| Mayor of North Tyneside | |
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 Coat of arms of the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside | |
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| Style | No courtesy title or style |
| Appointer | Electorate of North Tyneside |
| Term length | Four years |
The Mayor of North Tyneside is the executive mayor of the borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England, providing political leadership for North Tyneside Council. The incumbent since 2025 is Karen Clark. A Mayoral Referendum was held on 5 May 2016 to determine if residents wished to retain the Mayoral system or change to a committee system. The number of votes for continuing with the mayoral system was 32,546 (57.5%) against 23,703 (41.8%) for a committee system.[citation needed]
Until 2023, mayoral elections were held under the supplementary vote electoral system. The mayor is now elected through first-past-the-post voting, after the electoral system for mayoral elections in England were changed by the Elections Act 2022.[1][2]
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- ^ Johnston, Neil (24 January 2025). "Voting systems in the UK". House of Commons Library. Retrieved 2 May 2025.