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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