| Mayor of Hartlepool | |
|---|---|
| Appointer | Electorate of Hartlepool |
| Precursor | Council Leader |
| Formation | 2 May 2002 |
| First holder | Stuart Drummond |
| Final holder | Stuart Drummond |
| Abolished | 2 May 2013 |
| Succession | Council Leader |
The Mayor of Hartlepool was the executive mayor of Hartlepool Borough Council in County Durham, England. Established in 2002 and abolished in 2013, all three terms of office were served by Stuart Drummond.
The office was established in 2002 following a referendum the previous year in which governance by a directly elected mayor was favoured over a cabinet system. Another referendum in 2012 produced the converse result, and the office was abolished in May 2013. [1]
Drummond was first elected in 2002 [2] and was re-elected in 2005 [3] and 2009. [4] Drummond was the first mayor in Britain to win a third term. [4]
| Choice | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
 Elected Mayor | 10,667 | 50.9 |
| Cabinet System | 10,294 | 49.1 |
| Required majority | 50 | |
| Total votes | 20,961 | 100.00 |
| Source: The Guardian [5] | ||
| Choice | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Cabinet System | 7,366 | 58.73 |
| Elected Mayor | 5,177 | 41.27 |
| Required majority | 50 | |
| Total votes | 12,543 | 100.00 |
| Source: BBC News [6] | ||
Elections were held under the supplementary vote system.
| Hartlepool Mayoral Election 2 May 2002 [7] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | First round votes Transfer votes | |||||
| Total | Of round | Transfers | Total | Of round | |||||
| Independent | Stuart Drummond | 5,696 | 29.1% | 1,699 | 7,395 | 52.2% | | ||
| Labour | Leo Gillen | 5,438 | 27.8% | 1,324 | 6,762 | 47.8% | | ||
| Independent | Ian Cameron | 5,174 | 26.5% | | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Arthur Preece | 1,675 | 8.6% | | |||||
| Conservative | Stephen Close | 1,561 | 8.0% | | |||||
| Independent win | |||||||||
| Hartlepool Mayoral Election 5 May 2005 [8] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | First round votes Transfer votes | ||||
| Total | Of round | Transfers | Total | Of round | ||||
| Independent | Stuart Drummond | 14,227 | 42.1% | 2,685 | 16,912 | 71.6% | | |
| Labour | Carl Richardson | 5,527 | 16.4% | 1,180 | 6,707 | 28.4% | | |
| Independent | Ian Cameron | 4,272 | 12.6% | | ||||
| Hartlepool First | Stephen Allison | 3,765 | 11.1% | | ||||
| Independent | Stan Kaiser | 2,701 | 8.0% | | ||||
| Independent | John Lauderdale | 1,821 | 5.4% | | ||||
| Conservative | Brenda Pearson | 1,482 | 4.4% | | ||||
| Independent hold | ||||||||
| Hartlepool Mayoral Election 4 June 2009 [9] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | First round votes Transfer votes | ||||
| Total | Of round | Transfers | Total | Of round | ||||
| Independent | Stuart Drummond | 5,268 | 24.5% | 1,599 | 6,867 | 53.3% | | |
| Independent | Ian Cameron | 4,280 | 19.9% | 1,743 | 6,023 | 46.7% | | |
| Labour | Chris Simmons | 2,921 | 13.6% | | ||||
| UKIP | Martyn Aiken | 1,844 | 8.6% | | ||||
| Independent | Tony Morrell | 1,457 | 6.8% | | ||||
| BNP | Cheryl Dunn | 1,352 | 6.3% | | ||||
| Conservative | David Young | 1,092 | 5.1% | | ||||
| Independent | Jim Gillespie | 986 | 4.6% | | ||||
| Independent | Iris Ryder | 594 | 2.8% | | ||||
| Independent | Alison Willetts | 564 | 2.6% | | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Lynne Gillam | 464 | 2.2% | | ||||
| Independent | Barbara Jackson | 461 | 2.2% | | ||||
| Independent | Christine Blakey | 204 | 1.0% | | ||||
| Independent hold | ||||||||
| Political party | Name | Entered office | Left office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Stuart Drummond | 2 May 2002 | 2 May 2013 (system abolition) | |
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