2016 Newcastle City Council election

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	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Nick Forbes	Anita Lower
Party	Labour	Liberal Democrats	Independent
Leader's seat	Westgate	Castle
Last election	53	22	3
Seats won	55	20	3
Seat change	2	2	0
Popular vote	46%	23%	4%
Swing	6%	5%	3%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Alexis Fernandes	James Bartle	Shehla NaqvI
Party	UKIP	Conservative	Green
Last election	0	0	0
Seats won	0	0	0
Popular vote	13%	9%	5%
Swing	13%	1%	5%

The 2016 Newcastle City Council Council elections took place on 5 May 2016 to elect one third of the members of Newcastle City Council in England. The elections took place on the same day as other local elections.

Despite the election, it was mathematically impossible for the Labour Party to lose control of the council given that only a third of seats are up for election. However, a number of key wards were in the spotlight.

Target wards for parties

The Labour Party sought to expand its representation throughout of the seat, capitalising on gains made in 2015 in areas such as North Jesmond. In 2015, Newcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes said he wanted to make Newcastle a 'Liberal Democrat-free zone’. Despite this however, many seats won the party in 2015 were held by the Liberal Democrats in 2016 including Fawdon, North Heaton and Castle.^[1]

Seats up for election during this cycle were last up for election during 2012. A number of high-profile councillors were up for re-election including current council leader Nick Forbes.

The official opposition to Labour, the Liberal Democrats aimed to hold as much as possible throughout the city, especially in the Castle, West Gosforth and Fawdon wards following heavy losses over the past five years. The party lost control of additional two seats in 2016, in the Ouseburn and North Jesmond wards, losing heavily to the Labour Party

The Green Party again targeted South Heaton, where the candidate Andrew Gray came second to Labour's John-Paul Stephenson, who won with 59% of the vote.

The Conservatives targeted the West Gosforth ward where in 2015, candidate Steve Kyte was only 17 votes short of winning. However, in 2016, the LibDems again held on to the seat.

Following a relatively strong showing in many seats in 2015, UKIP targeted seats in the East of the city such as Byker and Walker. Despite this, in 2016, no UKIP councillors were elected to Newcastle City Council.

Overall Results

Newcastle City Council election, 2016
Party		Seats				Popular vote
Party		Won	Not up	Total	±	Votes	Percentage
	Labour	18	37	55	+2	33272	45%
	Liberal Democrats	7	13	20	-2	17015	23%
	Independent	1	2	3	0	2888	4%
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	9893	13%
	Conservative	0	0	0	0	6776	9%
	Green	0	0	0	0	3783	5%
	Newcastle First	0	0	0	0	1578	2%
	TUSC	0	0	0	0	100	<1%
	Communist	0	0	0	0	23	<1%
Total		26	52	78	0	75328	–
Turnout

Wards

Local elections 2016: Benwell and Scotswood
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rob Higgins	1,664	52%	-19.9%
	UKIP	Mark Bickerton	1,041	33%	+33%
	Conservative	Neville Armstrong	223	7%	-0.3%
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Laverick	127	4%	-1.5%
	Green	Lee Irving	123	4%	+4%
Majority			623	19%	-36%
Turnout			3178

Local elections 2016: Blakelaw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Stockdale	1846	63%	-7.5%
	UKIP	Ritchie Lane	470	16%	+16.0%
	Liberal Democrats	Bill Schardt	267	9%	-13.3%
	Conservative	James Gerard Langley	221	8%	+0.8%
	Green	Brendan Derham	117	4%	+4.0%
Majority			1,376	47%	-1.3%
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Byker
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Alfred Allison	1611	66%	-11.9%
	UKIP	David Tilley Robinson-Young	470	19%	+19.0%
	Green	Nick Morphet	126	5%	+5.0%
	Conservative	Donald Robinson	120	5%	-0.4%
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Nelson	100	4%	-1.8%
Majority			1,141	47.0%	-19.9%
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Castle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Graham	1702	44%	-5.9%
	Labour	Jacqui Turner	1230	32%	+24.0%
	UKIP	Timothy Thomas Marron	490	13%	+13.0%
	Conservative	Mary Toward	342	9%	+1.4%
	Green	Andrew Jonathan Thorp	120	3%	+3.0%
Majority			472	12%	-3.4%
Turnout

Local elections 2015: Dene
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Wendy Barbara Taylor	1906	54%	-4.9%
	Labour	Sheila Claire Spencer	975	28%	-1.2%
	UKIP	David Muat	275	8%	+8.0%
	Conservative	Tim Monckton	244	7%	-4.9%
	Green	Tab Bailey	132	4%	+4%
Majority			931	26%	-4.7%
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Denton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dan Greenhough	1301	45%	-12.7%
	UKIP	Brian David Moore	697	24%	+24.0%
	Newcastle_Independents	Sarah Jane Armstrong	333	11%	-6.2%
	Liberal Democrats	Colin Thomas Dalgish	289	10%	-5.6%
	Conservative	Alan Henry Birkmyre	234	8%	_1.8%
	Green	Spinoza Pitman	60	2%	+2.0%
Majority			604	21%	-19.5%
Turnout

Local elections 2016: East Gosforth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Dominic Mark Raymont	1591	44%	+1.0%
	Labour	Gareth James Hughes	1167	33%	-1.8%
	Conservative	Alison Wake	421	12%	+1.8%
	Green	Frances Christine Hinton	248	7%	-5.0%
	UKIP	Peter John Dunne	142	4%	+4.0%
	TUSC	Nicolas Alan Fray	19	1%	+1.0%
Majority			424	11%	+2.2%
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Elswick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ann Veronica Schofield	1778	71%	-8.0%
	UKIP	Mark Page	421	17%	+17.0%
	Conservative	Ronald Toward	131	5%	-0.5%
	Liberal Democrats	James Peter Kenyon	87	3%	-3.0%
	Green	Taymar Gem Pitman	70	3%	+3.0%
Majority			1,357	54%	69.4%
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Fawdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Steve Axford	171	5%
	Green	Michael James Gardner	86	3%
	Labour	Clare Penny-Evans	877	28%
	Liberal Democrats	Brenda Hindmarsh	1808	57%
	UKIP	Alexis Fernandes	231	7%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Fenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Kenneth Wake	274	10%
	Green	Andrew Arthur Stark	88	3%
	Labour	Marion Elizabeth Talbot	1623	57%
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Morrissey	260	9%
	UKIP	Christopher Ballantyne	626	22%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Kenton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Simon Bell	363	13%
	Green	Ian Kilgour Christie	40	1%
	Labour	Jane Louise Streather	1498	55%
	Liberal Democrats	Tracy Connell	174	6%
	UKIP	Penelope Stansfield	576	21%
	TUSC	Oisin Patrick Gourley	62	2%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Lemington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Alison Robinson	158	6%
	Green	Ross Anthony Spray	31	1%
	Labour	Kim McGuinness	1212	45%
	Liberal Democrats	PJ Morrissey	490	18%
	UKIP	Mike Adie	402	15%
	Newcastle_Independents	Jason Smith	408	15%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Newburn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Christopher Brewster	280	10%
	Labour	Steve Fairlie	1398	51%
	Liberal Democrats	Lawrence Hunter	269	10%
	UKIP	James Douglas Robertson	586	21%
	Newcastle_Independents	John Alan Gordon	205	7%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: North Heaton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	James Robert Bartle	182	5%
	Green	Joe Herbert	230	6%
	Labour	Nora Maebh Casey	1356	37%
	Liberal Democrats	Doreen Huddart	1686	46%
	UKIP	Elisabeth Margery Edmundson	218	6%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: North Jesmond
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Duncan Carlyle Crute	209	10%
	Green	Shehla Khatoon Naqvi	161	8%
	Labour	Stella Rogers Postlethwaite	942	44%
	Liberal Democrats	Gerard Francis Keating	764	36%
	UKIP	Mark Barton Lewis	62	3%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Ouseburn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Marian Julie Kyte	86	4%
	Green	Sarah Kate O'Hare	181	8%
	Labour	Paula Holland	1062	49%
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Howse	693	32%
	UKIP	Joseph Todd	134	6%
	TUSC	Mathew Wilson-Boddy	19	1%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Parklands
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Karen Jewers	559	16%
	Green	Sandy Irvine	186	5%
	Labour	Shumel Rahman	701	20%
	Liberal Democrats	Pauline Allen	1936	54%
	UKIP	John Atkinson	211	6%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: South Heaton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John-Paul Stephenson	1327	59%
	Green	Andrew John Plevins Gray	575	25%
	UKIP	Max Elliott Peacock	156	7%
	Conservative	Samuel Boam	106	5%
	Liberal Democrats	Catherine Smith	99	4%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: South Jesmond
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Felicity Ann Mendelson	928	53%
	Liberal Democrats	Tom Woodwark	276	16%
	Conservative	Matthew Thomas McPherson	207	12%
	Green	Matt Busby	207	12%
	UKIP	James Lee Askwith	133	8%
Majority			652	37%
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Walker
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Joan Atkin	118	5%
	Green	David Michael James Tooby	65	3%
	Labour	David Leslie Wood	1738	68%
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Peter Boyle	108	4%
	UKIP	Tony Sanderson	512	20%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Walkergate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Marian McWilliams	149	5%
	Green	Liam Christie	66	2%
	Labour	Stephen Laird Woods	1565	54%
	Liberal Democrats	David Haydn Besag	322	11%
	UKIP	Raymond Hardy	768	27%
	Communist	Martin Richard Levy	23	1%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: West Gosforth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Nick Cott	1653	44%	-4.6%
	Conservative	Steve Kyte	1187	31%	+12.7%
	Labour	Oskar Andrew Avery	681	18%	-4.8%
	Green	Alistair Christian Ford	155	4%	-4.3%
	UKIP	Paul Coulthard	104	3%	+3.0%
Majority			466	13%	-10.8%
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Westerhope
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Marc James Donnelly	2888	74%	+20.9%
	Labour	Syed Ullah	381	10%	-12.5%
	Newcastle First	Ernie Shorton	224	6%	-16.0%
	UKIP	David James Monkhouse	253	6%	+6.0%
	Conservative	Jacqueline Mary McNally	117	3%	+0.6%
	Liberal Democrats	Colin Steen	33	1%	+1%
Majority			2,507	64%	+33.4%
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Westgate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Colin Forster	124	7%
	Green	Cliff Brown	154	9%
	Labour	Nick Forbes	1155	69%
	Liberal Democrats	Barbara Jane Down	62	4%
	UKIP	Anne Taylor	185	11%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Wingrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Lyle Robert Darwin	233	10%
	Green	John Stephen David Pearson	245	10%
	Labour	Irim Ali	1684	69%
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammad Farsi	80	3%
	UKIP	Joseph Levy	200	8%
Majority
Turnout

Local elections 2016: Woolsington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Julian Toward	249	9%
	Green	Sarah Elizabeth Norris	64	2%
	Labour	Sharon Ann Pattison	1572	57%
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Laverick	233	8%
	UKIP	Ian McKinnell	530	19%
	Newcastle_Independents	Olga Shorton	119	4%
Majority
Turnout

External links

Election results by wards, 5 May 2016

References

^ Proctor, Kate (17 April 2015). "Local elections 2015: Newcastle City Council leader vows to make city a 'Lib Dem-free zone'". ChronicleLive.

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