2024 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election

2024 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election
2 May 2024 (2024-05-02)
18 of 54 seats to South Tyneside Council
28 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Tracey Dixon
Party Labour Independent
Last election 38 seats, 44.0% 6 seats, 22.7%
Seats before 38 6
Seats won 4 10
Seats after 28 15
Seat change 10 9
Popular vote 13,119 11,770
Percentage 35.5% 31.9%
Swing 8.5% 9.2%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader David Francis
Party Green Conservative
Last election 9 seats, 21.7% 1 seat, 10.3%
Seats before 9 1
Seats won 4 0
Seats after 11 0
Seat change 2 1
Popular vote 9,640 1,709
Percentage 26.1% 4.6%
Swing 4.4% 5.7%
Winner of each seat at the 2024 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election
Leader before election

Tracey Dixon
Labour

 Leader after election

Tracey Dixon
Labour

The 2024 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election was held on 2 May 2024 to elect members of South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council. 18 of the 54 seats of the council were up for election. The election took place at the same time as other local elections across England.

Bucking the trend of the rest of the country, the election saw Labour's seat count drop dramatically, losing ten seats nearly entirely to independent candidates. With 28 seats, Labour was left with only just enough seats for control of the council. The party's poor performance was described as being down to a 'perfect storm' of issues by the council's Labour leader Tracey Dixon, further adding that Labour needed to 'restart' and 'work more closely' with the council's communities. The results were put down to growing dissatisfaction with the council due to ongoing bin collection strikes that began in late 2023, the council's children services being rated "inadequate" by Ofsted, and the fallout surrounding previous Labour Leader of the council, Iain Malcolm, being found in March 2024 to have inappropriately incurred £18,000 of personal costs on his corporate credit card and bullied council staff.

The Conservatives also lost their only seat on the council, with their Cleadon & East Bolden ward seat going to the Greens.

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