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 the worst result ever in the NT Mayoral election, with a paltry 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 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 33.6%
Ian Appleby, Elections Officer for North Tyneside Green Party said:
“One clear indication from these results is that the mayoral position is not popular and, in our view, should be abolished, as it has received no clear mandate—with 70% of voters not voting for any mayoral candidate in 2025.”
In the wider council elections happening nationally yesterday (1st May), The Green Party are on track for a record breaking set of results! With your support we have:
- Gained our first Green County Councillor on Leicestershire and Staffordshire Councils
- Gained a whopping 5 Greens in Gloucestershire
- Gained 4 Greens in Devon
- Gained a councillor in Lambeth, London
- Held all 3 Green seats in Norwich
- Reached a total of 50 Young Green Councillors across England and Wales