The Mayoral Election in North Tyneside concluded with the Green Party increasing our vote share once more, building on the trend of recent years. The Conservatives achieved their worst result ever in the NT Mayoral election, with 20.5% of the votes. Even Labour, who won, scored fewer than one third of the votes at 30.2% and managed their own worst ever performance, even worse than when they scored 30.5% of the vote, which was not enough to win in 2003.
Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay said earlier
“Labour needs a total reset if it’s going to learn the lessons of why people are turning away from the old parties.”
Reform came a close second with 29.4%. The Greens came in at 7.4% and the Liberal Democrats at 6.4%. There were a number of wards where it appears Reform won and, to our concern, where it’s likely they will take the council seats next year unless something drastic changes.
Turnout was just 33.6%
Ian Appleby, Elections Officer for North Tyneside Green Party said:
“One clear indication from these results is that the mayoral position is a dreadful way to represent the diversity of North Tyneside. With only 10% of the population backing the winning candidate, and only third of the population voting at all, the power of the council is wielded with with the flimsiest of mandates.
If 0.14% of residents had voted the other way we’d have had a completely different outcome – it’s roulette with our prospects and wellbeing.. this is no way distribute power.”
In the wider council elections on the 1st May, The Green Party celebrated a record breaking set of results! With your support we have:
Made a net gain of 43 seats, taking their tally to 859 seats on 181 councils. The party held 38 seats, gained 48 and lost just 5.
The Greens gained from both the Conservatives and Labour and lost no seats to either. 24 seats were gained from the Conservatives, while 17 were gained from Labour. There were also 6 gains from the Lib Dems, with just one loss, and 3 gains from Independents. Only four seats were lost to Reform, compared to hundreds of losses suffered by the Conservatives and Labour.