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Colchester Borough Council

Election on 2 May 2019

There is a Local Council election for voters in Colchester Borough Council.

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Current council make-up

Party seats in English Local elections, 2018

Total council seats: 51

Conservative

25 seats

Liberal Democrats

12 seats

Labour

11 seats

Other

3 seats

Colchester Borough Council results for English Local elections, 2018

Share of election votes

	Votes	Share	Seats won	Seats total
Conservative	15,765	38.4%	10	25
Labour	10,783	26.3%	4	11
Liberal Democrats	8,472	20.6%	2	12
Other	3,130	7.6%	1	3
Green Party	2,880	7.0%

Colchester Borough Council results for English Council elections, 2016

Share of election votes

	Votes	Share	Seats won	Seats change	Seats total
Conservative	17,422	34.5%	22	-5	22
Liberal Democrats	11,945	23.7%	15	-5	15
Labour	10,374	20.6%	11	2	11
Green Party	5,526	11.0%
UK Independence Party	3,332	6.6%
Other	1,858	3.7%	3	-1	3

Colchester Borough Council results for English Local elections, 2015

Share of election votes

	Votes	Share	Seats won	Seats total
Conservative	27,723	39.8%	13	27
Liberal Democrats	13,817	19.8%	3	20
Labour	12,940	18.6%	3	9
UK Independence Party	7,775	11.2%
Green Party	5,707	8.2%
Other	3,510	5.0%	1	4

Colchester Borough Council results for English Council elections, 2012

Share of election votes

	Votes	Share	Seats won	Seats change	Seats total
Liberal Democrats	10,124	32.9%	9	1	27
Conservative	8,917	29.0%	6	-2	22
Labour	7,241	23.5%	4	1	8
Green Party	2,268	7.4%
Other	1,405	4.6%	1		3
UK Independence Party	824	2.7%

Demographics in Colchester Borough Council

Unemployment rate

3.5%

Low

Ranked of 201

Levels of poor health

4.2%

Ranked of 201

Proportion of 16/17 year olds

2.4%

Low

Ranked of 201

Age

Housing

Ethnicity

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Essex police area

Upcoming elections

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2016 Police Commissioner Election results

	Police area	Essex
	Winner
	Commissioner

Essex results for Police and Crime Commissioner election, 2016

Share of 1^st round election votes

Share of 2^nd round election votes

	Party	Round 1	Share	Round 2	Total	Share
Roger Hirst	Conservative	110,858	33.5%	25,090	135,948	52.2%
Bob Spink	UK Independence Party	80,832	24.4%	22,960	103,792	47.8%
Chris Vince	Labour	65,325	19.7%
Martin Terry	Independent	43,128	13.0%
Kevin McNamara	Liberal Democrats	30,804	9.3%

Essex results for Police and Crime Commissioner election, 2012

Share of 1^st round election votes

Share of 2^nd round election votes

	Party	Round 1	Share	Round 2	Total	Share
Nick Alston	Conservative	51,325	30.5%	11,025	62,350	51.5%
Mick Thwaites	Independent	40,132	23.9%	18,532	58,664	48.5%
Val Morris-Cook	Labour	27,926	16.6%
Linda Belgrove	Independent	22,163	13.2%
Andrew Smith	UK Independence Party	15,138	9.0%
Robin Tilbrook	English Democrats	11,550	6.9%

Party spending in 2016

Party spending in Essex

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Colchester Borough Council

Upcoming elections

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2014 European election results

	Region	Eastern England
	Winner	UK Independence Party
	Seats	7
	MEPs	3 Conservative, 3 UK Independence Party, 1 Labour

EU Referendum Results

Votes for Colchester Borough Council

Leave

46.4%

Remain

53.6%

Council result: Remain

Eastern England results for European Parliament election, 2014

Share of region votes: Eastern England region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
UK Independence Party UKIP	542,812	34.5%	3
Conservative Con	446,569	28.4%	3
Labour Lab	271,601	17.3%	1
Green Party Gre	133,331	8.5%
Liberal Democrats LD	108,010	6.9%
British National Party BNP	12,465	0.8%
Other Oth	59,558	3.8%

Elected regional members for Eastern England region

	Party
Patrick O'Flynn	UK Independence Party UKIP
Stuart Agnew	UK Independence Party UKIP
Tim Aker	UK Independence Party UKIP
Vicky Ford	Conservative Con
Geoffrey van Orden	Conservative Con
David Campbell Bannerman	Conservative Con
Richard Howitt	Labour Lab

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Share of votes in your council

	Party	Votes	Share
UKIP	UKIP	14,495	31.9%
Con	Con	12,677	27.9%
Lab	Lab	6,725	14.8%
LD	LD	5,044	11.1%
Gre	Gre	4,544	10.0%
Oth	Oth	1,681	3.7%
BNP	BNP	273	0.6%

Eastern England results for European Parliament election, 2009

Share of region votes: Eastern England region

Share of vote and seats

	Votes	Share	Seats
Conservative Con	500,331	31.2%	3
UK Independence Party UKIP	313,921	19.6%	2
Liberal Democrats LD	221,235	13.8%	1
Labour Lab	167,833	10.5%	1
Green Party Gre	141,016	8.8%
British National Party BNP	97,013	6.1%
Other Oth	161,991	10.1%

Elected regional members for Eastern England region

	Party
Geoffrey van Orden	Conservative Con
Robert Sturdy	Conservative Con
Vicky Ford	Conservative Con
David Campbell Bannerman	UK Independence Party UKIP
Stuart Agnew	UK Independence Party UKIP
Andrew Duff	Liberal Democrats LD
Richard Howitt	Labour Lab