Local Election Results 2003
Braintree
Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries.
Halstead = Halstead Residents
Other results for Braintree:
2007
2011
2015
2019
By-elections for Braintree (may be incomplete): 11th March 2004 (Hedingham & Maplestead)
— 14th October 2004 (Rayne)
— 9th June 2008 (Braintree E.; Hatfield Peverel)
— 2nd October 2008 (Witham W.)
— 4th December 2008 (The Three Colnes)
— 24th June 2010 (Braintree S.)
— 15th March 2012 (Braintree E.; Braintree S.; Great Notley & Braintree W.)
— 25th July 2013 (Braintree E.)
— 5th May 2016 (Witham S.)
— 20th October 2016 (Bumpstead; Witham N.)
— 3rd May 2018 (Bocking N.; Hatfield Peverel & Terling)
— 6th May 2021 (Hatfield Peverel & Terling; Witham S.)
— 10th November 2022 (Braintree S.; Coggeshall)
Results for Essex county council: 2005
2009
2013
2017
2021
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Conservative |
13957 |
37.4% |
27 |
| Labour |
10453 |
28.0% |
20 |
| Liberal Democrat |
5537 |
14.9% |
4 |
| Independent |
2874 |
7.7% |
2 |
| Green Party |
2599 |
7.0% |
2 |
| Halstead Residents' Association |
1864 |
5.0% |
5 |
| Peter Turner |
LD |
504 |
41.8% |
| Margaret Galione |
C |
501 |
41.5% |
| Janet Turner |
LD |
449 |
|
| Cheryl Louis |
C |
377 |
|
| Marion Williams |
Lab |
201 |
16.7% |
| Raymond Horrell |
Lab |
151 |
|
| Jean Schmitt |
C |
733 |
38.1% |
| David Reid |
C |
713 |
|
| Ralph Haslam |
C |
701 |
|
| Agnes Bishop |
Lab |
647 |
33.6% |
| Roy Lodge |
Lab |
572 |
|
| Michael Shirvington |
Lab |
527 |
|
| Stuart Seymour |
LD |
321 |
16.7% |
| Terence Graystone |
LD |
278 |
|
| Wendy Partridge |
Grn |
222 |
11.5% |
| David Mann |
Lab |
496 |
52.2% |
| Anthony Everard |
Lab |
450 |
|
| Thomas McMillan |
C |
300 |
31.5% |
| Patricia Walsh |
C |
275 |
|
| Eileen Fierheller |
LD |
155 |
16.3% |
| Lynn Green |
Lab |
566 |
56.2% |
| Moia Thorogood |
Lab |
536 |
|
| Neil Birks |
C |
297 |
29.5% |
| Alan Scattergood |
C |
222 |
|
| Duncan Stewart |
Grn |
145 |
14.4% |
| James Abbott |
Grn |
855 |
58.3% |
| Philip Hughes |
Grn |
755 |
|
| Greta Tew |
Lab |
434 |
29.6% |
| Maureen Cann |
Lab |
399 |
|
| Ashley Final |
LD |
178 |
12.1% |
| Barbara French |
LD |
170 |
|
| Roy Cavinder |
LD |
487 |
25.8% |
| Martin Green |
Lab |
476 |
25.2% |
| William Edwards |
Lab |
466 |
|
| Derek Lotery |
Lab |
452 |
|
| James Brown |
C |
451 |
23.8% |
| Robert McDermott |
LD |
390 |
|
| Joanne Fish |
LD |
387 |
|
| Barbara Buchan |
Ind |
344 |
18.2% |
| Robert Green |
Ind |
256 |
|
| David Darney |
Grn |
133 |
7.0% |
| Elwyn Bishop |
Lab |
597 |
43.4% |
| Eric Lynch |
Lab |
531 |
|
| Cornelius Coughlan |
Lab |
502 |
|
| David McIntosh |
C |
304 |
22.1% |
| Launa Clark |
Ind |
254 |
18.5% |
| Matthew Buchan |
Ind |
228 |
|
| Paul Lemon |
LD |
219 |
15.9% |
| Pauline Brooks |
LD |
216 |
|
| Michael Lynch |
Lab |
611 |
36.0% |
| Allan Millam |
Lab |
563 |
|
| Douglas Rice |
LD |
528 |
31.1% |
| Richard Parsons |
Lab |
520 |
|
| David Messer |
C |
371 |
21.9% |
| Herbert Rix |
C |
337 |
|
| Dormer Andrews |
Grn |
187 |
11.0% |
| John Collar |
C |
534 |
71.0% |
| Anthony Bennett |
Lab |
218 |
29.0% |
| Patricia Newton |
C |
767 |
42.4% |
| Nigel Edey |
C |
738 |
|
| Catherine Joyce |
Lab |
640 |
35.4% |
| Terrence Lazell |
Lab |
598 |
|
| David Sibley |
LD |
231 |
12.8% |
| Martin Langsdon |
Grn |
172 |
9.5% |
| Lynette Flint |
Ind |
353 |
55.9% |
| Derek Heasman |
C |
279 |
44.1% |
| Barry Broyd |
C |
531 |
55.1% |
| Robert Waters |
Ind |
294 |
30.5% |
| Daisy Marshall |
Lab |
138 |
14.3% |
| Graham Butland |
C |
862 |
55.2% |
| Arthur Jenner |
C |
794 |
|
| Roger Walters |
C |
767 |
|
| Lesley Beckett |
LD |
341 |
21.8% |
| Peter Braley |
LD |
316 |
|
| Terrence Brooks |
LD |
304 |
|
| Anthony Watts |
Ind |
192 |
12.3% |
| Lucy Barlow |
Lab |
168 |
10.7% |
| Basil Tate |
Lab |
158 |
|
| Anthony Tearle |
Lab |
141 |
|
| Michael Gage |
Halstead |
1042 |
73.4% |
| Beryl Gage |
Halstead |
1037 |
|
| Helen Catley |
Halstead |
1029 |
|
| Grahame McCoyd |
Lab |
377 |
26.6% |
| Tania Rogers |
Lab |
372 |
|
| Stuart Gilbert |
Lab |
346 |
|
| Jacqueline Pell |
Halstead |
822 |
69.4% |
| John Pilgrim |
Halstead |
612 |
|
| Malcolm Fincken |
Lab |
362 |
30.6% |
| Stephen Knight |
Lab |
344 |
|
| Keith Bigden |
C |
806 |
75.8% |
| David Finch |
C |
684 |
|
| Peter Watt |
Lab |
257 |
24.2% |
| Vilma Bermudez |
Lab |
225 |
|
| Joanne Beavis |
C |
1013 |
46.1% |
| Clive Tanner |
C |
924 |
|
| Wendy Scattergood |
C |
710 |
|
| Stephen Bolter |
LD |
542 |
24.7% |
| Noel Owen |
Lab |
332 |
15.1% |
| Peter Schwier |
Ind |
310 |
14.1% |
| Steven Goodfellow |
Lab |
259 |
|
| Kenneth Tew |
Lab |
199 |
|
| Thomas Foster |
C |
732 |
38.3% |
| Robert Mitchell |
C |
655 |
|
| Eileen Davidson |
Lab |
592 |
31.0% |
| Ian Marshall |
Lab |
579 |
|
| John Hackworth |
Ind |
387 |
20.3% |
| Bryan Boyer |
Ind |
300 |
|
| Martin Ashby |
LD |
198 |
10.4% |
| Timothy Wilkinson |
C |
421 |
70.8% |
| Richard Green |
Lab |
174 |
29.2% |
| Anthony Meadows |
LD |
369 |
50.8% |
| Elizabeth MacNee |
C |
358 |
49.2% |
| Nigel Harley |
C |
447 |
62.7% |
| Mark Posen |
LD |
136 |
19.1% |
| Peter Owen |
Lab |
130 |
18.2% |
| Anthony Shelton |
C |
498 |
73.1% |
| Frederick Hearn |
Lab |
183 |
26.9% |
| Bernard Gaught |
Ind |
740 |
43.2% |
| Gabrielle Spray |
C |
658 |
38.4% |
| Robert Alston |
Lab |
314 |
18.3% |
| Sylvia Overnell |
Lab |
305 |
|
| John Finbow |
C |
800 |
77.7% |
| Simon Walsh |
C |
783 |
|
| Adrian Axtell |
Lab |
230 |
22.3% |
| John Overnell |
Lab |
221 |
|
| Robert Bolton |
C |
450 |
67.0% |
| Elizabeth Jones |
LD |
132 |
19.6% |
| Peter Long |
Lab |
90 |
13.4% |
| Philip Barlow |
Lab |
443 |
29.5% |
| Michael Lager |
C |
443 |
29.5% |
| Ian Pointon |
Lab |
372 |
|
| Barry Fleet |
LD |
363 |
24.1% |
| Christine May |
LD |
268 |
|
| Nelson Brunton |
Grn |
255 |
17.0% |
| Robert Evans |
Lab |
462 |
47.5% |
| John Gyford |
Lab |
435 |
|
| Claire Heasman |
C |
215 |
22.1% |
| Diane Barber |
LD |
157 |
16.2% |
| Nicholas Scales |
Grn |
138 |
14.2% |
| Cheryl Gerrard |
Grn |
115 |
|
| Jacqueline Martin |
Lab |
583 |
39.0% |
| Paul Heath |
Lab |
574 |
|
| Richard Tincknell |
Lab |
521 |
|
| Jennifer Jarvis |
C |
515 |
34.4% |
| Ronald Ramage |
C |
498 |
|
| Derrick Louis |
C |
469 |
|
| Bernard Dearlove |
LD |
219 |
14.6% |
| Carol Gerrard |
LD |
194 |
|
| Susan Ransome |
Grn |
178 |
11.9% |
| Kerin Boylan |
Lab |
564 |
35.3% |
| Kathaleen Tearle |
Lab |
546 |
|
| Joy Reekie |
Lab |
533 |
|
| Jane Walton |
C |
426 |
26.7% |
| Stephen Hicks |
Grn |
314 |
19.6% |
| Patricia Brunton |
Grn |
297 |
|
| Pamela Hooper |
LD |
294 |
18.4% |
| Kevin Peterson |
Grn |
253 |
|
| Nigel McCrea |
C |
245 |
42.5% |
| Stuart Scrivens |
Lab |
168 |
29.2% |
| Trevor Ellis |
LD |
163 |
28.3% |
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