Malcolm Brodie handily won his seat as mayor of Richmond for the eighth term in a row.
The polls closed at 8 pm. on Saturday, Oct. 15 as Brodie won with 23,239 votes (about 68 per cent of the votes) from the Richmond community.
John Roston received 9304 votes followed by Wei Ping Chen who had 1,859 votes.
But while Brodie's win looked secure from the start, it was a nail-biter for the last two seats on council, which were finally taken by FarmWatch advocate and RITE candidate Laura Gillanders and former solicitor general Kash Heed, with the Richmond Rise slate.
All six incumbent, Chak Au, Carol Day, Bill McNulty, Alexa Loo, Michael Wolfe and Andy Hobbs, kept their seats, but with councillors, Harold Steves and Linda McPhail stepping down, there was an opening for two new faces.
Gillanders, Heed, Derek Dang, also with Richmond Rise, and Evan Dunfee, an independent, jockeyed for those last two spots earlier in the evening, but as Gillanders pulled ahead and Dunfee dropped behind, it was between Heed and Dang for the last spot, which Heed took with an additional 257 votes.
Richmond saw an estimated 25 per cent voter turnout with just over 35,000 ballots cast in the 2022 municipal election. This is a drop from almost 37 per cent in voter turnout in the 2018 election.
A final declaration has yet to be made by the Chief Election Officer.
