Labour once again won a majority at this year's local elections in South Tyneside but council leader Tracey Dixon said that she was disappointed that the party had lost three seats to the Green Party.
Gains by the Green Party were in Biddick and All Saints, Cleadon and East Boldon, and West Park mean that it is now the main opposition. It also has full control of two wards - Beacon and Bents and West Park - while they hold two of the three seats in Cleadon and East Boldon, with the other belonging to the council's only Conservative councillor.
That was the only movement on the night, with independent councillors holding onto Bede, Primrose and Westoe wards, Labour holds on 11 wards, and a Green Party hold in Beacon and Bents. Coun Tracey Dixon, council leader and representative of Whitburn and Marsden ward believes that tonight's performance shows that Labour are in a strong position for the next General Election despite the loss of three more seats to a party that had none in the borough until 2019.
