Essex County Council election, 1981

7 May 1981

	First party	Second party	Third party


Party	Conservative	Labour	Liberal
Seats won	51	32	13
Seat change	-	-	-
Swing	-	-	-

Majority party before election

Conservative

Majority party after election

Conservative

Results

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Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	51					42.5	197573
	Labour	32					34.1	158500
	Liberal	13					19.7	91503
	Social Democratic	0					0.4	2034
	Ecology	0					0.2	1122
	Others	2					3.0	13929
Total		98						464661

Results by Electoral Divisions

Colchester

Constable division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hickson	2947
	Labour	Kent	1253
Majority			1694
Turnout				41.9
	Conservative win (new seat)

Drury division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lamberth	2988
	Liberal	Hunt	1738
	Labour	Graves	1128
Majority			1250
Turnout				46.5
	Conservative win (new seat)

Maypole division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Fraser	2167
	Conservative	Foster	1027
	Liberal	Spyvee	908
Majority			1140
Turnout				35.3
	Labour win (new seat)

Mersea and Stanway division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fairhead	3247
	Labour	Taylor	1035
	Ecology	Cox	292
Majority			2212
Turnout				39.5
	Conservative win (new seat)

Old Heath division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Coombes	2707
	Conservative	Steggall	1489
	Ecology	Baker	267
Majority			1218
Turnout				39.7
	Labour win (new seat)

Park division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gawthrop	2196
	Labour	Hills	2073
Majority			123
Turnout				42.0
	Conservative win (new seat)

Parsons Heath division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kent	2238
	Conservative	Roots	2046
Majority			192
Turnout				41.5
	Labour win (new seat)

Tiptree division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thornton	2077
	Labour	Morecroft	1346
Majority			731
Turnout				30.7
	Conservative win (new seat)

Wivenhoe St Andrew division
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bryan	2485
	Conservative	Jennings	1439
Majority			1046
Turnout				35.4
	Labour win (new seat)

References

↑ "Elections". Retrieved 2014-02-11.
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(1980 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1981 (→ 1982)

County council elections (England)	Avon Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cleveland Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hereford and Worcester Hertfordshire Humberside Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Warwickshire West Sussex Wiltshire

County council elections (Wales)	Clwyd Dyfed Gwent Gwynedd Mid Glamorgan Powys South Glamorgan West Glamorgan

Metropolitan county elections	Greater Manchester Merseyside South Yorkshire Tyne and Wear West Midlands West Yorkshire

Unicameral area	Greater London

District councils (Northern Ireland)	Northern Irish District councils Antrim Ards Armagh Ballymena Ballymoney Banbridge Belfast Carrickfergus Castlereagh Coleraine Cookstown Craigavon Down Dungannon Fermanagh Larne Limavady Lisburn Londonderry Magherafelt Moyle Newry and Mourne Newtownabbey North Down Omagh Strabane

Sui generis	Isles of Scilly

Council elections in Essex

Essex County Council	1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013

Basildon Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

Braintree District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Brentwood Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

Castle Point Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

Chelmsford City Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Colchester Borough Council	1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Epping Forest District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

Harlow District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

Maldon District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Rochford District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

Southend-on-Sea Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

Tendring District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Thurrock Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015

Uttlesford District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

See also: Wards Boundary changes

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