2018 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election

Elections to Southend-on-Sea Borough Council took place on 3 May 2018. This was on the same day as other local elections across the United Kingdom.

Composition
Directly after the 2016 election the composition of the council was:

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Belfairs
No Independent candidate as previous (−41.6).

Blenheim Park
No Green candidate as previous (−4.2).

Chalkwell
No UKIP (−10.5) or Green (−5.8) candidates as previous.

Eastwood Park
No UKIP (−26.8) or Green (−2.1) candidates as previous.

Kursaal
No UKIP (−19.0) or Green (−8.4) candidates as previous.

Leigh
No UKIP candidate as previous (−8.5).

Milton
No UKIP candidate as previous (−13.2).

Prittlewell
No UKIP (−18.8) or Independent (−9.3) candidates as previous.

Shoeburyness
No UKIP (−12.3), Green (−2.3) or two Independent candidates (−29.0, −21.0) as previous.

Independent vote share change compared to 2014 election.

Southchurch
No Independent (−32.6) or UKIP (−14.9) candidates as previous.

St. Laurence
No UKIP (−20.3) or Green (−3.0) candidates as previous.

St. Luke's
No UKIP (−15.6) candidates as previous.

Thorpe
No Independent (−63.1), UKIP (−10.0) or Green (−2.8) candidates as previous.

Independent vote share change compared to 2014 election.

Victoria
No UKIP (−19.8) or Liberal Democrat (−3.7) candidates as previous.

West Leigh
No Independent (−4.0) or Green (−3.3) candidates as previous.

West Shoebury
No UKIP (−15.3) or Green (−2.0) candidates as previous.

Westborough
No Independent (−22.1) or UKIP (−12.9) candidates as previous.