introducing chloe-louise reilly, candidate for mayor
North Tyneside Green Party has selected Chloe-Louise Reilly as its Mayoral candidate for the 2025 North Tyneside Mayoral election.
Chloe previously stood for the Green Party in the 2024 General Election for the Tynemouth constituency, achieving a record result. She also ran in the 2024 local elections in the Chirton and Percy Main ward, where she lives with her family.
At the 2021 Mayoral election, the Green Party received 7% of the vote. Since then, the party’s vote share has increased locally, with 14% of the total votes cast in the 2024 local elections going to Green candidates.
Chloe-Louise is currently developing her priorities for the election and is encouraging feedback from individuals, communities, organisations, and businesses. Chloe says
“As the Green Party candidate for Mayor of North Tyneside, I want to ensure that our campaign reflects the priorities of the people who live and work here and we will be announcing more about my priorities as our consultation exercise comes to an end in March so I would love to hear from you about what else we should prioritise – you can tell us your views here.”
A central part of the campaign will be to give the people of North Tyneside a stronger voice in local decision-making, starting with a campaign for a referendum on the North Tyneside mayoral role. This comes after the 2016 referendum, where 57.5% of voters (32,546 votes) chose to retain the current mayoral system over a committee system (41.8%, 23,703 votes). North Tyneside Green Party believes that, in 2025, it is time for a fresh opportunity for the people to decide if the mayoral system still serves their best interests. If successful, the aim is to scrap the mayor’s position and replace it with a more democratic committee system, giving elected councillors more direct influence on decisions affecting the borough and their communities.
The Mayoral election will take place on Thursday 1st May 2025.
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mayoral manifesto – full version
For a Greener, Fairer North Tyneside
It’s time to improve local democracy and do things differently. We can start by voting Green.
North Tyneside needs leadership that brings power to the community and acts on behalf of people and our environment. I believe we need social, economic and environmental justice. As Mayor, I want a borough with increased equality and opportunities for everyone. My priorities are to
Strengthen our foundations
By:
- expanding affordable housing
- ensuring that wealth created locally benefits our community
- investing locally in skills training, flexible working and a living wage.
- establishing a Youth Task Force to work alongside young people to find creative solutions to the many challenges that they face and ensure that they have opportunities to look forward to.
Take action on the climate
By:
- more effectively addressing our net zero plans to reduce the borough’s emissions
- making homes energy efficient through a street-by-street retrofit plan
- moving us away from energy-from-waste
- working towards a circular economy, encouraging repair-recycle-reuse projects
- improving local transport links and make walking and cycling easier and safer
Protect and restore nature
By:
- phasing out damaging herbicides
- improving biodiversity through better wildlife management
- planting more trees
- protecting our precious green spaces.
Improve Democracy
By:
- bringing public meetings to local communities
- holding citizen assemblies
- working to replace our Mayoral system with a more democratic committee system
- donating 20% of my mayor’s salary through VODA, North Tyneside’s local support and advocacy organisation, which will distribute those funds to community groups and projects.