North Tyneside mayoral election, 2005

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Elections for North Tyneside's directly-elected mayor took place on 05 May 2005 on the same day as the United Kingdom General Election.

John Harrison, of the Labour Party, won. Although many expected the former mayor, Linda Arkley of the Conservative Party to win, the high turnout of Labour voters for the general election meant that she was beaten by 1,002 votes, after taking account of second preference votes.

If no candidate received half of all the first choice votes counted, then all but the top two candidates dropped out of the election and the second choice votes from the eliminated candidates were counted. This is what happened in this election. Linda Arkley and John Harrison held the top two positions, but as neither had 50% of the vote, the second choice votes of Dr Joan Harvey and Robert Nigel Batten were added to their current tallies. As a result, John Harrison won overall, even though Linda Arkley held the most votes after the first round.

[edit] Results

North Tyneside Council Mayoral Election 2005
	Name	Party	1st Choice Votes	%	2nd Choice Votes	%	Final	%
	John Lawrence Langford Harrison	Labour	34,053	40.2	6,407	61.6	40,460	50.63
	Linda Arkley	Conservative	35,467	41.85	3,991	38.4	39,458	49.37
	Dr Joan Harvey	Liberal Democrats	12,761	15.1	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Robert Nigel Batten	National Front	2,470	2.9	N/A	N/A	N/A

Preceded by North Tyneside Council election 2004

North Tyneside local elections

Succeeded by North Tyneside Council election 2006