The Richmond Independent Team of Electors (RITE) began with a group of committed people. One of them was Otto Langer, a long-time supporter helped to make our new party a success. When Sue Halsey-Brandt decided to run for Richmond City Council and RITE grew to both School board and City Council candidates. As RITE expanded it attracted more candidates and ran slates of up to 8 candidates.

2022
In one of the most dynamic and active municipal election campaigns, Carol Day was re-elected for a third term! Michael Wolfe was re-elected for a second term and Laura Gillanders won her first term to City Council. Although the RITE Mayoral Candidate, John Roston was not elected, he successfully garnered 9304 votes (27%) with a very strong campaign. And finally, Jerome Dickey managed to receive the endorsement of 8707 voters, coming up just slightly short of being elected to City Council.

2021 
Karina Reid did fantastic for her first time running for City Council in the By-Election. Andy Hobbs topped the polls and won a seat on with 3,095 votes, about 23.8 per cent of all ballots cast, followed by Jonathan Ho with 2,785 votes, about 21.5 per cent, and, in third place, Karina Reid with 2,767 votes, about 21.3 per cent. We are so grateful to our volunteers, and our supporters who stood up and fought for progressive values. 

2018 
The coalition of RITE Richmond and Richmond Citizen Association took four out of the eight seats on City Council in the 2018 election. RCA (Kelly Greene and Harold Steves) and RITE (Michael Wolfe and Carol Day), a collaborative approach created incredible success. Carol Day was re-elected to Richmond City Council, Carol Day tops the polls with record breaking 20,871 votes! Michael Wolfe Elected with 13,627 votes! In the 2020 provincial election, Henry Yao (former RITE council candidate) and Kelly Greene were elected as MLA’s. Kelly Greene for Richmond-Steveston and Henry Yao was elected as MLA Richmond Centre.