2021_Essex_County_Council_election

2021 Essex County Council election
All 75 seats to Essex County Council; 38 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	33.2% ( 2.1%)
	Map showing the results of the 2021 Essex County Council election
Council control before election; Conservative;	Council control after election ; Conservative;

2021 Essex County Council election

2021 UK local government election

The 2021 Essex County Council election took place on 6 May 2021 as part of the 2021 United Kingdom local elections.^[1] All 75 councillors were elected from 70 electoral divisions, with each returning 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 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017.

Summary

Results by District

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No by-election was held.

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Party		Seats
	Conservative	56
	Liberal Democrats	7
	Labour	6
	CIIP	2
	Green	1
	Loughton Residents	1
	Independent	2
Total		75

Party		Seats
	Conservative	51
	Liberal Democrats	8
	Labour	6
	CIIP	2
	Green	1
	Loughton Residents	1
	Independent	4
Vacant		2
Total		75

Division	Date			Cause	Resulting Council Composition
					Con	LDem	Lab	Ind	CInd	Grn	LRes

Bocking	6 April 2018 ^[2]	Conservative	Independent	Councillor suspended from party.	55	7	6	3	2	1	1
Clacton North	2 October 2018 ^[3]	Conservative	Liberal Democrats	Sitting Conservatives Councillor defected to Liberal Democrats.	54	8	6	3	2	1	1
Halstead	21 February 2019 ^[4]	Conservative	Independent	Councillor quit party to sit as an independent member.	53	8	6	4	2	1	1
Rochford North	1 April 2020 ^[5]	Conservative	Vacant	Sitting councillor died ^[6]	52	8	6	4	2	1	1
Chigwell & Loughton Broadway	13 April 2021 ^[7]	Conservative	Vacant	Sitting councillor resigned.^[8]	51	8	6	4	2	1	1

2021 Essex County Council election
Party		Candidates	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	75	52	3	7	4	69.3	48.8	196,987	–0.5
	Liberal Democrats	70	8	3	2	1	10.7	13.8	55,664	+0.1
	Labour	75	5	0	1	1	6.7	17.1	69,045	+0.2
	Independent	20	3	1	0	1	4.0	5.9	23,689	+4.7
	R4U	4	2	2	0	2	2.7	2.4	9,732	+1.0
	CIIP	2	2	0	0		2.7	1.0	4,121	±0.0
	Green	41	1	1	1		1.3	5.6	22,647	+1.3
	Loughton Residents	2	1	0	0		1.3	1.2	4,710	+0.4
	Rochford Resident	2	1	1	0	1	1.3	1.1	4,447	N/A
	Reform UK	17	0	0	0		0.0	0.6	2,614	N/A
	Tendring First	3	0	0	0		0.0	0.5	2,029	+0.1
	Wickford Independents	1	0	0	0		0.0	0.4	1,600	–0.4
	Ind. Network	1	0	0	0		0.0	0.4	1,520	N/A
	Harlow Alliance	2	0	0	0		0.0	0.4	1,511	N/A
	UKIP	4	0	0	0		0.0	0.3	1,032	–7.6
	SWFCTA	1	0	0	0		0.0	0.2	979	±0.0
	Holland Residents	1	0	0	0		0.0	0.1	554	N/A
	For Britain	3	0	0	0		0.0	0.1	380	N/A
	English Democrat	1	0	0	0		0.0	<0.1	186	±0.0
	Democratic Network	1	0	0	0		0.0	<0.1	135	N/A
	Workers Party	1	0	0	0		0.0	<0.1	94	N/A
	Freedom Alliance (UK)	1	0	0	0		0.0	<0.1	89	N/A
	Young People's Party UK	1	0	0	0		0.0	<0.1	45	N/A

	Seats	Votes	%	+/-
Conservative	6	35,731	52.6	+3.6
Labour	2	16,252	23.9	+2.8
Independent	1	5,082	7.5	−2.3
Liberal Democrat	0	6,934	10.2	+4.2
Wickford Ind.	0	1,660	2.4	N/A
Reform UK	0	1,479	2.2	N/A
UKIP	0	684	1.0	−12.0
TUSC	0	49	0.1	N/A

2021_Essex_County_Council_election

2021 Essex County Council election

Previous composition

2017 election

Composition of council seats before election

Changes between elections

Summary

Election result

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

Maps

Vote share by seat

By-elections

Rayleigh North

Laindon Park & Fryerns

References

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Kerry Smith *	3,655	60.5	0.1
	Conservative	Charlie Sansom	1,404	23.3	0.8
	Labour	Kayode Adekunle Adeniran	627	10.4	0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Timothy Nicklin	205	3.4	1.9
	Independent	None of the Above X	98	1.6	N/A
	TUSC	David Murray	49	0.8	N/A
Majority			2,251	37.2	0.7
Turnout			6,038	34.8	1.2
	Independent hold		Swing	0.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Hedley *	6,311	60.3	9.3
	Conservative	Richard Moore *	5,364	51.3	11.6
	Liberal Democrats	Edward Sainsbury	2,751	26.3	15.9
	Liberal Democrats	Laura Clark	1,695	16.2	8.5
	Labour	Tracey Hilton	1,165	11.1	1.0
	Labour	Malcolm Reid	930	8.9	0.6
	UKIP	Susan McCaffery	315	3.0	4.0
Turnout			10,458	37.6	5.0
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jeff Henry *	3,206	41.3	5.6
	Labour	Adele Brown	2,668	34.4	1.6
	Conservative	Andrew Schrader	2,558	33.0	0.8
	Labour	Allan Davies *	2,358	30.4	4.7
	Independent	Tony Low	493	6.4	N/A
	Reform UK	Lewis Fripp	413	5.3	N/A
	UKIP	Fred Southgate	369	4.8	18.1
	Reform UK	Norma Saggers	331	4.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Vivien Howard	324	4.2	1.0
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Chandler	321	4.1	0.7
Turnout			7,760	25.1	4.1
	Conservative hold
	Labour hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Luke MacKenzie	3,573	41.5	3.7
	Labour	Aidan McGurran	3,257	37.8	2.9
	Labour	Patricia Reid *	3,115	36.1	1.0
	Conservative	Craig Rimmer	3,091	35.9	3.0
	Reform UK	Daniel Tooley	501	5.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Howard	454	5.3	0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Jenkins	422	4.9	0.6
Turnout			8,619	26.3	4.1
	Conservative hold
	Labour hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tony Ball *	5,752	63.7	8.0
	Conservative	Malcolm Buckley *	4,472	49.5	1.4
	Wickford Ind.	Eunice Brockman	1,660	18.4	1.3
	Labour	Mark Burton-Sampson	1,131	12.5	0.1
	Labour	Gillian Palmer	1,001	11.1	0.5
	Independent	Sean Barlow	836	9.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Nicola Hoad	386	4.3	0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Blake	376	4.2	N/A
	Reform UK	Neil Huntley	234	2.6	N/A
Turnout			9,035	29.1	3.1
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

	Seats	Votes	%	+/-
Conservative	7	18,352	51.1	−3.7
Green	1	6,293	17.5	+7.2
Labour	0	5,831	16.2	−2.1
Independent	0	3,668	10.2	N/A
Liberal Democrat	0	1,778	4.9	−3.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lynette Bowers-Flint	2,179	58.3	+3.0
	Labour	Moia Thorogood	912	24.4	−1.2
	Green	Richard Unsworth	455	12.2	+8.1
	Liberal Democrats	James Card	192	5.1	−0.5
Majority			1,267	33.9	+4.2
Turnout			3,738	27.3	−0.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	2.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Paul Thorogood	2,573	49.4	+39.6
	Conservative	Robert Mitchell *	1,980	38.0	−18.8
	Labour	Robert Powers	511	9.8	−6.6
	Liberal Democrats	Barry Fleet	149	2.9	−7.9
Majority			593	11.4	—
Turnout			5,213	38.7	+5.8
	Green gain from Conservative		Swing	29.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tom Cunningham	2,185	56.9	+5.5
	Labour	Keiran Martin	900	23.4	−5.1
	Independent (Green)	Colin Riches	509	13.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Kate Onions	246	6.4	−0.2
Majority			1,285	33.5	+10.7
Turnout			3,840	27.2	+1.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	5.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Siddall	2,118	43.9	−15.4
	Independent (Green)	Jo Beavis *	1,835	38.1	N/A
	Labour	Garry Warren	749	15.5	−4.3
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Waugh	119	2.5	−4.9
Majority			283	5.8	−33.7
Turnout			4,821	31.0	+2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	26.8

Hedingham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Schwier	3,183	63.4	−1.5
	Labour	Shan Newhouse	747	14.9	+3.0
	Green	Mark Posen	645	12.9	+8.0
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Galvin	445	8.9	−2.0
Majority			2.436	48.5	−4.4
Turnout			5,020	34.6	+0.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	2.3

Three Fields with Great Notley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Graham Butland *	2,307	53.8	−9.2
	Independent (Green)	Michael Staines	1,182	27.5	N/A
	Labour	Jack Coleman	446	10.4	−1.6
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Sheppard	357	8.3	−1.7
Majority			1,125	26.3	−24.7
Turnout			4,292	35.2	+2.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	18.4

Witham Southern
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Derrick Louis *	2,349	56.2	+5.1
	Labour	Leanora Headley	951	22.8	+3.2
	Green	Philip Hughes	608	14.6	+7.9
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Ryland	270	6.5	−4.1
Majority			1,398	33.4	+1.9
Turnout			4,178	27.6	+0.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	1.0

Brentwood Hutton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Louise McKinlay *	3,248	62.6	−9.5
	Labour	Liam Preston	563	10.8	+0.6
	Independent	Amanda Burham-Burton	557	10.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Mynott	546	10.5	−2.3
	Green	Juliette Rey	275	5.3	+3.5
Majority			2,685	51.8	−7.5
Turnout			5,228	34.1	+2.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	5.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ross Playle	2,051	42.6	+6.8
	Green	James Abbott *	2,012	41.7	+3.8
	Labour	Phil Barlow	615	12.8	−2.9
	Independent	David Hodges	142	3.0	N/A
Majority			39	0.9	—
Turnout			4,820	33.3	+0.7
	Conservative gain from Green		Swing	1.5

	Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
Conservative	3	1	10,303	50.2	−2.8
Liberal Democrat	1	1	6,165	28.6	−2.5
Labour	0		2,388	11.1	+2.4
Green	0		1,391	6.5	+2.8
Reform UK	0		241	1.1	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Barry Aspinell *	2,552	47.7	−3.3
	Conservative	Jon Cloak	1,851	34.6	−0.7
	Labour	Deborah Foster	459	8.6	+2.6
	Green	Kelda Boothroyd	374	7.0	+4.9
	Reform UK	William Hughes	111	2.1	N/A
Majority			701	13.1	−2.6
Turnout			5,347	37.1	+2.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	1.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lesley Wagland *	3,680	64.8	−0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Darryl Sankey	1,189	20.9	+5.0
	Green	Paul Jeater	410	7.2	+3.8
	Labour	Cameron Ball	401	7.1	+0.2
Majority			2,491	43.9	−5.7
Turnout			5,680	39.3	−10.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	2.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andy Wiles	2,031	38.1	+0.5
	Liberal Democrats	David Kendall *	1,878	35.2	−10.9
	Labour	Susan Kortlandt	965	18.1	+6.1
	Green	John Hamilton	332	6.2	+1.9
	Reform UK	Dave Conway	130	2.4	N/A
Majority			153	2.9	—
Turnout			5,336	35.1	+4.5
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	5.7

	Seats	Votes	%	+/-
Conservative	3	10,295	44.2	−10.0
CIIP	2	4,121	17.7	−0.3
Independent	0	5,129	22.0	N/A
Labour	0	2,635	13.0	−0.4
Liberal Democrat	0	642	2.8	+0.3
Reform UK	0	132	0.6	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CIIP	David Blackwell *	2,289	51.3	+4.0
	Conservative	Owen Cartey	1,610	36.1	+3.6
	Labour	Jacqueline Reilly	380	8.5	+0.9
	Reform UK	Jamie Huntman	132	3.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Bannister	53	1.2	+0.1
Majority			679	15.2	+0.4
Turnout			4,464	29.4	+0.4
	CIIP hold		Swing	0.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CIIP	Peter May *	1,832	49.8	±0.0
	Conservative	Scott Griffin	1,406	38.2	−1.6
	Labour	David Manclark	444	12.1	+2.1
Majority			426	11.6	+1.6
Turnout			3,682	26.4	+1.8
	CIIP hold		Swing	0.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jillian Reeves *	2,833	50.6	−15.6
	Independent	Robert Baillie	1,719	30.7	N/A
	Labour	Thomas Harrison	734	13.1	+1.2
	Liberal Democrats	Geoffrey Duff	316	5.6	+0.4
Majority			1,114	19.9	−34.2
Turnout			5,602	39.3	+6.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	23.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Sheldon *	2,462	48.2	−16.3
	Independent	Lynsey McCarthy-Calvert	1,350	26.4	N/A
	Labour	Laurence Chapman	732	14.3	−0.4
	Independent	Christopher Roberts	422	8.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Ellis Swindell	144	2.8	−1.8
Majority			1,112	21.8	−26.4
Turnout			5,110	38.0	+5.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	21.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Beverley Egan *	1,984	44.9	−19.7
	Independent	Steven Cole	1,638	37.1	N/A
	Labour	Rosalind Dunhill	664	15.0	−6.1
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Tellis	129	2.9	N/A
Majority			346	7.8	−35.7
Turnout			4,415	35.9	+5.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	28.4

	Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
Conservative	5	1	21,384	48.2	+4.2
Liberal Democrat	4	1	12,851	29.0	+3.3
Labour	0		4,307	9.7	+0.9
Green	0		3,141	7.1	+4.1
Ind. Network	0		1,520	3.4	N/A
SWFCTA	0		979	2.2	N/A
UKIP	0		113	0.3	−4.6
Democratic Network	0		83	0.2	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mike Steel	3,287	63.6	+9.4
	Liberal Democrats	Nikki Perry	670	13.0	−3.6
	Labour	Lucy Barrett	653	12.6	+4.7
	Green	Nick Caddick	560	10.8	+7.8
Majority			2,617	50.6	+3.8
Turnout			5,170	32.1	+3.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	6.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Spence *	3,186	59.4	−4.9
	Liberal Democrats	Rose Moore	1,357	25.3	+10.3
	Labour	David Howell	443	8.3	−1.3
	Green	Ben Harvey	376	7.0	+2.2
Majority			1,829	34.1	−15.1
Turnout			5,362	33.0	+2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	7.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Marie Goldman	2,195	43.1	+5.5
	Conservative	Seena Shah	1,992	39.2	−3.3
	Labour	Edward Massey	511	10.0	−1.7
	Green	Claire Young	389	7.6	+3.8
Majority			203	4.4	—
Turnout			5,189	34.1	+0.8
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing	4.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Robinson *	2,085	46.9	−0.1
	Conservative	Mark Taylor	1,621	36.5	+1.5
	Labour	Jessica Peacock	454	10.2	+0.2
	Green	Angela Thomson	282	6.4	+3.5
Majority			464	10.4	−1.6
Turnout			4,442	33.6	−0.7
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	0.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Jude Deakin *	2,012	42.9	+3.8
	Conservative	Ben McNally	1,688	36.0	+1.4
	Labour	Pete Dixon	611	13.0	−3.1
	Green	Ronnie Bartlett	380	8.1	+5.9
Majority			324	6.9	+2.4
Turnout			4,729	30.7	+1.0
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	1.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony McQuiggan	2,065	38.0	−8.7
	Liberal Democrats	Smita Rajesh	1,433	26.3	−8.4
	Ind. Network	Richard Hyland	1,133	20.8	N/A
	Labour	Janbee Mopidevi	373	6.9	−1.7
	Green	Alex Heard	324	6.0	+3.2
	UKIP	Jesse Pryke	113	2.1	−5.2
Majority			632	11.7	−0.2
Turnout			5,441	35.7	+4.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bob Massey *	1,936	55.7	+10.0
	SWFCTA	Jill Winn	979	28.2	+6.7
	Labour	Emmanuel Kemball	241	6.9	+1.5
	Green	David Rey	186	5.4	+2.3
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Gale	132	3.8	−0.4
Majority			957	27.5	+3.3
Turnout			3,474	28.6	+1.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	1.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Mackrory *	2,630	46.0	−0.1
	Conservative	James Tyrrell	2,141	37.4	+0.2
	Labour Co-op	Russell Kennedy	524	9.2	+0.2
	Green	James Lumbard	340	6.0	+3.6
	Democratic Network	Leah Butler-Smith	83	1.5	N/A
Majority			489	8.6	−0.2
Turnout			5,718	35.5	+1.6
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	0.2