Epping Forest
Every election cycle we have data for, most recent first.
Cycles
- 2026 18 races · 18 seats 72.2% below quota
- 2024 18 races · 54 seats 0.0% below quota
- 2023 18 races · 18 seats 27.8% below quota
- 2022 20 races · 20 seats 10.0% below quota
- 2021 21 races · 22 seats 4.5% below quota
- 2019 16 races · 16 seats 25.0% below quota
- 2018 19 races · 21 seats 9.5% below quota
- 2016 20 races · 21 seats 9.5% below quota
Council composition as of 2026
54 councillors, by party. One square per seat. Source: opencouncildata annual snapshot — reflects the council at the end of 2026 (after that year's elections, by-elections and defections). Hover any seat for the party.
Most recent election (2026)
In 2026, 18 seats were up across 18 wards. The table below shows what each party actually won — alongside what they would have won if the 18 seats had been shared in proportion to votes received (how, with caveats). The Δ column is the actual seat count minus the proportional seat count — positive numbers are parties First-Past-the-Post over-represented; negative are parties it under-represented.
| Party | Votes | Vote % | Seats won | % of seats | Proportional seats | Proportional % | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform UK | 18,522 | 40.7% | 11 | 61.1% | 9 | 50.0% | +2 |
| Conservative Party | 11,980 | 26.3% | 4 | 22.2% | 5 | 27.8% | -1 |
| Liberal Democrats | 4,089 | 9.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 5.6% | -1 |
| Independent Loughton Residents Association | 3,686 | 8.1% | 3 | 16.7% | 1 | 5.6% | +2 |
| Labour Party | 3,278 | 7.2% | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 5.6% | -1 |
| Green Party | 2,442 | 5.4% | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 5.6% | -1 |
| Independent | 1,424 | 3.1% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
| English Democrats | 78 | 0.2% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
| Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 5 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
| Total | 45,504 | 100.0% | 18 | 100.0% | 18 | 100.0% | 0 |
Vote share vs seats won
The top bar is each party's share of votes cast in this council. Below, one square per seat, coloured by the party that won it — first the actual First-Past-the-Post result, then what a proportional method would have produced from the same vote totals. Divergence between the bar and the actual grid is the indictment of the method.
Full ward-by-ward results for 2026 →
Composition history
One row per opencouncildata annual snapshot — the council at the end of each year (after that year's elections, by-elections and defections). Newest first; hover any seat for the party.
Ward by ward
Each row is a ward, each column a cycle. Each cell shows the top-of-poll candidate's party (swatch) and their share of valid ballots. Wards are matched by name across cycles — boundary reviews can mean a ward of the same name is a slightly different area in a later cycle.
| Ward | 2016 | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadley Common Epping Upland and Nazeing | 70% | |||||||
| Broadley Common, Epping Upland and Nazeing | 72% | |||||||
| Buckhurst Hill East | 45% | 69% | 54% | 62% | ||||
| Buckhurst Hill East and Whitebridge | 49% | 38% | ||||||
| Buckhurst Hill West | 59% | 48% | 48% | 58% | 58% | 44% | 54% | 35% |
| Chigwell Row | 63% | 80% | ||||||
| Chigwell Village | 75% | 77% | 70% | 49% | ||||
| Chigwell with Lambourne | 87% | 51% | ||||||
| Chipping Ongar Greensted and Marden Ash | 59% | 58% | ||||||
| Chipping Ongar, Greensted and Marden Ash | 70% | 60% | ||||||
| Epping East | 63% | 34% | ||||||
| Epping Hemnall | 57% | 61% | 63% | 61% | 63% | 66% | ||
| Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common | 55% | 44% | 46% | 59% | 47% | 55% | ||
| Epping West and Rural | 52% | 34% | ||||||
| Grange Hill | 65% | 58% | 64% | 69% | 61% | 38% | 53% | 33% |
| Hastingwood Matching and Sheering Village | 67% | |||||||
| High Ongar Willingale and the Rodings | 79% | |||||||
| High Ongar, Willingale and the Rodings | 71% | |||||||
| Lambourne | 75% | 70% | ||||||
| Loughton Alderton | 64% | 64% | 59% | 64% | ||||
| Loughton Broadway | 69% | 79% | 54% | 62% | ||||
| Loughton Fairmead | 85% | 72% | 63% | 69% | 89% | 40% | ||
| Loughton Forest | 57% | 54% | 56% | 62% | 72% | 44% | ||
| Loughton Roding | 84% | 82% | 67% | 83% | 99% | 36% | ||
| Loughton St John's | 82% | 72% | 92% | 38% | ||||
| Loughton St Mary's | 69% | 66% | ||||||
| Loughton St. Johns | 68% | 67% | ||||||
| Loughton St. Marys | 63% | 68% | ||||||
| Lower Nazeing | 69% | 59% | 69% | 65% | ||||
| Lower Sheering | 68% | 45% | ||||||
| Moreton and Fyfield | 75% | 79% | ||||||
| North Weald Bassett | 80% | 54% | 63% | 58% | 81% | 49% | ||
| Ongar | 72% | 57% | ||||||
| Passingford | 80% | |||||||
| Roydon | 71% | 65% | ||||||
| Roydon and Lower Nazeing | 89% | 47% | ||||||
| Rural East | 55% | 51% | ||||||
| Shelley | 49% | |||||||
| Theydon Bois | 77% | 64% | 60% | 51% | ||||
| Theydon Bois with Passingford | 57% | 45% | ||||||
| Waltham Abbey High Beach | 60% | 68% | ||||||
| Waltham Abbey Honey Lane | 58% | 58% | 40% | 45% | 59% | 54% | ||
| Waltham Abbey North | 67% | 53% | ||||||
| Waltham Abbey North East | 58% | 61% | 64% | 64% | 56% | |||
| Waltham Abbey Paternoster | 51% | 41% | 60% | 39% | ||||
| Waltham Abbey South and Rural | 85% | 50% | ||||||
| Waltham Abbey South West | 42% | 62% | 69% | 52% | ||||
| Waltham Abbey West | 82% | 47% |