What elections are being held in the North East this year?
There are a variety of different elections happening across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, and Durham this May.
The biggest of those is the election of the new North East mayor – which will be open to voters across Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland. It is the first time that such an election is being held, following the agreement of a new multi-billion pound devolution deal for the region.
Local council elections are being held in the five Tyne and Wear councils, which are Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland. For most of those, a third of the seats on each council will be up for grabs – one for each ward, though there are two vacancies in the Newcastle ward of Fawdon and West Gosforth.
But in North Tyneside this year marks an ‘all-out’ election following boundary changes, meaning that all 60 seats on the local authority are being contested.
There are also police and crime commissioner (PCC) elections happening on May 2.
Voters in Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland will go to the polls to choose the next PCC for the Northumbria force area. And those in County Durham and Darlington will elect a PCC for the Durham Constabulary area.
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