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Epping Forest Epping Forest is a area of ancient woodland, and other established habitats, which straddles the border between Greater London and Essex. The main body of the forest stretches from Epping in the north, to Chingford on the edge of the Lond ...

is in the

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Essex Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...

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. It was created on 1 April 1974, following the merger of Epping Urban District,

Chigwell Urban District Chigwell was a local government district in south west Essex, England.Vision of Britain Chigwell UDhistoric map ) It contained the settlements of Chigwell, Loughton and Buckhurst Hill; and formed part of the Metropolitan Police District. Formatio ...

Waltham Holy Cross Urban District Waltham Holy Cross (also known as Waltham Abbey) was a local government district in the county of Essex, England. It was created as a local board of health district in 1850 when the parish of Waltham Holy Cross adopted the Public Health Act 18 ...

, and part of

Epping and Ongar Rural District Epping and Ongar Rural District was a rural district in the county of Essex, England from 1955 to 1974. Creation It was created in 1955 by the merger of the disbanded Ongar Rural District and most of the disbanded Epping Rural District, except t ...

. Until 2002, Epping Forest District Council was represented by 59 councillors. In 2002 the ward boundaries were reorganised, resulting in the loss of one council seat, and since then the district has had 58 councillors representing 32

wards Ward may refer to: Division or unit * Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward * Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a pris ...

. Each ward is represented by one, two or three councillors, depending on the ward's population, so that each councillor represents a roughly equal proportion of the district's electorate. Councillors serve for a four-year term. They are elected on a "cycle of thirds", i.e. one third of the Council is elected each year, followed by one year without election. New ward boundaries are being prepared to take effect from the 2024 elections.

Summary of results since 2002

The table below summarises the number of seats held by each party after each year's elections (no elections took place in 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017). The council returned to Conservative control following the gain of a seat in a by-election in December 2006 after being under

no overall control In the context of local authorities in the United Kingdom no overall control (NOC; ) is a situation in which no single political group achieves a majority of seats, comparable to a hung parliament. Of the 248 councils who had members up for elec ...

since 1994.

Council elections

* 1973 Epping Forest District Council election *

1976 Epping Forest District Council election Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...

1979 Epping Forest District Council election Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

(New ward boundaries) * 1980 Epping Forest District Council election * 1982 Epping Forest District Council election *

1983 Epping Forest District Council election 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

* 1984 Epping Forest District Council election *

1986 Epping Forest District Council election The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal ent ...

* 1987 Epping Forest District Council election (District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same) *

1988 Epping Forest District Council election 1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the Morris worm, 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United State ...

* 1990 Epping Forest District Council election (District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same) *

1991 Epping Forest District Council election It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union collapsed, leaving fifteen sovereign republics and the CIS in its place. In July 1991, India abandoned its policies of dirigism, license r ...

1992 Epping Forest District Council election Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno D ...

1994 Epping Forest District Council election The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitting ...

(District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same) *

1995 Epping Forest District Council election 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

(District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same) *

1996 Epping Forest District Council election 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane 1996 Air Africa crash, crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic ...

1998 Epping Forest District Council election Elections to Epping Forest Council were held on 7 May 1998. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. Overall turnout was 29.4%. This election marks the last time the Labour Party were the ...

1999 Epping Forest District Council election Elections to Epping Forest Council were held on 6 May 1999. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. Overall turnout was 29%. This was the last time the Epping Residents Association had repr ...

2000 Epping Forest District Council election Elections to Epping Forest Council were held on 4 May 2000. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. Overall turnout was 30.4%. This was the last election with some of the current boundaries. ...

2002 Epping Forest District Council election Elections to Epping Forest Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by 1. The council stayed under no overall control. Abolished ...

(New ward boundaries reduced the number of seats by 1) * 2003 Epping Forest District Council election * 2004 Epping Forest District Council election *

2006 Epping Forest District Council election Elections to Epping Forest Council were held on 4 May 2006. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. The Labour Party was reduced to one seat following wipeout of their representation in L ...

2007 Epping Forest District Council election Elections to Epping Forest (district), Epping Forest Council were held on 3 May 2007 in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party regained overall control of the council, t ...

2008 Epping Forest District Council election Elections to Epping Forest (district), Epping Forest Council were held on 1 May 2008. One third of the council was up for election and the council remained in Conservative Party (UK), Conservative control. This election saw the largest Green ...

2010 Epping Forest District Council election The 2010 Epping Forest District Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect members of Epping Forest District Council in England. This was on the same day as the 2010 United Kingdom general election. Ward Results Figures are compare ...

2011 Epping Forest District Council election Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number) * One of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *''Eleven'', a 1970 collection of short stories by Patricia Highsmith *''Eleven'', ...

2012 Epping Forest District Council election The 2012 Epping Forest Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Epping Forest Council in England. This was on same day as other 2012 United Kingdom local elections. One-third of council were up for election. No elections w ...

(Some new ward boundaries)legislation.gov.uk
The Epping Forest (Electoral Changes) Order 2011
Retrieved on 3 November 2015. *

2014 Epping Forest District Council election The 2014 Epping Forest District Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Epping Forest District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections and the European Parliament elections. By-elections W ...

* 2015 Epping Forest District Council election *

2016 Epping Forest District Council election The 2016 Epping Forest District Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Epping Forest District Council in England. This was on the same day as other 2016 United Kingdom local elections, local elections. This election saw t ...

2018 Epping Forest District Council election 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 2018 United Kingdom local elections, local elections. This is the last el ...

2019 Epping Forest District Council election The 2019 Epping Forest District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Epping Forest District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. Ward Results Figures are compared to the last time t ...

2021 Epping Forest District Council election The 2021 Epping Forest District Council election took place on 6 May 2021 to elect members of Epping Forest District Council in England on the same day as other local elections. This election marked the first time in over 22 years that the La ...

* 2022 Epping Forest District Council election * 2023 Epping Forest District Council election *

2024 Epping Forest District Council election The 2024 Epping Forest District Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom held on the same day. All 54 members of Epping Forest District Council in Essex were elected following b ...

Results maps

File:2021 Epping Forest election.svg, 2021 results map File:2022 Epping Forest election.svg, 2022 results map File:Epping Forest UK ward map 2023.svg, 2023 results map File:Map of the results of the 2024 local elections in Epping Forest District.png, 2024 results map

By-elections

1994-1998

1998-2002

2002-2006

2006-2010

2010-2014

2014-2018

2022-2026

References

External links

Election pages on Epping Forest District Council website
{{Essex elections Epping Forest District Council elections in Essex District council elections in England