2024 Castle Point Borough Council election

2024 Castle Point Borough Council election

←  2023 2 May 2024 (2024-05-02) 2028 →
All 39 seats to Castle Point Borough Council 20 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Warren Gibson Dave Blackwell Party PIP CIIP Last election 16 seats, 35.4% 16 seats, 20.2% Seats before 16 16 [a] Seats won 24 15 Seat change 8 1 Popular vote 23,432 10,844 Percentage 44.1% 20.4% Swing 8.7% 0.2%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Beverley Egan Party Conservative Independent Last election 9 seats, 28.5% 0 seats, 0.8% Seats before 8 1 Seats won 0 0 Seat change 8 1 Popular vote 7,679 409 Percentage 14.5% 0.8% Swing 14.1% 0.0%
Winner of each seat at the 2024 Castle Point Borough Council election
Leader before election Dave Blackwell CIIP No overall control Leader after election Dave Blackwell CIIP PIP

The 2024 Castle Point Borough Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on the same day. All 39 members of Castle Point Borough Council in Essex were elected following boundary changes.

Prior to the election, the council was under no overall control, being led by a coalition of two local parties, the Canvey Island Independent Party (which only contested seats on Canvey Island) and the People's Independent Party (which only contested seats on the mainland part of the borough). The election resulted in a clean sweep for the two local parties. ^[1] The Conservatives lost all their seats. ^[2] The People's Independent Party were left with a majority, but it was agreed that they would continue to form a joint administration with the Canvey Island Independent Party. ^[3]

Background

Castle Point was a traditionally Conservative council. The Conservative controlled the council from 1976 until 1995, when the Labour Party won a majority. ^[4] The Conservatives retook control in 2003. This majority lasted until 2022 (aside from a period of no overall control from 2014 to 2015), ^[5] when the council again fell into no overall control.

In the 2023 election, the People's Independent Party gained 6 seats with 35.4% of the vote, the Canvey Island Independent Party held the 6 seats they were defending with 20.2%, and the Conservatives lost 6 with 28.5%. Following the 2023 election, the CIIP and PIP had formed a majority coalition. ^[6]

Boundary changes

Castle Point usually elects its councillors in thirds, on a 4-year cycle. However, following boundary changes, all councillors will be elected to the new wards. ^[7] The change reduces the number of councillors by 2. The electoral system is due to change to whole council elections every 4 years following a vote by the council. ^[8]

Old wards [9]	No. of seats	New wards	No. of seats
Appleton	3	Appleton	3
Boyce	3	Canvey Island Central	3
Canvey Island Central	3	Canvey Island East	3
Canvey Island East	3	Canvey Island North	3
Canvey Island North	3	Canvey Island South	3
Canvey Island South	3	Canvey Island Winter Gardens	3
Canvey Island West	2	Hadleigh St James	3
Canvey Island Winter Gardens	3	St George's	3
Cedar Hall	3	St Mary's	3
St George's	3	St Michael's	3
St James	3	Tarpots	3
St Mary's	3	Thundersley North	3
St Peter's	3	Thundersley South	3
Victoria	3

Previous council composition

After 2023 election			Before 2024 election [10]			After 2024 election
Party		Seats	Party		Seats	Party		Seats
	CIIP	16		CIIP	15		CIIP	15
	PIP	16		PIP	16		PIP	24
	Conservative	9		Conservative	8		Conservative	0
	Independent	0		Independent	1		Independent	0

Changes:

• December 2023: John Payne (CIIP) dies
• May 2023: Godfrey Isaacs leaves Conservatives to sit as an independent ^[11]

Results

Castle Point Borough Council's composition following the 2024 elections.

2024 Castle Point Borough Council election
Party		Candidates	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	PIP	24	24	0	0	8	61.5	44.1	23,432	+8.7
	CIIP	15	15	0	0	1	38.5	20.4	10,844	+0.2
	Conservative	22	0	0	0	7	0.0	14.5	7,679	–14.1
	Canvey Residents' Alliance	13	0	0	0		0.0	10.3	5,472	N/A
	Labour	25	0	0	0		0	9.3	4,972	–4.0
	Independent	1	0	0	0	1	0.0	0.8	409	±0.0
	Green	2	0	0	0		0.0	0.7	357	N/A

Ward results

The Statement of Persons Nominated, which details the candidates standing in each ward, was released by Castle Point Borough Council following the close of nomination on 8 April 2024. ^[12] Thirteen of the thirty-five Conservative nominations were rejected as invalid. ^[13] An asterisk denotes an incumbent councillor seeking re-election.

Appleton

Electorate: 5,148 ^[14]

Appleton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PIP	Lynsey McCarthy-Calvert*	854	60.4
	PIP	Diana Jones*	831	58.7
	PIP	Lorraine Larman	793	56.1
	Conservative	Wayne Johnson	504	35.6
	Conservative	Michael Dixon	441	31.2
	Conservative	Barry Webb	420	29.7
	Labour	Mark Maguire	205	14.5
	Labour	Charlie Young	196	13.9
Turnout				29.6
	PIP hold
	PIP hold
	PIP gain from Conservative

Canvey Island Central

Electorate: 5,905 ^[15]

Canvey Island Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CIIP	Peter May*	716	60.4
	CIIP	Lorraine Breading	683	57.6
	CIIP	Jamie Huntman	590	49.7
	Canvey Residents	Mickey Finn	479	40.4
	Canvey Residents	Sean Quartermaine	476	40.1
	Canvey Residents	Lisa Megennis	431	36.3
	Labour	Terry Miller	183	15.4
Turnout				22.8
	CIIP hold
	CIIP hold
	CIIP hold

Canvey Island East

Electorate: 5,839 ^[16]

Canvey Island East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CIIP	Susan Brooke	910	73.0
	CIIP	Carole Sach*	876	70.2
	CIIP	Grace Watson*	809	64.9
	Canvey Residents	Michael Griffin	435	34.9
	Conservative	John Last	263	21.1
	Labour	Daniel Curtis	225	18.0
	Conservative	Rachel Ojo	224	18.0
Turnout				25.4
	CIIP hold
	CIIP hold
	CIIP hold

Canvey Island North

Electorate: 5,890 ^[17]

Canvey Island North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CIIP	Dave Blackwell*	834	56.2
	CIIP	Michael Fuller*	732	49.3
	CIIP	Nick Harvey*	715	48.2
	Canvey Residents	Kevin Hobbs	527	35.5
	Canvey Residents	Paul Joiner	500	33.7
	Canvey Residents	Jade Pittman	473	31.9
	Conservative	Nikki Drogman	187	12.6
	Labour	Anita Duffield	168	11.3
	Conservative	Pat Haunts	162	10.9
	Labour	Brendan Duffield	152	10.2
Turnout				27.3
	CIIP hold
	CIIP hold
	CIIP hold

Canvey Island South

Electorate: 5,786 ^[18]

Canvey Island South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CIIP	Barry Campagna*	851	62.2
	CIIP	Barry Palmer*	784	57.3
	CIIP	Janice Payne*	754	55.1
	Canvey Residents	Scott Griffin	426	31.1
	Canvey Residents	Leah Griffin	417	30.5
	Canvey Residents	Jamie Coronado	411	30.0
	Conservative	Joan Liddiard	224	16.4
	Labour	Heidi Cox	122	8.9
	Labour	Katie Curtis	116	8.5
Turnout				25.5
	CIIP hold
	CIIP hold
	CIIP hold

Canvey Island Winter Gardens

Electorate: 5,688 ^[19]

Canvey Island Winter Gardens

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CIIP	David Thomas*	551	48.6
	CIIP	Peter Greig*	548	48.3
	CIIP	Graham Withers*	491	43.3
	Canvey Residents	Michelle Griffin	335	29.5
	Canvey Residents	Natalie Lawrence	285	25.1
	Canvey Residents	Praise Coronado	277	24.4
	Conservative	Darren Brown	235	20.7
	Labour Co-op	Maggie McArthur-Curtis	184	16.2
	Labour Co-op	Moreblessing Chasiya	178	15.7
	Green	Bob Chapman	162	14.3
	Conservative	Ivor Earl	157	13.8
Turnout				21.6
	CIIP hold
	CIIP hold
	CIIP hold

Hadleigh St James

Electorate: 4,604 ^[20]

Hadleigh St James

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PIP	Kate Knott	949	71.3
	PIP	Aimme Harbinson	850	63.8
	PIP	Duncan MacPherson	791	59.4
	Conservative	Simon Hart*	464	34.8
	Conservative	Jacqui Thornton*	445	33.4
	Labour	Dina Mehdi	251	18.8
	Labour	Charlotte Reilly	245	18.4
Turnout				33.3
	PIP win (new seat)
	PIP win (new seat)
	PIP win (new seat)

St George's

Electorate: 4,859 ^[21]

St George's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PIP	Nicola Benson*	751	63.2
	PIP	Dean Silk	552	46.5
	PIP	Nanine Pachy	509	42.8
	Independent	Steven Cole	409	34.4
	Conservative	David Cross	369	31.1
	Conservative	Paul Harbord	333	28.0
	Labour	Jackie Reilly	245	20.6
	Labour	Freddy West	202	17.0
	Green	Billy Brew	195	16.4
Turnout				28.4
	PIP hold
	PIP gain from Conservative
	PIP gain from Conservative

St Mary's

Electorate: 5,357 ^[22]

St Mary's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PIP	Russ Savage*	1,360	78.5
	PIP	Rob Lillis*	1,351	78.0
	PIP	Sharon Ainsley*	1,322	76.3
	Conservative	Roxanne Goldfinch	390	22.5
	Labour Co-op	Laurence Chapman	285	16.5
	Labour Co-op	Joe Cooke	249	14.4
	Labour Co-op	Georgina Morgan-Bates	239	13.8
Turnout				35.8
	PIP hold
	PIP hold
	PIP hold

St Michael's

Electorate: 4,449 ^[23]

St Michael's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PIP	John Knott*	1,450	95.0
	PIP	Warren Gibson*	1,396	91.5
	PIP	Tim Copsey*	1,387	90.9
	Labour	Amie Maguire	179	11.7
	Labour	Jacqueline Warner	165	10.8
Turnout				38.3
	PIP win (new seat)
	PIP win (new seat)
	PIP win (new seat)

Tarpots

Electorate: 5,575 ^[24]

Tarpots

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PIP	Michael Dearson*	899	68.5
	PIP	Kieron Bowker*	730	55.6
	PIP	Benn Wimbledon	678	51.7
	Conservative	Andrew Sheldon	674	51.3
	Conservative	Sunil Gupta	504	38.4
	Labour	Holly Foxen	232	17.7
	Labour	Susan Foxen	221	16.8
Turnout				28.3
	PIP win (new seat)
	PIP win (new seat)
	PIP win (new seat)

Thundersley North

Electorate: 5,968 ^[25]

Thundersley North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PIP	Gareth Howlett*	1,408	82.1
	PIP	Steve Mountford*	1,339	78.1
	PIP	Tom Gibson*	1,298	75.7
	Conservative	Margaret Belford	382	22.3
	Conservative	Vincent White	300	17.5
	Labour	Bill Emberson	209	12.2
	Labour	Helen Emberson	209	12.2
Turnout				31.8
	PIP win (new seat)
	PIP win (new seat)
	PIP win (new seat)

Thundersley South

Electorate: 4,128 ^[26]

Thundersley South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PIP	Allan Edwards*	652	62.2
	PIP	Matt Cortes	648	61.8
	PIP	Laurie Dixon	634	50.9
	Conservative	James Cutler	364	34.7
	Conservative	Andy Thornton*	321	30.6
	Conservative	Adrian Roper	316	30.1
	Labour	Gwyn Bailey	168	16.0
	Labour	Andrew Darling	144	13.7
Turnout				27.9
	PIP win (new seat)
	PIP win (new seat)
	PIP win (new seat)

By-elections

Canvey Island Winter Gardens

Canvey Island Winter Gardens by-election: 29 May 2025 ^[27]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform UK	Reece Langley	712	53.1	N/A
	Conservative	Paul Harbord	233	17.3	+1.3
	CIIP	Steve Sach	200	14.9	−22.7
	Labour	Moreblessing Chasiya	131	9.8	−2.8
	Green	Bob Chapman	67	5.0	−6.1
Majority			479	35.6	N/A
Turnout			1,344	23.3	+1.7
	Reform UK gain from CIIP

By-election triggered by the death of Canvey Island Independent Party councillor Peter Greig. ^[28]

References

1. Including one vacant seat at Canvey Island North last held by CIIP.

1. "Castle Point election result". BBC News. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
2. Day-Parker, Jessica (3 May 2024). "Local elections: Conservatives wiped out at Castle Point". Canvey Echo. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
3. "Power sharing arrangements agreed". Castle Point Borough Council. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
4. "Castle Point Borough Council Election Results 1973-2012" (PDF). Elections Centre. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
5. "Conservatives lose power in Castle Point after a decade". ITV News. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
6. Niewinska, Lina (5 May 2023). "'Incredibly honoured' - Elected Independents celebrate Castle Point victory". Echo. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
7. The Castle Point (Electoral Changes) Order 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
8. Meyler, Piers (5 February 2024). "Council agrees change in voting system". Essex Live. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
9. "The Borough of Castle Point (Electoral Changes) Order 2001", legislation.gov.uk , The National Archives, SI 2001/2440, retrieved 27 March 2024
10. "Councillors". Castle Point Borough Council. 6 March 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
11. "CASTLE POINT". www.localcouncils.co.uk. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
12. "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED". Castle Point Borough Council. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
13. Dedman, Simon (10 April 2024). "Thirteen Tory election nominations are 'invalid'". BBC News . Retrieved 5 May 2024.
14. "CMIS > Elections". castlepoint.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
15. "CMIS > Elections". castlepoint.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
16. "CMIS > Elections". castlepoint.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
17. "CMIS > Elections". castlepoint.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
18. "CMIS > Elections". castlepoint.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
19. "CMIS > Elections". castlepoint.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
20. "CMIS > Elections". castlepoint.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
21. "CMIS > Elections". castlepoint.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
22. "CMIS > Elections". castlepoint.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
23. "CMIS > Elections". castlepoint.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
24. "CMIS > Elections". castlepoint.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
25. "CMIS > Elections". castlepoint.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
26. "CMIS > Elections". castlepoint.cmis.uk.com. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
27. "Election Ward Candidates". Castle Point Borough Council. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
28. Teale, Andrew (29 May 2025). "Previewing the four local by-elections of 29th May 2025". Andrew's Previews. Retrieved 30 May 2025.