Richmond, BC 2026 Municipal Election Candidates

Kash Heed

Lean assessment: Detailed issue positions are being verified — see the interactive tool above.

Alexa Loo

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Rob Howard

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Mei Kang

• Affordability: Running on affordability for young families and seniors.

Dickens Cheung

• Accountability: Government transparency and accountability; firmly defend private property rights.
• Public safety: Safe streets and harmonious neighbourhoods — favours integrated treatment over entrenched addiction.
• Taxes: Pragmatic fiscal discipline; lower the cost of living and reduce the tax burden.

Lean assessment: Property-rights and fiscal-discipline platform under the We Are Richmond banner; business-owner background.

Goldentiger King

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Dennet "The Cat Guy" Lee

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Carol Day

• Farmland / ALR protection: Long-standing farmland-protection record: Day and Harold Steves were the only councillors who opposed allowing mega-mansions on ALR land, and she directs the Garden City Lands Conservation Society working to keep the lands a community park rather than developed.
• Housing: RITE Richmond's 2026 platform pledges 'bold action on the housing crisis' alongside an innovative economy supporting local businesses.
• Open government / accountability: RITE Richmond's mission is to bring a clear, honest, strong voice to council with 'access to democracy through open government' so the public is heard.

Lean assessment: Running with RITE Richmond, the centre-right elector organization, and Day previously ran for the BC Conservative Party as MLA candidate in 2013 — a centre-right profile despite her environmental activism.

Michael Wolfe

• Farmland / ALR protection: Core campaign pillar: 'put Richmond on track to preserve farmland'; a conservation biologist who campaigned against developing the Garden City Lands (ALR-protected) — supported by his RITE slate's farmland-protection record.
• Housing: RITE Richmond's 2026 platform pledges 'bold action on the housing crisis' while preserving farmland and supporting innovation.
• Climate change: RITE Richmond's 2026 platform pledges 'meaningful action on climate change'; Wolfe is an environmentalist with a conservation-biology background focused on sustainability.

Lean assessment: Running with the centre-right RITE Richmond elector organization, though Wolfe's personal record as a Green Party candidate and environmentalist teacher leans greener than his slate — a moderate centre-right profile.

Sheldon Starrett

• Community safety: Running 'to protect our community and build a safer, stronger Richmond'; has been a prominent community leader against supervised consumption sites and unmonitored low-barrier supportive modular housing projects.
• City Hall accountability / transparency: Demands 'safety, transparency, and accountability at City Hall' and criticizes harmful drug policies — consistent with the Advance Richmond slate's platform of public safety, transparent governance and community trust.
• Taxes / responsible spending: Advance Richmond candidates emphasize responsible use of taxpayer dollars (e.g. slate-mate Gary Law's platform: 'responsible use of taxpayer dollars').

Lean assessment: Advance Richmond is a law-and-order slate (founded by a general contractor, includes a former RCMP officer) built around opposition to supervised consumption sites and low-barrier supportive housing, plus taxpayer-dollar accountability — a right-leaning platform.