Politics
Main article: Northumberland County Council See also: List of Parliamentary constituencies in NorthumberlandNorthumberland is a unitary local authority area and is the largest unitary area in England. The County Council is based in Morpeth.
Like most English shire counties Northumberland had until April 2009 a two-tier system of local government, with one county council and six districts, each with their own district council, responsible for different aspects of local government. These districts were, Blyth Valley, Wansbeck, Castle Morpeth, Tynedale, Alnwick and Berwick-upon-Tweed. The districts were abolished on 1 April 2009, the county council becoming a unitary authority.
Elections for the new unitary authority council took place on 1 May 2008.
Northumberland is included within the North East England European Parliament constituency which is represented by four Members of the European Parliament.
| General Election 2010 : Northumberland | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Labour | Conservative | BNP | UKIP | Others | Green | English Democrats | Turnout |
| 50,818 +227 |
48,018 −11,159 |
46,037 +7,515 |
5,598 N/A |
3,882 N/A |
3,401 N/A |
601 −644 |
327 N/A |
158,824 +9,289 |
| Overall Number of seats as of 2010 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Conservative | Liberal Democrats | BNP | UKIP | Others | Green | English Democrats | |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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