2018 Newcastle City Council election

The 2018 Newcastle City Council elections took place on 3 May 2018, on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom.

For the first time since 2004, boundary changes occurred across Newcastle upon Tyne and the entire council was up for re-election. In June 2016, the Boundary Commission published draft proposals of potential new ward boundaries, with significant changes throughout the entirety of the city, though with some wards remaining the same.

The Conservative Party candidate for the Manor Park ward, Florence Kirkby, is 96 years old and is believed to be one of the oldest people to stand in the United Kingdom in an election.^[1]^[2]

Result

Newcastle City Council election result, 2018

Party		Candidates						Votes
Party		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Labour	78	56	1			71.7	49.4	98,206	5.3
	Liberal Democrats	78	19		1		24.3	23.7	47,259	1.2
	Conservative	78	0					13.1	26,167	4.1
	Independent	13	3				3.8	7.0	14,103	5.0
	Green	28	0					4.3	8,726	0.7
	Its Time to Put Newcastle First	5	0					1.0	1,982	1.0
	UKIP	8	0					1.0	1,977	12.1
	TUSC	2	0					0.1	215
	Communist	1	0					0.0	38
	Totals	291	78				100	100	198,673	123,345

Council Composition

Prior to the election, the composition of the council was:

↓
55	20	3
Labour	LD	Ind

After the election, the composition of the council is:

↓
56	19	3
Labour	LD	Ind

Ward Results

Arthur's Hill

Arthur's Hill
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Nick Forbes	1215	28.4
Labour	Nigel Todd	1203	28.1
Labour	Joanne Kingsland	1171	27.3
Green	Taymar Gem Pitman	191	4.5
Conservative	Luigi Robert Merton	106	2.5
Conservative	Edward William Sheils	97	2.3
Conservative	Chrystian Rengifo	79	1.8
TUSC	Daniel Gilmore	77	1.8
Liberal Democrats	Shirley Mansfield	60	1.4
Liberal Democrats	William James Shephard	48	1.1
Liberal Democrats	Colin Steen	36	0.8

Party	Votes	%
Labour	3589	83.8
Conservative	282	6.6
Green	191	4.5
Liberal Democrat	144	3.4
TUSC	77	1.8

Benwell and Scotswood

Benwell and Scotswood
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Hazel Stephenson	1742	24.0
Labour	Rob Higgins	1695	23.3
Labour	Jeremy Hugh Beecham	1668	22.9
Conservative	Neville Douthwaite Armstong	379	5.2
Conservative	Ben Audsley	356	4.9
Conservative	David McPherson	335	4.6
It's Time to Put Newcastle First	Adam Mitchell	272	3.7
UKIP	Ernest Neil Thornton	271	3.7
Green	Chris Hayday	167	2.3
Liberal Democrats	Hans Christian Andersen	150	2.1
Liberal Democrats	Judith Lesley Steen	119	1.6
Liberal Democrats	John Charles Mansfield	115	1.6

Party	Votes	%
Labour	5105	70.2
Conservatives	1070	14.7
Liberal Democrats	384	5.3
It's time to put Newcastle first	272	3.7
UKIP	271	3.7
Green	167	2.3

Blakelaw

Blakelaw
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Oskar Andrew Avery	1118	22.3
Labour	Nora Maebh Casey	1108	22.1
Labour	Linda Anne Hobson	1098	21.9
Conservative	Sarah Sewell	305	6.1
Liberal Democrats	Bill Schardt	294	5.9
Conservative	Sean Ian Mennim	259	5.2
Liberal Democrats	Ian Graham	256	5.1
Conservative	Amy-Jane Milburn	221	4.4
Green	Rachel Sheila Dunfield	187	3.7
Liberal Democrats	Peter Miles Badenoch Thompson	175	3.5

Party	Votes	%
Labour	3324	66.2
Conservative	785	15.6
Liberal Democrat	725	14.4
Green	187	3.7

Byker

Byker
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	George Alfred Allison	1436	26.4
Labour	Anne Veronica Dunn	1297	23.8
Labour	Nick Kemp	1294	23.8
Green	Nick Hartley	223	4.3
Conservative	Julie Crump	185	3.4
Independent	Jacqui Gilchrist	185	3.4
UKIP	Joe Todd	183	3.4
Conservative	Donald Robinson	171	3.1
Conservative	Clifford Nigel Hedley	166	3.1
Liberal Democrats	Mark Nelson	122	2.2
Liberal Democrats	Catherine Ellen Bernadette Walker	90	1.7
Liberal Democrats	Hamed Aghajani	87	1.6

Party	Votes	%
Labour	5105	74.0
Conservatives	534	9.8
Liberal Democrats	384	5.5
Green	233	4.3
Independent	185	3.4
UKIP	183	3.4

Callerton and Throckley

Callerton and Throckley
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Steve Fairlie	1245	18
Labour	Linda Isabell Wright	1224	18
Labour	Marion Yvonne Williams	1024	15
Conservative	Lyle Darwin	712	10
Conservative	Caitlin Elizabeth Jones	692	10
Conservative	Emmett Toward McNally	607	9
Independent	Idwal Thomas John	454	7
It's Time to Put Newcastle First	William Joseph Jobes	367	5
Liberal Democrats	James Peter Kenyon	208	3
Liberal Democrats	Judith Ann Fourie	201	3
Liberal Democrats	Margaret Maddison	187	3

Castle

Castle
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democrats	Anita Anne Lower	1416	16
Liberal Democrats	Philip George Lower	1093	13
Liberal Democrats	Aidan John King	1118	13
Labour	Gareth James Hughes	911	11
Labour	Gordana Vasic Franklin	882	10
Labour	Adam Walker	872	10
Conservative	Jackie McNally	500	6
Conservative	Christopher Parkin	490	6
Conservative	Mary Toward	453	5
Independent	Rachel Elizabeth Locke	359	4
Green	Andrew Jonathan Thorp	244	3
Independent	Brian David Moore	176	2
Independent	James Moore	151	2

Chapel

Chapel
	Candidate	Votes	%
Independent	Marc James Donnelly	3599	31
Independent	Ernie Shorton	2580	23
Independent	Olga Shorton	2329	20
Labour	Bill Purvis	580	5
Conservative	Beryl Condra	495	4
Liberal Democrats	Christine Morrissey	367	3
Labour	Sean Peacock	359	3
Liberal Democrats	PJ Morrissey	348	3
Conservative	Duncan Carlyle Crute	301	3
Labour	Abdul Samad	270	2
Conservative	Steve Yewdall	234	2

Dene and South Gosforth

Dene and South Gosforth
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democrats	Wendy Barbara Taylor	2075	19
Liberal Democrats	Karen Lesley Robinson	1875	17
Liberal Democrats	Henry Peter Gallagher	1800	16
Labour	Nick Arnold	1327	12
Labour	Simon Barnes	1267	12
Labour	Michael Graham Bell	1169	11
Green	Joe Herbert	440	4
Conservative	Heather Chambers	378	3
Conservative	Gerry Langley	282	3
Conservative	Jason Richard Birt	275	3
UKIP	David Muat	93	1

Denton and Westerhope

Denton and Westerhope
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Brian Samuel Hunter	1298	16
Labour	Melissa Jade Sonia Davis	1228	15
Labour	Dan Greenhough	1172	14
Local community candidate	Tracey Ann Mitchell	1010	12
Local community candidate	Alan McKenna	971	12
Local community candidate	Jason Smith	868	10
Conservative	Alan Henry Birkmire	300	4
Liberal Democrats	Sarah Ann Cross	273	3
Liberal Democrats	Colin Thomas Daglish	251	3
Conservative	Pam Howe	245	3
UKIP	Ian McKinnell	244	3
Conservative	William Thompson	188	2
Green	Matthew Robert Benjamin James	133	2
Liberal Democrats	Helen Laverick	118	1

Elswick

Elswick
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Ann Veronica Schofield	1705	27
Labour	Dipu Ahad	1700	27
Labour	Habib Rahman	1622	26
Green	Peter John Stuart Thomson	241	4
Conservative	Margaret Hamilton Birkmire	213	3
Conservative	Stephen Thomas Lowrey	206	3
Conservative	Ronald Joseph Toward	171	3
Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Joyce Dicken	120	2
Liberal Democrats	David Alan Faulkner	120	2
Liberal Democrats	Barbara Jane Down	112	2

Fawdon and West Gosforth

Fawdon and West Gosforth
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democrats	Brenda Hindmarsh	1880	21
Liberal Democrats	Nick Cott	1778	19
Liberal Democrats	Peter John Lovatt	1647	18
Labour	Mick Bowman	943	10
Labour	Anya Elizabeth Cook	936	10
Labour	Shumel Rahman	866	9
Conservative	Steve Axford	380	4
Green	Sandy Irvine	274	3
Conservative	Scott Currie Wakeman	239	3
Conservative	William Stuart Price-Green	199	2

Gosforth

Gosforth
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democrats	Colin Peter Ferguson	1694	15
Liberal Democrats	Philip Hall	1605	14
Liberal Democrats	Tom Woodwark	1431	13
Conservative	Steve Kyte	1130	10
Conservative	Marie Summersby	1077	10
Conservative	Alison Wake	1044	9
Labour	Hilary Franks	1004	9
Labour	Jane Louise Streather	999	9
Labour	Stoica Ion	847	7
Green	Alistair Christian Ford	504	4

Heaton

Heaton
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Lara Blanche Ellis	1613	17
Labour	Clare Penny-Evans	1489	16
Labour	John-Paul Stephenson	1366	15
Green	Andrew John Plevins Gray	1030	11
Green	Louise Claire Wilson	789	9
Liberal Democrats	Christopher Peter Boyle	712	8
Green	Chris Parker	656	7
Liberal Democrats	Jason Lee Whalley	615	7
Liberal Democrats	Matthew Jack Folker	548	6
Conservative	Alex Collier	195	2
Conservative	Jonathan-Fin Tuddenham	126	1
Conservative	George Carter Lloyd	123	1

Kenton

Kenton
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Ged Bell	1445	21
Labour	Stephen Mark Lambert	1443	21
Labour	Anya Eleanor Durrant	1386	20
Liberal Democrats	Robert Thomas Austin	427	6
Conservative	George Frost	426	6
Conservative	Keith Ian Gilfillan	414	6
Liberal Democrats	Rose Vianna Bunker	412	6
Liberal Democrats	Jacqueline Ann Slesenger	322	5
Conservative	Thomas Frederick William Moody	315	5
Green	Greg Rosenvinge	213	3
TUSC	Oisin Patrick Gourley	138	2

Kingston Park South and Newbiggin Hall

Kingston Park South and Newbiggin Hall
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	George Pattison	1387	22
Labour	Sharon Ann Pattison	1373	21
Labour	Jacqui Robinson	1300	20
Conservative	Scott Jewitt	463	7
Liberal Democrats	Ian Laverick	445	7
Liberal Democrats	Ali Avaei	356	6
Liberal Democrats	Kieran Oliver Robinson	352	5
UKIP	Kim Kimberley-Blackstar	316	3
Conservative	Ibbotson Ben Michael	305	5
Conservative	Alexander Turner Proudlock	240	4

Lemington

Lemington
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	David Burford Cook	1423	21
Labour	Kim McGuinness	1382	20
Labour	Kyle Paul Webster	1323	19
It's Time to Put Newcastle First	Sarah Jane Armstrong	693	10
It's Time to Put Newcastle First	John Alan Gordon	649	9
Conservative	Michael Harvey Gilbert	314	5
Conservative	Elizabeth Esther Yewdall	297	4
Conservative	Ann Isabel Wake	283	4
Green	Rick Dunfield	173	2
Liberal Democrats	Ronald Denton Clark	156	2
Liberal Democrats	Robert George Petrie	121	2
Liberal Democrats	Adrin Patrick Neatrour	108	2

Manor Park

Manor Park
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democrats	Doreen Huddart	1769	19
Liberal Democrats	Gregory Martin Stone	1707	18
Liberal Democrats	Thomas Anthony Gordon	1654	18
Labour	Charlie Gray	1141	12
Labour	Alex Benson	1071	12
Labour	Sylvia Ann Copley	1013	11
Conservative	Paul John Dyer	297	3
Conservative	Leanne Conway-Wilcox	230	2
Conservative	Florence Mary Kirkby	227	2
Green	Michael James Gardner	160	2

Monument

Monument
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Jane Christina Byrne	839	24
Labour	Rosie Hogg	793	22
Labour	Jamie Driscoll	763	22
Green	Cliff Brown	235	7
Conservative	Samuel Bown	187	5
Conservative	Elizabeth Sewell	186	5
Conservative	Vivian Mary White	172	5
Liberal Democrats	Stephen Anthony Psallidas	131	4
Liberal Democrats	Robert Ernest Walker	121	3
Liberal Democrats	Kamaljeet Singh Kundi	119	3

North Jesmond

North Jesmond
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Stella Rogers Postlethwaite	917	16
Labour	Wendy Susanna Young	834	14
Liberal Democrats	Gerry Keating	822	14
Labour	Alexander Geoffrey Hay	746	13
Liberal Democrats	David Haydn Besag	725	12
Liberal Democrats	Crispin Melvill Welby	707	12
Conservative	Kitty Lau	282	5
Conservative	James Cowling	273	5
Green	Shehla Khatoon Naqvi	262	5
Conservative	James Robert Bartle	247	4

Ouseburn

Ouseburn
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Paula Holland	1024	17
Labour	Alistair Stuart Chisholm	968	16
Labour	Stephen Alan Powers	931	16
Liberal Democrats	Gareth Kane	919	16
Liberal Democrats	Ciaran Joseph Morrissey	705	12
Liberal Democrats	Aleisha Naomi Stansfield	641	11
Green	Rachel Holland	277	5
Green	Ralph Dominic Pettingill	159	3
Conservative	Jason Stephen Carr	100	2
Conservative	Harry Richard Craggs	87	1
Conservative	Nicholas Sundin^a	68	1

^a Nicholas Sundin has been suspended by the Conservative Party and is under investigation due to a series of Islamophobic social media posts and offensive comments he has made about Hillsborough survivors. He will remain on the ballot as a Conservative candidate, but in effect is now an independent. He stood in a ward in Gateshead in 2015 for UKIP.^[3]

Parklands

Parklands
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal Democrats	Robin Arthur John Ashby	2057	16.5
Liberal Democrats	Pauline Allen	1925	15.5
Liberal Democrats	David Christopher Down	1679	13.5
Labour	Susan Pearson	1014	8.1
Conservative	Simon Bernard Bell	987	7.9
Independent	John James Dockerty	840	6.7
Conservative	Karen Jewers	792	6.4
Labour	Louise Kathleen Sutcliffe	722	5.8
Labour	Geoff O'Brien	715	5.7
Conservative	John Grierson Dobie	688	5.5
Independent	John Hall	581	4.7
Green	Frances Christine Hinton	455	3.7

South Jesmond

South Jesmond
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Felicity Ann Mendelson	1052	20
Labour	Arlene Ainsley	994	19
Labour	Judy Pearce	902	17
Liberal Democrats	Alexandra Louise Logan	319	6
Green	Clare Pauline Andrews	306	6
Conservative	Ian Donald MacGilp	299	6
Conservative	Christopher Luke Murray	292	6
Conservative	Max Joseph Graham	284	5
Green	Tony Waterston	272	5
Liberal Democrats	Deborah Elizabeth Burns	251	5
Liberal Democrats	Mark Keville	201	4
Communist	Martin Richard Levy	38	1

Walker

Walker
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	John Douglas Stokel-Walker	1556	28
Labour	David Leslie Wood	1379	25
Labour	Margaret Wood	1361	25
Conservative	Joan Atkin	230	4
UKIP	Tony Sanderson	206	4
Conservative	Elle Clarke	189	3
Conservative	Daniel Robert George Percy	186	3
Green	Ed Laschet	141	3
Liberal Democrats	Robert Lambert Renton	114	2
Liberal Democrats	Joan Margaret Trinder	81	1
Liberal Democrats	Susan Joyce Vernon	77	1

Walkergate

Walkergate
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Stevie Wood	1799	23
Labour	Maureen Beatrice Lowson	1739	22
Labour	Paul Frew	1606	20
Liberal Democrats	Deborah Ann Gallagher	555	7
Conservative	Charlie Terance Owen Jones	373	5
UKIP	Ray Hardy	351	4
Conservative	Lance Robson	347	4
Liberal Democrats	Bill Signey	344	4
Conservative	Joseph Stuart Teasdale	322	4
Liberal Democrats	David Serge Slesenger	271	3
Green	Alastair Bonnett	233	3

West Fenham

West Fenham
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Karen Louise Kilgour	1496	22
Labour	Ian Tokell	1452	22
Labour	Marion Elizabeth Talbot	1448	22
Conservative	Andrew Bulman	360	5
UKIP	John Thomas Richardson	313	5
Conservative	Joy Crute	311	5
It's Time to Put Newcastle First	Ian Alfred Rose Fraser	273	4
Conservative	Kenneth Wake	262	4
Liberal Democrats	John Edward Thorley	248	4
Green	Daryl Hughes	199	3
Liberal Democrats	Lucy Mary Keating	180	3
Liberal Democrats	Mohammed Kamruzzaman Milon	146	2

Wingrove

Wingrove
	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Joyce McCarty	1961	25
Labour	Irim Ali	1903	24
Labour	Rebecca Shatwell	1641	21
Conservative	Harriet Beaty	355	5%
Liberal Democrats	Philip McArdle	344	4%
Green	Paula Blair	319	4%
Liberal Democrats	Andrew McQuillin	312	4%
Conservative	Neil Cameron	293	4%
Conservative	Kieran McNally	288	4%
Green	John Pearson	233	3%
Liberal Democrats	Mohammad Farsi	207	3%

References

^ "Woman, 96, is Newcastle council election candidate". BBC News. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
^ "96-year-old Tory candidate could become oldest councillor in the UK". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
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[1] "Woman, 96, is Newcastle council election candidate". BBC News. Retrieved 2 May 2018.

[2] "96-year-old Tory candidate could become oldest councillor in the UK". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2 May 2018.

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