| Election Name: | 2024 Castle Point Borough Council election |
| Country: | Essex |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2023 Castle Point Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2023 |
| Next Election: | 2028 Castle Point Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2028 |
| Seats For Election: | All 39 seats to Castle Point Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 20 |
| Leader1: | Warren Gibson |
| Party1: | The People's Independent Party |
| Last Election1: | 16 seats, 35.4% |
| Seats Before1: | 16 |
| Seats1: | 24 |
| Seat Change1: | 8 |
| Popular Vote1: | 23,432 |
| Percentage1: | 44.1% |
| Swing1: | 8.7% |
| Leader2: | Dave Blackwell |
| Party2: | Canvey Island Independent Party |
| Last Election2: | 16 seats, 20.2% |
| Seats Before2: | 16 |
| Seats2: | 15 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 10,844 |
| Percentage2: | 20.4% |
| Swing2: | 0.2% |
| Leader4: | Beverley Egan |
| Party4: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election4: | 9 seats, 28.5% |
| Seats Before4: | 8 |
| Seats4: | 0 |
| Seat Change4: | 8 |
| Popular Vote4: | 7,679 |
| Percentage4: | 14.5% |
| Swing4: | 14.1% |
| Party5: | Independent politician |
| Last Election5: | 0 seats, 0.8% |
| Seats Before5: | 1 |
| Seats5: | 0 |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Popular Vote5: | 409 |
| Percentage5: | 0.8% |
| Swing5: | 0.0% |
| Leader | |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| Before Election: | Dave Blackwell CIIP |
| Before Party: | No overall control |
| After Election: | Dave Blackwell CIIP |
| After Party: | The People's Independent Party |
The 2024 Castle Point Borough Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on the same day. All 39 members of Castle Point Borough Council in Essex were elected following boundary changes.
Prior to the election, the council was under no overall control, being led by a coalition of two local parties, the Canvey Island Independent Party (which only contested seats on Canvey Island) and the People's Independent Party (which only contested seats on the mainland part of the borough). The election resulted in a clean sweep for the two local parties.[1] The Conservatives lost all their seats.[2] The People's Independent Party were left with a majority, but it was agreed that they would continue to form a joint administration with the Canvey Island Independent Party.[3]
Castle Point was a traditionally Conservative council. The Conservative controlled the council from 1976 until 1995, when the Labour Party won a majority.[4] The Conservatives retook control in 2003. This majority lasted until 2022 (aside from a period of no overall control from 2014 to 2015),[5] when the council again fell into no overall control.
In the 2023 election, the People's Independent Party gained 6 seats with 35.4% of the vote, the Canvey Island Independent Party held the 6 seats they were defending with 20.2%, and the Conservatives lost 6 with 28.5%. Following the 2023 election, the CIIP and PIP had formed a majority coalition.[6]
Castle Point usually elects its councillors in thirds, on a 4-year cycle. However, following boundary changes, all councillors will be elected to the new wards.[7] The change reduces the number of councillors by 2. The electoral system is due to change to whole council elections every 4 years following a vote by the council.[8]
| Old wards[9] | No. of seats | New wards | No. of seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appleton | 3 | Appleton | 3 | |
| Boyce | 3 | Canvey Island Central | 3 | |
| Canvey Island Central | 3 | Canvey Island East | 3 | |
| Canvey Island East | 3 | Canvey Island North | 3 | |
| Canvey Island North | 3 | Canvey Island South | 3 | |
| Canvey Island South | 3 | Canvey Island Winter Gardens | 3 | |
| Canvey Island West | 2 | Hadleigh St James | 3 | |
| Canvey Island Winter Gardens | 3 | St George's | 3 | |
| Cedar Hall | 3 | St Mary's | 3 | |
| St George's | 3 | St Michael's | 3 | |
| St James | 3 | Tarpots | 3 | |
| St Mary's | 3 | Thundersley North | 3 | |
| St Peter's | 3 | Thundersley South | 3 | |
| Victoria | 3 |
| After 2023 election | Before 2024 election[10] | After 2024 election | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
| 16 | 15 | 15 | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | 24 | ||||||
| 9 | 8 | 0 | ||||||
| 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
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The Statement of Persons Nominated, which details the candidates standing in each ward, was released by Castle Point Borough Council following the close of nomination on 8 April 2024.[12] Thirteen of the thirty-five Conservative nominations were rejected as invalid.[13] An asterisk denotes an incumbent councillor seeking re-election.
Electorate: 5,148[14]
Electorate: 5,905[15]
Electorate: 5,839[16]
Electorate: 5,890[17]
Electorate: 5,786[18]
Electorate: 5,688[19]
Electorate: 4,604[20]
Electorate: 4,859[21]
Electorate: 5,357[22]
Electorate: 4,449[23]
Electorate: 5,575[24]
Electorate: 5,968[25]
Electorate: 4,128[26]