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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Council elections

Year Con Lab LD [a] UKIP Grn Ind Oth
2025
Boundary changes; seats increased by 3
2021 5258-136 [b]
2017 5667-123 [c]
2013 42999213 [d]
2009 60112---2 [e]
2005 52138---2 [f]
Boundary changes; seats reduced by 4 [2]
2001 491910---1 [g]
1997 402315---1 [h]
Thurrock and Southend leave the Essex County Council area, reducing the number of seats by 19
1993 323332--1-
1989 572614---1 [i]
1985 452923---1 [j]
1981 513213---2 [k]
1977 83122----
1973 50405--11 [l]

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 [3]
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 [4]
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 [5]
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 [6]
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 [7]
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 [8]
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 [9]
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 [10]
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 [11]
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
Basildon 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'"`UNIQ−−ref−00000077−QINU`"'
Conservative Chris Amos1,22336.6+5.3
Holland Residents K.T. King53716.1−24.8'"`UNIQ−−ref−00000078−QINU`"'
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

2021–2025

Rayleigh North By-Election: 3 March 2022 [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats James Newport 1,658 57.4 +12.3
Conservative Simon Smith92932.2−11.8
Independent Jack Lawmon1645.7N/A
Labour Lorraine Ridley1374.7−6.2
Majority72925.2+24.1
Turnout 2,89221.9−15.6
Registered electors 13,183
Liberal Democrats hold Swing +12.0
Basildon Laindon Park and Fryerns By-Election: 4 May 2023 [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Patricia Reid 2,748 49.7 +15.3
Conservative Terri Sargent1,89034.2+1.2
Green Oliver McCarthy4458.1N/A
Liberal Democrats Mike Chandler4448.0+3.9
Majority85815.5+14.1
Turnout 5,58818.2–6.9
Registered electors 30,722
Labour hold Swing +7.1
Harlow South East By-Election: 2 May 2024 [14] [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrew Johnson 2,008 48.6 –13.1
Labour Kay Morrison1,47635.7+2.8
UKIP Dan Long2596.3N/A
Green Jennifer Steadman2576.2N/A
Liberal Democrats Christopher Millington1303.2–0.9
Majority53212.9
Turnout 4,16328.1–5.4
Registered electors 14,841
Conservative hold Swing –7.9
Basildon Pitsea By-Election: 4 July 2024 [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Emma Callaghan 5,959 43.8 +2.0
Conservative Craig Rimmer4,36032.1–13.8
Independent Iurie Cojocaru1,67712.4N/A
Liberal Democrats Phil Jenkins1,0457.7+1.9
TUSC Jack Huggins5504.0N/A
Majority1,59911.8N/A
Turnout 13,59141.2+14.9
Registered electors 32,977+161
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +7.9

Notes

  1. ↑ Includes seat totals for the SDP-Liberal Alliance
  2. ↑ 2 CIIP, 2 R4U 1 Loughton Residents, 1 Rochford Resident
  3. ↑ 2 CIIP, 1 Loughton Residents Association
  4. ↑ 1 CIIP, 1 Loughton Residents Association, 1 Tendring First
  5. ↑ 1 CIIP, 1 Loughton Residents Association
  6. ↑ 1 Community Representative, 1 Loughton Residents Association
  7. ↑ 1 Loughton Residents Association
  8. ↑ 1 Loughton Residents Association
  9. ↑ 1 Loughton Residents Association
  10. ↑ 1 Loughton Residents Association
  11. ↑ 2 Residents Association
  12. ↑ 1 Residents Association

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