2017_Essex_County_Council_election

2017 Essex County Council election
All 75 seats to Essex County Council; 38 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	31.1% ( 3.3%)
	Map showing the results of the 2017 Essex County Council elections.
Council control before election; Conservative;	Council control after election ; Conservative;

2017 Essex County Council election

2017 UK local government election

Elections to Essex County Council took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections.^[2] All 75 councillors were elected from 70 electoral divisions, which each returned either one or two councillors by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office.

Quick Facts All 75 seats to Essex County Council 38 seats needed for a majority, Turnout ...

The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous elections in 2009 and 2013. No elections were held in Thurrock or Southend-on-Sea, which are unitary authorities outside the area covered by the County Council.

Results by District

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Party		Seats
	Conservative	42
	UKIP	9
	Labour	9
	Liberal Democrats	9
	Green	2
	Tendring First	1
	Loughton Residents	1
	CIIP	1
	Independent	1
Total		75

Party		Seats
	Conservative	44
	Liberal Democrats	9
	Labour	8
	UKIP	6
	Green	2
	Loughton Residents	1
	CIIP	1
	R4U	1
	Holland Residents	1
	Independent	1
Vacant		1
Total		75

Division	Date			Cause	Resulting Council Composition
					Con	UKIP	Lab	LDem	Grn	TF	LRes	CInd	Ind	R4U	HRA

Brightlingsea	9 October 2014^[3]	UKIP	Conservative	UKIP incumbent resigned. Conservatives won by-election.	43	8	9	9	2	1	1	1	1	0	0
Saffron Walden	14 October 2014	Independent	R4U	New Party Formed.	43	8	9	9	2	1	1	1	0	1	0
Basildon Westley Heights	16 December 2014^[4]	UKIP	Independent	Councillor quit party to sit as an independent member.	43	7	9	9	2	1	1	1	1	1	0
Bocking	5 March 2015^[5]	UKIP	Conservative	Sitting councillor died. Conservatives won by-election.	44	6	9	9	2	1	1	1	1	1	0
Tendring Rural East	23 March 2016 ^[6]	UKIP	Independent	Councillor quit party to sit as an independent member.	44	5	9	9	2	1	1	1	2	1	0
Clacton East	31 March 2016^[7]	Tendring First	Holland Residents	Tendring First incumbent resigned. Holland-on-Sea Residents won by-election.	44	5	9	9	2	0	1	1	2	1	1
Laindon Park and Fryerns	9 June 2016 ^[8]	Labour	UKIP	Sitting councillor died. UKIP won by-election.	44	6	8	9	2	0	1	1	2	1	1
Tendring Rural East	28 July 2016 ^[9]	Independent	Conservative	Sitting councillor joined Conservatives.	45	6	8	9	2	0	1	1	1	1	1
Halstead	5 December 2016 ^[10]	Conservative	Vacant	Sitting councillor died.^[11]	44	6	8	9	2	0	1	1	1	1	1

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	56	15	1	+14	74.7	49.3	184,901	+15.0
	Labour	6	1	4	−3	8.0	16.9	63,470	−0.5
	Liberal Democrats	7	0	2	−2	9.3	13.7	51,524	+2.8
	Independent	2	1	0	+1	2.7	1.2	8,171	+1.0
	CIIP	2	1	0	+1	2.7	1.0	3,654	+0.1
	Green	1	0	1	−1	1.3	4.3	15,187	−0.3
	Loughton Residents	1	0	0		1.3	0.8	2,824	−0.3
	UKIP	0	0	9	−9	0.0	7.9	29,796	−19.7
	R4U	0	0	1	−1	0.0	1.4	5,231	New
	Wickford Independents	0	0	0		0.0	0.8	2,948	New
	Tendring First	0	0	1		0.0	0.4	1,332	−1.0
	BNP	0	0	0		0.0	0.2	847	−0.1
	South Woodham Ferrers Independents	0	0	0		0.0	0.2	732	0.0
	Rayleigh Independents	0	0	0		0.0	0.2	655	New
	English Democrat	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	58	−0.2
Total		75						372,834

	Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
Conservative	6	3	31,454	49.0	+16.8
Labour	2	1	13,569	21.1	−2.5
Independent	1	1	6,299	9.8	+7.8
UKIP	0	3	8,327	13.0	−20.4
Liberal Democrat	0		2,562	5.5	+0.3
Green	0		701	1.1	−1.6

2017_Essex_County_Council_election

2017 Essex County Council election

Previous composition

2013 election

Composition of council seats before election

Changes between elections

Summary

Results summary

Election of Group Leaders

Election of Leader of the Council

Results by District

Basildon

Braintree

Brentwood

Castle Point

Chelmsford

Colchester

Epping Forest

Harlow

Maldon

Rochford

Tendring

Uttlesford

By-elections

Summary

Results

Clacton East

References

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Kerry Smith *	3,341	60.6	*New*
	Conservative	Andrew Schrader	1,329	24.1	+1.9
	Labour	Jack Ferguson	546	9.9	−10.4
	Liberal Democrats	Benjamin Williams	294	5.3	−17.5
Majority			2,012	36.5	+33.5
Turnout			5,522	33.6	+12.5
	Independent gain from UKIP		Swing	+31.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Hedley *	6,223	69.6
	Conservative	Richard Moore	5,623	62.9
	Labour	Santa Bennett	1,082	12.1
	Liberal Democrats	Darren Kelliher	926	10.4
	Labour	David Kirkman	745	8.3
	Green	Oliver Alexander	701	7.8
	Liberal Democrats	Clare Nice	685	7.7
	UKIP	Kevin Piper	628	7.0
	UKIP	Linda Allport-Hodge	548	6.1
Majority			4,541	56.8
Turnout			8,951	32.6	+6.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.9
	Conservative hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jeff Henry	2,196	35.7
	Labour	Allan Davies	2,154	35.1
	Conservative	Sandra Hillier	2,077	33.8
	Labour	Adele Brown	2,018	32.8
	UKIP	Derrick Fellowes	1,405	22.9
	UKIP	Frank Ferguson *	1,402	22.8
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Grant	317	5.2
	Liberal Democrats	Colin Grant	296	4.8
Majority			77	1.3
Turnout			6,153	21.0	+0.3
	Conservative gain from UKIP		Swing	+16.5
	Labour hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Hillier	2,654	37.8
	Labour	Patricia Reid	2,605	37.1
	Labour	Paul Bishop	2,452	34.9
	Conservative	Christopher Jackman	2,313	32.9
	UKIP	Simon Breedon	1,372	19.5
	UKIP	Stephen Ward	1,113	15.8
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Howard	351	5.0
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Nice	303	4.3
	BNP	Paul Borg	161	2.3	New
	BNP	Christine Winter	126	1.8	New
Majority			153	2.2
Turnout			7,037	22.2	+2.2
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+10.1
	Labour hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tony Ball	4,723	55.7
	Conservative	Malcolm Buckley *	4,316	50.9
	Wickford Independents	David Harrison	1,503	17.7	New
	Wickford Independents	Eunice Brockman	1,455	17.1	New
	Labour	Louise Catling	1,068	12.6
	UKIP	Mark Conroy	1,009	11.9
	Labour	Peter Towler	899	10.6
	UKIP	Anne Marie Waters	850	10.0
	Liberal Democrats	David Radley	390	4.6
Majority			2,813	33.2
Turnout			9,783	32.2	+9.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	−0.0
	Conservative gain from UKIP

	Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
Conservative	7	1	18,704	54.8	+17.0
Green	1		3,527	10.3	+2.2
Labour	0		6,264	18.3	−3.4
UKIP	0	1	2,851	8.3	−19.0
Liberal Democrat	0		2,792	8.2	+3.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Canning *	2,143	55.3	+23.1
	Labour Co-op	Collette Gibson	992	25.6	−4.3
	UKIP	Alan Rees	367	9.5	−23.2
	Liberal Democrats	Barry Foskett	218	5.6	+3.4
	Green	Poppy Gerrard-Abbott	158	4.1	+1.0
Majority			1,151	29.7	+29.2
Turnout			3,887	27.6	−1.4
	Conservative gain from UKIP		Swing	+13.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Mitchell *	2,504	56.8	+16.2
	Labour	Moia Thorogood	723	16.4	−3.6
	Liberal Democrats	Geoffrey Keig	476	10.8	+6.2
	Green	Stephen Hicks	429	9.7	+3.8
	UKIP	Norma Huxter	275	6.2	−21.6
Majority			1,781	40.4	+27.6
Turnout			4,412	32.9	+3.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+9.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jean Schmitt	1,922	51.4	+18.6
	Labour	Colin Riches	1,067	28.6	−3.3
	UKIP	Sam Cowie	338	9.0	−18.1
	Liberal Democrats	Laura Davies	247	6.6	+3.0
	Green	Stephanie Bills	163	4.4	−0.1
Majority			853	22.8	+21.9
Turnout			3,741	26.0	+0.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	+11.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jo Beavis	2,604	59.3	+19.7
	Labour	Garry Warren	871	19.8	−2.3
	UKIP	Anthony Felton	338	7.7	−20.6
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Jarman-Howe	324	7.4	+3.3
	Green	Jenny Bishop	230	5.2	+0.3
	BNP	Paul Hooks	23	0.5	−0.6
Majority			1,733	39.5	+28.3
Turnout			4,396	28.6	+2.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+11.0

Hedingham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Finch *	3,222	64.9	+16.2
	Labour Co-op	Bill Edwards	592	11.9	−1.0
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Bolter	541	10.9	+2.9
	UKIP	David Huxter	371	7.5	−16.9
	Green	Dawn Holmes	242	4.9	−0.1
Majority			2,630	52.9	+28.6
Turnout			4,985	34.1	+2.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	+8.6

Three Fields with Great Notley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Graham Butland *	2,545	63.0	+15.3
	Labour	Juliet Walton	486	12.0	−1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Sheppard	404	10.0	+5.6
	UKIP	Sean Carter	319	7.9	−20.2
	Green	Bob Wright	286	7.1	+1.0
Majority			2,059	51.0	+31.4
Turnout			4,041	33.0	+5.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	+8.5

Witham Northern
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	James Abbott *	1,743	37.9	+11.5
	Conservative	Tom Cunningham	1,650	35.8	+11.4
	Labour Co-op	Philip Barlow	722	15.7	−4.9
	UKIP	David Hodges	343	7.5	−17.5
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Scott	145	3.2	+0.4
Majority			93	2.0	+0.7
Turnout			4,616	32.6	+0.3
	Green hold		Swing	+0.0

Witham Southern
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Derrick Louis *	2,114	51.1	+13.3
	Labour	Antony Gore	811	19.6	−4.0
	UKIP	Christopher Darbon	500	12.1	−13.1
	Liberal Democrats	Barry Fleet	437	10.6	+4.8
	Green	Philip Hughes	276	6.7	+0.5
Majority			1,303	31.5	+18.9
Turnout			4,143	27.0	+1.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+8.7

	Seats	Votes	%	+/-
Conservative	2	10,303	53.0	+16.3
Liberal Democrat	2	6,042	31.1	+5.7
Labour	0	1,690	8.7	−0.4
Green	0	713	3.7	+0.7
UKIP	0	694	3.6	−22.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Louise McKinlay	3,533	72.1	+24.1
	Liberal Democrats	Dominic Naylor	629	12.8	+4.6
	Labour	Emma Benson	502	10.2	+0.0
	Green	Alistair Stephen	235	4.8	+1.2
Majority			2,904	59.3	+11.3
Turnout			4,919	32.0	+4.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+9.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Barry Aspinell *	2,522	51.0	+7.8
	Conservative	John Kerslake	1,746	35.3	+7.9
	Labour	Michele Wigram	297	6.0	−0.2
	UKIP	Bryan Finegan	270	5.5	−14.8
	Green	Wendy Stephen	106	2.1	−0.6
Majority			776	15.7	−0.1
Turnout			4,948	34.5	+4.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	−0.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lesley Wagland	3,320	65.5	+16.0
	Liberal Democrats	Darryl Sankey	804	15.9	+13.0
	UKIP	Alison Heales	424	8.4	−29.8
	Labour	Tim Barrett	349	6.9	−1.3
	Green	Paul Jeater	174	3.4	+0.4
Majority			2,516	49.6	+39.5
Turnout			5,075	35.2	+6.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	David Kendall *	2,087	46.1	+7.2
	Conservative	Andy Wiles	1,704	37.6	+10.9
	Labour	Gareth Barrett	542	12.0	−0.8
	Green	John Hamilton	198	4.4	+1.8
Majority			383	8.5	−3.7
Turnout			4,545	30.6	+2.1
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	−1.9

	Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
Conservative	3	1	10,990	54.2	+20.8
CIIP	2	1	3,654	18.0	+3.5
Labour	0		2,635	13.0	−0.4
UKIP	0	2	2,286	11.3	−22.4
Liberal Democrat	0		506	2.5	+0.9
Green	0		214	1.1	−0.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CIIP	Dave Blackwell *	1,976	47.3	+3.0
	Conservative	Chas Mumford	1,359	32.5	+17.0
	UKIP	Sam Aubrey	482	11.5	−17.2
	Labour	Maggie McArthur-Curtis	319	7.6	−1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Chaplin	46	1.1	+0.5
Majority			617	14.8	−0.8
Turnout			4,381	29.0	+2.6
	CIIP hold		Swing	−7.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CIIP	Peter May	1,678	49.8	+21.2
	Conservative	Jay Blissett	1,342	39.8	+2.7
	Labour	Jackie Reilly	336	10.0	+2.1
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Gale	15	0.4	−0.3
Majority			336	10.0	+1.5
Turnout			3,371	24.6	−1.7
	CIIP gain from Conservative		Swing	+9.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jill Reeves *	3,063	66.2	+21.5
	UKIP	Brian Lee	560	12.1	−21.5
	Labour	Lee Dorrington	550	11.9	−0.6
	Liberal Democrats	Geoff Duff	241	5.2	+2.1
	Green	Douglas Copping	214	4.6	−1.4
Majority			2,503	54.1	+43.0
Turnout			4,636	33.0	+3.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	+21.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Sheldon	2,820	64.4	+28.4
	UKIP	Alan Bayley *	711	16.2	−25.7
	Labour	Jack Rawlings	644	14.7	−4.4
	Liberal Democrats	Francesca Sawle	202	4.6	+2.5
Majority			2,109	48.2	+42.3
Turnout			4,386	32.6	+1.4
	Conservative gain from UKIP		Swing	+27.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Beverly Egan	2,406	64.6	+31.0
	Labour	Joe Cooke	786	21.1	+2.5
	UKIP	Sharon Ainsley	533	14.3	−25.5
Majority			1,620	43.5	+37.3
Turnout			3,733	30.5	+2.8
	Conservative gain from UKIP		Swing	+28.2

	Seats	Votes	%	+/-
Conservative	6	20,220	44.0	+11.4
Liberal Democrat	3	11,817	25.7	+6.4
Labour	0	4,058	8.8	−1.6
UKIP	0	2,235	4.9	−18.5
Independent	0	1,786	3.9	+2.0
Green	0	1,372	3.0	-0.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Aldridge *	2,916	54.2	+10.4
	Independent	Wendy Daden	959	17.8	New
	Liberal Democrats	Julia Frascona	894	16.6	+4.0
	Labour	Connor Woolner	423	7.9	−0.7
	Green	Reza Hossain	184	3.4	−0.7
Majority			1,957	36.4	+22.3
Turnout			5,387	35.9	+5.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	−3.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Spence *	3,184	64.3	+15.3
	Liberal Democrats	Natacha Dudley	746	15.1	+4.8
	Labour	Sandra Massey	471	9.5	−1.7
	UKIP	Jesse Pryke	316	6.4	−18.3
	Green	Colin Budgey	237	4.8	−0.1
Majority			2,438	49.2	+24.9
Turnout			4,960	30.6	+5.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dick Madden *	1,823	42.5	+6.7
	Liberal Democrats	Marie Goldman	1,617	37.7	+11.7
	Labour	Edward Massey	506	11.8	−0.7
	UKIP	John Theedom	180	4.2	−16.5
	Green	Tony Lane	165	3.8	−1.3
Majority			206	4.8	−5.0
Turnout			4,292	33.3	+5.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Robinson *	2,194	47.0	+9.6
	Conservative	Mike Holoway	1,635	35.0	+13.0
	Labour	David Howell	466	10.0	−4.9
	UKIP	Thomas Jones	243	5.2	−16.3
	Green	Keith Wiffen	131	2.8	−1.4
Majority			559	12.0	−3.4
Turnout			4,676	34.3	+5.2
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	−1.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Jude Deakin *	1,735	39.1	+10.5
	Conservative	Graham Seeley	1,534	34.6	+8.7
	Labour Co-op	Richard Hyland	757	17.1	+2.2
	UKIP	Nigel Carter	284	6.4	−18.9
	Green	Natalie Seaman	129	2.9	−0.4
Majority			201	4.5	+1.7
Turnout			4,450	29.7	+3.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+0.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jenny Chandler *	2,306	46.7	+15.5
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Shaw	1,718	34.8	+9.0
	Labour	Chris Vince	422	8.5	−1.7
	UKIP	Jeanette Howes	360	7.3	−22.3
	Green	Liz Carlton	134	2.7	−0.6
Majority			588	11.9	+10.3
Turnout			4,939	31.3	+2.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bob Massey	1,554	45.7	+11.9
	SWFCTA	Jackie Birch	732	21.5	−7.1
	UKIP	Kyle Jannece	566	16.6	−4.5
	Labour	Mike Robertson	185	5.4	−5.5
	Liberal Democrats	Noel Sutcliffe	142	4.2	+0.6
	Independent	Chris Cheater	117	3.4	New
	Green	David Rey	106	3.1	+1.2
Majority			822	24.2	+19.1
Turnout			3,417	27.3	+6.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+9.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Mackrory *	2,464	46.1	+10.6
	Conservative	Jean Murray	1,991	37.2	+7.9
	Labour	Russell Kennedy	480	9.0	−1.4
	UKIP	Mark Gough	286	5.3	−14.6
	Green	Angela Thompson	126	2.4	−2.4
Majority			473	8.8	+2.7
Turnout			5,353	33.9	+2.2
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+1.4