Mayor of Hartlepool
| 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, who was first elected under the guise of H'Angus the Monkey, the town's football club's mascot.
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]
Referendums
| 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
Elections were held under the supplementary vote system.
2002
| Hartlepool Mayoral Election 2 May 2002[7] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | 1st round votesTransfer votes, 2nd round | |||||
| 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 | |||||||||
2005
| Hartlepool Mayoral Election 5 May 2005[8] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | 1st round votesTransfer votes, 2nd round | ||||
| 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 | ||||||||
2009
| Hartlepool Mayoral Election 4 June 2009[9] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | 1st round votesTransfer votes, 2nd round | ||||
| 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 | ||||||||
List of mayors
| Political party | Name | Entered office | Left office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Stuart Drummond | 2 May 2002 | 2 May 2013 (system abolition) | |
References
- ^ "Referendum Result". Hartlepool Council. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
- ^ "Voters snub parties in mayor polls". BBC. 8 October 2002. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
- ^ "Winning 'monkey' mayor gains wife". BBC. 6 May 2005. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
- ^ a b "Hartlepool Mayor wins third term". BBC. 5 June 2009. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
- ^ "Mayoral referendum results". The Guardian. 2011. Archived from the original on 12 April 2008. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ^ "Hartlepool rejects electoral mayoral role". The BBC. 16 November 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ^ "Local Elections in England: 2 May 2002" (PDF). House of Commons Library. 9 May 2002. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ^ "Local and Mayoral elections 2005" (PDF). House of Commons Library. 31 December 2005. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ^ "Mayoral Election Results - 4 June 2009". Hertlepool Borough Council. 4 June 2009. Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2013.