1993 Essex County Council election explained

Election Name:	1993 Essex County Council election
Country:	Essex
Type:	Parliamentary
Ongoing:	no
Party Colour:	yes
Previous Election:	1989 Essex County Council election
Previous Year:	1989
Next Election:	1997 Essex County Council election
Next Year:	1997
Seats For Election:	All 98 seats to Essex County Council
Majority Seats:	49
Election Date:	6 May 1993
Party1:	Labour Party (UK)
Last Election1:	26 seats, 28.8%
Seats Before1:	24
Seats1:	33
Seat Change1:	7
Popular Vote1:	127,934
Percentage1:	30.7%
Swing1:	1.9%
Party2:	Conservative Party (UK)
Last Election2:	57 seats, 44.5%
Seats Before2:	56
Seats2:	32
Seat Change2:	25
Popular Vote2:	147,062
Percentage2:	35.3%
Swing2:	8.7%
Party3:	Liberal Democrats (UK)
Last Election3:	14 seats, 23.3%
Seats Before3:	15
Seats3:	32
Seat Change3:	18
Popular Vote3:	132,631
Percentage3:	31.9
Swing3:	8.2%
Majority party
Posttitle:	Majority party after election
Before Election:	Conservative
After Election:	No Overall Control

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.

Previous composition

1989 election

Party		Seats
	57
	26
	14
	1
Total		79

Composition of council seats before election

Party		Seats
	56
	24
	15
	3
	1
Total		79

Results

|-bgcolor=#F6F6F6| colspan=2 style="text-align: right; margin-right: 1em" | Total| style="text-align: right;" | 98| colspan=5 || style="text-align: right;" | 416,116| style="text-align: right;" | |-|}

Results by Electoral Divisions

Basildon

District Summary

Seats	Votes	%	+/-
5	20,962	40.9	+4.1
4	19,235	37.5	−3.4
1	10,829	21.1	−0.5
0	252	0.5	+0.1

Division Results

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

Braintree

District Summary

Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
4	2	14,450	40.2	+6.1
2	2	12,651	35.2	−8.7
1		7,934	22.1	+1.7
0		924	2.6	+1.0

Division Results

Brentwood

District Summary

Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
5	4	11,469	51.6	+23.0
0	4	7,975	35.9	−14.8
0		2,158	9.7	−8.6
0		635	2.9	+0.5

Division Results

Castle Point

District Summary

Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
3	3	8,680	34.2	+4.8
2	4	8,448	33.3	−26.3
1	1	8,226	32.4	+23.6

Division Results

Chelmsford

District Summary

Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
5	4	20,464	43.2	+11.6
3	5	17,625	37.2	−8.3
1	1	8,926	18.8	+3.4
0		383	0.8	−6.3

Division Results

Colchester

District Summary

Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
5	4	17,498	44.3	+19.7
3	3	12,729	32.0	−12.1
0	1	8,874	22.3	−3.2
0		546	1.4	+0.5

Division Results

No Independent candidate as previous (-1.2).

No Liberal candidate as previous (-6.5).

No SDP candidate as previous (−36.0).

Epping Forest

District Summary

Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
4	1	12,388	40.7	−7.1
3	1	9,592	31.5	+4.2
1	1	8,226	27.0	+12.5
0		250	0.8	N/A

Division Results

Harlow

District Summary

Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
5	1	11,582	51.9	−7.3
0	1	6,944	31.1	+2.7
0		3,782	17.0	+4.5

Division Results

Maldon

District Summary

Seats	Votes	%	+/-
3	6,289	47.6	−9.5
0	3,448	26.1	+9.1
0	1,416	10.7	−15.2
0	1,537	11.6	N/A
0	525	4.0	N/A

Division Results

Rochford

District Summary

Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
3	1	9,762	46.3	+14.8
1	1	6,873	32.6	−10.8
1		4,429	21.0	−0.6

Division Results

Southend

District Summary

Seats	Votes	%	+/-
5	16,076	39.2	−6.1
5	14,958	36.5	+3.9
1	8,951	21.8	+2.8
0	1,043	2.5	N/A

Division Results

Tendring

District Summary

Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
4		12,502	33.8	−6.6
2		9,847	26.6	−2.1
1	1	12,003	32.4	+2.1
1	1	2,646	7.2	+6.6

Division Results

Thurrock

District Summary

Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
8	1	17,080	64.3	+9.4
0	1	6,913	26.0	−10.2
0		2,570	9.7	+4.5

Division Results

Uttlesford

District Summary

Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
3	3	8,918	43.7	+13.8
1	3	8,324	40.8	−8.3
0		3,177	15.6	−3.8

Division Results