Thurrock Council Thurrock Borough Council, usually known as simply Thurrock Council, is the local authority for the borough of Thurrock in Essex, England. Since 1997, Thurrock has been a unitary authority, combining the functions of a non-metropolitan county wit ...

is the local authority for the

unitary authority A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national governmen ...

Thurrock Thurrock () is a unitary authority area with borough status and unparished area in the ceremonial county of Essex, England. It is part of the London commuter belt and an area of regeneration within the Thames Gateway redevelopment zone. The l ...

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. Until 1 April 1998 it was a

non-metropolitan district Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially "shire districts", are a type of local government district in England. As created, they are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan counties (colloquially ''shire counties'') in a two-tier arrangement. Non-m ...

. One third of the council is elected each year, followed by one year without an election. Since the unitary authority was first elected in 1997, the council has consisted of 49

councillor A councillor is an elected representative for a local government council in some countries. Canada Due to the control that the provinces have over their municipal governments, terms that councillors serve vary from province to province. Unl ...

s elected from 20

wards Ward may refer to: Division or unit * Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward * Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a priso ...

Council elections

Non-metropolitan district elections

* 1973 Thurrock Borough Council election * 1976 Thurrock Borough Council election * 1979 Thurrock Borough Council election (New ward boundaries) * 1980 Thurrock Borough Council election * 1982 Thurrock Borough Council election * 1983 Thurrock Borough Council election * 1984 Thurrock Borough Council election * 1986 Thurrock Borough Council election * 1987 Thurrock Borough Council election *

1988 Thurrock Borough Council election File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

* 1990 Thurrock Borough Council election * 1991 Thurrock Borough Council election * 1992 Thurrock Borough Council election *

1994 Thurrock Borough Council election File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Ma ...

(Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same) *

1995 Thurrock Borough Council election File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strike ...

1996 Thurrock Borough Council election File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on ...

Unitary authority elections

1997 Thurrock Council election The 1997 Thurrock Council election took place on 1 May 1997 to elect the members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. It took place on the same day as the 1997 general election and other local elections across England. Election Background ...

(New ward boundaries) *

1999 Thurrock Council election The 1999 Thurrock Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council. Overall turnout in th ...

2000 Thurrock Council election The 2000 Thurrock Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council. After the election, ...

2001 Thurrock Council 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 ...

2002 Thurrock Council election The 2002 Thurrock Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council. 43 candidates stood ...

2004 Thurrock Council election The 2004 Thurrock Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2002. The Conservative party gained over ...

(New ward boundaries) * 2006 Thurrock Council election * 2007 Thurrock Council election * 2008 Thurrock Council election * 2010 Thurrock Council election * 2011 Thurrock Council election * 2012 Thurrock Council election * 2014 Thurrock Council election * 2015 Thurrock Council election * 2016 Thurrock Council election *

2018 Thurrock Council election The 2018 Thurrock Council elections took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Thurrock Council in England. Councillors in 16 out of the 20 electoral wards were to be up for election. The council remained under no overall control, with a minor ...

* 2019 Thurrock Council election *

2021 Thurrock Council election The 2021 Thurrock Council election took place on 6 May 2021 to elect members of Thurrock Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The previous election in the area was in 2019. The Conservatives won the popular vote b ...

* 2022 Thurrock Council election *

2023 Thurrock Council election The 2023 Thurrock Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect a third of the members of Thurrock Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections across England. The Conservatives narrowly retained their majori ...

Changes between elections

By-elections

1998-2002

2002-2006

2010-2014

2014-2018

2018-2022

Changes in affiliation

All 17 of UKIP's Thurrock councillors left the party on 27 January 2018. They now sit as the

Thurrock Independents The Thurrock Independents, also known as the Thurrock Independents Party (TIP), are a localist and populist British political party based in Thurrock, Essex, England. It was formed in January 2018 when seventeen Thurrock councillors, including ...

group.

References

External links

Thurrock Council
{{Unitary authorities of England Politics of Thurrock Council elections in Essex Unitary authority elections in England