Malcolm Brodie has won back the mayoralty of Richmond.
Brodie cruised to an easy re-election, winning more than 64 per cent of the vote. His nearest challenger, Roy Sakata, won just 16.8 per cent.
Brodie will head a divided council. Carol Day and Michael Wolfe were elected for RITE, Harold Steves and Kelly Greene for the Richmond Citizens Association (RCA), Bill McNulty and Linda McPhail for Richmond First and Chak Au for the Richmond Community Coalition. Richmond also elected one independent candidate, Alexa Loo.
Candidates
Malcolm Brodie (incumbent) – elected
Lawrence Chen
Donald Flintoff
Hong Guo
Roy Sakata
Cliff Wei
Council
Chak Au (incumbent)
Adil Awan
Parm Bains
Andy Chiang
Derek Dang (incumbent)
Carol Day (incumbent)
Kelly Greene
Theresa Head
Jonathan Ho
Sunny Ho
Andy Hobbs
Ken Johnston (incumbent)
Peter Liu
Alexa Loo (incumbent)
Bill McNulty (incumbent)
Linda McPhail (incumbent)
Dennis Page
John Roston
Patrick J. Saunders
Judie Schneider
Niti Sharma
Manjit Singh
Kerry Starchuk
Harold Steves (incumbent)
Jason Tarnow
Jack Trovato
Michael Wolfe
Henry Yao
Melissa Zhang
Zhe Zhang
Boundary
The City of Richmond is a suburb located south of Vancouver, looking out to the Salish Sea.
Population (2016)
198,309
History
The Musqueam were first to inhabit the area now known as Richmond.
It’s a place where they caught salmon and harvested berries.
Then the area’s flatlands would be used for farming, producing dairy, vegetables, grains and berries.
It was incorporated as a municipality in 1879.
Salmon canning would become a dominant industry in the village of Steveston in the 1870s, and two decades later, there would be almost 50 canneries, attracting fishers from China, Japan, Europe and Indigenous communities.
A bridge to the mainland would be built in 1889, and the railway would come in 1902. Sea Island would be where an airport was built in 1931.
Many Japanese residents from Richmond were sent to internment camps during the Second World War, but when that was over, the community would attract immigrants from places such as Hong Kong and China.
Today, the population there is 60 per cent Asian.
Richmond would be incorporated as a city in 1990.
Median after-tax income of households (2015)/B.C. median
$95,173/$111,736
Crime Severity Index (CSI) — 2016/B.C.
75.54 (+0.13)/93.63 (-0.71)
Violent Crime Severity Index (CSI) — 2016
44.40 (-10.27)/74.86 (-9.81)
Political representation
Federal
Joe Peschisolido (Liberal) — Steveston-Richmond East
Alice Wong (Conservative) — Richmond Centre
Provincial
Jas Johal (BC Liberal) — Richmond-Queensborough
Linda Reid (BC Liberal) — Richmond South Centre
Teresa Wat (BC Liberal) — Richmond North Centre
John Yap (BC Liberal) — Richmond-Steveston
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