Colchester Borough Council elections

One third of Colchester Borough Council in Essex, England is elected each year, followed by one year without election. Since the last boundary changes at the 2016 election, 51 councillors have been elected from 17 wards.

Political control

Since the first election to the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:^[1]^[2]

Party in control	Years
No overall control	1973 - 1976
Conservative	1976 - 1986
No overall control	1986 - 1994
Liberal Democrats	1994 - 1998
No overall control	1998 - 2007
Conservative	2007 - 2008
No overall control	2008 - present

Council elections

Summary of the council composition since the 1976 election. Boundary changes took place for the 1990, 2003 and 2016 elections leading to the whole council being elected on those years.^[3]

Year
Year	SDP-Liberal/Liberal Democrats	Conservative	Labour	Tiptree Residents	Independent	Vacant
Local authority reorganisation; interim council created (58 seats)
1973	1	28	26	3	2	-
New ward boundaries; seats increased from 58 to 60
1976	-	39	18	2	1	-
1978	-	37	21	1	1	-
1979	-	38	20	1	1	-
1980	-	37	21	1	1	-
1982	2	37	18	2	1	-
1983	5	37	15	3	1	-
1984	10	35	12	3	1	-
1986	16	29	12	3	1	-
1987	22	25	10	3	1	-
1988	24	24	9	3	1	-
Ward boundary changes
1990	28	17	12	3	-	-
1991	28	19	9	2	-	-
1992^[4]	30	21	5	2	-	-
1994^[5]	34	19	4	1	-	-
1995^[6]	33	15	9	1	-	-
1996^[7]	32	12	13	1	-	-
1998^[8]	30	16	13	1	-	-
1999^[9]	30	18	11	1	-	-
2000^[10]	27	22	10	1	-	-
Ward boundary changes
2002^[3]	26	24	6	-	4	-
2003^[11]	25	24	5	-	5	-
2004^[12]	23	28	6	-	2	-
2006^[13]	21	30	7	-	2	-
2007^[14]	21	30	6	-	3	-
2008^[15]	23	27	7	-	3	-
2010^[16]	26	24	7	-	3	-
2011^[17]	26	24	7	-	3	-
2012^[18]	26	23	8	-	3	-
2014^[19]	25	23	8	-	3	1
2015	20	27	9	-	4	-
Ward boundary changes; seats reduced from 60 to 51
2016	15	22	11	-	3	-

Borough result maps

2002 results map
2003 results map
2004 results map
2006 results map
2007 results map
2008 results map
2010 results map
2012 results map
2014 results map
2015 results map

By-election results

By-elections occur when seats become vacant between council elections. Below is a summary of recent by-elections;^[20] full by-election results can be found by clicking on the by-election name.

By-election	Date
Dedham	4 September 1997	Liberal Democrat	Conservative
Tiptree by-election	25 June 1998	Labour	Labour
Lexden by-election	19 October 2000	Conservative	Conservative
Prettygate by-election	7 June 2001	Conservative	Liberal Democrat
Mile End by-election	22 November 2001	Liberal Democrat	Liberal Democrat
Wivenhoe Quay by-election	22 April 2004	Independent	Labour
Berechurch by-election	21 October 2004	Liberal Democrat	Labour
Birch and Winstree by-election	4 December 2008	Conservative	Conservative
Wivenhoe Quay by-election	3 July 2014	Labour	Labour
Dedham & Langham by-election	15 September 2015	Conservative	Conservative

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By-election results

External links

Colchester Borough Council

Council elections in Essex

Essex County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017

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 2016

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 2016

Castle Point Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

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 2018

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 2016

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 2016

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 2016

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 2016

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 2016

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

See also: Wards Boundary changes

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