Editing Urk (section)

===Local===

The municipal council currently (2022) contains five political parties:
*[[Reformed Political Party|SGP]]: 6 seats
*[[ChristenUnie|Christian Union]]: 3 seats
*[[Christian Democratic Appeal|CDA]]: 3 seats
*Hart voor Urk: 3 seats
*Gemeentebelangen: 2 seats 
*[[Party for Freedom|PVV]]: 1 seat
*Krachtig Urk: 1 seat
''Gemeentebelangen'', ''Hart voor Urk'' and ''Krachtig Urk'' are local parties. Hart voor Urk was founded by former SGP councillor Jan Koffeman with largely identical party policies to SGP's.

A majority coalition of ChristenUnie, SGP and Hart voor Urk are currently in power. The town council is led by (non-elected) mayor Cees van den Bos.

None of these parties can be described as either left-wing (socialist) or liberal. National parties, such as the [[VVD]] (conservative/liberal), [[Democrats 66|D66]] (liberal), [[GroenLinks]] (green party) and [[Labour Party (Netherlands)|PvdA]] (labour), are not represented in Urk's town council and support for these parties in national and regional elections remains minimal. However, due to slowly growing support for the VVD, an Urk affiliate of the conservative/liberal party was founded in early 2011 and entered the 2014 local elections. However, the VVD only drew 2.7% of the vote, insufficient for a seat.