15 of the 42 seats to Basildon District Council 22 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Party
Conservative
UKIP
Labour
Last election
25
0
15
Seats before
24
1
11
Seats won
4
11
0
Seats after
17
12
9
Seat change
7
11
2
Popular vote
13,614
15,163
8,092
Percentage
35.0%
39.0%
20.8%
Fourth party
Fifth party
Party
Independent
Liberal Democrats
Last election
0
2
Seats before
4
2
Seats won
0
0
Seats after
3
1
Seat change
1
1
Popular vote
36
1,846
Percentage
0.1%
4.7%
Map of the results of the 2014 Basildon council election. Conservatives in blue, Labour in red and Liberal Democrats in yellow. Wards in grey were not contested in 2014.
Council control before election
Conservative Party
Council control after election
No overall control
The 2014 Basildon District Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Basildon District Council in England.[4] This was on the same day as other local elections and elections to the European Parliament. This election was to elect one third of the council, plus one additional seat which was vacant. These seats were last up for election in 2010.
The second vacancy was caused by the resignation of an Independent councillor who had been elected in 2012 as a Labour candidate. Malsbury will fill this seat, and will thus be up for re-election in May 2016. Ferguson will fill the seat that was ordinarily due for election in 2014, and will face re-election in 2018.
In December 2014, Kerry Smith, the then leader of the UKIP group and newly selected parliamentary candidate for South Basildon and East Thurrock resigned from the party after the release of a tape recording of a private phone call in which he made offensive remarks about fellow UKIP members.[5] Imelda Clancy also left the party later that month, and the two sit as "Independence Group" members on the council, reducing UKIP's strength to ten seats, though they remain the second-largest party ahead of Labour on nine seats.[6]
A third independent councilor (originally elected as Labour) joined the Independence Group in January 2015.
References
^"Council compositions by year". The Elections Centre.
^"Local Election Summaries 2014". The Elections Centre.