2016 Colchester Borough Council election

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2016 Colchester Borough Council election
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All 51 seats to Colchester Borough Council
26 seats needed for a majority
Turnout36.0%
 First partySecond party
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LeaderDarius LawsPaul Smith
Party Conservative Liberal Democrats
Leader's seatCastleSt. Anne's &
St. John's
Seats before2720
Seats won2215
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 5Decrease2.svg 5
Popular vote47,08828,331
Percentage37.5%22.6%
 Third partyFourth party
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LeaderTim YoungBeverley Oxford
Party Labour Independent
Leader's seatGreensteadHighwoods
Seats before93
Seats won113
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 2Steady2.svg
Popular vote27,8465,079
Percentage22.2%4.1%
Colchester UK ward map 2016.svg
Ward map showing the winning party in each seat.
Leader of the council before election

Paul Smith
Liberal Democrats

Leader of the council after election

Paul Smith
Liberal Democrats

Elections to Colchester Borough Council took place on 5 May 2016. Colchester Borough Council normally elects one third of its councillors each year, however, due to boundary changes, the whole council is up for election.

Contents

Prior to this election, the cabinet (8 seats) was held by a coalition including the Liberal Democrats (5 seats), the Labour Party (2 seats) and a Highwoods & Stanway Independent (1 seat). Paul Smith (Liberal Democrat), a councillor from St. John's ward, was elected Leader of the Council by 32 to 28 votes.

Each voter had three available votes instead of the usual one vote.

Background

Following the 2015 election the Liberal Democrat-Labour-Independent coalition maintained control of the Council, although with a much reduced majority (14 to 4). The Liberal Democrats suffered heavy losses in North and West Colchester with 4 councillors being unseated, all by the Conservative Party. The Conservatives subsequently became the largest party on the Council but short of a majority by 4 councillors.

Although failing to win additional seats, the Labour Party made moderate gains in vote share across the Borough. Following a promising performance at the 2014 election, the UK Independence Party failed to build on their success and lost in vote share across Colchester, failing to take a single ward. Like UKIP, and despite a notable boost in local and national membership, the Green Party of England and Wales also fell in vote share and failed to win any seats. However, both UKIP and the Green Party received the highest number of votes for their respective parties in a Colchester local election.

Prior to the election, Independent member for Stanway, Laura Sykes, resigned her post as Borough Councillor due to moving away from the area. This left the ruling coalition with a majority of 3 over the Conservative group.

Boundary Changes

A boundary review was undertaken throughout 2014/2015 as part of a review of local authority electoral wards. The new electoral wards have taken effect from this election reducing the number of councillors by 9 (from 60 to 51), reducing the number of wards by 10 (from 27 to 17) and standardising the number of councillors representing each ward (3 councillors per ward). Each ward is designed to contain approximately 8,000 electors, taking into account the projected population growth over the next 10 years. [1]

Summary

Candidates by party

Conservative Party (51/51)





Labour Party (51/51)





Green Party (48/51)





Liberal Democrats (38/51)





UKIP (10/51)





Independent (8/51)





Results

2016 Colchester Borough Council election
PartyThis electionFull councilThis election
SeatsNetSeats %OtherTotalTotal %VotesVotes %+/−
  Conservative 22Decrease2.svg 543.102243.147,08837.5–2.6
  Liberal Democrats 15Decrease2.svg 529.401529.428,33122.6+2.8
  Labour 11Increase2.svg 221.601121.627,84622.2+3.8
  Independent 3Steady2.svg5.9035.95,0794.1+1.7
  Green 0Steady2.svg0.0000.012,0469.7+1.5
  UKIP 0Steady2.svg0.0000.05,1294.1–7.0

The total number of seats on the council was reduced from 60 to 51 seats, resulting in a nominal loss of 5 Conservative and 4 Liberal Democrats councillors. This is reflected in the changes in seats.

Council Composition

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

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209327
Liberal DemocratsLabourIndConservative

After the election, the composition of the council was:

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1511322
Liberal DemocratsLabourIndConservative

Ward Results

Due to boundary changes the number of wards was reduced from 27 to 17. Each ward is represented by 3 councillors. The length of an elected councillor's term will depend on the position of election within that ward (1st, 4 years; 2nd, 3 years; 3rd, 2 years). Terms will revert to 4-years as standard from the 2018 election.

The Statement of Nominated Persons was released by Colchester Borough Council's Returning Officer following the closing of nominations on 7 April 2016. This detailed the list of candidates nominated to stand in each ward.

The percentages shown in the tables are calculated by dividing the votes a candidate received by the total turnout, then multiplying by one-hundred.

Incumbent councillors are marked with an asterisk*

Berechurch

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Berechurch ward
Berechurch
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Dave Harris* 1,710 72.4
Labour Chris Pearson* 1,283 54.3
Labour Martyn Warnes 1,206 51.1
Conservative Annabel Glayzer36615.5
Conservative Michael Brown35915.2
Conservative Chris Brown35615.1
UKIP Ralph Morse35315.0
Liberal Democrats Katie Hood1817.7
Liberal Democrats George Penny1556.6
Liberal Democrats Jakub Makowski1446.1
Green Sam Borley1426.0
Turnout 2,36332.4
Registered electors 7,287
Labour hold
Labour hold
Labour hold
Top-candidate result%+/-
Labour 62.1+11.9
Conservative 13.3-8.7
UKIP 12.8-0.5
Liberal Democrat 6.6-3.8
Green 5.2+1.3

Castle

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Castle ward
Castle
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Democrats Nick Barlow 881 31.7
Conservative Darius Laws* 854 30.7
Conservative Daniel Ellis 801 28.8
Liberal Democrats Bill Frame*79228.5
Green Mark Goacher78128.1
Liberal Democrats Jo Hayes*76927.7
Conservative Kate Martin75927.3
Green Amanda Kirke51118.4
Labour Isobel Merry48417.4
Labour Barry Gilheany45216.3
Green Charles Ham45116.2
Labour Jordan Newell42715.4
Turnout 2,77837.4
Registered electors 7,436
Liberal Democrats hold
Conservative hold
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats
Top-candidate result%+/-
Liberal Democrat 29.4+4.1
Conservative 28.5-7.4
Green 26.0+5.0
Labour 16.1-1.6

Greenstead

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Greenstead ward

Greenstead was created from the following wards:

Greenstead
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Julie Young* 1,144 50.2
Labour Tim Young* 1,134 49.8
Labour Tina Bourne* 999 43.8
Conservative Chris Hill51722.7
UKIP Jamie Middleditch42118.5
Liberal Democrats Owen Bartholomew38817.0
Conservative Paul Hanslow34115.0
Conservative Andrew Higginson30913.6
Liberal Democrats Josef Schumacher28812.6
Green Chris Flossman1938.5
Independent Christopher Lee1838.0
Green Poppy Gerrard-Abbott1155.0
Green Asa Bortherton1034.5
Turnout 2,28030.3
Registered electors 7,522
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Top-candidate result
Labour
 
40.2%
Conservative
 
18.2%
UKIP
 
14.8%
Liberal Democrat
 
13.6%
Green Party
 
6.8%
Independent
 
6.4%

Highwoods

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Highwoods ward
Highwoods
PartyCandidateVotes%
Independent Gerard Oxford* 1,126 48.0
Independent Bev Oxford* 1,038 44.2
Independent Phil Oxford* 954 40.6
Conservative Chris Hayter69029.4
Conservative James Child58825.0
Conservative Steph Hayward52222.2
Labour David McCulloch28712.2
Labour Gary Braddy28512.1
Labour Diane Stevens28312.1
Liberal Democrats John Baker27311.6
UKIP Alexei Knupffer25110.7
Green Robbie Spence1395.9
Green Bonnie Murphy923.9
Green Leo Palmer913.9
Turnout 2,38533.4
Registered electors 7,132
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold
Top-candidate result%+/-
Independent 40.7+3.8
Conservative 24.9-2.7
Labour 10.4-0.7
Liberal Democrat 9.9-0.9
UKIP 9.1-0.1
Green 5.0+0.7

Lexden & Braiswick

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Lexden & Braiswick ward

Lexden & Braiswick was created from the following wards:

Lexden & Braiswick
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Dennis Willits* 1,712 59.3
Conservative Lewis Barber* 1,704 59.0
Conservative Brian Jarvis* 1,609 55.8
Liberal Democrats Thomas Stevenson51517.8
Liberal Democrats Gemma Graham41014.2
Green Steve Ford38613.4
Liberal Democrats Susan Waite36712.7
Labour Alison Inman33511.6
Labour Sioux Blair-Jordan32111.1
Labour Megan Saliu2849.8
Green Rosa Chandler2478.6
Green Emmanuel Blondel2197.6
Turnout 2,88440.4
Registered electors 7,146
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Top-candidate result
Conservative
 
58.1%
Liberal Democrat
 
17.5%
Green Party
 
13.1%
Labour
 
11.4%

Marks Tey & Layer

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Marks Tey & Layer ward

Marks Tey & Layer was created from the following wards:

Marks Tey & Layer
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Kevin Bentley* 1,424 59.4
Conservative Andrew Ellis* 1,248 52.1
Conservative Jackie Maclean* 1,135 47.4
UKIP John Pitts52321.8
Labour John Wood37915.8
Liberal Democrats Gillian Collings34014.2
Green Clare Palmer30212.6
Labour John Spademan29612.4
Labour Michael Wagstaff2319.6
Green Matt Stemp2068.6
Turnout 2,39635.8
Registered electors 6,694
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Top-candidate result
Conservative
 
48.0%
UKIP
 
17.6%
Labour
 
12.8%
Liberal Democrat
 
11.5%
Green Party
 
10.2%

Mersea & Pyefleet

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Mersea & Pyefleet ward

Mersea & Pyefleet was created from the following wards:

Mersea & Pyefleet
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative John Jowers* 1,643 51.7
Conservative Patricia Moore* 1,433 45.1
Conservative Robert Davidson* 1,392 43.8
UKIP David Broise76824.2
UKIP David Holmes76824.2
Labour Bry Mogridge51516.2
UKIP Maria Vigneau50716.0
Green Lisa Britton45914.5
Green Peter Banks42613.4
Labour Neil Belcher3019.5
Labour Ron Smith2698.5
Liberal Democrats Barry Woodward2026.4
Green Bartosz Mizgier1434.5
Turnout 3,17539.5
Registered electors 8,036
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Top-candidate result%
Conservative 45.8
UKIP 21.4
Labour 14.4
Green 12.8
Liberal Democrat 5.6

Mile End

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Mile End ward
Mile End
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Democrats Martin Goss* 1,666 63.5
Liberal Democrats Phillip Coleman 1,375 52.4
Liberal Democrats Dominic Graham* 1,344 51.3
Conservative Ben Locker*73127.9
Conservative Stephen Rowe54320.7
Conservative Thomas Rowe52520.0
Labour Martin Camroux30211.5
Labour Beverly Pearce2589.8
Labour Elisa Vasquez-Walters2218.4
Green David Traynier2067.9
Green Mary Bryan1274.8
Green Peter Lynn883.4
Turnout 2,62337.7
Registered electors 6,966
Liberal Democrats hold
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative
Liberal Democrats hold
Top-candidate result%+/-
Liberal Democrat 57.3+25.1
Conservative 25.2-13.2
Labour 10.4-2.5
Green 7.1+0.4

New Town & Christ Church

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New Town & Christ Church ward

New Town & Christ Church was created from the following wards:

New Town & Christ Church
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Democrats Theresa Higgins* 1,140 39.3
Liberal Democrats Nick Cope* 1,113 38.4
Liberal Democrats Annie Feltham* 1,032 35.6
Labour Abigail Fuller71024.5
Conservative Annesley Hardy*69123.8
Conservative Simon Crow66623.0
Conservative Ben Payne61621.2
Labour Oladipo Odedengbe56319.4
Labour Jaki Whyte55919.3
Green Bob Brannan55519.1
Green Ruby Runnalls Palmer34611.9
Green Laurence Knight31710.9
Turnout 2,90033.9
Registered electors 8,557
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Top-candidate result%
Liberal Democrat 36.8
Conservative 22.9
Labour 22.3
Green 17.9

Old Heath & The Hythe

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Old Heath & The Hythe ward

Old Heath & The Hythe was created from the following wards:

Old Heath & The Hythe
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Mike Lilley* 1,126 41.7
Labour Adam Fox 1,025 38.0
Labour Lee Scordis 925 34.3
Liberal Democrats Julia Havis*74727.7
Liberal Democrats Janet Knight71126.3
Liberal Democrats Justin Knight*68925.5
Green Susan Allen45116.7
Conservative Liam Gallagher43516.1
Conservative Richard Brown40314.9
Conservative Alan Scattergood34412.7
Green Jan Plummer30211.2
Green Andrew Canessa2589.6
Turnout 2,70034.8
Registered electors 7,757
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Top-candidate result
Labour
 
40.8%
Liberal Democrat
 
27.1%
Green Party
 
16.3%
Conservative
 
15.8%

Prettygate

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Prettygate ward
Prettygate
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Sue Lissimore* 2,024 62.7
Conservative Beverly Davis* 1,675 51.9
Conservative Roger Buston* 1,637 50.7
Liberal Democrats Jake Beavan64920.1
Labour Mike Dale59918.6
Liberal Democrats Glanville Williams58518.1
Labour Richard Bourne56317.4
Labour Clive Needle37911.7
Green Ruby Butler36911.4
Green Luke O'Loughlin2096.5
Green Mike Stewart1925.9
Turnout 3,22840.6
Registered electors 7,948
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Top-candidate result%+/-
Conservative 55.6+4.5
Liberal Democrat 17.8-3.9
Labour 16.5+4.7
Green 10.1+5.7

Rural North

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Rural North ward

Rural North was created from the following wards:

Rural North
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Christopher Arnold* 1,913 63.1
Conservative Nigel Chapman* 1,824 60.2
Conservative Peter Chillingworth* 1,665 55.0
Green Roger Bamforth48816.1
Liberal Democrats Will Brown47815.8
Green Blake Roberts36712.1
Labour Kevin Finnigan32210.5
Labour Judith Short3199.2
Green Janita Le Fevre2829.3
Labour Paul Fryer-Kelsey2789.2
Turnout 3,03136.2
Registered electors 8,363
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Top-candidate results
Conservative
 
59.8%
Green Party
 
15.2%
Liberal Democrat
 
14.9%
Labour
 
10.1%

Shrub End

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Shrub End ward
Shrub End
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Democrats Lyn Barton* 960 44.3
Liberal Democrats Karen Chaplin 569 26.3
Conservative Pauline Hazell* 526 24.3
Conservative Mike Hardy51023.6
Liberal Democrats Jamie Chaplin50823.5
Conservative Vic Flores49622.9
UKIP Bruno Hickman37917.5
Independent Sharron Lawrence34916.1
Labour Bruce Tuxford32415.0
Labour Steve Dunt32214.9
Labour Stuart Ellis30514.1
Green Wolfgang Fauser2069.5
Green Stuart Welham1436.6
Green Maria Harrison924.2
Turnout 2,16528.2
Registered electors 7,679
Liberal Democrats hold
Liberal Democrats hold
Conservative hold
Top-candidate result%+/-
Liberal Democrat 35.0
+8.8
Conservative 19.2
-15.2
UKIP 13.8
-3.3
Independent 12.7
N/A
Labour 11.8
-4.9
Green 7.5
+1.8

St. Anne's & St. John's

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St. Anne's & St. John's ward

St. Anne's & St. John's was created from the following wards:

St. Anne's & St. John's
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Democrats Mike Hogg* 1,426 49.5
Liberal Democrats Helen Chuah* 1,352 46.9
Liberal Democrats Paul Smith* 1,215 42.1
UKIP Jason Berry63722.1
Conservative Charles McKay56819.7
UKIP Bill Faram52918.3
Conservative Peter Klejna-Wendt51117.7
Conservative Terry Sutton46516.1
Labour Sam Fuller2769.6
Labour Amanda Stannard2749.5
Labour Alex Yeandle2518.7
Green Callum Fauser1916.6
Green Robert Chambers1605.5
Green Megan Maltby1113.9
Turnout 2,88635.7
Registered electors 8,077
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Top-candidate result
Liberal Democrat
 
46.0%
UKIP
 
20.6%
Conservative
 
18.3%
Labour
 
8.9%
Green Party
 
6.2%

Stanway

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Stanway ward
Stanway
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Fiona Maclean* 963 41.3
Liberal Democrats Lesley Scott-Boutell 962 41.3
Liberal Democrats Jessica Scott-Boutell* 944 40.5
Conservative Paul Dundas83936.0
Conservative Christopher Manby79234.0
Liberal Democrats Jon Manning*62927.0
Labour David Hough30213.0
Labour Carol Spademan30213.0
Labour Ian Yates25611.0
Green Walter Schwartz1375.9
Green Will Price1375.9
Green Nicholas Blondel1365.8
Turnout 2,33136.2
Registered electors 6,440
Conservative hold
Liberal Democrats gain from Independent
Liberal Democrats hold
Party%+/-
Conservative 40.7-1.7
Liberal Democrat 40.7+3.7
Labour 12.8-1.4
Green 5.8-0.2

Tiptree

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Tiptree ward
Tiptree
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative John Elliott* 1,459 64.9
Conservative Barbara Wood 1,403 62.4
Conservative Derek Loveland 1,370 61.0
Labour Joanne Devine40017.8
Labour Barbara Nichols40017.8
Labour Robert Spademan37116.6
Green Kathy Bamforth29113.0
Green Rob Cronshaw1968.7
Green Adam Abo Henriksen1657.3
Turnout 2,24831.5
Registered electors 7,136
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Top-candidate result%+/-
Conservative 67.9+25.1
Labour 18.6+5.4
Green 13.5+10.3

Wivenhoe

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Wivenhoe ward

Wivenhoe was created from the following wards:

Wivenhoe
PartyCandidateVotes%
Labour Co-op Cyril Liddy* 1,154 36.2
Liberal Democrats Mark Cory* 1,141 35.8
Labour Co-op Rosalind Scott* 1,137 35.7
Labour Co-op Phil Finn99831.3
Conservative Peter Hill90628.4
Liberal Democrats Sanchia Nash89228.0
Independent Andrea Luxford Vaughan54917.2
Liberal Democrats Alex Hale49915.7
Independent Mike Newton46414.6
Conservative Craig Stuart44714.0
Independent Shaun Boughton41613.1
Conservative Roman Perrior37911.9
Green Tim Glover2788.7
Green Laura Pountney1233.9
Green Lora Aziz1133.5
Turnout 3,18353.3
Registered electors 5,975
Labour Co-op win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Labour Co-op win (new seat)
Top-candidate result
Labour
 
28.6%
Liberal Democrat
 
28.3%
Conservative
 
22.5%
Independent
 
13.6%
Green Party
 
6.9%

By-elections

Shrub End

A by-election was called in Shrub End following the resignation of Cllr Karen Chaplin (Liberal Democrat). The seat was gained by the Conservatives in the subsequent by-election.

Shrub End: 7 September 2017
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Vic Flores 681 38.6 +19.4
Labour Mike Dale57232.4+20.5
Liberal Democrats Sam McCarthy37321.1-13.9
Independent Mike Clark543.1N/A
UKIP Bruno Hickman522.9-10.9
Green Victoria Weaver341.9-5.6
Majority1096.2N/A
Turnout 1,76521.7-6.5
Registered electors 8,119
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing Decrease2.svg0.6

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Elections to Colchester Borough Council took place on 5 May 2022. Eighteen members of the council were elected: one from 16 of the 17 wards, and two councillors from New Town & Christ Church ward, following the death of incumbent councillor Nick Cope, elected in 2019 and due to serve until 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2023 Colchester City Council election</span>

The 2023 Colchester City Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect members of Colchester City Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections across England. There were 17 of the 51 seats on the council up for election, being the usual third of the council, with one seat available for each ward. This set of seats were last contested at the 2019 election.

References

  1. ↑ "Local Boundary Commission for England". www.lgbce.org.uk. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
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