1993 Essex County Council election

1993 Essex County Council election
6 May 1993
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Seats won 33 32 32
Seat change 7 25 18
Swing 1.9% 8.7% 8.2%
Majority party before election

Conservative

 Majority party after election

No Overall Control

Summary

Results
Essex County Council election, 1993[1][2]
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Labour 33 7 30.7 127,934 +1.9
  Conservative 32 25 35.3 147,062 -9.2
  Liberal Democrats 32 18 31.9 132,631 +8.6
  Independent 1 1 0.8 3,421 +0.5
  Green 0 1.0 4,025 -0.3
  Liberal 0 0.3 1,043 N/A
Total 98 416,116

Results by Electoral Divisions

Basildon
Billericay North division
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Lilian Greenfield 2,641 61.76 -9.55
Liberal Democrats Matthew Barr 1164 27.22 +11.39
Labour Margaret Viney 471 11.01 +2.44
Majority 1477 34.54 -20.94
Turnout 4276 33.4 -3.4
Conservative hold Swing
Billericay South division
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Susan Kay 1,921 40.79 -13.57
Liberal Democrats Geoffrey Taylor 1802 38.26 +9.73
Labour Ronald Bessell 765 16.24 -0.02
Independent George Dighton 252 5.35 -49.01
Majority 119 2.53 -22.26
Turnout 4710 38.5 +1.3
Conservative hold Swing

Note: George Dighton was elected as a Conservative in 1989, but here attempted to defend his seat as an Independent

Wickford division
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Iris Pummell 2,233 48.59 +4.24
Liberal Democrats Kay Battson 1516 32.99 -9.30
Labour Christopher Wilson 847 18.43 +5.07
Majority 717 15.60 +13.54
Turnout 4596 37.3 -3.1
Conservative hold Swing

Braintree

Brentwood

Castle Point

Chelmsford

Colchester
Constable division
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Anthony Clover 2,065 48.2 -15.0
Liberal Democrats Andrew Phillips 1705 39.8 +15.9
Labour Neville Missing 516 12.0 -0.9
Majority 360
Turnout 39.8
Conservative hold Swing
Drury division
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democrats Robert Yates 3,172 54.5 +15.4
Conservative Derek Lamberth 2106 36.1 -12.1
Labour Kim Naish 553 9.5 -3.3
Majority 1066
Turnout 44.9
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing
Maypole division
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democrats Patricia Pascoe 1,984 56.3 +15.0
Labour Frank Wilkin 961 27.3 -7.9
Conservative Michael Hope 579 16.4 -7.1
Majority 1023
Turnout 27.2
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Mersea and Stanway division
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Christopher Manning-Press 2,290 44.2 -17.0
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Lennox 2094 40.4 +15.8
Labour Julie Young 653 12.6 -1.6
Green Walter Schwarz 147 2.8 New
Majority 196
Turnout 34.9
Conservative hold Swing
Old Heath division
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democrats Margaret Fisher 2,415 51.1 +15.4
Labour Christopher Pearson 1617 34.2 -1.7
Conservative Sally Cockell 568 12.0 -7.4
Green Karen Smallwood 122 2.6 -5.3
Majority 798
Turnout 38.1
Liberal Democrats gain from Labour Swing

No Independent candidate as previous (-1.2).

Park division
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democrats Kenneth Jones 2,009 46.8 +22.9
Conservative Jeremy Lucas 1475 34.3 -10.5
Labour Roger Turp 811 18.9 -5.9
Majority 534
Turnout 36.8
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing

No Liberal candidate as previous (-6.5).

Parsons Heath division
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democrats Edward Crunden 2,783 53.2 New
Labour Keith Hindle 1282 24.5 -1.7
Conservative Roger Lord 1167 22.3 -15.5
Majority 1501
Turnout 36.9
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing

No SDP candidate as previous (-36.0).

Tiptree division
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Edmund Peel 1,574 44.4 -16.4
Labour Adrian Axtell 914 25.8 +3.4
Liberal Democrats Andrew Seaman 893 25.2 +8.4
Green Cheryl Gerrard 162 4.6 New
Majority 633
Turnout 29.5
Conservative hold Swing
Wivenhoe St Andrew division
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Brian Stapleton 1,567 50.1 -3.8
Conservative Christopher Thompson 905 28.9 -7.6
Liberal Democrats Ingrid O'Mahoney 543 17.3 +7.7
Green Joanne Vanevery 115 3.7 New
Majority 662
Turnout 26.3
Labour hold Swing

Epping Forest

Harlow

Maldon

Rochford

Tendring

Uttlesford

References
  1. "Elections". Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  2. "Elections". Retrieved 11 February 2014.
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