1993 Essex County Council election

An election to Essex County Council took place on 6 May 1993 as part of the 1993 United Kingdom local elections. 98 councillors were elected from various electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office.

1993 Essex County Council election
6 May 1993
All 98 seats to Essex County Council
49 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Last election 26 seats, 28.8% 57 seats, 44.5% 14 seats, 23.3%
Seats won 33 32 32
Seat change 7 25 18
Popular vote 127,934 147,062 132,631
Percentage 30.7% 35.3% 31.9
Swing 1.9% 8.7% 8.2%
Majority party before election

Conservative

 Majority party after election

No Overall Control

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

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

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