Elections to North Tyneside Metropolitan Council took place on 6 May 2010 on the same day as other
council elections in England and the
UK general election
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North Tyneside Council
North Tyneside Council is the local authority of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of five in Tyne and Wear and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and provides the majority of lo ...
is elected "in thirds" which means one councillor from each three-member ward is elected each year with a fourth year when the mayoral election takes place.
One third of the councillors were
elected in 2006. The
Conservative Party gained an overall majority of one on the council after the
2008 election
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which previously had been under
no overall control, and also won the following mayoral election, in which
Linda Arkley
Linda Arkley is a British Conservative politician who served as the elected Mayor of North Tyneside from 2003 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2013.
Early life
Arkley attended The Bede School in Sunderland, and studied at both Sunderland University ...
returned to office. The 2010 election proved victorious for the
Labour Party, which gained 8 seats and lost none. The Conservatives lost 7 seats and the
Liberal Democrats lost one. The Council returned to no overall control as the Conservatives lost their majority and fell into second place. The swing across the council on average was 10.7% from the Conservatives to Labour, against the national trend of the Westminster elections taking place the same day.
Battle Hill
A further
by-election
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was held in September 2010. Details can be found
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Benton
Camperdown
Chirton
Collingwood
Cullercoats
Howdon
Killingworth
Longbenton
Monkseaton North
Monkseaton South
Northumberland
Preston
Riverside
St Mary's
Tynemouth
Valley
Wallsend
Weetslade
Whitley Bay
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21st century in Tyne and Wear