2002 Epping Forest District Council election

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2002 Epping Forest District Council election
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All 58 seats to Epping Forest District Council
30 seats needed for a majority
Turnout30.4% (Increase2.svg0.4%)
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Labour
Last election20 seats, 43.1%16 seats, 24.2%12 seats, 19.1%
Seats before201612
Seats won26139
Seat changeIncrease2.svg6Decrease2.svg3Decrease2.svg3
Popular vote28,18616,2067,260
Percentage48.2%27.7%12.4%
SwingIncrease2.svg5.1%Increase2.svg3.5%Decrease2.svg6.7%
 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
 
Party Loughton Residents Independent Chigwell Residents
Last election7 seats, 6.3%3 seats, 4.7%1 seat, 3.0%
Seats before731
Seats won631
Seat changeDecrease2.svg1Steady2.svgSteady2.svg
Popular vote3,4763,154612
Percentage5.9%5.4%1.0%
SwingDecrease2.svg3.0%Increase2.svg0.7%Decrease2.svg2.0%
Epping Forest 2002 results.svg
Results of the 2002 District Council elections
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Council composition following the election
Council control before election

No overall control
Conservative largest party

Council control after election

No overall control
Conservative largest party

Elections to Epping Forest Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 1. The council stayed under no overall control.

Contents

Abolished wards include Broadway, Debden Green, Greensted and Marden Ash, High Ongar, Roothing Country, and High Beech.

By-elections

Buckhurst Hill East by-election

Buckhurst Hill East by-election 6 July 2000
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats 71169.2+9.2
Conservative 24523.9-5.2
Labour 716.9-3.4
Majority46646.0
Turnout 1,02731.4
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Results

Broadley Common, Epping Upland & Nazeing

Broadley Common, Epping Upland & Nazeing
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Penny Smith44885.8
Liberal Democrats Gilbert Graty7414.2
Majority37471.6
Turnout 52232.2
Conservative win (new seat)

Buckhurst Hill East

Buckhurst Hill East (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Leonard Martin66154.1
Liberal Democrats Malcolm Woollard659
Conservative George Denny40833.4
Conservative Mercedes Window401
Labour Ronald Rodwell15212.5
Majority20.7
Turnout 2,28136.1
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Buckhurst Hill West

Buckhurst Hill West (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Ann Haigh1,00254.4
Liberal Democrats Michael Heavens931
Liberal Democrats Robert Goold912
Conservative Richard Watts84045.6
Conservative Neil Cohen824
Conservative Haluk Ulkun741
Majority8.8
Turnout 5,25026.2
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Chigwell Row

Chigwell Row
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Brian Sandler32450.5
Liberal Democrats Patricia Brooks31749.5
Majority71.0
Turnout 64137.6
Conservative win (new seat)

Chigwell Village

Chigwell Village (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Gilliham68646.8
Chigwell Residents AssociationJohn Knapman61241.7
Liberal Democrats Peter Netherclift16911.5
Liberal Democrats Jeffrey Stollar163
Majority5.0
Turnout 1,63031.5
Conservative win (new seat)
Chigwell Residents Association win (new seat)

Chipping Ongar, Greensted and Marden Ash

Chipping Ongar, Greensted and Marden Ash (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Derek Jacobs67452.5
Liberal Democrats Keith Wright570
Conservative Glyn Pritchard44334.5
Conservative Frank Love443
Labour Keith Tait16813.1
Labour Jill Coward140
Majority18.0
Turnout 2,43339.0
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Epping Hemnall

Epping Hemnall (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Janet Whitehouse88356.6
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Whitehouse826
Liberal Democrats Allan Boydon823
Conservative Susan Perry52833.8
Conservative Richard Brady521
Conservative James Manly515
Labour Anne Baldwin1509.6
Majority9.6
Turnout 4,24631.6
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common

Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Matthew Colling86839.2
Conservative Christopher Whitbread858
Conservative Andrew Green835
Liberal Democrats Olive Dunseath77334.9
Liberal Democrats Janet Hedges773
Liberal Democrats John Rumble739
Labour Pamela Johns30413.7
Independent Christopher Hudson26912.1
Labour Robert Jones255
Majority4.3
Turnout 5,67449.2
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Grange Hill

Grange Hill (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats William Maclaine82750.1
Conservative David Bateman82549.9
Liberal Democrats Gavin Stollar791
Liberal Democrats Peter Spencer789
Conservative Ronald McCarthy780
Conservative Cheryl-Anne Kashket766
Majority0.1
Turnout 4,77834.0
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Hastingwood, Matching and Sheering Village

Hastingwood, Matching and Sheering Village
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Richard Morgan35159.4
Conservative Terence Dewhurst24040.6
Majority11118.8
Turnout 59135.5
Independent win (new seat)

High Ongar, Willingale and the Rodings

High Ongar, Willingale and the Rodings
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Margaret McEwen40874.0
Labour Peter Gode14326.0
Majority26548.0
Turnout 55134.2
Conservative win (new seat)

Lambourne

Lambourne
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stephen Metcalfe 40355.7
Labour Colin Huckle32044.3
Majority8311.4
Turnout 72347.1
Conservative win (new seat)

Loughton Alderton

Loughton Alderton (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Maureen Boatman41249.0
Labour Paul Bostock377
Conservative Derek Knight31537.5
Conservative Ian Locks292
Liberal Democrats Enid Robinson11413.6
Majority11.5
Turnout 1,51023.8
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Loughton Broadway

Loughton Broadway (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Joan Davis46347.3
Labour Margaret Owen398
Conservative Sheila Creswell23624.1
Conservative John Silberrad216
Independent Peter Relph15115.4
Liberal Democrats Peter Sinfield12913.2
Majority23.2
Turnout 1,59326.5
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Loughton Fairmead

Loughton Fairmead (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stephen Barnes37156.0
Labour Albert Farren322
Conservative Lorne Daniel29244.0
Conservative Kathleen Woodhead276
Majority11.9
Turnout 1,26120.5
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Loughton Forest

Loughton Forest (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Loughton Residents Kenneth Faulkner56045.1
Loughton Residents Peter House557
Conservative James Brokenshire 48539.0
Conservative Angela Metcalfe464
Labour Jennifer Hart13110.5
Labour Susan Lipscombe104
Liberal Democrats Christopher Spence665.3
Majority6.0
Turnout 2,36738.0
Loughton Residents win (new seat)
Loughton Residents win (new seat)

Loughton Roding

Loughton Roding (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stephen Murray75458.2
Labour Stanley Goodwin700
Conservative Christine Howard36828.4
Conservative Gavin Harris355
Liberal Democrats Peter Fuller17413.4
Majority29.8
Turnout 2,35138.9
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Loughton St. John's

Loughton St. John's (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Loughton Residents John Markham59452.8
Loughton Residents Caroline Pond581
Conservative Anthony Barritt36832.7
Conservative Bryan Morris326
Labour Angela Ayre1109.8
Labour Margot-Ingeborg Scott98
Liberal Democrats Teresa Spencer534.7
Majority20.1
Turnout 2,13032.5
Loughton Residents win (new seat)
Loughton Residents win (new seat)

Loughton St. Mary's

Loughton St. Mary's (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Loughton Residents Dorothy Paddon60556.5
Loughton Residents Anthony Lee579
Conservative James Hart30328.3
Conservative Roseanne Serrelli254
Labour Thomas Owen11310.6
Labour Marion Taylor109
Liberal Democrats Lucille Thompson494.6
Majority28.2
Turnout 2,01232.2
Loughton Residents win (new seat)
Loughton Residents win (new seat)

Lower Nazeing

Lower Nazeing (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Leo McKnight64338.0
Independent Daphne Borton59935.4
Independent John Carr454
Conservative David Johnson427
UKIP Martin Harvey22613.3
Labour Kelvin Morris1669.8
Liberal Democrats David Rumble603.5
Majority2.6
Turnout 2,57542.6
Conservative win (new seat)
Independent win (new seat)

Lower Sheering

Lower Sheering
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Harrington24467.6
Labour Roy Chapman7219.9
Liberal Democrats Roy Patient4512.5
Majority17247.7
Turnout 36122.9
Conservative win (new seat)

Moreton and Fyfield

Moreton and Fyfield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Douglas Kelly44460.4
Conservative Elaine Williams29139.6
Majority15320.8
Turnout 73542.0
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

North Weald Bassett

North Weald Bassett (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Stallan90280.0
Conservative Anne Grigg856
Liberal Democrats Rita Gill22620.0
Majority59.9
Turnout 1,98433.1
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Passingford

Passingford
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Diana Collins45288.1
Labour John Holness6111.9
Majority39176.2
Turnout 51331.5
Conservative win (new seat)

Roydon

Roydon
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Norman Clark23643.4
Conservative Dennis Ramshaw22040.4
Labour Rachel Poulter8816.2
Majority163.0
Turnout 54431.6
Independent win (new seat)

Shelley

Shelley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ronald Barnes23855.9
Conservative Sarah Catt11827.7
Liberal Democrats Brian Surtees7016.4
Majority12028.2
Turnout 42629.4
Labour win (new seat)

Theydon Bois

Theydon Bois (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Robert Glozier68145.4
Conservative Roy Newland670
Independent Ronald Smith48232.1
Liberal Democrats Ann Furniss33822.5
Liberal Democrats Monica Richardson310
Majority13.3
Turnout 2,48141.3
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Waltham Abbey High Beech

Waltham Abbey High Beech
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Syd Stavrou Unopposed
MajorityN/A100%
Turnout N/AN/AN/A
Conservative win (new seat)

Waltham Abbey Honey Lane

Waltham Abbey Honey Lane (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Mark Gilding67165.9
Conservative Peter Johnson663
Conservative Donald Spinks653
Liberal Democrats Christine Akers34734.1
Majority31.8
Turnout 2,33422.0
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Waltham Abbey North East

Waltham Abbey North East (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael Dickins65071.7
Conservative Jamie Goldie581
Liberal Democrats Sonia Davies25628.3
Majority43.5
Turnout 1,48728.5
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Waltham Abbey Paternoster

Waltham Abbey Paternoster (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Reginald Chidley51164.2
Conservative Richard Haines511
Labour Fitzherbert Harewood28535.8
Labour Barry Johns256
Majority28.4
Turnout 1,56324.2
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Waltham Abbey South West

Waltham Abbey South West (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Nicholas Austin39870.2
Conservative Harold Taylor389
Liberal Democrats Ingrid Black16929.8
Majority40.4
Turnout 95620.4
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

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