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2018 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election - Wikipedia

  • ️Thu May 03 2018

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2018 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council
← 2016 3 May 2018 2019 →
17 out of 51 seats to Southend-on-Sea Borough Council
26 seats needed for a majority
Turnout32.2%
  First party Second party Third party
 

Ind

Leader John Lamb Ian Gilbert n/a
Party Conservative Labour Independent
Leader since 25 May 2014 Oct/Nov 2010 n/a
Leader's seat West Leigh Victoria n/a
Last election 24 seats, 30.6% 10 seats, 19.0% 13 seats, 21.0%
Seats before 28 9 12
Seats won 8 5 3
Seats after 29 11 9
Seat change Increase 5 Increase 1 Decrease 4
Popular vote 15,658 11,412 8,269
Percentage 37.0% 27.0% 19.5%
Swing Increase 6.4% Increase 8.0% Decrease 1.5%
  Fourth party
 
Leader Carole Mulroney
Party Liberal Democrats
Leader since May 2017
Leader's seat Leigh
Last election 2 seats, %
Seats before 2
Seats won 1
Seats after 2
Seat change Steady
Popular vote 5,357
Percentage 12.7%
Swing Increase 2.3%

Map showing the results of the 2018 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election

Leader before election

John Lamb
Conservative

Leader after election

John Lamb
Conservative

Elections to Southend-on-Sea Borough Council took place on 3 May 2018. This was on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom.

Directly after the 2016 election the composition of the council was:

↓
13 10 2 2 24
Ind Labour Lib Dem UKIP Conservative

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

↓
12 9 2 28
Ind Labour Lib Dem Conservative

After the election, the composition of the council was:

↓
11 9 2 29
Labour Ind Lib Dem Conservative
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election, 2018
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Conservative 29 2 1 Increase 1 37.0 15,658 Increase6.4
  Labour 11 2 0 Increase 2 27.0 11,412 Increase8.0
  Independent 9 0 3 Decrease 3 19.5 8,269 Decrease1.5
  Liberal Democrats 2 0 0 Steady 12.7 5,357 Increase2.3
  Green 0 0 0 Steady 2.8 1,184 Decrease1.5
  UKIP 0 0 0 Steady 0.9 390 Decrease13.8
  Psychedelic Future 0 0 0 Steady 0.0 42 New

No Independent candidate as previous (−41.6).

No Green candidate as previous (−4.2).

No UKIP (−10.5) or Green (−5.8) candidates as previous.

No UKIP (−26.8) or Green (−2.1) candidates as previous.

No UKIP (−19.0) or Green (−8.4) candidates as previous.

No UKIP candidate as previous (−8.5).

No UKIP candidate as previous (−13.2).

No UKIP (−18.8) or Independent (−9.3) candidates as previous.

No UKIP (−12.3), Green (−2.3) or two Independent candidates (−29.0, −21.0) as previous.

Independent vote share change compared to 2014 election.

No Independent (−32.6) or UKIP (−14.9) candidates as previous.

No UKIP (−20.3) or Green (−3.0) candidates as previous.

No UKIP (−15.6) candidates as previous.

No Independent (−63.1), UKIP (−10.0) or Green (−2.8) candidates as previous.

Independent vote share change compared to 2014 election.

No UKIP (−19.8) or Liberal Democrat (−3.7) candidates as previous.

No Independent (−4.0) or Green (−3.3) candidates as previous.

No UKIP (−15.3) or Green (−2.0) candidates as previous.

No Independent (−22.1) or UKIP (−12.9) candidates as previous.