Before (end of 1988) (98 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 45 · Labour 29 · Liberal Democrats 23 · Other 1
After (end of 1989) (98 seats, Elections Centre)
Conservative 57 · Labour 26 · Liberal Democrats 14 · Other 1
Ward results
Basildon Crouch1 seat · turnout 43.5%
| F. Bellard | Liberal Democrats | 2,220 ✓ |
| D. Morris | Conservative | 1,756 |
| M. Davis | Labour | 544 |
Basildon Fryerns1 seat · turnout 34.2%
| W. Archibald | Labour | 2,064 ✓ |
| J. Smith | Liberal Democrats | 736 |
| B. Archbold | Conservative | 719 |
Basildon Gloucester Park1 seat · turnout 34.6%
| M. Costello | Labour | 2,729 ✓ |
| S. Allen | Conservative | 1,038 |
| P. Jenkins | Liberal Democrats | 380 |
Basildon Laindon1 seat · turnout 36.4%
| M. Oliver | Labour | 2,229 ✓ |
| W. Lockhart | Conservative | 1,440 |
| S. Saunders | Liberal Democrats | 416 |
Basildon Pitsea1 seat · turnout 27.0%
| A. Smith | Labour | 2,631 ✓ |
| P. Cleland | Conservative | 1,614 |
| L. Williams | Liberal Democrats | 378 |
Basildon Vange1 seat · turnout 28.2%
| A. Wright | Labour | 2,413 ✓ |
| S. Ryder | Conservative | 1,058 |
| D. Owens | Liberal Democrats | 327 |
Basildon Westley Heights1 seat · turnout 45.9%
| B. Jones | Conservative | 2,501 ✓ |
| C. Bidmead | Labour | 1,823 |
| I. White | Liberal Democrats | 971 |
| W. Shelton | Social Democratic Party | 123 |
Belfairs & Blenheim1 seat · turnout 39.3%
| A. Smulian | Liberal Democrats | 1,996 ✓ |
| J. Rowswell | Conservative | 1,617 |
| B. Thurston | Labour | 394 |
Benfleet1 seat · turnout 34.7%
| J. Reeves | Conservative | 2,098 ✓ |
| B. Wilson | Labour | 897 |
| T. Atkins | Liberal Democrats | 434 |
Billericay North1 seat · turnout 36.2%
| L. Greenfield | Conservative | 3,261 ✓ |
| A. Ferriss | Liberal Democrats | 724 |
| H. Bruce | Labour | 392 |
| P. Breadmore | Independent | 196 |
Billericay South1 seat · turnout 36.6%
| G. Dighton | Conservative | 2,498 ✓ |
| J. Morley | Liberal Democrats | 1,357 |
| I. Harlow | Labour | 747 |
Bocking1 seat · turnout 45.6%
| P. White | Labour | 2,939 ✓ |
| G. Hutton | Conservative | 2,178 |
| J. Nicholls | Liberal Democrats | 411 |
Braintree East1 seat · turnout 39.3%
| R. Dixon Smith | Conservative | 2,832 ✓ |
| R. Keeble | Labour | 1,771 |
| J. Ross | Liberal Democrats | 789 |
Braintree West1 seat · turnout 44.0%
| D. Grice | Liberal Democrats | 2,765 ✓ |
| K. Brookman | Conservative | 2,437 |
| P. Johnson | Labour | 899 |
Brentwood Central1 seat · turnout 43.4%
| M. Hutton | Conservative | 2,070 ✓ |
| E. Davis | Liberal Democrats | 1,471 |
| C. Maxey | Labour | 447 |
| R. Lankester | Green | 282 |
Brentwood Hutton1 seat · turnout 34.0%
| L. Green | Conservative | 2,559 ✓ |
| M. Burgess | Labour | 773 |
| L. Mackenzie | Liberal Democrats | 743 |
Brentwood North1 seat · turnout 36.7%
| L. Jago | Conservative | 1,874 ✓ |
| P. Myers | Liberal Democrats | 1,206 |
| R. Gow | Labour | 402 |
Brentwood Rural1 seat · turnout 45.8%
| D. Hardy | Liberal Democrats | 3,040 ✓ |
| D. Morton | Conservative | 2,083 |
| R. Tattersall | Labour | 338 |
| J. Brindley | Green | 266 |
Brentwood South1 seat · turnout 42.0%
| J. Hayward | Conservative | 2,838 ✓ |
| D. Lewin | Labour | 2,162 |
Brightlingsea1 seat · turnout 42.2%
| T. Dale | Liberal Democrats | 1,969 ✓ |
| R. Marshall | Conservative | 1,869 |
| C. Olivier | Labour | 1,175 |
Broomfield & Writtle1 seat · turnout 37.8%
| M. Rose | Conservative | 2,111 ✓ |
| D. Shinn | Labour | 753 |
| M. Sinclair | Liberal Democrats | 512 |
| J. Ritchie | Green | 409 |
Buckhurst Hill1 seat · turnout 36.1%
| B. Cox | Conservative | 1,649 ✓ |
| S. Robinson | Social Democratic Party | 1,054 |
| J. Lowe | Liberal Democrats | 737 |
| A. Ayre | Labour | 431 |
Canvey Island East1 seat · turnout 33.7%
| H. King | Conservative | 2,802 ✓ |
| J. Payne | Labour | 1,552 |
| D. Easton | Green | 511 |
Canvey Island West1 seat · turnout 34.5%
| R. Howard | Conservative | 2,662 ✓ |
| D. Shaw | Labour | 1,617 |
| D. Ford | Liberal Democrats | 377 |
Chadwell1 seat · turnout 30.6%
| G. Rice | Labour | 2,589 ✓ |
| P. Ciechomski | Conservative | 897 |
| J. Overy | Liberal Democrats | 191 |
Chalkwell1 seat · turnout 38.3%
| B. Trevelyan | Conservative | 1,909 ✓ |
| E. Bunclark | Liberal Democrats | 1,837 |
| J. Mapp | Labour | 325 |
Chelmsford East1 seat · turnout 48.2%
| D. Kimberlin | Conservative | 2,725 ✓ |
| W. Davey | Liberal Democrats | 2,075 |
| G. Shearwood | Labour | 620 |
| N. Bedrock | Green | 437 |
Chelmsford North1 seat · turnout 45.9%
| K. Pauley | Conservative | 1,858 ✓ |
| T. Smith-Hughes | Liberal Democrats | 1,657 |
| R. Chad | Labour | 1,613 |
| J. Ritchie | Green | 247 |
Chelmsford South1 seat · turnout 40.3%
| V. Makin | Conservative | 1,813 ✓ |
| R. Harmer | Liberal Democrats | 1,783 |
| A. Scammell | Labour | 521 |
| C. Mills | Green | 416 |
Chelmsford West1 seat · turnout 45.6%
| D. Lee | Conservative | 1,415 ✓ |
| B. Wright | Labour | 1,413 |
| G. Allen | Liberal Democrats | 1,193 |
| A. Simms | Green | 293 |
| B. Perry | Social Democratic Party | 193 |
Chigwell1 seat · turnout 32.3%
| A. Twynham | Conservative | 1,781 ✓ |
| S. Anderson | Liberal Democrats | 910 |
| A. Alexander | Labour | 212 |
| M. Austin | Social Democratic Party | 148 |
Clacton East1 seat · turnout 40.0%
| J. Story | Conservative | 2,206 ✓ |
| J. Duke | Liberal Democrats | 2,126 |
| I. Jefferson | Labour | 679 |
Clacton North1 seat · turnout 41.1%
| P. Bevan | Liberal Democrats | 3,553 ✓ |
| M. Amos | Conservative | 1,322 |
| G. Aldous | Labour | 772 |
Clacton West1 seat · turnout 35.6%
| R. Smith | Labour | 2,738 ✓ |
| J. Winer | Conservative | 1,549 |
| P. Miller | Liberal Democrats | 455 |
Constable1 seat · turnout 41.6%
| A. Clover | Conservative | 2,812 ✓ |
| J. Brice | Liberal Democrats | 1,064 |
| L. Wood | Labour | 572 |
Corringham1 seat · turnout 28.0%
| G. Miles | Labour | 1,435 ✓ |
| R. Hunter | Conservative | 1,271 |
| S. Senior | Liberal Democrats | 288 |
Drury1 seat · turnout 45.5%
| D. Lamberth | Conservative | 2,837 ✓ |
| C. Williamson | Liberal Democrats | 2,294 |
| M. Lee | Labour | 756 |
Dunmow1 seat · turnout 37.4%
| M. Stephen | Conservative | 2,686 ✓ |
| N. Patterson | Liberal Democrats | 872 |
| J. Oliveira | Labour | 767 |
Eastwood1 seat · turnout 39.8%
| N. Goodman | Liberal Democrats | 1,996 ✓ |
| G. Horrigan | Conservative | 1,991 |
| T. Pyne | Labour | 314 |
Epping1 seat · turnout 32.1%
| D. Ramshaw | Conservative | 1,785 ✓ |
| S. Mann | Liberal Democrats | 1,240 |
| I. Standfast | Labour | 588 |
| G. Dunseath | Social Democratic Party | 261 |
Frinton & Walton1 seat · turnout 38.5%
| D. Rex | Conservative | 3,655 ✓ |
| P. Lawes | Labour | 1,185 |
| R. Hamilton | Liberal Democrats | 779 |
Grays Thurrock1 seat · turnout 33.8%
| B. Barton | Labour | 2,251 ✓ |
| D. Sutton | Conservative | 2,012 |
| T. Scott | Liberal Democrats | 315 |
Great Baddow1 seat · turnout 49.2%
| J. Beard | Liberal Democrats | 2,556 ✓ |
| J. Flack | Conservative | 2,053 |
| K. Day | Labour | 456 |
| A. Thomson | Green | 286 |
Great Parndon1 seat · turnout 39.1%
| D. Messer | Conservative | 2,404 ✓ |
| S. Warner | Labour | 2,161 |
| P. Barton | Liberal Democrats | 474 |
Great Tarpots1 seat · turnout 30.6%
| W. Brum | Conservative | 1,827 ✓ |
| A. Final | Labour | 1,125 |
| K. Miller | Liberal Democrats | 426 |
Hadleigh1 seat · turnout 38.5%
| R. Williams | Conservative | 2,355 ✓ |
| J. Nisbet | Labour | 773 |
| C. Newton | Liberal Democrats | 416 |
Halstead1 seat · turnout 39.6%
| J. Pike | Conservative | 2,286 ✓ |
| M. Jones | Labour | 1,712 |
| R. Bird | Liberal Democrats | 1,202 |
Harlow & Mark Hall1 seat · turnout 43.9%
| S. Anderson | Labour | 2,958 ✓ |
| S. Carter | Conservative | 1,440 |
| D. Collins | Liberal Democrats | 310 |
Harlow Common1 seat · turnout 39.3%
| W. Gibson | Labour | 2,401 ✓ |
| I. Myers | Liberal Democrats | 1,176 |
| G. Mitchinson | Conservative | 789 |
Harwich1 seat · turnout 41.1%
| R. Knight | Labour | 2,786 ✓ |
| F. Lucas | Conservative | 1,347 |
| M. Sears | Liberal Democrats | 739 |
Hedingham1 seat · turnout 40.6%
| G. Waterer | Green | 2,636 ✓ |
| J. Kotz | Labour | 1,238 |
| R. Cavinder | Liberal Democrats | 959 |
Leigh1 seat · turnout 48.3%
| J. Robinson | Liberal Democrats | 2,553 ✓ |
| H. Stennett | Conservative | 2,289 |
| L. Davidson | Labour | 325 |
Little Parndon & Town Centre1 seat · turnout 37.1%
| E. Morris | Labour | 2,638 ✓ |
| L. Atkins | Conservative | 945 |
| L. Spenceley | Liberal Democrats | 451 |
Loughton St. Johns1 seat · turnout 33.2%
| F. Davis | Labour | 1,537 ✓ |
| J. Pledge | Conservative | 1,208 |
| G. Anderson | Liberal Democrats | 258 |
| R. Jarvis | British National Party | 146 |
| S. Bone | Social Democratic Party | 144 |
Loughton St. Marys1 seat · turnout 38.4%
| S. Webb | Residents | 1,378 ✓ |
| J. Ormston | Labour | 1,334 |
| J. Martin | Conservative | 1,312 |
Maldon1 seat · turnout 37.4%
| K. Nolan | Conservative | 2,649 ✓ |
| R. Hornett | Liberal Democrats | 1,026 |
| D. Hutson | Labour | 984 |
Maypole1 seat · turnout 32.4%
| P. Pascoe | Liberal Democrats | 1,676 ✓ |
| D. Quinn | Labour | 1,431 |
| J. Parsons | Conservative | 954 |
Mersea & Stanway1 seat · turnout 38.6%
| R. Fairhead | Conservative | 3,408 ✓ |
| A. Fielder | Liberal Democrats | 1,372 |
| T. Young | Labour | 791 |
Milton1 seat · turnout 37.4%
| E. Sullivan | Conservative | 1,682 ✓ |
| C. George | Social Democratic Party | 1,362 |
| K. Lee | Labour | 1,129 |
Netteswellbury1 seat · turnout 37.1%
| R. Guy | Labour | 3,268 ✓ |
| S. Cross | Conservative | 855 |
| V. Scott | Liberal Democrats | 418 |
North Weald & Nazeing1 seat · turnout 34.8%
| I. Abbey | Conservative | 2,612 ✓ |
| D. Mills | Labour | 660 |
| S. Ward | Liberal Democrats | 423 |
Old Heath1 seat · turnout 39.5%
| M. Macneil | Labour | 1,683 ✓ |
| A. Stevens | Liberal Democrats | 1,674 |
| S. Rae | Conservative | 907 |
| C. Bush | Green | 369 |
| D. Smith | Independent | 54 |
Ongar1 seat · turnout 43.2%
| G. McEwen | Conservative | 2,931 ✓ |
| R. Barnes | Labour | 1,848 |
| D. Kelly | Liberal Democrats | 954 |
Orsett & Stifford1 seat · turnout 43.4%
| P. Revell | Conservative | 2,513 ✓ |
| J. Pollard | Labour | 1,987 |
| A. Banton | Liberal Democrats | 300 |
Park1 seat · turnout 38.2%
| J. Lucas | Conservative | 1,823 ✓ |
| R. Turp | Labour | 1,008 |
| P. Holden | Liberal Democrats | 971 |
| R. Wilson | Other | 265 |
Parsons Heath1 seat · turnout 34.5%
| R. | Conservative | 1,760 ✓ |
| A. Hayman | Social Democratic Party | 1,675 |
| R. Newman | Labour | 1,219 |
Prittlewell1 seat · turnout 34.5%
| N. Baker | Liberal Democrats | 2,041 ✓ |
| E. Stanley | Conservative | 1,382 |
| D. Garne | Labour | 628 |
Rayleigh North1 seat · turnout 37.3%
| R. Boyd | Liberal Democrats | 2,577 ✓ |
| P. Hawke | Conservative | 1,307 |
| L. Rossati | Labour | 229 |
Rayleigh South1 seat · turnout 39.8%
| J. Gordon | Liberal Democrats | 1,954 ✓ |
| J. Gibson | Conservative | 1,695 |
| S. Silva | Independent | 728 |
| P. Ballard | Labour | 391 |
Rochford North1 seat · turnout 29.4%
| T. Fawell | Conservative | 1,704 ✓ |
| B. Crick | Liberal Democrats | 1,524 |
| J. Keohane | Labour | 479 |
Rochford South1 seat · turnout 40.3%
| D. Flack | Labour | 2,204 ✓ |
| J. Sheaf | Conservative | 2,136 |
Rochford West1 seat · turnout 30.9%
| A. Stockley | Conservative | 2,238 ✓ |
| C. Morgan | Labour | 1,215 |
| C. Wren | Liberal Democrats | 523 |
Saffron Walden1 seat · turnout 43.3%
| S. Neville | Conservative | 2,373 ✓ |
| R. Green | Labour | 1,958 |
| D. Benson | Liberal Democrats | 1,699 |
| K. Saunders | Green | 332 |
Shoebury1 seat · turnout 29.1%
| D. Cotgrove | Conservative | 2,400 ✓ |
| N. Boorman | Labour | 900 |
| G. Stride | Liberal Democrats | 394 |
South Ockendon1 seat · turnout 28.2%
| M. Jones | Labour | 2,188 ✓ |
| S. Dalton | Conservative | 838 |
Southchurch1 seat · turnout 32.3%
| B. Kelly | Conservative | 1,948 ✓ |
| R. Brown | Labour | 1,025 |
| A. Miller | Liberal Democrats | 473 |
Southminster1 seat · turnout 29.0%
| D. Fisher | Conservative | 2,418 ✓ |
| P. Barker | Liberal Democrats | 1,144 |
| G. Prior | Labour | 650 |
Springfield1 seat · turnout 38.7%
| P. Martin | Conservative | 3,510 ✓ |
| R. Derrick | Liberal Democrats | 2,130 |
| E. Cawston | Labour | 709 |
| J. Scholfield | Green | 485 |
Stanford-Le-Hope1 seat · turnout 26.8%
| J. Norris | Labour | 1,869 ✓ |
| W. Lea | Conservative | 1,278 |
| M. Birch | Liberal Democrats | 264 |
Stansted1 seat · turnout 41.5%
| P. Duly | Conservative | 2,494 ✓ |
| R. Clifford | Liberal Democrats | 2,140 |
| R. Shaw | Labour | 520 |
Stock1 seat · turnout 37.4%
| P. White | Conservative | 3,209 ✓ |
| M. Wolfe | Liberal Democrats | 1,013 |
| R. Elliott | Labour | 788 |
| N. Wallbank | Green | 385 |
Tendring Rural East1 seat · turnout 34.0%
| C. Lumber | Conservative | 1,875 ✓ |
| K. Rose | Labour | 1,207 |
| A. Wallis | Liberal Democrats | 562 |
Tendring Rural West1 seat · turnout 41.7%
| D. Pallett | Conservative | 2,102 ✓ |
| L. Randall | Labour | 1,419 |
| R. Smith | Liberal Democrats | 1,146 |
| P. Bates | Independent | 226 |
Thaxted1 seat · turnout 39.6%
| J. Whitehead | Conservative | 2,423 ✓ |
| J. Gibb | Liberal Democrats | 1,367 |
| K. Donovan | Labour | 694 |
Thorpe1 seat · turnout 32.1%
| K. Twitchen | Conservative | 2,280 ✓ |
| R. Moore | Liberal Democrats | 592 |
| K. Ryan | Labour | 592 |
Thundersley1 seat · turnout 33.0%
| J. Gazzard | Conservative | 2,033 ✓ |
| J. Turner | Labour | 828 |
| R. Patman | Liberal Democrats | 387 |
Tilbury1 seat · turnout 21.2%
| P. Bolger | Labour | 1,892 ✓ |
| M. Bamford-Burst | Conservative | 475 |
| V. Howard | Liberal Democrats | 149 |
Tiptree1 seat · turnout 26.6%
| E. Peel | Conservative | 1,909 ✓ |
| D. Brede | Labour | 705 |
| I. Brady | Liberal Democrats | 527 |
Tollesbury1 seat · turnout 36.4%
| E. Dines | Conservative | 2,842 ✓ |
| M. Fraser | Liberal Democrats | 1,420 |
| W. Dobson | Labour | 723 |
Victoria1 seat · turnout 34.8%
| R. Kennedy | Labour | 2,112 ✓ |
| R. Higgs | Conservative | 1,194 |
| R. McMullan | Liberal Democrats | 359 |
Waltham Abbey1 seat · turnout 34.9%
| C. Hewins | Labour | 2,275 ✓ |
| E. Webster | Conservative | 2,250 |
| C. Barrett | Social Democratic Party | 231 |
| C. Bartrip | Liberal Democrats | 210 |
West Thurrock & Aveley1 seat · turnout 30.8%
| R. Lee | Labour | 1,551 ✓ |
| H. Cook | Conservative | 1,122 |
| E. Vellacott | Other | 1,045 |
Westborough1 seat · turnout 34.4%
| M. Lubel | Liberal Democrats | 2,077 ✓ |
| R. Brown | Conservative | 1,175 |
| K. Stone | Labour | 568 |
Wickford1 seat · turnout 39.7%
| I. Pummell | Conservative | 2,114 ✓ |
| K. Battson | Liberal Democrats | 2,016 |
| E. Harrison | Labour | 637 |
Witham Northern1 seat · turnout 36.0%
| J. Lyon | Labour | 2,228 ✓ |
| R. Wacey | Conservative | 1,579 |
| J. Abbott | Green | 560 |
| T. Cane | Liberal Democrats | 398 |
Witham Southern1 seat · turnout 34.0%
| D. Willetts | Conservative | 1,840 ✓ |
| J. Gyford | Labour | 1,480 |
| A. Slowman | Liberal Democrats | 791 |
Wivenhoe St. Andrew1 seat · turnout 32.9%
| B. Stapleton | Labour | 2,155 ✓ |
| C. Thompson | Conservative | 1,461 |
| R. Gamble | Liberal Democrats | 382 |
Woodham Ferrers & Danbury1 seat · turnout 32.2%
| E. Mickelborough | Conservative | 3,001 ✓ |
| P. Hughes | Liberal Democrats | 2,162 |
| D. Perkins | Labour | 467 |
| B. Littlechild | Green | 416 |
