← All councils

Newcastle upon Tyne

Every election cycle we have data for, most recent first.

8 cycles in our data
21.1% all-time seats elected below the quota (67 of 318)
21.1% all-time seats unfairly awarded (67 of 318 across 8 cycles)

Cycles

Council composition as of 2026

78 councillors, by party. One square per seat. Source: opencouncildata annual snapshot — reflects the council at the end of 2026 (after that year's elections, by-elections and defections). Hover any seat for the party.

Most recent election (2026)

In 2026, 78 seats were up across 26 wards. The table below shows what each party actually won — alongside what they would have won if the 78 seats had been shared in proportion to votes received (how, with caveats). The Δ column is the actual seat count minus the proportional seat count — positive numbers are parties First-Past-the-Post over-represented; negative are parties it under-represented.

PartyVotesVote %Seats won% of seatsProportional seatsProportional %Δ
Green Party65,74227.0%2430.8%2228.2%+2
Reform UK58,93724.2%2430.8%1924.4%+5
Liberal Democrats56,23823.1%2532.1%1823.1%+7
Labour Party43,42617.8%22.6%1417.9%-12
Conservative Party9,1203.7%00.0%33.8%-3
Independent8,2663.4%33.8%22.6%+1
Newcastle Independents1,4530.6%00.0%00.0%0
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition800.0%00.0%00.0%0
Party Of Women750.0%00.0%00.0%0
Imagine510.0%00.0%00.0%0
Communist Party of Britain500.0%00.0%00.0%0
Total243,438100.0%78100.0%78100.0%0

Vote share vs seats won

The top bar is each party's share of votes cast in this council. Below, one square per seat, coloured by the party that won it — first the actual First-Past-the-Post result, then what a proportional method would have produced from the same vote totals. Divergence between the bar and the actual grid is the indictment of the method.

Vote share
Actual seats
Proportional seats

Full ward-by-ward results for 2026 →

Composition history

One row per opencouncildata annual snapshot — the council at the end of each year (after that year's elections, by-elections and defections). Newest first; hover any seat for the party.

2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016

Ward by ward

Each row is a ward, each column a cycle. Each cell shows the top-of-poll candidate's party (swatch) and their share of valid ballots. Wards are matched by name across cycles — boundary reviews can mean a ward of the same name is a slightly different area in a later cycle.

Ward20162018201920212022202320242026
Arthur's Hill85%70%68%67%69%50%51%
Benwell and Scotswood52%72%51%58%66%65%61%
Benwell, Scotswood and Denton Burn41%
Blakelaw63%67%51%49%60%60%64%
Blakelaw and Cowgate39%
Byker66%79%55%59%65%49%57%63%
Callerton and Throckley54%34%44%45%42%51%
Castle44%49%34%41%53%43%40%39%
Chapel94%65%70%86%79%71%76%
Dene54%
Dene and South Gosforth57%45%45%55%48%46%50%
Denton45%
Denton and Westerhope47%36%46%48%45%46%47%
East Gosforth44%
Elswick71%82%72%66%70%72%45%51%
Fawdon57%
Fawdon and West Gosforth62%58%50%56%58%61%50%
Fenham57%
Gosforth45%41%34%39%39%34%46%
Heaton52%46%49%56%49%45%55%
Jesmond46%
Kenton55%63%48%53%63%55%65%36%
Kingston Park and Dinnington44%
Kingston Park South and Newbiggin Hall65%56%50%66%67%65%
Lemington45%62%42%48%47%46%45%51%
Manor Park57%57%54%52%54%56%49%
Monument71%58%55%65%63%57%55%
Newbiggin Hall and Callerton46%
Newburn51%
North Heaton46%
North Jesmond44%47%50%38%43%64%48%
Ouseburn49%52%50%44%44%50%48%62%
Parklands54%50%39%42%49%54%53%
Parklands and North Gosforth57%
South Heaton59%
South Jesmond53%61%37%49%59%46%42%
Throckley, Walbottle and Newburn46%
Walker68%85%53%66%72%70%70%43%
Walkergate54%68%44%52%61%60%59%51%
West Fenham67%44%34%31%45%47%40%
West Gosforth44%
Westerhope74%
Westgate69%
Wingrove69%75%56%61%63%67%40%48%
Woolsington57%