Essex County Council election, 1993

Essex County Council election, 1993

6 May 1993

First party Second party Third party   Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrat 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

Results

Essex County Council election, 1993
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	33			+7		30.8	132088
	Conservative	32			-25		35.7	152874
	Liberal Democrat	32			+18		31.5	134835
	Green	0
	Others	1
Total		98						428518

Results by Electoral Divisions

Basildon

Billericay North division

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lilian Greenfield	2641	61.76	-9.55
	Liberal Democrat	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	1921	40.79	-13.57
	Liberal Democrat	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	2233	48.59	+4.24
	Liberal Democrat	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	2065
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Phillips	1705
	Labour	Neville Missing	516
Majority			360
Turnout				39.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Drury division

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Yates	3172
	Conservative	Derek Lamberth	2106
	Labour	Kim Naish	553
Majority			1066
Turnout				44.9
	Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative		Swing

Maypole division

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Patricia Pascoe	1984
	Labour	Frank Wilkin	961
	Conservative	Michael Hope	579
Majority			1023
Turnout				27.2
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Mersea and Stanway division

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Manning-Press	2290
	Liberal Democrat	Elizabeth Lennox	2094
	Labour	Julie Young	653
	Green	Walter Schwarz	147
Majority			196
Turnout				34.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Old Heath division

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Margaret Fisher	2415
	Labour	Christopher Pearson	1617
	Conservative	Sally Cockell	568
	Green	Karen Smallwood	122
Majority			798
Turnout				38.1
	Liberal Democrat gain from Labour		Swing

Park division

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Kenneth Jones	2009
	Conservative	Jeremy Lucas	1475
	Labour	Roger Turp	811
Majority			534
Turnout				36.8
	Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative		Swing

Parsons Heath division

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Edward Crunden	2783
	Labour	Keith Hindle	1282
	Conservative	Roger Lord	1167
Majority			1501
Turnout				36.9
	Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative		Swing

Tiptree division

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmund Peel	1574
	Labour	Adrian Axtell	914
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Seaman	893
	Green	Cheryl Gerrard	162
Majority			633
Turnout				29.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wivenhoe St Andrew division

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Stapleton	1567
	Conservative	Christopher Thompson	905
	Liberal Democrat	Ingrid O'Mahoney	543
	Green	Joanne Vanevery	115
Majority			662
Turnout				26.3
	Labour hold		Swing