Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council: all 56 councillors

Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council has 56 councillors on the official list. The largest group is Conservative, with 25 of the 56 seats. Every name below comes from the council's own published list: Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council: councillors by ward (modern.gov web service), read 3 November 2026 (saved copy of the list; the contact details shown below come from the council's feed and are not kept in the copy).

See Stockton-on-Tees: local statistics and who has power over Stockton-on-Tees, from the council up to the G20.

Seats by party

• ■ Conservative: 25 councillors
• ■ Labour: 22 councillors
• ■ Thornaby Independent Association: 4 councillors
• ■ Ingleby Barwick Independent Society: 3 councillors
• ■ Independent: 2 councillors

Leaders and post holders

• Mrs Ann McCoy (Labour): Communirt Safert Select Committee Chair
• Barry Woodhouse (Labour): Audit and Governance Committee Chair
• Michelle Bendelow (Labour): Employee Appeals Panel Vice-Chair, Planning Committee Vice-Chair
• Mick Stoker (Labour): Planning Committee Chair
• Clare Besford (Labour): Cabinet Member for Children and Young People
• Marc Besford (Labour): Adult Social Care and Health Select Committee Chair
• Paul Weston (Labour): People Select Committee Vice-Chair
• Katie Zagoria (Labour): Community Safety Select Committee Vce-Chair
• Stefan Houghton (Conservative): Audit and Governance Committee Vice-Chair
• Carol Clark (Labour): Children and Young Peope Select Committee Chair, Corporate Parenting Board Vice-Chair
• Nigel Cooke (Labour): Cabinet Member for Environment, Leisure and Culture. Appeals and Complaints Committee Vice-Chair
• Norma Stephenson (Labour): Cabinet Member for Access, Communities & Community Safety, Employee Appeals Panel Chair
• Niall Innes (Conservative): Conservative Group Deputy Leader
• Kevin Faulks (Ingleby Barwick Independent Society): IBIS Group Leader, Executive Scrutiny Vice Chair.
• Ross Patterson (Ingleby Barwick Independent Society): IBIS Group Deputy Leader, Executive Scrutiny Committee Vice-Chair
• Richard Eglington (Labour): Cabinet for Housing and Transport
• Nathan Gale (Labour): Adult Social Care and Health Select Committee Vice - Chair
• Marilyn Surtees (Labour): Deputy Mayor, People Select Committee Chair
• Lisa Evans (Labour): Leader of the Council, Labour Group Leader, Corporate Parenting Board Chair, Health and Wellbeing Board Chair
• Steve Nelson (Labour): Place Select Committee Vice-Chair
• Tony Riordan (Conservative): Conservative Group Leader
• Robert Cook (Labour): Mayor
• Eileen Johnson (Labour): General Licensing Committee Chair, Statutory Licensing Committee Chair, Joint Bodies River Tees Port Health Authority Chair
• Jim Beall (Labour): Employee Appeals Vice Chair, Place Select Chair
• Barbara Inman (Labour): Children & Young People Select Committee Vice-Chair
• Sylvia Walmsley (Thornaby Independent Association): TIA Group Leader,Executive Scrutiny Committee Chair
• Pauline Beall (Labour): Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care, Appeals and Complaints Committee Chair
• Paul Rowling (Labour): Deputy Leader, Cabinet Member for Resources and Regeneration
• Ian Dalgarno (Thornaby Independent Association): TIA Group Deputy Leader
• Mick Moore (Thornaby Independent Association): General Licensing Vice-Chair, Statutory Licensing Vice-Chair

Every councillor, by ward

Source

Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council: councillors by ward (modern.gov web service), read 3 November 2026 (saved copy of the list; the contact details shown below come from the council's feed and are not kept in the copy). Each name links to that councillor's profile on the official site. Published by Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council. Contact details are exactly what the council publishes in its own feed on the day it was read, including a home address or phone only where the council publishes one. Anything the council removes disappears from this page at the next refresh. Name or seat out of date? Tell us.