Essex County Council election, 1997

1 May 1997

	First party	Second party	Third party


Party	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrat
Seats won	40	23	15
Seat change	8	10	17
Swing	3.1%	1.3%	5.3%

Majority party before election

No Overall Control

Majority party after election

Conservative

Results

Essex County Council election, 1997^[1]^[2]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	40			+8		38.8	280031
	Labour	23			-10		32.1	232048
	Liberal Democrat	15			-17		26.2	189182
	Others	1					2.9	20617
Total		79						721878

Results by Electoral Divisions

Colchester

Constable division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Clover	3916
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Phillips	2844
	Labour	Julie Young	1783
Majority			1072
Turnout				76.79
	Conservative hold		Swing

Drury division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Yates	3945
	Conservative	Jeremy Lucas	3865
	Labour	Roy Moules	2115
Majority			80
Turnout				74.39
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Maypole division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Patricia Pascoe	3149
	Labour	Christopher Pearson	2654
	Conservative	Richard Lamberth	1783
Majority			495
Turnout				63.88
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Mersea and Stanway division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Manning-Press	5193
	Liberal Democrat	Terence Brady	3973
	Labour	Ian Yates	2556
Majority			1220
Turnout				74.74
	Conservative hold		Swing

Old Heath division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Margaret Fisher	3806
	Labour	Sally Pygott	3092
	Conservative	Ian McCord	1879
Majority			714
Turnout				67.49
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Park division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Kenneth Jones	3141
	Conservative	Nigel Chapman	2876
	Labour	Kim Naish	2611
Majority			265
Turnout				66.62
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Parsons Heath division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Edward Crunden	4413
	Conservative	Derek Smith	3062
	Labour	Anthony Constable	3005
Majority			1351
Turnout				69.33
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Tiptree division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edmund Peel	3526
	Labour	Tania Rogers	2783
	Independent	Stuart Beckwith	2147
	Green	Cheryl Gerrard	367
Majority			743
Turnout				73.13
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wivenhoe St Andrew division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Stapleton	3276
	Liberal Democrat	John Gray	2426
	Conservative	Jane Girdlestone	2044
Majority			850
Turnout				63.35
	Labour hold		Swing

References

↑ "Elections". Retrieved 2014-01-28.
↑ "Elections". Retrieved 2014-02-11.

(1996 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1997 (→ 1998)

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Sui generis	Isles of Scilly

Referendums	Scottish devolution Welsh devolution

See also: UK General election

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