2024 Epping Forest District Council election

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2024 Epping Forest District Council election
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All 54 seats to Epping Forest District Council
28 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
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LeaderChris WhitbreadCaroline PondJon Whitehouse
Party Conservative Loughton Residents Liberal Democrats
Last election34 seats, 48.3%13 seats, 0.0%6 seats, 22.4%
Seats before34135
Seats won29137
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 3Steady2.svgIncrease2.svg 1
Popular vote11,3265,0204,654
Percentage38.2%17.0%15.7%
SwingDecrease2.svg 10.1%N/ADecrease2.svg 6.7%
 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
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LeaderNoneSimon HeapMartin Morris
Party Independent Green Labour
Last election2 seats, 4.6%2 seats, 2.1%0 seats, 19.7%
Seats before420
Seats won311
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 1Decrease2.svg 1Increase2.svg 1
Popular vote5,2851,2206,667
Percentage17.8%4.1%22.5%
SwingIncrease2.svg 13.2%Increase2.svg 2.0%Increase2.svg 2.8%
Map of the results of the 2024 local elections in Epping Forest District.png
Results of the 2024 Epping Forest District Council election (top placing candidate shading an entire ward, with second and third placed candidates places in order in the circles)
2024 Epping Forest District Council composition.svg
Council composition following the election
Council control before election

Chris Whitbread
Conservative

Council control after election

TBD

The 2024 Epping Forest District Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom held on the same day. All 54 members of Epping Forest District Council in Essex were elected following boundary changes.

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Background

Since its creation in 1974, only the Conservatives have ever formed majorities on the council. The party held control until 1994, before retaking the council from no overall control in 2007. [1] The Conservatives briefly fell behind both Labour and the Liberal Democrats in 1996, but regained their status as the largest party in 1999.

In the most recent election, the Conservatives lost 1 seat with 48.3% of the vote, the Liberal Democrats gained 2 with 22.4%, independents and the Green Party gained and lost no seats with 4.6% and 2.1% respectively, and the British Democratic Party lost representation with 1.3% (their one councillor had been elected for the For Britain Movement). The Loughton Residents Association maintained their 13 seats.

Boundary changes

Epping Forest usually elects its councillors in thirds, on a 4-year cycle. However, following boundary changes, all councillors will be elected to the new wards. [2] The change reduces the number of councillors by 4.

Old wards [3] No. of seatsNew wardsNo. of seats
Broadley Common, Epping Upland and Nazeing1Buckhurst Hill East and Whitebridge3
Buckhurst Hill East2Buckhurst Hill West3
Buckhurst Hill West3Chigwell with Lambourne3
Chigwell Row1Epping East3
Chigwell Village2Epping West and Rural3
Chipping Ongar, Greensted and Marden Ash2Grange Hill3
Epping Hemnall3Loughton Fairmead3
Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common3Loughton Forest3
Grange Hill3Loughton Roding3
Hastingwood, Matching and Sheering Village1Loughton St John’s3
High Ongar, Willingale and The Rodings1North Weald Bassett3
Lambourne1Ongar3
Loughton Alderton2Roydon and Lower Nazeing3
Loughton Broadway2Rural East3
Loughton Fairmead2Theydon Bois with Passingford3
Loughton Forest2Waltham Abbey North3
Loughton Roding2Waltham Abbey South and Rural3
Loughton St John's2Waltham Abbey West3
Loughton St Mary's2
Lower Nazeing2
Lower Sheering1
Moreton and Fyfield1
North Weald Bassett2
Passingford1
Roydon1
Shelley1
Theydon Bois2
Waltham Abbey High Beach1
Waltham Abbey Honey Lane3
Waltham Abbey North East2
Waltham Abbey Paternoster2
Waltham Abbey South West2

Summary

Council composition

After 2023 election Before 2024 election [4] After 2024 election [5]
PartySeatsPartySeatsPartySeats
Conservative 34 Conservative 34 Conservative 29
Loughton Residents 13 Loughton Residents 13 Loughton Residents 13
Liberal Democrats 6 Liberal Democrats 5 Liberal Democrats 7
Independent 2 Independent 4 Independent 3
Green 2 Green 2 Green 1
Labour 0 Labour 0 Labour 1

Changes:

Election result

2024 Epping Forest District Council election
PartyCandidatesSeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 4829Decrease2.svg 338.2%11,326Decrease2.svg 10.1%
  Loughton Residents 1413Steady2.svg17.0%5,020N/A
  Liberal Democrats 157Increase2.svg 115.7%4,654Decrease2.svg 6.7%
  Independent 132Increase2.svg 117.8%5,285Increase2.svg 13.2%
  Green 41Decrease2.svg 14.1%1,220Increase2.svg 2.0%
  Labour 221Increase2.svg 122.5%6,667Increase2.svg 2.8%
  TUSC 20.7%222Increase2.svg 0.3%
  British Democratic 11.0%323Decrease2.svg 0.3%
  English Democrat 1
  Reform UK 10.7%227Increase2.svg 0.3%
  UKIP 10.8%235N/A

Candidates

The Statement of Persons Nominated, which details the candidates standing in each ward, was released by Epping Forest District Council following the close of nominations on 8 April 2024. [7]

Buckhurst Hill East & Whitebridge

Buckhurst Hill East & Whitebridge (3 seats) [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Loughton Residents Rose Brookes* 792 42.1
Loughton Residents Barbara Cohen 646 34.3
Green Elizabeth Gabbett* 639 34.0
Loughton Residents Chris Kent61732.8
Green Dewole Aradeon59631.7
Conservative Jane Bagshaw37519.9
Labour Alain Laviolette36919.6
Conservative Alexia Sparrow32717.4
Conservative Marshall Vance32017.0
Independent Ben Brown1869.9
Turnout 1,90633
Registered electors 5,796
Loughton Residents win (new seat)
Loughton Residents win (new seat)
Green win (new seat)

Buckhurst Hill West

Buckhurst Hill West (3 seats) [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Bob Church 819 46.6
Conservative Ken Williamson* 800 45.5
Conservative Smruti Patel* 706 40.2
Green Rebecca Fricker58133.0
Green Kathryn Radley55031.3
Labour Tom Kasperkowicz41923.8
Independent Lyubka Mihailova34019.3
Liberal Democrats Ishvinder Matharu33018.8
Turnout 1,76234
Registered electors 5,198
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Chigwell with Lambourne

Chigwell with Lambourne (3 seats) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Craig McCann* 1,164 64.2
Conservative Kaz Rizvi* 1,018 56.1
Conservative Darshan Sunger* 947 52.2
Independent Shahzaad Malik45725.2
Labour Tony Casaluci43724.1
Turnout 1,82632
Registered electors 5,645
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Epping East

Epping East (3 seats) [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Janet Whitehouse* 1,100 57.1
Liberal Democrats Jon Whitehouse* 1,020 53.0
Liberal Democrats Edward Barnard 850 44.1
Independent Cherry McCredie*59931.1
Conservative Mari-Louise Whitbread50126.0
Conservative James Abbott47724.8
Conservative Ian Roberts46724.2
Labour Paul Thomas26213.6
Turnout 1,93735
Registered electors 5,521
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Epping West & Rural

Epping West & Rural (3 seats) [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Mandy George 945 47.3
Liberal Democrats Razia Sharif* 926 46.4
Conservative Holly Whitbread* 832 41.7
Liberal Democrats Elaine Thatcher81540.8
Conservative Andy Green*75137.6
Conservative Peter Murray69935.0
Independent Nigel Avey33216.6
Labour Sean Voitov1969.8
Turnout 2,00239
Registered electors 5,130
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Grange Hill

Grange Hill (3 seats) [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alan Lion* 791 42.5
Independent Lisa Morgan* 775 41.6
Conservative Rashni Chahal Holden 702 37.7
Conservative Osman Ali63133.9
Independent Debby Rye59231.8
Labour Angela Ayre45624.5
Independent Alana Aradeon36519.6
Liberal Democrats Steve Hume20310.9
Turnout 1,87731
Registered electors 6,142
Conservative win (new seat)
Independent win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Loughton Fairmead

Loughton Fairmead (3 seats) [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Loughton Residents Louise Mead* 966 30%
Loughton Residents Will Kauffman 761 23%
Loughton Residents Arash Ardakani 688 21%
Labour Gareth Rawlings33210%
Labour Alastair Smith2879%
Conservative Bobby Nagpal2137%
Turnout 130624%
Registered electors 5,472

Loughton Forest

Loughton Forest (3 seats) [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Loughton Residents Roger Baldwin* 1,220 24%
Loughton Residents Michael Owen* 1,171 23%
Loughton Residents Ian Allgood* 1,167 23%
Conservative Sarah Metcalfe3617%
Conservative Katharine Hawes3547%
Conservative Jan Ridding2886%
Labour Tom Draper2795%
Liberal Democrats Naomi Davies1783%
TUSC Scott Jones701%
Turnout 183135%
Registered electors 5,295

Loughton Roding

Loughton Roding (3 seats) [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Stephen Murray* 1,098 33%
Loughton Residents Sheree Rackham 826 25%
Loughton Residents Chidi Nweke* 767 23%
Labour Debbie Wild32710%
Independent Malachi Fontenelle1866%
Conservative Tim Parry1304%
Turnout 148127%
Registered electors 5,446

Loughton St. John's

Loughton St. John's (3 seats) [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Loughton Residents Chris Pond* 1,216 31%
Loughton Residents Howard Kauffman* 1,106 28%
Loughton Residents Graham Wiskin 1,012 25%
Conservative Valerie Metcalfe3669%
Labour Emma Roberts2747%
Turnout 162530%
Registered electors 5,363

North Weald Bassett

North Weald Bassett (3 seats) [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Tom Bromwich 889 27%
Conservative Nigel Bedford* 604 18%
Conservative Les Burrows* 540 16%
Conservative Les Mills47214%
Labour Kevin Hind39212%
Labour Paul Stockton38212%
Turnout 152131%
Registered electors 4,981

Ongar

Ongar (3 seats) [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Mary Dadd 911 24%
Conservative Jaymey McIvor* 828 22%
Conservative Paul Keska* 827 22%
Labour Alison Wingfield3379%
Labour Ronald Huish3329%
Labour Timothy White2968%
Liberal Democrats Monica Richardson2527%
Turnout 152527%
Registered electors 5,742

Roydon & Lower Nazeing

Roydon & Lower Nazeing (3 seats) [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard Bassett* 883 30%
Conservative Chris Whitbread* 715 24%
Conservative Ronda Pugsley* 678 23%
Labour Co-op Alex Kyriacou47016%
UKIP Martin Harvey2358%
Turnout 139326%
Registered electors 5,460

Rural East

Rural East (3 seats) [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ray Balcombe* 817 18%
Conservative Richard Morgan* 774 17%
Conservative Ian Hadley* 737 17%
Liberal Democrats Lesley Paine69716%
Liberal Democrats Bijal Pattani46510%
Labour Ann Huish4059%
Reform UK Peter Bell3247%
English Democrat Robin Tilbrook 2275%
Turnout 187630%
Registered electors 6,249

Theydon Bois with Passingford

Theydon Bois with Passingford (3 seats) [22]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Clive Amos* 949 19%
Liberal Democrats Tippy Cornish 882 18%
Conservative Sue Jones 698 14%
Liberal Democrats Richard Griffiths69514%
Conservative Heather Brady*64713%
Conservative John Philip*58112%
Independent Christine Burgess2124%
Independent Louis Turchin2114%
Labour Christine Mortimer1573%
Turnout 188036%
Registered electors 5,175

Waltham Abbey North

Waltham Abbey North (3 seats) [23]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Martin Morris 520 22%
Conservative Jeane Lea* 483 21%
Conservative David Stocker* 447 19%
Conservative Fraser Scott41718%
British Democratic Julian Leppert32314%
TUSC Adeline Walsh1526%
Turnout 126824%
Registered electors 5,371

Waltham Abbey South & Rural

Waltham Abbey South & Rural (3 seats) [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Steven Heather* 715 28%
Conservative Maria Markham* 676 27%
Conservative Tim Matthews* 622 25%
Labour Simon Harris50320%
Turnout 126124%
Registered electors 5,347

Waltham Abbey West

Waltham Abbey West (3 seats) [25]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Joseph Parsons* 663 27%
Conservative Jodie Lucas* 618 26%
Conservative Shane Yerrell* 598 25%
Labour Bob Greyson53222%
Turnout 129623%
Registered electors 5,550

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