Gateshead Council

Gateshead Council
Type
Type	Metropolitan borough
Leadership
Mayor	Andrea Graham, Reform UK since 29 May 2026
Leader	Nick Allan, Reform UK since 29 May 2026
Chief Executive	Dale Owens since 1 June 2024
Structure
Seats	66 councillors
Political groups	Administration (38)   Reform UK (38) Other parties (28)   Liberal Democrats (13)   Labour (12)   Green (3)
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post
Last election	7 May 2026
Next election	6 May 2027
Meeting place
Civic Centre, Regent Street, Gateshead, NE8 1HH
Website
www.gateshead.gov.uk

Gateshead Council is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provides the majority of local government services in the borough. The council has been a member of the North East Combined Authority since 2024.

Since 1986, Gateshead Council has been a unitary authority providing both district-level and county-level functions, with some services being provided through joint arrangements with the other Tyne and Wear councils. In 2024 a combined authority was established covering Gateshead, County Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland, called the North East Mayoral Combined Authority. It is chaired by the directly elected Mayor of the North East and oversees the delivery of certain strategic functions across the area.

There is one civil parish in the borough at Lamesley, which forms an additional tier of local government for its area; the rest of the borough is unparished. Birtley was also a civil parish with a town council until it was abolished in 2006.