NORTHUMBERLAND County Council will have two Green Party representatives for the next four years.
Tynedale resident Nick Morphet caused a shock as he claimed the Humshaugh seat, ending the Tories' dominance in the ward.
Coun. Morphet, who stood for the Hexham parliamentary seat in 2019 and was also denied a place on Hexham Town Council by vote last year, was elected to represent the area on the parish council as he received nearly 200 more votes than the existing incumbent Rupert Gibson.
A total of 1,046 people voted the Green Party candidate, with 849 wishing for Coun. Gibson to keep the seat. It was a two-horse race with Labour's Milo Barnett recieving just 80 votes, and Stuart Rowlands, for the Liberal Democrats, receving only 30.
Coun. Morphet was announced as the first ever Green Party representative on the county council, and his annoucement was shortly followed by the news that party colleague Martin Swinbank had been elected in the Alnwick ward.
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