2014 Basildon District Council election^[1][2][3]

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15 of the 42 seats toBasildon District Council 22 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Conservative UKIP Labour Last election 25 0 15 Seats before 24 1 11 Seats won 4 11 0 Seats after 17 12 9 Seat change 7 11 2 Popular vote 13,614 15,163 8,092 Percentage 35.0% 39.0% 20.8%   Fourth party Fifth party   Party Independent Liberal Democrats Last election 0 2 Seats before 4 2 Seats won 0 0 Seats after 3 1 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 36 1,846 Percentage 0.1% 4.7%
Map of the results of the 2014 Basildon council election.Conservatives in blue,Labour in red andLiberal Democrats in yellow. Wards in grey were not contested in 2014.
Council control before election Conservative Party Council control after election No overall control

The2014 Basildon District Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members ofBasildon District Council in England.^[4] This was on the same day as otherlocal elections andelections to theEuropean Parliament. This election was to elect one third of the council, plus one additional seat which was vacant. These seats were last up for election in2010.

2014 Basildon Borough Council Election

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	UKIP	9	9	0	+9	60.0	39.2	16,087	35.7
	Conservative	4	0	-7	-7	26.7	33.8	13,877	15.8
	Labour	2	0	-3	-3	13.3	21.9	9,011	0.5
	Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	0	0.0	4.7	1,937	13.6
	National Front	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.2	101	New
	TUSC	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	39	New
	Independent	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	36	New

The turnout was 32.8%, and there were 160 ballots rejected. All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding2010 election.

Prior to the election, the composition of the council was:

After the election, the composition of the council was:

UK - UKIP
IND - Independent
L - Liberal Democrats

The second vacancy was caused by the resignation of an Independent councillor who had been elected in 2012 as a Labour candidate. Malsbury will fill this seat, and will thus be up for re-election in May 2016. Ferguson will fill the seat that was ordinarily due for election in 2014, and will face re-election in 2018.

In December 2014, Kerry Smith, the then leader of the UKIP group and newly selected parliamentary candidate forSouth Basildon and East Thurrock resigned from the party after the release of a tape recording of a private phone call in which he made offensive remarks about fellow UKIP members.^[5] Imelda Clancy also left the party later that month, and the two sit as "Independence Group" members on the council, reducing UKIP's strength to ten seats, though they remain the second-largest party ahead of Labour on nine seats.^[6]

A third independent councilor (originally elected as Labour) joined the Independence Group in January 2015.

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