Labour maintained its dominance on Gateshead Council, losing just one seat to the Liberal Democrats as local election results were declared on Friday.
Once again, the Gateshead Greens just couldn’t manage to secure a seat for their candidate at the local authority.
Jack Philipson, Green candidate for Crawcrook and Greenside, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service during the vote verification on Friday morning voters were keen to see a change rather than resort to the “two main parties.”
