Mayor of North Tyneside

Mayor of North Tyneside
Coat of arms of the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside
Incumbent Norma Redfearn since 6 May 2013
Style	No courtesy title or style
Appointer	Electorate of North Tyneside
Term length	Four years

The Mayor of North Tyneside is the executive mayor of the borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. The incumbent since 2013 is Norma Redfearn.^[1] A Mayoral Referendum was held on 5 May 2016 to determine if residents wished to retain the Mayoral system or change to a committee system. The number of votes for continuing with the mayoral system was 32,546 (57.5%) against 23,703 (41.8%) for a committee system.^{[citation needed]}