Key
*denotes sitting councillor.
Majority for wards with more than one seat equals winner minus first runner-up Results
All Saints (2 seats)
William Horslen (Lab)* 558
Adrian Longden (Lab)* 525
John Candler (Con) 226
Peter Aitken (Lib Dem) 220
Christopher Wickers (Con) 200
Jeremy Nicholson (Lib Dem) 192
Maj 332
Lib Dem hold both seats
Turnout 22.5 per cent
Baddow Road and Great Baddow (3 seats)
Craig Davies (Lib Dem)* 1026
Christine Rycroft (Lib Dem)* 943
Trevor Miller (Lib Dem)* 939
Michael Holloway (Con) 587
Michael Knowles (Con) 582
Gillian Smith (Con) 561
Ramon Burgess (Lab) 334
Jennifer McLean (Lab) 330
Marina Palmer (Lab) 311
Jesse Pryke (New Brit) 267
Joyce Shiner (Green) 81
Maj 439
Lib Dem hold all three
Turnout 35.12 per cent
Boreham
Michael Dilloway (Lib Dem)* 452
Alexander Leslie (Con) 187
Lindsay Hay (Lab) 90
Eleanor Burgess (Green) 48
Maj 265
Lib Dem hold
Turnout 28.5 per cent
Broomfield, Pleshey and Great Waltham (2 seats)
Delmas Ashford (Con)* 969
Graham Pooley (Lib Dem)* 665
Jason Need (Con) 656
Andrew Goldsmith (Lib Dem) 437
Roger Patterson (Lab) 258
Charles Cole (Ind Con) 198
Maj 313
Con hold, Lib Dem hold
Turnout 33.56 per cent
Cathedral (2 seats)
Paul Hutchinson (Con) 591
Martin Bracken (Lib Dem)* 579
Alastair Tween (Con) 547
Andrew Sosin (Lib Dem) 496
Fiona Bache (Lab) 319
Simon Barke (Lab) 309
Maj 44
Lib Dem hold one and Con gains one from Lib Dem
Turnout not known
Chignall, Good Easter, Mashbury, Highwood And Roxwell
Phillip Evans (Lib Dem)* 360
David Pyman (Con) 269
Barry Williams (Lab) 96
Maj 91
Lib Dem hold
Turnout 37.86 per cent
East and West Hanningfield
Alan Dixon (Ind)* 376
Ronald Saunders (Con) 257
Keith Blackburn (Lab) 104
Maj 119
Ind hold
Turnout 40.9 per cent
Galleywood (2 seats)
Janette Potter (Con)* 709
David Stevenson (Con) 664
Peter Smith (Lab) 479
Alan Wilson (Lab) 475
Jeremy Clarke (Lib Dem) 393
James Hutchon (Lib Dem) 297
Maj 230
Con hold both
Turnout 33.8 per cent
Goat Hall (2 seats)
Freda Mountain (Lib Dem)* 869
John Williams (Lib Dem) 788
Edna Lumley (Con) 342
Hugh Robinson (Con) 342
Frederick Parish (Lab) 206
Catherine Trevaldwyn (Lab) 176
Maj 527
Lib Dem hold both
Turnout 31.68 per cent
Great and Little Leighs And Little Waltham
Alan Willsher (Con)* 570
Edward Smith (Lib Dem) 135
Margaret Horslen (Lab) 127
Maj 435
Con hold
Turnout 36 per cent
Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon (3 seats)
Maurice Hurrell (Con)* 1243
Christopher Kingsley (Con)* 1224
Ian Wright (Con) 1216
David Whiteing (Lib Dem) 519
Lawrence O'Brien (Lib Dem) 463
Susan Harvey (Lib Dem) 404
Norman Jackson (Lab) 222
William Jardine (Lab) 205
Colin Budgey (Green) 159
Robert Aylott (Green) 143
Robert Kenney (Green) 75
Maj 724
Con hold all three
Turnout 32 per cent
Margaretting and Stock
Gary Stringer (Con) 612
Robert Jones (Lab) 125
Heidi Lambert (Lib Dem) 124
Maj 487
Con hold
Turnout 36.54 per cent
Moulsham Lodge (2 seats)
Philip Firth (Lib Dem) 902
David Jones (Lib Dem)* 819
Donald Cruickshank (Con) 283
Robert Paddon (Con) 255
Clara Dyer (Lab) 216
Phillip Goodwin (Lab) 174
Jonathan Barnes (Green) 56
Maj 619
Lib Dem hold both
Turnout 35.2 per cent
Old Moulsham (3 seats)
Kathleen Foreman (Lib Dem) 749
William Hale (Lib Dem)* 720
Keith Francis (Lib Dem)* 705
Patricia Marchand (Con) 501
Cyril Makin (Con) 499
David Kimberlin (Con) 488
Muriel Briault (Lab) 407
Alan Rigg (Lab) 385
Geoffrey Viney (Lab) 341
Maj 248
Lib Dem hold all three
Turnout not known
Patching Hall (3 seats)
Thomas Smith-Hughes (Lib Dem) 740
Christine Barrett (Lib Dem)* 699
Andrew Johnston (Lib Dem)* 670
Kathleen Pauley (Con) 539
Michael McCullough (Con) 507
Ivy Day (Con) 487
Joan Bliss (Lab) 382
Roderick Essery (Lab) 355
Percival Bennett (Lab) 342
Angela Thomson (Green) 102
Maj 201
Lib Dem hold all three
Turnout 28.4 per cent
Rettendon and Runwell (2 seats)
John Little (Con) 535
Eileen Mickelborough (Con)* 498
Donald Newton (Lab) 224
John Meyn (Lib Dem) 170
Benjamin Owen (Lib Dem) 128
Alan Brown (Independent) 124
Maj 311
Con hold and Con gain from Ind
Turnout 24.6 per cent
Rothmans (2 seats)
Margaret Hutchon (Lib Dem)* 572
Matthew Lambert (Lib Dem) 532
Kenneth Carr (Con) 323
Peter Martin (Con) 307
Carol Kemp (Lab) 258
Lorna Feeney (Lab) 254
Elizabeth Deakin (Green) 52
Maj 249
Lib Dem hold both
Turnout 26.8 per cent
St Andrew's (3 seats)
Elaine Baldwin (Lab)* 1071
John Devane (Lab)* 1017
Russell Kennedy (Lab) 1007
Kenneth Hay (Lib Dem) 649
Ian Gale (Lib Dem) 638
Malcolm Noble (Lib Dem) 603
Susan Cruickshank (Con) 529
Anne Lewis (Con) 525
Leslie Saich (Con) 501
Carol Coker (Green) 112
Maj 422
Lab hold all three
Turnout 34.3 per cent
South Hanningfield
Roy Whitehead (Con) 410
Alan Arnot (Lib Dem) 175
Maj 235
Con hold
Turnout 31.76 per cent
South Woodham: Collingwood East and West (3 seats)
Maureen Moulds (Con)* 726
James Allen (Con)* 699
Christopher Stephenson (Con)* 698
Roy Smith (Lab) 279
Peter Wedlock (Lab) 271
Judith Deakin (Lib Dem) 269
Andrew Dearman (Lab) 248
Noel Sutcliffe (Lib Dem) 215
David Sykes (Lib Dem) 201
Maj 447
Con hold all three
Turnout 20.16 per cent
South Woodham: Elmwood and Woodville (3 seats)
Paul Martin (A Voice For South Woodham's Future)* 513
Ian Roberts (Lib Dem)* 493
Jenifer Goldfinch (Lib Dem)* 483
Robert Elson (Lib Dem) 469
David Sismey (Con) 423
Kathleen Darby (Con) 356
Clifford Vanner (Lab) 341
James Barnett (Lab) 335
Christine Knight (Con) 330
Maj 44
Lib Dem hold two, Ind hold one
Turnout 22.1 per cent
Springfield North (3 seats)
Pamela Lane (Lib Dem) 751
William Lane (Lib Dem)* 714
Michael Mackrory (Lib Dem)* 632
Geoffrey Fawcett (Con) 471
Pauline Hepworth (Con) 446
Simon Poyser (Con) 378
Derek Beddoe (Lab) 256
Peter Cobb (Lab) 254
Michael Pearson (Lab) 252
Roger Parker (Ind) 105
Maj 280
Lib Dem hold all three
Turnout not known
Springfield South (3 seats)
Ronald Alcock (Con) 775
Duncan Lumley (Con) 752
Neil Gulliver (Con) 720
Rosalind Webb (Lib Dem)* 535
Robert Webb (Lib Dem)* 514
John Styles (Lib Dem) 512
Kenneth Pallett (Lab) 219
Alison Hurst (Lab) 204
Elizabeth Raynham (Lab) 175
Jason Berry (New Brit) 107
Maj 240
Con gain all three from Lib Dem
Turnout 29.2 per cent
The Lawns (2 seats)
Philip Harvey (Lib Dem)* 1048
Anthony Hall (Lib Dem)* 974
David Hepworth (Con) 518
David Lee (Con) 503
Wendy Jordan (Lab) 243
William Evans (Lab) 227
Maj 530
Lib Dem hold both
Turnout 38.1 per cent
Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre
Danielle Selway (Con) 417
Maurice Staines (Lib Dem) 165
Rosemary Brady (Lab) 98
Maj 252
Con hold
Turnout 28.54 per cent
Waterhouse Farm (2 seats)
John Hunnable (Lib Dem) 852
John Thackray (Lib Dem) 812
Maurice Austin (Lab) 658
David Howell (Lab) 658
Clive Hodges (Con) 295
Nicholas Stevenson (Con) 284
Maj 194
Lib Dem gain both from Lab
Turnout 39.3 per cent
Writtle (2 seats)
Anthony Sachs (Con) 650
Ernest Barriball (Con) 604
Geoffrey Reeves (Lib Dem) 541
Barry Grainger (Lab) 526
Sean O'Sullivan (Lab) 469
Thomas Willis (Lib Dem)* 456
Paulene Gaywood (Green) 101
Maj 109
Con gain both from Lib Dem
Turnout not known
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