elections separately. In the elections they received 4, 2 and 2 seats respectively.
*The party 50Plus was known as senioren until the elections of 2018