2001 Thurrock Council election

2001 UK local government 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 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.

Among the candidates in the election was Pauline Campbell who stood as an independent candidate after resigning from the Conservatives. Campbell, who was disabled and used a wheelchair, said that she had been first told she was the Conservative candidate but then told that she could not stand as she would not be able to canvass. However the Conservatives denied this and said that they just wanted to give someone else a chance.

After the election, the composition of the council was

Election result

Thurrock Local Election Result 2001
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	15	2	1	+1	83.3	54.9	26,168	+9.6%
Conservative	3	1	2	-1	16.7	37.5	17,874	-5.1%
Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	0	0	5.8	2,772	+0.9%
Independent	0	0	0	0	0	0.9	428	+0.2%
UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	0.6	302	+0.6%
Green	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	108	+0.0%

Ward results

Aveley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Neil Pearce	1,418	47.3	+8.2
	Labour	William Tranter	1,227	40.9	+7.2
	Liberal Democrats	John Lathan	248	8.3	−15.6
	Green	Dean Hall	108	3.6	+0.3
Majority			191	6.4	+1.0
Turnout			3,001
	Conservative hold		Swing

Belhus
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Jones	1,584	58.6	−0.2
	Conservative	Jane Atkins	694	25.7	−15.5
	Liberal Democrats	John Biddall	427	15.8	+15.8
Majority			890	32.9	+15.3
Turnout			2,705
	Labour hold		Swing

Chadwell St Mary
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Warren	2,549	74.2	+8.4
	Conservative	Gunther Voggenreiter	885	25.8	−8.4
Majority			1,664	48.4	+16.8
Turnout			3,434
	Labour hold		Swing

Chafford Hundred
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Martin Healy	956	37.5	+5.9
	Conservative	Antony Silver	955	37.4	+4.2
	Liberal Democrats	Earnshaw Palmer	640	25.1	+5.4
Majority			1	0.1
Turnout			2,551
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Corringham and Fobbing
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Harrison	1,435	55.2	+13.7
	Labour	Eunice Southam	1,163	44.8	+14.4
Majority			272	10.4	−0.7
Turnout			2,598	60
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Corringham West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Clinton Sear	1,287	62.0	−6.5
	Conservative	Daphne Hart	789	38.0	+6.5
Majority			498	24.0	−13.0
Turnout			2,076
	Labour hold		Swing

Grays Riverside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Carl Morris	1,601	62.6	+5.6
	Conservative	Manfred Koppen	956	37.4	−5.6
Majority			645	25.2	+11.2
Turnout			2,557
	Labour hold		Swing

Grays Thurrock
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rosemary McMahon	1,991	61.4	+7.2
	Conservative	Clive Broad	1,252	38.6	−7.2
Majority			739	22.8	+14.4
Turnout			3,243
	Labour hold		Swing

Little Thurrock Blackshots
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Gooding	958	43.1	+14.9
	Conservative	Benjamin Maney	951	42.8	−19.3
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Meechan	315	14.2	+4.5
Majority			7	0.3
Turnout			2,224
	Labour hold		Swing

Little Thurrock Rectory
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Valerie Cook	1,581	59.6	+15.8
	Conservative	James Carter	1,071	40.4	−15.8
Majority			510	19.2
Turnout			2,652	55.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Ockendon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Barrie Lawrence	2,100	65.6	+8.0
	Conservative	Kazmimierz Rytter	1,100	34.4	−8.0
Majority			1,000	31.2	+16.0
Turnout			3,200
	Labour hold		Swing

Orsett
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Revell	1,577	57.8	+2.3
	Labour	Wahidur Rahman	740	27.1	+5.8
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Saunders	413	15.1	+6.3
Majority			837	30.7	−3.5
Turnout			2,730	62
	Conservative hold		Swing

Stanford-le-Hope West
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Alphonse Nuss	1,295
	Labour	Arthur Clarke	1,218
	Conservative	Barry Dorrington	699
	Conservative	Darren Webb	690
Turnout			3,902
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Stifford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gerard Rice	1,572	46.0	−1.4
	Conservative	Robert Barnes	1,264	37.0	−7.8
	Liberal Democrats	Rabih Makki	327	9.6	+1.8
	Independent	Pauline Campbell	254	7.4	+7.4
Majority			308	9.0	+6.4
Turnout			3,417
	Labour hold		Swing

The Homesteads
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Salvatore Benson	1,828	54.3	+14.3
	Conservative	John Everett	1,235	36.7	−2.4
	UKIP	James Mallon	302	9.0	+9.0
Majority			593	17.6	+16.7
Turnout			3,365
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Tilbury Riverside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Garner	1,129	72.7
	Conservative	Yvonne Partridge	269	17.3
	Liberal Democrats	David Coward	154	9.9
Majority			860	55.4
Turnout			1,552
	Labour hold		Swing

West Thurrock
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Catherine Kent	1,389	56.8	−6.0
	Conservative	Garry Hague	634	25.9	−11.3
	Liberal Democrats	John Livermore	248	10.1	+10.1
	Independent	Reginald Lee	174	7.1	+7.1
Majority			755	30.9	+5.3
Turnout			2,445
	Labour hold		Swing

References

"Thurrock". BBC News Online. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
^ "Tories disabled". Evening Standard. 22 May 2001. p. 12.
^ "Council results". Evening Standard. 8 June 2001. p. 51.
^ "Pre-2004 Wards And Elections". Thurrock Council. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2009.

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2000 Thurrock Council election

Thurrock local elections

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2002 Thurrock Council election

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