Essex County Council elections

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Essex County Council in England is elected every four years. Since the last boundary changes in 2005, 75 councillors are elected from 70 wards. [1]

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Political control

Party in controlYears
Conservative 1973−1985
No overall control 1985−1989
Conservative 1989−1993
No overall control 1993−1998
Conservative 1998
No overall control 1998−2001
Conservative 2001−present

Leadership

The leaders of the council since 1997 have been: [2]

CouncillorPartyFromTo
Chris Pearson Labour May 1997
Mervyn Juliff Labour May 1997April 1998
Paul White, Baron Hanningfield Conservative April 1998May 1999
Mervyn Juliff Labour May 1999February 2000
Paul White, Baron Hanningfield Conservative February 20009 Feb 2010
Peter Martin Conservative 9 Feb 20105 May 2013
David Finch Conservative 14 May 20139 May 2021
Kevin Bentley Conservative 25 May 2021

Council elections

County result maps

By-election results

1985–1989

Basildon Vange (June 1986) (Labour Hold)

Gray Thurrock (July 1986) (Labour Hold)

Belfairs and Blenheim By-Election: February 1987
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Alliance Albert Smulian 2,005 55.6 +2.3
Conservative Terrence Birdseye1,28935.7−0.2
Labour Nigel Boorman3148.7−1.1
Majority71619.8+2.5
Turnout 3,60833.0−12.2
Alliance hold Swing +1.0
Basildon Crouch By-Election: December 1987
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Alliance Francis Bellard 1,423 45.9 +14.1
Conservative Terence Dove1,28841.5−4.1
Labour Margaret Davis39112.6−10.0
Majority1354.6
Turnout 3,10230.0−6.0
Alliance gain from Conservative Swing +9.1
Maypole By-Election: May 1988
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SLD Patricia Pascoe 2,035 42.3 −1.1
Labour Donald Quinn1,57232.7−6.9
Conservative Mary Fairhead1,20025.0+8.0
Majority4639.6+5.8
Turnout 4,80739.0+2.3
SLD hold Swing +2.9

1989–1993

Old Heath By-Election: 3 May 1990
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Christopher Pearson 2,384 40.1 +4.2
Liberal Democrats Vincent Edkins2,10335.4−0.3
Conservative Edward Winney1,03917.5−1.9
SDP John Parrick4167.0+7.0
Majority2814.7+4.5
Turnout 5,94248.1+8.6
Labour hold Swing +2.3
Brentwood Central By-Election: June 1990
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Edgar Davis 2,210 56.0 +21.5
Conservative John Hutton1,33933.9−14.6
Labour Francis Keohane2496.3−4.2
Green Philip Ray892.3−4.6
SDP Samuel Ormsby320.8+0.8
Independent James Holdsworth280.7+0.7
Majority87122.1−13.8
Turnout 3,94740.1−3.3
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing +18.1
Dunmow By-Election: 2 May 1991
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Westcott 2,937 56.4 −5.7
Liberal Democrats John Gibbs1,45127.9+7.7
Labour David Cole81715.7−2.0
Majority1,48628.5−13.4
Turnout 5,20545.1+7.7
Conservative hold Swing −6.7
Basildon Laindon By-Election: September 1991
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Walsh 1,780 48.4 +13.1
Labour Harold Bruce1,36032.7−17.6
Liberal Democrats Simon Wilson53813.0+4.4
Majority42011.4
Turnout 4,15533.2−3.2
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +15.4
Brentwood Hutton By-Election: September 1992
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alun Thomas 1,872 57.9 −4.9
Liberal Democrats Katharine Spanton1,19136.8+18.6
Labour Edward O’Brien1725.3−13.7
Majority68121.1−43.6
Turnout 3,23526.8−7.2
Conservative hold Swing −11.8

1993–1997

Loughton St. Marys By-Election: 21 October 1993
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stanley Goodwin 1,891 55.6 +10.5
Conservative Vernon Davies87025.6−10.0
Liberal Democrats Nicholas Macy64118.8−0.5
Majority1,02130.0
Turnout 3,40232.5
Labour hold Swing +10.3
Tendring Rural West By-Election: 22 September 1994
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Christopher Pearson 1,260 35.6 +5.7
Conservative Roger Lord 1,19733.9−1.5
Liberal Democrats Potter99928.3−5.4
Green Fox802.3+2.3
Majority631.8
Turnout 3,536
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +4.1

1997–2001

Basildon Westley Heights By-Election: 4 June 1998
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Robert Sears 1,717 37.9 +2.2
Conservative David Walsh1,57334.8−6.0
Liberal Democrats Geoffery Williams1,23127.2+3.7
Majority1443.1
Turnout 4,52135.4
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Loughton St. Johns By-Election: 11 November 1999
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Stanley Goodwin 927 48.4 +11.4
Conservative Colin Finn52727.5+2.0
Loughton Residents Kay Ellis40421.1−9.8
Liberal Democrats Christopher Spence562.9−3.6
Majority40020.9
Turnout 1,91419.4
Labour hold Swing

2001–2005

Basildon Westley Heights By-Election: 23 September 2004 [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Geoffrey Williams 1,167 45.0 +24.2
Conservative Sandra Hillier99938.5−3.0
Labour Jane Dyer42616.4−21.3
Majority1686.5
Turnout 2,59219.9
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Little Parndon and Town Centre By-Election: 16 December 2004 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mike Danvers 1,082 43.5 −9.1
Conservative Lee Dangerfield71528.7+0.8
UKIP Anthony Bennett26410.5+10.5
Liberal Democrats Christopher Millington2138.6−10.9
Independent Patricia Bryne1957.8+7.8
English Democrat Robin Tilbrook 210.8+0.8
Majority36714.8
Turnout 2,48727.3
Labour hold Swing

2005–2009

Brentwood Rural By-Election: 13 July 2006 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ann Naylor 2,062 61.5 +11.8
Liberal Democrats Barry Aspinell1,15034.3+2.3
Labour Jane Winter1424.2−4.5
Majority91227.2
Turnout 3,35426.0
Conservative hold Swing

2010–2013

Harlow West By-Election: 5 May 2011 [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tony Durcan 5,320 48.4 +22.3
Conservative Mark Gough4,56441.6+8.3
Liberal Democrats John Strachan1,10010.0−5.4
Majority7566.9
Turnout 10,98437.2
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Percentage changes are since June 2009. At the previous election, the Green Party had received 11.0% and the British National Party received 14.2%.

Chelmsford Central By-Election: 9 June 2011 [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Dick Madden 1,496 43.6 +10.0
Liberal Democrats Graham Pooley1,32338.6−5.9
Labour Russell Kennedy61017.8+10.1
Majority173
Turnout 3,42929
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing

Percentage changes are since June 2009, when the British National Party and the Green Party also stood, receiving 6.1% and 8.2%, respectively, of votes cast.

Stock By-Election: 8 September 2011 [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ian Grundy 1,820 59.3 −6.4
UKIP Jesse Pryke73624.1n/a
Labour Maurice Austin2738.9+3.7
Liberal Democrats Marian Elsden1605.2−7.3
Green Reza Hossain802.6−6.1
Majority1,084
Turnout 3,06922.4
Conservative hold Swing

Percentage changes are since June 2009. At the previous election, the British National Party received 7.8% of the votes cast

Chelmsford North By-Election: 28 June 2012 [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Stephen Robinson 1,614 42.1 −4.6
Conservative Robert Pontin94124.5−7.5
Labour Nastassia Player71118.5+10.7
UKIP Leslie Retford43511.3n/a
Green Reza Hossain1343.5−3.8
Majority6.9
Turnout 3,83528.3
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Percentage changes are since June 2009. At the previous election, British National Party received 6.2%.

2013–2017

Brightlingsea By-Election: 9 October 2014 [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alan Goggin 1,809 33.7 +9.1
UKIP Anne Poonian1,64230.6+0.2
Liberal Democrats Gary Scott1,19922.3−4.6
Labour Carol Carlsson-Browne5249.8−2.7
Green Beverley Maltby2003.7+0.2
Majority1673.1−0.4
Turnout 5,39836.5+4.3
Conservative gain from UKIP Swing +4.5
Bocking By-Election: 5 March 2015 [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stephen Canning 1,071 34.3 +2.1
Labour Lynn Watson97431.2+1.3
UKIP Michael Ford85527.4−5.3
Green John Malam1655.3+2.2
Independent Walter Sale581.9N/A
Majority973.1
Turnout 3,123
Conservative gain from UKIP Swing
Clacton East By-Election: 31 March 2016
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Holland Residents Colin Sargeant 1,781 46.8 N/A
UKIP Benjamin Smith96125.3+0.5
Conservative Richard Bleach62816.5−10.3
Labour Christopher Bird38710.2−0.5
Liberal Democrats Rain Welham-Cobb491.3−0.4
Majority820
Turnout
Holland Residents gain from Tendring First Swing
Laindon Park and Fryerns By-Election: 9 June 2016
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UKIP Frank Ferguson 2,034 42.6 +9.2
Labour Gavin Callaghan1,60033.5−7.4
Conservative Gary Maylin87818.4+2.4
Green Phillip Rackley2645.5+3.1
Majority434
Turnout 16.9
UKIP gain from Labour Swing

2017–2021

Clacton East By-Election: 3 October 2019
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Mark Stephenson 1,231 36.9 +21.8 [13]
Conservative Chris Amos1,22336.6+5.3
Holland Residents K.T. King53716.1−24.8 [14]
Liberal Democrats Callum Robertson1404.2+2.4
Labour Geoff Ely1113.3−6.1
Green Chris Southall972.9+1.3
Majority80.2−9.4
Turnout 3,33925.3−10.5
Independent hold Swing +8.3
Rayleigh North By-Election: 3 March 2022
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats James Newport 1,658 57.4 +12.3
Conservative Simon Smith92932.2−11.8
Independent Jack Lawmon1645.7+5.7
Labour Lorraine Ridley1374.7−6.2
Majority72925.2+24.1
Turnout 2,89221.9−15.6
Liberal Democrats hold Swing +12.0

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