All in

Tyne and Wear 2026

Tyne and Wear total: Reform - 171 (+171) Lib Dem - 50 (-4) Green - 39 (+26) Labour - 25 (-166) Independent - 6 (-13) Conservative - 2 (-15) Newcastle Independent - 0 (-3)

Gateshead - Reform GAIN from Labour Newcastle - NOC hold (Lib Dems largest party) Nth Tyn - Labour HOLD (Reform now opposition) Sth Tyn - Reform GAIN from Labour Sunderland - Reform GAIN from Labour The leaders of Gateshead, Newcastle, Sth Tyn and Sunderland all lost their seats

Gonna go and collapse

Sunderland vote totals (changes vs 2022) Ref - 35,553 | 39.9% (+39.9) Lab - 22,989 | 25.8% (-18.7) Lib Dem - 11,831 | 13.3% (-1.8) Con - 9,798 | 11.0% (-19.5) Grn - 8,538 | 9.6% (+3.0) Ind - 464 | 0.5% (-2.5)

Largest vote lead in Sunderland was Redhouse where Reform were 24.33% (645 votes) ahead of Labour. Smallest vote lead in Sunderland was Washington West where Labour were 3.91% (154 votes) ahead of Reform (who won the third seat in that ward).

Best result for the Conservatives in Sunderland was in Tunstall and Humbledon where they achieved 26.51% of the vote and were just 4.42% (175 votes) behind Reform.

The prize for the highest number of raw votes achieved in Sunderland goes to Malcolm Bond (Lib Dem) in Fulwell ward with 1,988 votes.

Just to demonstrate the enormity of Thursday, here is Tyne and Wear as recently as 2015.

Newcastle 2026 vote totals

Gateshead 2026 vote totals

North Tyneside 2026 vote totals

South Tyneside 2026 vote totals

Tyne and Wear 2026 vote totals

Reform strength in Tyne and Wear 2026. The darker the shade, the larger the vote share achieved.

Labour strength in Tyne and Wear 2026. The darker the shade, the larger the vote share achieved.

Reform councillor for Hylton Castle (SUND) suspended from the party. New council makeup: Reform - 57 Lib Dem - 12 Labour - 5 Independent - 1

Reform have now retracted this and said the councillor in question isn’t suspended but under “investigation”. Source: Kevin Schofield

% of seats won in Tyne and Wear 2026 Reform - 58% Lib Dem - 17% Green - 13% Labour - 9% Independent - 2% Conservative - 1% Labour’s previous worst seat share was 44% in 2008.