Recent elections

Here are the results of recent elections

2023

Byker Ward - By election - result (election held on 2 March 2023)

Hayder Alam Umor Qureshi has been elected.

Nick Hartley, Green Party – 375 votes

Hayder Alam Umor Qureshi, Labour Party – 591 votes

Mark William Ridyard, Liberal Democrats – 188 votes

Aaron Whelan Harvey, Conservative Party – 107 votes

The turnout was 19.18%

Declaration of result of Poll - pdf document

2022

Here are the results of the Local Government Elections held on Thursday 5 May 2022.

2021

Castle Ward - By election - result (election held  on 9 September 2021)

Thom Anthony Campion was elected.

Thom Anthony Campion, Liberal Democrat - 1306 votes

Anthony Ethan Herridge, Labour Party - 773 votes

Brian David Moore, The North East Party - 89 votes

Andrew Johnathan Thorp, Green Party candidate - 250 votes

John David Watts, The Conservative Party - 657 votes

Here are the results of the Local Government Elections held on Thursday 6 May 2021.

The results of the Police Crime Commissioner election held on Thursday 6 May 2021 have been published on the Sunderland City Council website.

2019

Here are the results of the UK Parliamentary General Election held on Thursday 12 December 2019.

The results of the Police Crime Commissioner election held on Thursday 18 July 2019 have been published on the Sunderland City Council website.

Here are the results of the European Parliamentary election held on Thursday 23 May 2019

On 2 May 2019 the following local elections were held in the Newcastle City Council electoral area:

• Here are the results of the 2019 City Council local elections.

• North of Tyne Combined Authority Mayoral election - this election was in conjunction with North Tyneside and  Northumberland councils.  Here are the results

• Parish elections Notice of uncontested parish elections 2019 (pdf, 59kb)

Voting

To be able to take part in local elections you need to be registered to vote.

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Standing for election

If you are interested in standing for election as a councillor in Newcastle in future elections, please email us.

More information on standing for election as a councillor is available from: 

• the Local Government Association 
• the Government