Thurrock Council Thurrock Council is the local authority for the borough of Thurrock in the ceremonial county of Essex, England. Since 1998 the council has been a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council ...

is the local authority for the

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Thurrock Thurrock () is a unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Essex, England. It lies on the north bank of the River ...

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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. Until 1 April 1998 it was a

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. One third of the council is elected each year, followed by one year without an election. Since the unitary authority was first elected in 1997, the council has consisted of 49

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s elected from 20 wards.

Council elections

Non-metropolitan district elections

* 1973 Thurrock Borough Council election *

1976 Thurrock Borough 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 Thurrock Borough 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 Thurrock Borough Council election *

1982 Thurrock Borough Council election The 1982 Thurrock Borough Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Thurrock Borough Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections in England. Labour regained control of the council from No over ...

* 1983 Thurrock Borough Council election * 1984 Thurrock Borough Council election *

1986 Thurrock Borough Council election The 1986 Thurrock Borough Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Thurrock Borough Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other 1986 UK local elections, local elections in England. Summary Election result ...

* 1987 Thurrock Borough Council election *

1988 Thurrock Borough 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 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United States (National ...

1990 Thurrock Borough 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 ...

* 1991 Thurrock Borough Council election * 1992 Thurrock Borough Council election *

1994 Thurrock Borough 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 ...

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

1995 Thurrock Borough 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 ...

1996 Thurrock Borough Council election 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Unitary authority elections

1997 Thurrock Council election The 1997 Thurrock Council election took place on 1 May 1997 to elect the members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. It took place on the same day as the 1997 general election and other local elections across England. Election Background ...

(New ward boundaries) *

1999 Thurrock Council election The 1999 Thurrock Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council. Overall turnout in th ...

2000 Thurrock Council election The 2000 Thurrock Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council. After the election, ...

2001 Thurrock Council election The 2001 Thurrock Council election took place on 7 June 2001 to elect members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. The election took place at the same time as the 2001 general election after being postponed from the first week of May due to an ...

2002 Thurrock Council election The 2002 Thurrock Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council. 43 candidates stood ...

2004 Thurrock Council election The 2004 Thurrock Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the 2002 Thurrock Council election, last election in 2002. Th ...

(New ward boundaries)legislation.gov.uk
The Borough of Thurrock (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2003
Retrieved on 3 November 2015. * 2006 Thurrock Council election *

2007 Thurrock Council election The 2007 Thurrock Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party lost overall control of the council to no overall contro ...

2008 Thurrock Council election The 2008 Thurrock Council election took place on 1 May 2008 to elect members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. After the election, the compositio ...

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2011 Thurrock Council election On 5 May 2011, one-third of seats on Thurrock Council were contested. The result of the election was that Thurrock Council stayed under no overall control. The Labour Party gained one seat from the Conservative Party. Results summary Of the ...

2012 Thurrock Council election The 2012 Thurrock Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Thurrock Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other 2012 United Kingdom local elections. The result was: *Labour 25 (+1) (39% of vote) *Conserva ...

2014 Thurrock Council election Elections to Thurrock Council were held on 22 May 2014. The UK Independence Party gained five seats, three from the Conservatives and two from Labour. Of the sixteen wards contested, Labour won six, the UKIP five and the Conservatives five. The ...

2015 Thurrock Council election The 2015 Thurrock Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Thurrock Council in England. This was on the same day as the general election and other 2015 United Kingdom local elections, local elections. Elections were held in ...

2016 Thurrock Council election The 2016 Thurrock Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Thurrock Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The council remained under no overall control. The Labour leader of the council, Jo ...

2018 Thurrock Council election The 2018 Thurrock Council elections took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Thurrock Council in England. Councillors in 16 out of the 20 electoral wards were to be up for election. The council remained under no overall control, with a mino ...

* 2019 Thurrock Council election * 2021 Thurrock Council election * 2022 Thurrock Council election * 2023 Thurrock Council election * 2024 Thurrock Council election *

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(New ward boundaries)

Council composition

Results maps

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Changes between elections

By-elections

1998-2002

2002-2006

2010-2014

2014-2018

2018-2022

Notes

References

External links

Thurrock Council
{{Unitary authorities of England Politics of Thurrock Council elections in Essex Unitary authority elections in England