2018 Epping Forest District Council election

2018 Epping Forest District Council election

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20 of 58 seats on Epping Forest District Council 30 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	29.7% (0.7%) [1]
First party Second party Third party   Leader Chris Whitbread Caroline Pond Jon Whitehouse Party Conservative Loughton Residents Liberal Democrats Leader's seat Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common Loughton St Johns Epping Hemnall Last election 35 seats, 44.4% 13, 26.6% 2 seats, 10.2% Seats before 36 13 2 Seats won 39 13 2 Seat change 4 Popular vote 11,017 5,004 3,897 Percentage 43.7% 19.8% 15.4% Swing 0.3% 6.8% 5.2%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Steven Neville Simon Bullough[2] Party Green Labour Leader's seat Buckhurst Hill East None Last election 2 seats, 9.3% 0 seat, 9.3% Seats before 2 0 Seats won 2 0 Seat change Popular vote 1,954 2,558 Percentage 7.7% 10.1% Swing 1.6% 0.8%
Results of the 2018 District Council elections
Council composition following the election
Council control before election Conservative Council control after election Conservative

The 2018 Epping Forest District Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Epping Forest District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.

This is the last election in which the UK Independence Party had elected representation on the council after the defection of David Dorrell to the Conservatives, and the defeat of Rod Butler.

Chigwell Village By-election, 23 Feb 2017

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Darshan Sunger	453	76.0	0.9
	Liberal Democrats	Joanne Alexander-Sefre	143	23.9	N/A
Majority			310	52.0	10.5
Turnout			596	18%
	Conservative hold		Swing

A by-election was held on 19 October 2017 following the death of for Member of Parliament for Keighley, Gary Waller. Conservative, Paul Stalker won with 81% of the vote compared to 19% for the Liberal Democrats. Stalker completed Waller's term was re-elected in 2019 for a full term.

Lower Sheering By-election, 19 Oct 2017 (Compared to 2015 election)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paul Stalker	220	80.8	0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Ingrid Black	52	19.1	N/A
Majority			168	61.7	22.0
Turnout			272	16%	53%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Detailed below are all of the candidates nominated to stand in each ward in the upcoming election. Most figures are compared to the last time these seats were contested in any election cycle for the Epping Forest District Council election. Lower Nazeing, North Weald Bassett and Chipping Ongar, Greensted and Marden Ash are compared to the 2015 ward election held at the same time as the 2015 general election, hence the sharp decrease in turnout, both Waltham Abbey seats contested at this election have been compared to the 2014 local election result due to the fact that UKIP won both at that point:

Buckhurst Hill East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Steven Neville	1,084	68.8	23.6
	Conservative	Neville Wright	440	27.9	13.0
	Liberal Democrats	Dev Dodeja	50	3.1	N/A
Majority			644	40.9	36.6
Turnout			1,574	43%	2.0
	Green hold		Swing

Buckhurst Hill West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jo Share-Bernia	921	48.0	10.7
	Liberal Democrats	Joseph Barkham	750	39.1	20.2
	Green	Roger Neville	246	12.8	7.0
Majority			171	8.9	30.0
Turnout			1,917	35%	2.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chigwell Village

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Darshan Sunger	751	77.0	1.9
	Labour	Wendy Maher	114	11.7	0.7
	Green	Christopher Lord	65	6.6	5.9
	Liberal Democrats	Joanne Alexander-Sefre	45	4.6	N/A
Majority			637	65.3	2.8
Turnout			975	29%	4.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chipping Ongar, Greensted and Marden Ash

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Basil Vaz	704	69.5	17.9
	Liberal Democrats	Pesh Kapasiawala	308	30.4	13.0
Majority			396	39.1	10.0
Turnout			1,012	30%	42.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Epping Hemnall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Janet Hilda Whitehouse	1,156	61.2	4.4
	Conservative	Simon Baker	554	29.3	5.0
	Labour	Inez Collier	176	9.3	0.4
Majority			602	31.9	9.4
Turnout			1,886	38%	1.0
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Les Burrows	844	43.7	11.2
	Liberal Democrats	Cherry McCredie	811	42.0	19.0
	Labour	Simon Bullough	183	9.4	5.5
	Green	Paul Scales	92	4.7	2.5
Majority			33	1.7	30.2
Turnout			1,930	36%	4.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Grange Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gagan Mohindra	803	57.9	7.2
	Labour	Kay Morrison	447	32.2	N/A
	Green	Rupert Nelson	136	9.8	25.1
Majority			356	25.7	4.5
Turnout			1,386	26%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Loughton Alderton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Loughton Residents	Chris Roberts	597	64.4	0.6
	Labour	Angela Ayre	172	18.5	1.7
	Conservative	Robert Church	158	17.0	2.4
Majority			425	45.9	1.0
Turnout			927	27%	2.0
	Loughton Residents hold		Swing

Loughton Broadway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Loughton Residents	Chris Pond	678	39.4	N/A
	Loughton Residents	Michael Owen	655	38.12	N/A
	Labour	Rosie Kelly	176	10.2	N/A
	Conservative	Katherine Harris	126	7.3	N/A
	Conservative	Marshall Vance	83	4.8	N/A
Majority			N/A	N/A	N/A
Turnout			1,718	27%	2.0
	Loughton Residents hold		Swing
	Loughton Residents hold		Swing

Loughton Fairmead

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Loughton Residents	Louise Mead	686	72.0	12.9
	Labour	Paul Thomas	135	14.1	N/A
	Conservative	George Bose	131	13.7	1.5
Majority			551	57.9	11.8
Turnout			952	29%	4.0
	Loughton Residents hold		Swing

Loughton Forest

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Loughton Residents	Roger Baldwin	678	54.4	N/A
	Conservative	Jonathan Hunter	486	39.0	N/A
	Labour	Martin Lawford	85	6.8	N/A
Majority			192	15.4	N/A
Turnout			1,249	37%	1.0
	Loughton Residents hold		Swing

Loughton Roding

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Stephen Murray	1,010	82.3	0.8
	Conservative	Peter Murray	129	10.5	0.5
	Labour	Kenneth Turner	88	7.1	3.2
Majority			881	71.8	1.3
Turnout			1,227	33%	9.0
	Independent hold		Swing

Loughton St. John's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Loughton Residents	Bob Jennings	884	71.6	10.2
	Conservative	Neal Bagshaw	247	20.0	1.8
	Labour	Jill Bostock	103	8.3	N/A
Majority			637	51.6	11.4
Turnout			1,234	35%
	Loughton Residents hold		Swing

Loughton St. Mary's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Loughton Residents	Howard Kauffman	826	65.6	3.4
	Conservative	Joyce Obaseki	270	21.4	3.7
	Labour	Benjamin Ross	109	8.6	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Gilbert	53	4.2	1.7
Majority			556	44.2	0.3
Turnout			1,258	33%	2.0
	Loughton Residents hold		Swing

Lower Nazeing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Yolanda Knight	541	68.5	13.0
	Labour	Brett Hawksbee	89	11.2	7.2
	UKIP	Martin Harvey	85	10.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Elaine Thatcher	74	9.3	N/A
Majority			452	57.3	5.6
Turnout			789	24%	43.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Moreton and Fyfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Hadley	Unopposed
Majority			N/A	100%	24.6
Turnout			N/A	N/A	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing

North Weald Bassett

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Bolton	852	79.5	19.7
	Liberal Democrats	Ingrid Black	219	20.4	13.0
Majority			633	59.1	24.8
Turnout			1,071	29%	37.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Theydon Bois

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sue Jones	810	64.2	12.4
	Liberal Democrats	Clive Amos	321	25.4	2.0
	Labour	Peter Richardson	130	10.3	N/A
Majority			489	38.8	14.4
Turnout			1,261	38%	5.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Waltham Abbey Honey Lane

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Stocker	617	29.0	N/A
	Conservative	Steven Heather	564	26.5	N/A
	Labour	Mitch Diamond-Conway	350	16.4	1.9
	Green	Carina Hill	254	11.9	N/A
	UKIP	Rodney Butler	229	10.7	34.0
	Liberal Democrats	Timothy Vaughan	5.1		N/A
Majority			N/A	N/A	N/A
Turnout			2,124	26%	3.0%
	Conservative gain from UKIP		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Independent David Dorrell (elected as a UKIP councillor in 2014) joined the Conservatives in February 2018.

Waltham Abbey Paternoster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Dorrell	342	50.5	16.3
	Labour	Robert Greyson	201	29.7	12.2
	Green	Dave Plummer	77	11.3	N/A
	UKIP	Ron McEvoy	56	8.2	36.4
Majority			141	20.8	8.6
Turnout			676	20%	8.0
	Conservative gain from UKIP		Swing