EPPING FOREST ELECTIONS LIVE: Tories retain council control (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

EPPING FOREST ELECTIONS LIVE: Tories retain council control

10:56am Friday 2nd May 2008 in

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WITH all the results in, 2008 has marked another succesful year for the Conservatives in the Epping Forest District after they retained overall control of the council.

In a bad day for the BNP the nationalists lost two seats although group leader Pat Richardson was re-elected.

The Tories gained four seats although they lost one as Bob Church was voted out of Buckhurst Hill West.

Loughton Residents Association gained two seats and lost one.

The new make up of the Council is: CON 35, LIB DEM 9, LRA 6, BNP 4, LABOUR 1 ,OTHERS 3

LIVE RESULTS:

RESULTS AS OF 11.20AM

EPPING LINDSEY AND THORNWOOD COMMON: Tony Bentley (BNP) 132, Simon Bullough (Lab) 120, Lorraine Collier (Lib Dem) 531, Robert Jones (Green) 87, Christopher Whitbread (Con)905.

RESULT: CONSERVATIVE HOLD

GRANGE HILL: David Bateman (Con) 1262, Pamela Okonkwo (Lib Dem) 249.

RESULT: CONSERVATIVE HOLD

HIGH ONGAR, WILLINGALE AND THE RODINGS: Amy Barnecutt (Green) 30, Maggie McEwen (Con) 469, Brian Surtees (Lib Dem) 53, Robin Tilbrook (English Democrats) 61.

RESULT: CONSERVATIVE HOLD

MORETON AND FYFIELD: Tony Boyce (Con) 329, Doug Kelly (Lib Dem) 315, Anne Palmer (English Democrats) 82.

RESULT: CONSERVATIVE GAIN

PASSINGFORD: Ingrid Black (Lib Dem) 66, Diana Collins (Con) 537.

RESULT: CONSERVATIVE HOLD

ALTHAM ABBEY HONEY LANE: Christine Akers (Lib Dem) 277, Jonathon Collier (Con) 676, Garry Martin (BNP) 258.

RESULT: CONSERVATIVE HOLD

UPDATE 11.50PM

CHIGWELL ROW: Connie Lye (Lib Dem) 99, Brian Sandler (Local Conservatives) 575; Robert Steel (Green) 50.

RESULT: CONSERVATIVE HOLD

CHIGWELL VILLAGE: John Knapman (Local Conservatives) 888, Christopher Lord (Green) 108, Arnold Verrall (Lib Dem) 86.

RESULT: CONSERVATIVE HOLD

UPDATE 1PM

BUCKHURST HILL EAST: Graham Cater 137(BNP), Dev Dodeja 648(Lib Dem), Marshall Vance 527(Con).

RESULT: LIB DEM HOLD

BUCKHURST HILL WEST: Bob Church 1000 (Con), Jill Sutcliffe (Lib Dem)1054.

RESULT: LIB DEM GAIN

LOUGHTON ALDERTON: Rosemary Brookes (Loughton Residents Association)642, Tony Frankland (BNP)412, Margaret Owen 72(Lab), Roger Taylor (Con)148, Neil Woollcott (Lib Dem)38.

RESULT: LRA GAIN

LOUGHTON BROADWAY: Jesse Briton (Green)69, Valerie Metcalfe (Con)250, Pat Richardson (BNP)469, Roger Salmon (Lab)346, Eleonor Spencer (Lib Dem)47.

RESULT: BNP HOLD

LOUGHTON FAIRMEAD: Alexander Copeland (BNP)330, Ben Glassman (Con)169, Matthew Hartley (Lab)122, Peter Sinfield (Lib Dem)28, David Wixley (Loughton Residents Association)523.

RESULT: LRA GAIN

LOUGHTON FOREST: Rebecca Cohen (Con)685, Paul Evans (BNP)66, John Game (Lab)67, James Hart (Con)698, Tom Owen (Lab)79, Christopher Pond (Loughton Residents Association)592, Enid Robinson (Lib Dem)59, David White (Loughton Residents Association)537.

RESULT: ONE CONSERVATIVE HOLD; ONE CONSERVATIVE GAIN

LOUGHTON RODING: Ken Angold-Stephens (Loughton Residents Association)763, Angela Ayre (Lab)153, Lorne Daniel (Con)344, Peter Fuller (Lib Dem)63, Tom Richardson (BNP)180.

RESULT: LRA HOLD

LOUGHTON ST JOHNS: Jill Bostock (Lab) 71, Caroline Pond (Loughton Residents Association)815, David Roderick (Lib Dem)38, Lynne Turpin (BNP) 89, Nigel Wagland (Con)410.

RESULT: LRA HOLD

LOUGHTON ST MARYS: Rodney Barrett (Loughton Residents Association)694, Edward Butler (BNP)92, Martin Lawford (Lab)90, Michael McGough (UK Independence Party)18, Mick Spence (Lib Dem)22, Edward Stacey (Con)449.

RESULT: LRA HOLD

THEYDON BOIS: Nicola Barnecutt (Green)52, George Howard (Lib Dem)610, Terry Howard (BNP)109, John Philip (Con)771, Andrew Smith (UK Independence Party)76.

RESULT: CONSERVATIVE GAIN

WALTHAM ABBEY NORTH EAST: Phil Chadburn (Lib Dem)410, Jeane Lea (Con)735.

RESULT: CONSERVATIVE HOLD

WALTHAM ABBEY SOUTH WEST: Peggy Ayre (Lib Dem)155, Martin Harvey (UK Independence Party)91, Bill Pryor (Con)474.

RESULT: CONSERVATIVE HOLD