2022 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election
2022 UK local government election
The 2022 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members of South Tyneside Council. This was on the same day as other local elections. 19 of the 54 seats were up for election, with 1 ward (Harton) electing 2 councillors.[1]
Background
Since the first election in 1973, South Tyneside has always been under Labour control, aside from a brief period of no overall control from 1978 to 1979.[2] In the 2021 election, Labour lost 4 seats with a vote share of 43.3%, independents gained 1 with 20.2%, the Green Party gained 2 with 13.8%, and the Conservatives gained their first seat since 2018 with 21.5% of the vote.[3]
The seats up for election this year were last elected in 2018. In that election, Labour gained 1 seat with 57.3%, the Conservatives gained 1 seat with 22.9% of the vote, and the Green Party failed to make any further gains with 13.5%.[4]
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^"South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council Election Results 1973-2012" (PDF). Elections Centre. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
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^"Local Elections Archive Project - 2018 - South Tyneside". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
^"List of councillors by party". Southtyneside.gov. 8 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
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^Binding, Chris (29 July 2021). "Labour wins Fellgate and Hedworth by-election as John Robertson fails to reclaim seat after resignation". Shields Gazette. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
^Binding, Chris (23 July 2021). "Councillor who carried knife to court is 'disqualified'". ChronicleLive. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
^Robertson, Ross (9 September 2021). "Conservatives win the Cleadon and East Boldon by-election - these are the full results". Shields Gazette. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
^Brownson, Sophie (9 February 2022). "Tributes to South Shields Labour councillor Rob Dix after sudden death". ChronicleLive. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
^ abcdefghijklmnopqr"STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED". South Tyneside Council. Retrieved 10 April 2022.