2017 Essex County Council election 2017 Essex County Council election Elections to Essex County Council took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections. All 75 councillors were elected from 70 electoral divisions, which each returned either one or two councillors by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous elections in 2009 and 2014. No elections were held in Thurrock or Southend-on-Sea, which are unitary authorities outside the area covered by the County Council. Brightlingsea Bocking Laindon Park and Fryerns Clacton East District Summary Division Results Between 2013
Hopton-on-Sea Hopton-on-Sea Hopton-on-Sea is a village, civil parish and seaside resort on the coast of East Anglia in the county of Norfolk. It is located some south of the town of Great Yarmouth and north-west of Lowestoft and near the UK's most easterly point, Lowestoft Ness. The earliest human activity in the parish dates to the Palaeolithic era with the discovery of flint tools. There have also been artefacts found from the Bronze age and Roman era in the area. The oldest building in the parish is the ruins of St Margaret’s church a 14th century church which burnt down in