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The 2024 Tees Valley mayoral election is due to be held on 2 May 2024 to elect the mayor of the Tees Valley.

Background

The mayor serves as the directly elected leader of the Tees Valley Combined Authority and has powers considered lesser than those of other mayors such as Greater Manchester and the West of England. The mayor has power over an annual £15 million investment from the national government over a 30-year period, as well as control over adult skills training, social care and a consolidated transport budget- giving the ability to acquire bus services.^[1] The mayor does not supersede or overrule the five boroughs within the Tees Valley city-region.^[2]^[3]

The first election for the role in 2017 resulting in a victory for the Conservative candidate Ben Houchen, who was re-elected with an increased majority in the 2021 election. That election had originally been due to be held in 2020, but had been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[4]

Electoral system

Following the Elections Act 2022, the 2024 election will take place using first-past-the-post voting where voters choose a single candidate and the candidate with the greatest number of votes is elected mayor.^[5] Prior elections had employed the supplementary vote system.

Campaign

The incumbent Conservative mayor, Ben Houchen, said that if re-elected he would replace the University Hospital of North Tees with a new hospital.^[6]

Opinion polling

The poll conducted by Censuswide was unweighted, and included 16-17 year olds.^[7]

Dates conducted	Pollster	Client	Sample size	Con	Lab	Reform	Lib Dems	Green	Others	Lead
Dates conducted	Pollster	Client	Sample size						Others	Lead
9-19 Feb 2024	Censuswide	Yasper	1,000	23%	55%	9%	6%	6%	1%	32
6 May 2021	2021 election		–	72.8%	27.2%	–	–	–	–	45.6

Candidates

Conservative

Ben Houchen, who had served as mayor since the inaugural election in 2017, was re-selected as the Conservative candidate in March 2023.^[8]

Labour

Chris McEwan, the deputy leader of Darlington Borough Council, was announced as Labour's candidate in November 2023. McEwan was selected by members over the trade union organiser Luke Henman.^[9]

McEwan said that his priorities would be transport and community.^[10]

Liberal Democrats

Simon Thorley, a businessperson from Darlington, general election candidate for Darlington, was selected to also stand for the Lib Dems for Tees Valley mayor.^[11]^[12]

Green Party

Sally Bunce was selected to stand as the Green Party candidate but withdrew at close of nominations for personal reasons, with insufficient time to nominate a different candidate. The local Green Parties have not endorsed any other candidates, despite unsubstantiated allegations made by local Conservative MP Simon Clarke of an electoral pact with Labour.^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]

Result

2024 Tees Valley Combined Authority Mayor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ben Houchen
	Labour Co-op	Chris McEwan
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Thorley

By local authority

Darlington

2024 Tees Valley Combined Authority Mayor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ben Houchen
	Labour Co-op	Chris McEwan
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Thorley

Hartlepool

2024 Tees Valley Combined Authority Mayor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ben Houchen
	Labour Co-op	Chris McEwan
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Thorley

Middlesbrough

2024 Tees Valley Combined Authority Mayor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ben Houchen
	Labour Co-op	Chris McEwan
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Thorley

Redcar and Cleveland

2024 Tees Valley Combined Authority Mayor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ben Houchen
	Labour Co-op	Chris McEwan
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Thorley

Stockton-on-Tees

2024 Tees Valley Combined Authority Mayor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ben Houchen
	Labour Co-op	Chris McEwan
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Thorley

References

^ "Tees Valley". Centre for Cities. Archived from the original on 10 April 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
^ "What the Mayor Does". Tees Valley Combined Authority. Archived from the original on 15 October 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
^ "Directly elected mayors". Local Government Association. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
^ Metcalfe, Alex (13 March 2020). "Coronavirus sees Teesside mayoral and police chief elections delayed". TeessideLive. Reach plc. Archived from the original on 13 September 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
^ "Elections Act 2022: Section 13", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 2022 c. 37 (s. 13)
^ Allan, Dave (9 January 2024). "Mayor's election pledge to build new hospital". Tees Business. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
^ "Tees Valley Poll Misleading..." Twitter. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
^ White, Andrew (29 March 2023). "Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen reselected to contest 2024 election". The Northern Echo. Archived from the original on 8 April 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
^ Jones, Morgan (7 November 2023). "Labour candidate for Tees Valley mayor: Chris McEwan picked to fight Houchen". LabourList. Archived from the original on 3 January 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
^ Burgess, Tom (12 September 2023). "Darlington Labour councillor puts name forward to campaign against Ben Houchen". Darlington and Stockton Times. Archived from the original on 15 January 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
^ Burgess, Tom (31 January 2024). "Liberal Democrats announce their candidate for Tees Valley Mayor". Northern Echo. Archived from the original on 1 February 2024. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
^ Corrigan, Naomi (31 January 2024). "Lib dem mayoral candidate sets out top priorities". Teesside Live. Archived from the original on 1 February 2024. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
^ Simon, Clarke (4 April 2024). "Green candidate to stand down". Twitter. Archived from the original on 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
^ Jones, Leigh (9 December 2023). "Green Party announce candidate to challenge Ben Houchen in Tees Valley election". Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 15 January 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
^ "Instagram".
^ https://www.facebook.com/share/p/DowvGCu88aUUWkRi/?mibextid=WC7FNe
^ https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Y5eBEZ66DQRwwL9K/?mibextid=WC7FNe

[1] "Tees Valley". Centre for Cities. Archived from the original on 10 April 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.

[2] "What the Mayor Does". Tees Valley Combined Authority. Archived from the original on 15 October 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.

[3] "Directly elected mayors". Local Government Association. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2019.

[4] Metcalfe, Alex (13 March 2020). "Coronavirus sees Teesside mayoral and police chief elections delayed". TeessideLive. Reach plc. Archived from the original on 13 September 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.

[5] "Elections Act 2022: Section 13", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 2022 c. 37 (s. 13)

[6] Allan, Dave (9 January 2024). "Mayor's election pledge to build new hospital". Tees Business. Retrieved 15 January 2024.

[7] "Tees Valley Poll Misleading..." Twitter. Retrieved 8 March 2024.

[8] White, Andrew (29 March 2023). "Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen reselected to contest 2024 election". The Northern Echo. Archived from the original on 8 April 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2024.

[9] Jones, Morgan (7 November 2023). "Labour candidate for Tees Valley mayor: Chris McEwan picked to fight Houchen". LabourList. Archived from the original on 3 January 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2024.

[10] Burgess, Tom (12 September 2023). "Darlington Labour councillor puts name forward to campaign against Ben Houchen". Darlington and Stockton Times. Archived from the original on 15 January 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2024.

[11] Burgess, Tom (31 January 2024). "Liberal Democrats announce their candidate for Tees Valley Mayor". Northern Echo. Archived from the original on 1 February 2024. Retrieved 1 February 2024.

[12] Corrigan, Naomi (31 January 2024). "Lib dem mayoral candidate sets out top priorities". Teesside Live. Archived from the original on 1 February 2024. Retrieved 1 February 2024.

[13] Simon, Clarke (4 April 2024). "Green candidate to stand down". Twitter. Archived from the original on 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

[14] Jones, Leigh (9 December 2023). "Green Party announce candidate to challenge Ben Houchen in Tees Valley election". Yorkshire Post. Archived from the original on 15 January 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2024.

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+{{Election box end}}
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