Castle Point Borough Council elections

Castle Point Borough Council in Essex, England holds an election for the whole council every four years. From 2003 to 2023 a third of the council was elected every year for three years, with no election in the fourth. Since the last boundary changes in 2024, 39 councillors have been elected from 13 wards.^[1][2][3]

Map showing the composition of Castle Point Borough Council as of 2024.

Council elections

Summary of the council composition after recent council elections, click on the year for full details of each election.

Year	Conservative	Canvey Island Independent	UK Independence Party	Independent	People's Independent Party	Labour	Notes
1973[4]	19	0	0	0	0	20
1976[4]	36	0	0	0	0	3
1979[4]	38	0	0	0	0	1	New ward boundaries[5]
1983[4]	38	0	0	0	0	1
1987[6]	39	0	0	0	0	0	District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same[7]
1991[8]	36	0	0	0	0	3
1995[9]	5	0	0	0	0	34
1999[10]	15	0	0	0	0	24
2003[11]	39	0	0	0	0	2	New ward boundaries[12]
2004[13]	35	6	0	0	0	0
2006[14]	29	11	0	0	0	1
2007[15]	26	15	0	0	0	0
2008[16]	25	15	0	0	0	1
2010[17]	25	16	0	0	0	0
2011[18]	25	16	0	0	0	0
2012[1]	25	15	0	1	0	0
2014[19][20]	20	16	5	0	0	0
2015	22	13	3	3	0	0
2016	22	14	3	0	0	0
2018	27	14	0	0	0	0
2019	25	16	0	0	0	0
2021	21	16	0	0	4	0
2022	15	16	0	0	10	0
2023[21]	9	16	0	0	16	0
2024	0	15	0	0	24	0	New ward boundaries[2]

Borough result maps

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  2003 results map
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  2004 results map
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  2006 results map
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  2010 results map
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  2014 results map
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  2021 results map
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  2022 results map
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  2023 results map
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  2024 results map

By-election results

By-elections occur when seats become vacant between council elections. Below is a summary of recent by-elections;^[22] full by-election results can be found by clicking on the by-election name.

By-election	Date	Incumbent party		Winning party
Cedar Hall	10 April 1997		Labour		Labour
Canvey Island East	22 October 1998		Labour		Labour
St. Georges by-election	19 July 2001		Labour		Labour
Boyce by-election	30 September 2004		Conservative		Conservative
Canvey Island North by-election	8 September 2005		Conservative		Labour
St Marys by-election (first seat)	20 December 2007		Conservative		Conservative
St Marys by-election (second seat)			Conservative		Labour
Canvey Island East by-election	30 October 2014		CIIP		Independent
St. George's by-election	5 May 2016		Conservative		Conservative
Boyce by-election	6 May 2021		Conservative		Conservative
St. George's by-election			Conservative		Conservative
St. Peter's by-election	24 February 2022		Conservative		Conservative