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2021 Newcastle City Council election

The 2021 Newcastle City Council election took place on 6 May 2021 to elect members of Newcastle City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom.[1]

2021 Newcastle City Council election
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28 out of 78 seats to Newcastle City Council
40 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Nick Forbes Nick Cott
Party Labour Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat Arthur's Hill Fawdon & West Gosforth
Last election 54 seats, 38.4% 20 seats, 23.4%
Seats before 54 20
Seats won 18 6
Seats after 52 20
Seat change Decrease 2 Steady
Popular vote 31,471 15,673
Percentage 39.2% 19.5
Swing Increase 0.9% Decrease 3.9%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader N/A Jason Smith
Party Independent Newcastle Ind.
Last election 3 seats, 6.2% 1 seats, 5.1%
Seats before 3 1
Seats won 2 2
Seats after 3 3
Seat change Steady Increase2
Popular vote 5,628 5,498
Percentage 7.0% 6.8%
Swing Increase 0.8% Increase 1.7%
Winner of each seat at the 2021 Newcastle City Council election
Council control before election

Nick Forbes
Labour

Council control after election

Nick Forbes
Labour

One-third of the seats were up for election, with two wards (Byker and Chapel) electing two councillors in by-elections.[2]

In the previous council election in 2019, the Labour Party maintained it's control of the council, holding 54 seats after the election. There were twenty Liberal Democrat councillors, three independent councillors and one Newcastle Independent councillor.

Background

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History

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The Local Government Act 1972 created a two-tier system of metropolitan counties and districts covering Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, and West Yorkshire starting in 1974. Newcastle was a district of the Tyne and Wear metropolitan county.[3] The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the metropolitan counties, with metropolitan districts taking on most of their powers as metropolitan boroughs. The North of Tyne Combined Authority was created in 2018 and began electing the mayor of the North of Tyne from 2019, which was given strategic powers covering a region covering some of the same area as the former Tyne and Wear metropolitan county, as well as Northumberland.[4]

Since its creation, Newcastle has variously been under Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative control. The Liberal Democrats held a majority of seats on the council from 2004 until 2011, when Labour gained enough seats to control the council. Nick Forbes became leader of the council. Labour continued to gain seats until the 2019 election, when the party lost two seats but continued to have an overall majority.

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England produced new boundaries for Newcastle ahead of the 2018 election, meaning that the 2018 elections were all-out, with all councillors being elected before returning to electing by thirds. Candidates up for re-election in 2021 are those who came second in each ward in 2018.

Results

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2021 Newcastle City Council election
Party This election Full council This election
Seats Net Seats % Other Total Total % Votes Votes % +/−
  Labour 18   2 64.3 34 52 66.7 31,471 39.2 +0.9
  Liberal Democrats 6   21.4 14 20 25.6 15,673 19.5 -3.9
  Independent 2   7.1 1 3 3.8 5,628 7.0 +0.8
  Newcastle Ind. 2   2 7.1 1 3 3.8 5,498 6.8 +1.7
  Conservative 0   0.0 0 0 0.0 14,164 17.6 +5.7
  Green 0   0.0 0 0 0.0 7,323 9.1 +0.2
  Reform UK 0   0.0 0 0 0.0 232 0.3 New
  For Britain 0   0.0 0 0 0.0 129 0.2 New
  Communist 0   0.0 0 0 0.0 99 0.1 +0.1
  TUSC 0   0.0 0 0 0.0 85 0.1 New
  North East 0   0.0 0 0 0.0 72 0.1 -0.3

Ward results

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Arthur's Hill

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Arthur's Hill[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Stephen Powers 1,031 67.6 −2.4
Conservative Maggie Birkmyre 188 12.3 +4.9
Green Shehla Naqvi 123 8.1 −1.8
Newcastle Ind. Joseph Eldridge 110 7.2 −0.2
Liberal Democrats Tahir Siddique 58 3.8 −0.3
TUSC Daniel Gilmore 16 1.0 New
Majority 843 55.2
Turnout 1,526 27.5
Registered electors 5,541
Labour hold Swing

Benwell and Scotswood

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Benwell and Scotswood[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rob Higgins 1,799 57.7 +7.2
Conservative Connor Shotton 837 26.9 +17.7
Newcastle Ind. John Gordon 259 8.3 −4.5
Green Tony Roberts 117 3.8 −1.2
Liberal Democrats Hans Andersen 104 3.3 −1.9
Majority 962 30.9
Turnout 3,116 38.5
Registered electors 8,101
Labour hold Swing

Blakelaw

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Blakelaw[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Marion Williams 1,051 48.8 −2.2
Newcastle Ind. Annie Hunter 474 22.0 New
Conservative Liam Kinchley 420 19.5 +10.1
Green Alistair Ford 130 6.0 −0.3
Liberal Democrats Hamed Aghajani 78 3.6 −8.7
Majority 577 26.8
Turnout 2153 31.0
Registered electors 6,939
Labour hold Swing

Byker

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Byker[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Veronica Dunn 1,175 59.4 +4.7
Labour Stephen Sheraton 1,170 59.2 +4.5
Conservative John Watts 450 22.8 +17.7
Conservative Richard Tulip 406 20.5 +15.4
Green Nick Hartley 297 15.0 +5.4
Green Phillip James 264 13.4 +3.8
Liberal Democrats Stephen Psallidas 107 5.4 +1.3
Liberal Democrats Richard Schofield 86 4.4 +0.3
Majority 725 36.7
Majority 764 38.6
Turnout 1,977 28.3
Registered electors 6,983
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Callerton and Throckley

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Callerton and Throckley[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Linda Wright 1,292 43.8 +14.5
Newcastle Ind. Adam Mitchell 667 22.6 −11.5
Conservative John Dobie 561 19.0 +3.4
Green Idwal John 322 10.9 −0.8
Liberal Democrats Aleisha Stansfield 108 3.7 −8.0
Majority
Labour hold Swing

Castle

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Castle[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Helen Laverick 1,522 41.1 +7.0
Labour Andrew Herridge 1,026 27.7 −2.0
Conservative Elizabeth Yewdall 731 19.7 +7.3
Independent Rachel Locke 230 6.2 −1.3
Green Andrew Thorp 197 5.3 −0.6
Majority
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Chapel

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Chapel[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Lawrence Hunter 2,631 70.0 +5.1
Independent Graham Middleton 2,566 68.3 +3.4
Conservative Andrew Burnett 615 16.4 +8.0
Labour Jamie Dickinson 555 14.8 +1.0
Labour Sam Grist 441 11.7 −2.1
Conservative Ian Forster 439 11.7 +3.3
Green James Milne 107 2.8 New
Liberal Democrats Judith Steen 83 2.2 +0.3
Liberal Democrats David Partington 82 2.2 +0.3
Turnout
Independent hold
Independent hold

Dene and South Gosforth

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Dene and South Gosforth[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Karen Robinson 1,777 45.1 +0.2
Labour Nick Arnold 1,177 29.9 +1.9
Green Anna Foster 509 12.9 −0.7
Conservative Gerry Langley 475 12.1 +4.5
Majority
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Denton and Westerhope

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Denton and Westerhope[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Newcastle Ind. Tracey Mitchell 1,493 46.5 +14.4
Labour Arlene Ainsley 1,075 33.4 −3.0
Conservative Simon Bell 498 15.5 +8.8
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Dicken 75 2.3 −0.7
Green Tom Registe 73 2.3 New
Majority 418 13.0
Newcastle Ind. gain from Labour Swing

Elswick

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Elswick[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Nicu Ion 1,599 66.0 −6.0
Conservative Saamiya Malik 436 18.0 +8.6
Green Peter Thomson 234 9.7 −1.6
Liberal Democrats David Faulkner 153 6.3 −1.0
Majority
Labour hold Swing

Fawdon and West Gosforth

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Fawdon and West Gosforth[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Nick Cott 1,648 49.6 −8.7
Labour Gordana Vasic Franklin 856 25.8 +3.4
Conservative Stephen Axford 608 18.3 +8.7
Green Roger Whittaker 211 6.3 −3.5
Majority
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Gosforth

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Gosforth[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Phil Hall 1,473 34.5 −6.2
Conservative Anandavardhan Anand 1,150 26.9 +0.6
Labour Isra Mohammed 1,016 23.8 +3.9
Green Frances Hinton 434 10.2 −2.9
Independent James Sheerin 201 4.7 New
Majority 323 7.6
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Heaton

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Heaton[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Clare Penny-Evans 1,592 49.1 +2.8
Green Andrew Gray 658 20.3 −7.4
Liberal Democrats Fiona Punchard 602 18.6 +0.9
Conservative Hamish John 294 9.1 +0.8
Communist Steve Handford 99 3.1 New
Majority 934 28.8
Labour hold Swing

Kenton

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Kenton[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Stephen Lambert 1,461 53.1 +4.6
Conservative Alison Wake 595 21.6 +4.8
Liberal Democrats Robert Austin 403 14.7 −9.6
Green Joanna Jenkinson 221 8.0 New
TUSC Oisin Gourley 69 2.5 −7.9
Majority
Labour hold Swing

Kingston Park South and Newbiggin Hall

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Kingston Park South and Newbiggin Hall[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alexander Hay 1,239 49.8 −6.4
Conservative Leanne Conway-Wilcox 815 32.7 +3.4
Newcastle Ind. Rochelle Monte 217 8.7 New
Liberal Democrats Colin Steen 121 4.9 −9.6
Green Mark Copsey 98 3.9 New
Majority
Labour hold Swing

Lemington

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Lemington[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Newcastle Ind. Jason Smith 1,442 48.5 +11.3
Labour Lu Thompson 997 33.5 −8.1
Conservative Alexis Fernandes 400 13.4 +2.9
Green Jess Maiden 79 2.7 −2.7
Liberal Democrats Robert Petrie 56 1.9 −3.4
Majority 445 15.0
Newcastle Ind. gain from Labour Swing

Manor Park

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Manor Park[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Greg Stone 1,849 53.7 −3.3
Labour Co-op Stephen Stanners 860 25.0 −8.0
Conservative Stephen Dawes 411 11.9 +1.9
Green Mike Rabley 274 8.0 New
Reform UK Barry Fowler 52 1.5 New
Majority
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Monument

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Monument[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Shumel Rahman 802 55.3 +17.9
Conservative William Hayes 275 19.0 +5.3
Green Dana Abi Ghanem 243 16.8 −11.8
Liberal Democrats Thom Campion 129 8.9 −9.0
Majority
Labour hold Swing

North Jesmond

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North Jesmond[23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tanya Prestwell 850 38.4 +10.0
Liberal Democrats Deborah Burns 800 36.1 −14.0
Green Robert Taylor 319 14.4 +1.3
Conservative Melissa-Jane Pearson 245 11.1 +2.7
Majority
Labour hold Swing

Ouseburn

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Ouseburn[24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Alistair Chisholm 952 44.1 +6.5
Liberal Democrats Stephen Howse 899 41.6 −8.1
Green Daryl Hughes 216 10.0 +0.5
Conservative Alexander Wang-Evans 92 4.3 +1.1
Majority
Labour hold Swing

Parklands

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Parklands[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Pauline Allen 1,927 41.9 +3.0
Conservative Stephen Yewdall 848 18.4 −0.3
Labour Abdul Samad 725 15.8 −0.2
Newcastle Ind. John Hall 663 14.4 +2.0
Green Audrey Macnaughton 439 9.5 +1.1
Turnout 4,602 50.1 +2.3
Majority 1079 23.4 +3.2
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

South Jesmond

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South Jesmond[26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Charlie Gray 1,062 49.2 +12.3
Conservative Olly Scargill 393 18.2 +2.6
Green Tim Downson 344 15.9 −10.7
Liberal Democrats Tom Appleby 252 11.7 −7.9
North East Brian Moore 72 3.3 New
Reform UK Martin Evison 36 1.7 New
Majority
Labour hold Swing

Walker

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Walker[27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Wood 1,461 66.0 +12.5
Conservative Marie Marron 504 22.8 +15.4
Green Rakesh Prashara 90 4.1 New
Liberal Democrats William Shepherd 81 3.7 −3.4
For Britain Tim Marron 77 3.5 New
Majority
Labour hold Swing

Walkergate

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Walkergate[28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Maureen Lowson 1,608 51.7 +7.4
Conservative Stephen Oxborough 673 21.7 +12.2
Liberal Democrats Deborah Gallagher 470 15.1 +0.1
Green Jess Hamer 161 5.2 −1.1
Reform UK Michael Harrigan 144 4.6 New
For Britain Sharon Young 52 1.7 New
Majority 935 30.0
Labour hold Swing

West Fenham

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West Fenham[29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Ian Tokell 947 34.2 −9.9
Green Tay Pitman 647 23.3 +12.1
Liberal Democrats PJ Morrissey 587 21.2 +15.5
Conservative Kenneth Wake 419 15.1 +5.1
Newcastle Ind. Sarah Armstrong 173 6.2 −1.8
Majority 300 10.9
Labour hold Swing

Wingrove

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Wingrove[30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Irim Ali 1,652 61.3 +5.3
Green John Pearson 516 19.1 +5.9
Conservative Shabs Mohammed 386 14.3 +4.2
Liberal Democrats Kami Kundi 143 5.3 −6.5
Majority 1,136 42.2
Labour hold Swing

By-elections

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Castle

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Castle: 9 September 2021
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Thom Campion 1,306 42.5 +1.4
Labour Andrew Herridge 773 25.1 −2.6
Conservative John Watts 657 21.4 +1.7
Green Andrew Thorp 250 8.1 +2.8
North East Brian Moore 89 2.9 New
Majority 533 17.4
Turnout 3,075 31.1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing +2.0

References

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  7. ^ "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED - Blakelaw" (PDF). Newcastle.gov.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
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