The 2001 Essex County Council election took place on 7 June 2001 to elect members of Essex County Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections and the 2001 general election.
79 councillors were elected from various electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 1997.
At the election, the Conservatives regained majority control of Essex County Council.
Previous composition 1997 election Party Seats 40 23 15 1Total79
Composition of council seats before election Party Seats 37 24 13 4 1Total79
Summary Election result
|-bgcolor=#F6F6F6 | colspan=2 style="text-align: right; margin-right: 1em" | Total | style="text-align: right;" | 279 | style="text-align: right;" | 79 | colspan=5 | | style="text-align: right;" | 618,785
Election of Group Leaders
Paul White (Stock) was re elected leader of the Conservative Group, Paul Sztumpf (Harlow North) was elected leader of the Labour Group and Kenneth Jones (Park) was re elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Group.
Election of Leader of the Council
Paul White the leader of the conservative group was duly elected leader of the council and formed a conservative administration.
Results by Electoral Divisions
Basildon
District summary
PartySeats+/-Votes%+/-Conservative 5 29,975 43.0 +5.6Labour 5 27,380 39.3 −0.6Liberal Democrat 0 12,112 17.4 −5.2Independent 0 206 0.3 +0.3
Division results
Between 1997 and 2001, the seat was won by Labour in a by-election, however it is shown as a Conservative hold as it is compared to the previous full council election.
Braintree
District summary
PartySeats+/-Votes%+/-Conservative 6 426,044 40.1 +2.9Labour 1 3 23,236 35.8 −1.5Liberal Democrat 0 1 11,259 17.3 −4.1Green 0 4,409 6.8 +2.7
Division results
Brentwood
District summary
PartySeats+/-Votes%+/-Conservative 4 15,251 41.5 −2.3Liberal Democrat 1 12,151 33.1 −2.8Labour 0 5,983 16.3 -3.0Independent 0 2,197 6.0 +6.0Green 0 1,150 3.1 +2.2
Division results
Castle Point
District summary
PartySeats+/-Votes%+/-Conservative 4 19,247 48.8 +3.6Labour 2 15,715 39.9 −0.5Liberal Democrat 0 4,126 10.5 −4.0Green 0 320 0.8 +0.8
Division results
Chelmsford
District summary
PartySeats+/-Votes%+/-Conservative 4 30,166 40.2 +1.2Liberal Democrat 4 23,531 31.3 −3.3Labour 1 18,464 24.6 +2.3Green 0 2,941 3.9 +1.4
Division results
Colchester
District summary
PartySeats+/-Votes%+/-Conservative 4 1 27,089 38.4 +4.2Liberal Democrat 3 2 22,542 31.9 −1.7Labour 2 1 20,076 28.4 −0.6Green 0 874 1.2 +0.8
Division results
No Independent candidate as previous (−24.3).
Epping Forest
District summary
PartySeats+/-Votes%+/-Conservative 5 25,480 46.1 +2.9Liberal Democrat 2 1 13,506 24.5 +4.7Loughton Residents 1 2,395 4.3 −3.2Labour 0 1 13,837 25.1 −4.4
Division results
Harlow
District summary
PartySeats+/-Votes%+/-Labour 5 15,621 44.9 −9.0Conservative 0 11,100 31.9 +2.8Liberal Democrat 0 8,084 23.2 +7.3
Division results
Maldon
District summary
PartySeats+/-Votes%+/-Conservative 3 13,960 48.5 +6.1Labour 0 8,303 28.9 +4.2Liberal Democrat 0 4,645 16.2 −7.5Green 0 1,862 6.5 +2.2
Division results
Rochford
District summary
PartySeats+/-Votes%+/-Conservative 5 3 17,719 47.1 +6.4Labour 0 1 10,316 27.4 −0.7Liberal Democrat 0 2 8,400 22.3 −8.8Independent 0 1,158 3.1 +3.1
Division results
Tendring
District summary
PartySeats+/-Votes%+/-Conservative 5 1 24,737 37.5 +1.8Labour 3 24,146 36.6 −1.0Liberal Democrat 0 1 13,021 19.7 −4.8Community Representatives 0 3,547 5.4 +5.4Independent 0 286 0.4 −1.7Green 0 255 0.4 +0.4
Division results
Uttlesford
District summary
PartySeats+/-Votes%+/-Conservative 4 16,775 47.9 +4.1Liberal Democrat 0 11,323 32.3 −1.2Labour 0 6,449 18.4 −2.1Green 0 477 1.4 +0.8
Division results
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