Malcolm Brodie to again occupy mayor’s chair
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, who has held the position since 2001, was handily re-elected Saturday night. The New Yorkraised lawyer drew more than 29,000 votes, almost four times second-place Roy Sakata.
Controversial mayoral candidate Hong Guo, a real estate lawyer who claimed human rights complaints against China are “lies,” came in fourth, with more than 2,600 votes.
All eight Richmond council incumbents ran again for office in the city of 200,000 — which is the most Asian city in North America, since 71 per cent of residents are of Asian origin.
Two first-time council candidates won election, with Kelly Greene fifth and Michael Wolfe seventh. Incumbents Derek Dang and Ken Johnston went down to defeat.
Greene has taken action to reduce house size on farmland.
Wolfe teaches at McNair Secondary in Richmond and serves on the board of the Garden City Conservation Society.
Topping the aldermanic polls were incumbents Carol Day and Harold Steves, who has been on council since 1977. Steves has led the charge against giant mansions being built on Richmond farmland. Incumbent councillors Chak Au, Bill McNulty, Linda McPhail and Alexa Loo were also re-elected.
The new mayor of White Rock is Darryl Walker, a former president of the B.C. Government and Service Employees Union who has been a heath-care worker at Riverview Hospital. Walker took 30 per cent of the more than 6,200 ballots cast. That compared to 28 per cent for Mike Pearce, 21 per cent for Grant Meyer and 13 per cent for Judy Higginbotham. Higginbotham served 25 years as a councillor in Surrey.