An election for the

Northumberland County Council Northumberland County Council is a unitary authority in North East England. The population of the non-metropolitan unitary authority at the 2011 census was 316,028. History It was formed in 1889 as the council for the administrative county of N ...

took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. All 67 councillors were elected from 66 electoral divisions which returned either one or two county councillors each by

first-past-the-post voting In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...

for a four-year term of office. The results saw the

Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ...

win 33 seats, one short of a majority. In South Blyth there was a tie between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats who decided the results by drawing straws, which the Liberal Democrats won. The Conservatives made significant gains in medium-sized towns, gaining seats in

Prudhoe Prudhoe ( ) is a town in south Northumberland, England, about west of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and just south of the River Tyne. Situated on a steep, north-facing hill in the Tyne valley, Prudhoe had a population of 11,675 at the 201 ...

Berwick-upon-Tweed Berwick-upon-Tweed (), sometimes known as Berwick-on-Tweed or simply Berwick, is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, and the northernmost town in England. The 2011 United Kingdom census recor ...

Alnwick Alnwick ( ) is a market town in Northumberland, England, of which it is the traditional county town. The population at the 2011 Census was 8,116. The town is on the south bank of the River Aln, south of Berwick-upon-Tweed and the Scottish bor ...

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and

Cramlington Cramlington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, 6 miles (9 kilometres) north of Newcastle upon Tyne, and 10 miles (16 kilometres) north of its city centre. The name suggests a probable founding by the Danes or Anglo-Saxons. T ...

Result

There was a total of 100,765 valid votes cast, and a total of 354 ballots were rejected.

Council Composition

Following the previous election in 2013, the composition of the council was: After the election, the composition of the council was:

Ward Results

Asterisks denote incumbent Councillors seeking re-election. Councillors seeking re-election were elected in 2013, and results are compared to that year's polls on that basis. All results are listed below:

Alnwick

Amble

Amble West with Warkworth

Ashington Central

Bamburgh

Bedlington Central

Bedlington East

Bedlington West

Bellingham

Berwick East

Berwick North

Berwick West with Ord

Bothal

Bywell

Choppington

College

Corbridge

Cowpen

Cramlington East

Cramlington Eastfield

Cramlington North

Cramlington South East

Cramlington Village

Cramlington West

Croft

Druridge Bay

Haltwhistle

Hartley

Haydon & Hadrian

Haydon

Hexham Central with Acomb

Hexham East

Hexham West

Hirst

Holywell

Humshaugh

Isabella

Kitty Brewster

Longhorsley

Longhoughton

Lynemouth

Morpeth Kirkhill

Morpeth North

Morpeth Stobhill

Newbiggin Central & East

Newsham

Norham & Islandshires

Pegswood

Plessey

Ponteland East & Stannington

Ponteland North

Ponteland South with Heddon

Ponteland West

Prudhoe North

Prudhoe South

Rothbury

Seaton with Newbiggin West

Seghill with Seaton Delaval

Shilbottle

Sleekburn

South Blyth

South Tynedale

Stakeford

Stocksfield & Boomhaugh

Wensleydale

Wooler

References

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