Braintree District Council election, 2015

Braintree District Council election, 2015

May 7, 2015 (2015-05-07)

45 seats 25 seats needed for a majority   First party Second party Third party   Party Conservative Labour Halstead Residents Last election 47 9 1 Seats before 47 9 1 Seats won 40 2 2 Seat change 7 7 1 Popular vote 67,347 30,260 3,158 Percentage 53.3 24.0 2.5 Swing 4.5 3.4 0.1   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Green UKIP Liberal Democrat Last election 2 0 0 Seats before 2 0 0 Seats won 1 0 0 Seat change 1 Popular vote 9,995 12,745 2,818 Percentage 7.9 10.1 2.3 Swing 3.2 7.2 1.2

The 2015 Braintree District Council election is scheduled to take place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Braintree District Council in England.^[1] This is on the same day as other local elections.

Following a boundary change, the number of wards was reduced from 30 to 26 and the number of councillors from 60 to 45.

Results of election

Braintree District Council Election Result 2015
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	40	0	4	4	88.9	47.2	37,922	-1.7
	Labour	2	0	8	8	4.4	19.9	15,974	-7.5
	Halstead Residents	2	1	0	1	4.4	3.1	2,458	+0.5
	Green	1	0	1	1	2.2	11.3	9,082	+0.2
	UKIP	0	0	0		0	15.5	12,470	+12.6
	Liberal Democrat	0	0	0		0	2.6	2,125	-0.9
	Independent	0	0	1	1	0	0.4	289	-2.9

Ward results

Bocking Blackwater

Bocking North

Bocking South

Braintree Central & Beckers Green

Braintree South

Braintree West

Bumpstead

Coggeshall

Gosfield & Greenstead Green

Great Notley & Black Notley

Halstead St. Andrew's

Halstead Trinity

Hatfield Peverel & Terling

Hedingham

Kelvedon & Feering

Rayne

Silver End and Cressing

Stour Valley North

Stour Valley South

The Colnes

Three Fields

Witham Central

Witham North

Witham South

Witham West

Yeldham

References

(2014 ←)   United Kingdom local elections, 2015   (→ 2016)
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Unitary authorities	Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton & Hove Bristol Central Bedfordshire Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Slough South Gloucestershire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York
District councils	Allerdale Amber Valley Arun Ashfield Ashford Aylesbury Vale Babergh Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Blaby Bolsover Boston Braintree Breckland Brentwood Broadland Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Canterbury Carlisle Castle Point Charnwood Chelmsford Cherwell Chesterfield Chichester Chiltern Chorley Christchurch Colchester Copeland Corby Cotswold Craven Crawley Dacorum Dartford Daventry Derbyshire Dales Dover East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Dorset East Hampshire East Hertfordshire East Lindsey East Northamptonshire East Staffordshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Eden Elmbridge Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fenland Forest Heath Forest of Dean Fylde Gedling Gloucester Gravesham Great Yarmouth Guildford Hambleton Harborough Harlow Harrogate Hart Havant Hertsmere High Peak Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Kettering King's Lynn and West Norfolk Lancaster Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Mansfield Melton Mendip Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Mole Valley New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle-under-Lyme North Devon North Dorset North East Derbyshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Norfolk North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire Northampton Norwich Oadby and Wigston Pendle Preston Purbeck Redditch Reigate and Banstead Ribble Valley Richmondshire Rochford Rossendale Rother Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Ryedale Scarborough Sedgemoor Selby Sevenoaks Shepway South Bucks South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Lakeland South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Somerset South Staffordshire Spelthorne St Albans St Edmundsbury Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Suffolk Coastal Surrey Heath Swale Tamworth Tandridge Taunton Deane Teignbridge Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers Tonbridge and Malling Torridge Tunbridge Wells Uttlesford Vale of White Horse Warwick Watford Waveney Waverley Wealden Wellingborough Welwyn Hatfield West Devon West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire West Somerset Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wycombe Wyre Wyre Forest
Mayoral elections	Bedford Copeland Leicester Mansfield Middlesbrough Torbay
See also: United Kingdom general election, 2015

Council elections in Essex
Essex County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017
Basildon Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016
Braintree District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Brentwood Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016
Castle Point Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016
Chelmsford City Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Colchester Borough Council	1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018
Epping Forest District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016
Harlow District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016
Maldon District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Rochford District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016
Tendring District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Thurrock Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016
Uttlesford District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
See also: Wards Boundary changes