1997 United Kingdom general election result in Essex

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Results by constituency for the United Kingdom general election, 1997 in the county of Essex.

Overall result

Party

MPs

+/-

Votes

%

Conservative Party

10

−5

354,014

40.3

Labour Party

6

+5

320,231

36.4

Liberal Democrats

1

+1

160,082

18.2

Referendum Party

0

25,892

2.9

United Kingdom Independence Party

0

5,392

0.6

Green Party

0

2,303

0.3

Liberal Party

0

1,899

0.2

British National Party

0

1,062

0.1

Natural Law

0

403

0.1

Others

0

0.1

 Turnout

 878,576

 72.7 85.4

Seats

Constituency

Party

MP

Majority

Basildon

Labour

Angela Smith

13,280

Billericay

Conservative

Teresa Gorman

1,356

Braintree

Labour

Alan Hurst

1,451

Brentwood and Ongar

Conservative

Eric Pickles

9,690

Castle Point

Labour

Christine Butler

1,116

Chelmsford West

Conservative

Simon Burns

6,691