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1982 Thurrock Borough Council election

The 1982 Thurrock Borough Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Thurrock Borough Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections in England.

The 1982 Thurrock Borough Council election took place on 6 May 1982 to elect members of Thurrock Borough Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections in England.

Labour regained control of the council from No overall control.

1982 Thurrock Borough Council election
Labour	8	1	61.5	13	21	53.8	11,606	44.8	–4.4
Conservative	3	1	23.1	7	10	25.6	8,379	32.3	+0.2
Independent	0	1	0.0	4	4	10.3	1,127	4.3	–4.3
Independent Labour	1		7.7	1	2	5.1	730	2.8	N/A
Alliance	1	1	7.7	0	1	2.6	3,105	12.0	+8.2
Residents	0		0.0	1	1	2.6	815	3.1	–2.6
New Britain	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	165	0.6	N/A

Seat changes are compared to the last election when that specific seat was up for election and does not take into account by-elections or defections.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
	Labour	906	52.2	–6.9
	Conservative	539	31.1	–4.7
	Alliance	289	16.7	+11.6
367	21.2	–2.1
1,734	27.9	–7.2
6,216
	Labour hold	1.1

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,075	73.0	–1.8
	Conservative	398	27.0	+1.8
677	46.0	N/A
1,473	23.7	+1.4
6,221
	Labour hold	1.8

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,261	52.0	+8.2
	Independent	526	21.7	–22.2
	Conservative	330	13.6	+3.3
	Alliance	307	12.7	+10.7
735	30.3	N/A
2,424	30.4	–6.1
7,968
	Labour hold	15.2

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,577	55.4	–2.4
	Conservative	1,270	44.6	+10.2
307	10.8	–12.6
2,847	30.6	–6.5
9,317
	Labour hold	6.3

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	980	40.0	–1.0
	Residents	815	33.3	–6.4
	Conservative	464	19.0	+2.0
	Alliance	189	7.7	+5.4
165	6.7	+5.4
2,448	36.5	+0.3
6,699
	Labour hold	2.7

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	1,432	46.9	–7.4
	Labour	912	29.9	–7.9
	Alliance	708	23.2	+17.8
520	17.0	+0.5
3,052	39.1	+0.6
7,814
	Conservative hold	0.3

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,300	65.2	–3.5
	Conservative	695	34.8	+3.5
605	30.3	–7.0
1,995	29.5	–1.2
6,774
	Labour hold	3.5

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	1,008	74.0	+3.9
	Labour	354	26.0	–3.9
654	48.0	N/A
1,362	36.7	–40.5
3,716
	Conservative hold	3.9

Party	Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Unopposed
7,810

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	1,224	42.4	–9.5
	Labour	1,160	40.1	–5.6
	Alliance	506	17.5	N/A
64	2.3	–3.9
2,890	44.3	–7.1
6,527
	Conservative hold	2.0

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Alliance	876	38.0	+24.2
	Conservative	760	32.9	–9.8
	Labour	671	29.1	–14.5
116	5.0	N/A
2,307	40.6	+1.3
5,681
	Alliance gain from Conservative	17.0

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,042	49.0	+17.9
	Independent	601	28.3	–38.1
	Alliance	230	10.8	+8.3
	Conservative	141	6.6	N/A
	New Britain	112	5.3	N/A
441	20.7	N/A
2,126	26.5	–5.5
8,019
	Labour gain from Independent	28.0

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Labour	730	57.5	+10.8
	Labour	368	29.0	+3.0
	Conservative	118	9.3	–8.0
	New Britain	53	4.2	N/A
362	28.5	N/A
1,269	31.1	–43.2
4,080
	Independent Labour hold	3.9

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