2015 Maldon District Council election

2015 Maldon District Council election
All 31 seats to Maldon District Council; 16 seats needed for a majority
	Map showing the results of the 2015 Maldon District Council election

The 2015 Maldon District Council election took place on 7 May to elect all members of Maldon District Council in Essex, England, the same day as the other 2015 United Kingdom local elections and held simultaneously at the same polling places or via the optional combined return of two postal vote envelopes with the 2015 United Kingdom General Election.^[1]

Result

The governing group of Conservative councillors continued to have the same number of representatives with at least across all areas of the district - all bar two councillors are members of this political party as before the election. The Althorne and Southminster two-seat wards returned one other affiliated member each, the latter being a hold by an independent councillor and the former a gain by a member of UKIP (from a Conservative) both thus to co-represent the area in council meetings alongside a Conservative member. A Conservative gain of an independent affiliated seat in the district, one of those for Burnham on Crouch North completed the election in which 24 seats of 26 are held by members of the same governing party.

Maldon District Council election, 2015
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	28	1	1	0	90.3	56.5	24,257	+1.9
Independent	2	0	1	1	6.5	16.4	7,055	-2.3
UKIP	1	1	0	1	3.2	8.1	3,477	+7.0
Labour	0	0	0	0	0	10.2	4,393	-4.8
Green	0	0	0	0	0	6.5	2,775	-0.2
BNP	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	642	-1.6
Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	0	0	0.8	331	0.0

NB: The British National Party candidates stood under the description "Fighting Unsustainable Housing because we care" but were promoted as BNP candidates.^[2]

Ward results

Althorne

Althorne (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Robert Boyce	1,123
	UKIP	Beverly Acenedo	856
	Conservative	Anthony Cassen	754
	Independent	Linda Haywood	677
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	UKIP gain from Conservative		Swing

Burnham-on-Crouch South

Burnham-on-Crouch South (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ronald Pratt	1,090	34.3	+1.2
	Conservative	Peter Elliott	1,007	31.7	+5.4
	Green	Janet Dine	569	17.9	N/A
	Labour	Leslie McDonald	512	16.1	+0.3
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Burnham-on-Crouch North

Burnham-on-Crouch North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Neil Pudney	918	27.4	+0.7
	Conservative	Helen Elliott	750	22.4	0.0
	Independent	Wendy Stamp	564	16.8	N/A
	Labour	Una Norman	491	14.7	N/A
	Independent	Michael Wood	415	12.4	−21.9
	Green	Fiona Hearn	213	6.4	N/A
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Great Totham

Great Totham (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Keyes	1,226	35.4	−7.5
	Conservative	David Sismey	932	26.9	−5.6
	UKIP	Andrew North	553	16.0	N/A
	UKIP	Stephen Cobb	431	12.4	N/A
	Green	Robert Graves	322	9.3	−10.9
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Heybridge East

Heybridge East (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anne Beale	1,116	31.1	−16.6
	Conservative	Bryan Harker	938	26.2	−14.5
	UKIP	Alan Outlaw	663	18.5	N/A
	Labour	Richard Wathen	397	11.1	N/A
	Independent	Stephen Jennings	235	6.6	N/A
	BNP	Mark Burmby	235	6.6	−4.8
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Heybridge West -

Maldon East

Maldon East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Savage	534	59.0	+11.3
	Labour	Ian Kidman	371	41.0	−11.0
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Maldon North

Maldon North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Shrimpton	1,058	31.0	0.0
	Conservative	Michael Pearlman	976	28.6	+2.5
	Labour	John Sweeney	504	14.8	−7.4
	Green	Robert King	463	13.6	N/A
	Labour	John Walker	407	11.9	N/A
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Maldon South

Maldon South (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Cain	1,017	34.9	−3.1
	Conservative	Branda Harker	1,013	34.7	−4.2
	Independent	Martyn Dickinson	887	30.4	N/A
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Maldon West

Maldon West (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Mark Heard	1,303	40.0	+16.6
	Conservative	Charles Mackenzie	767	23.5	+0.6
	Conservative	Richard Miller	692	21.2	+2.5
	Green	Janet Carden	498	15.3	+7.8
Majority
Turnout
	Independent hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Mayland

Mayland (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Penelope Channer	1,365	40.6	N/A
	Conservative	Michael Helm	1,080	32.1	N/A
	Independent	Jason Stammers	896	26.7	N/A
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Purleigh

Purleigh (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Archer	uncontested	N/A	N/A
	Conservative	Sue White	uncontested	N/A	N/A
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Southminster

Southminster (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Adrian Fluker	956	33.1	+5.7
	Independent	Brian Beale	896	31.0	−10.2
	Conservative	Auriel Owers	450	15.6	−3.6
	Green	Avril Howe	306	10.7	N/A
	Labour	Madeline Diamond	279	9.7	−2.5
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

Tillingham

Tillingham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Dewick	683	57.4	−1.6
	UKIP	Timothy Drain	343	28.9	+3.7
	Labour	Norman Hunt	163	13.7	−2.1
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Tollesbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew St. Joseph	523	48.8	+0.8
	Labour	Stevan Slodzik	491	43.9	+8.0
	Green	Stephen Watson	104	9.3	−6.8
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Tolleshunt D'Arcy

Tolleshunt D'Arcy (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Elaine Bamford	925	22.7	−11.7
	Conservative	Madeline Thompson	876	21.5	−5.6
	Independent	Robert Long	729	17.9	+1.3
	UKIP	Gerald Munson	631	15.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Fairhurst	331	8.1	N/A
	Green	Jonathan King	300	7.4	−3.1
	Labour	Robert Jones	282	6.9	−3.6
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wickham Bishops & Woodham

Wickham Bishops & Woodham (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Elaine Bamford	1,461	43.9	+3.3
	Conservative	Madeline Thompson	1,275	38.3	+0.9
	Green	John Denis Le Seve	595	17.9	+4.6
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

^ "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
^ "Three Heybridge Patriots make a stand against unsustainable housing | British National Party". Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016.

[TEC-1] "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.

[2] "Three Heybridge Patriots make a stand against unsustainable housing | British National Party". Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016.

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