Combined authority · E47000006 · ONS CAUTH
Tees Valley Combined Authority
Mayor of the Tees Valley
Strategic / metro mayor layer only. Constituent councils below are Watchtower CTYUA pages — their debt and crime figures are not this authority’s. Ceremonial civic mayors are out of scope.
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Ben Houchen
Mayor of the Tees Valley
Party
Conservative
As published
Last election
2 May 2024
Next election
2028
Powers tier
Mayoral Strategic Authority
GOV.UK factsheets (July 2025): Mayoral Strategic Authority. At that date Tees Valley was under a Best Value Notice, which blocked Established Mayoral designation. We have not invented a later change of status.
Elections
- Last
- 2 May 2024 (ordinary)
Constituent councils in Watchtower
Upper-tier, unitary and London borough pages that already exist in this snapshot. Combined authorities do not replace those councils.
- Hartlepool · Unitary authority
- Middlesbrough · Unitary authority
- Redcar and Cleveland · Unitary authority
- Stockton-on-Tees · Unitary authority
- Darlington · Unitary authority
Sources
- House of Commons Library — Directly-elected mayors (SN05000) · as of 11 May 2026
- MHCLG — English devolution: Area factsheets · as of 10 Jul 2025
- ONS Open Geography — Combined Authorities (May 2025) Names and Codes in EN · as of 1 May 2025
Source: Curated Watchtower mayors snapshot. As of 14 Sept 2026.