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Mar 28 2024
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Brightlingsea’s district councillors hold on to their seats

The 2023 local council election has seen Brightlingsea’s sitting Tendring councillors retain their seats.

Independents Mick Barry, Jayne Chapman and Graham Steady will now represent the town on Tendring District Council for another four years.

The three won the vote comfortably, securing over 1,400 votes more than the other 10 candidates put together on a turnout of 34.22%.

A recount will take place later today for the last ward to be declared – Lawford, Manningtree and Mistley – where the Tories and Independents are fighting for the three available seats.

Even without that result being declared, the Conservatives look to have lost control of the council as they currently have 18 councillors, Independents 16, Labour 8, Liberal Democrat 2 and Tendring First 1. It’s likely that a coalition of former opposition parties will now take over the council.

Brightlingsea Town Council results will be published later today.

The full results were (denotes sitting councillor):

Mick Barry* (Ind) 1,411, Jayne Chapman* (Ind) 1,309; Graham Steady* (Ind) 1,081; Mat Court (Ind) 561; John Carr (Con) 395; Ben Harvey (Green) 264; Jenna Barton (Lab) 251; Nigel Dyson (Con) 217; Harry Prosser (Lab) 148; Margaret Saunders (Lab) 188; Bobby McWilliams (Con) 180; James Jefferies (Lib Dem) 83; Stuart Morgan (Lib Dem) 76.

32 ballot papers were rejected.

Note: Article edited after Tendring Council corrected the turnout figure on its official election dashboard from over 89% to 34.33%.

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  1. Hello,

    I think you may have your maths a bit wrong for the turn out. 6,164 votes were cast out of a total electorate of 6,879, but every voter got 3 separate votes for district councillor. Assuming every voter used all three of their votes, then the total number of voters would only be 2,054. This gives the much more realistic turn out of 29.86%, rather than the 89.3% you have worked it out at.

    Please do correct me if I am wrong.

  2. Sorry, including rejected ballots the total would be 2086 voters, so 30.32% turn out, assuming that every voter used all three votes.

  3. Sorry, including rejected ballots, assuming that the rejected ballots were counted as 1 in the turnout rather than 3, then the new total would be 2086 voters, a turn out of 30.32%

    • The government didn’t want to record the numbers of those turned away, so we’ll never know.

  4. I believe the figures for those turned away were being recorded to be given to the electoral commission, who may publish them at some future date.

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