Editing Castle Point (section)

===Political control===
Following the [[2024 Castle Point Borough Council election|2024 election]], a majority of the seats on the council were held by local party the [[The People's Independent Party|People's Independent Party]], which won all the seats on the mainland part of the borough, but did not contest any seats on Canvey Island. All the seats on Canvey Island were won by another local party, the [[Canvey Island Independent Party]]. The two parties had been running the council as coalition since the [[2022 Castle Point Borough Council election|2022 election]], when the council had been under [[no overall control]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 May 2022 |title=Castle Point Borough Council: Tories lose control after nearly 20 years |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-61352214 |access-date=20 May 2022 |work=BBC News}}</ref> Despite holding all the council's seats between them following the 2024 election, the two parties agreed to continue to form a joint administration.<ref>{{cite web |title=Power sharing arrangements agreed |url=https://www.castlepoint.gov.uk/news/power-sharing-arrangements-agreed-2896/ |website=Castle Point Borough Council |date=2 May 2024 |access-date=4 July 2024}}</ref>

The first election to the council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council since 1974 has been as follows:<ref name=compositions>{{cite web |title=Compositions Calculator |url=https://www.electionscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/composition_calc.html |access-date=21 May 2025 |website=The Elections Centre |publisher=University of Exeter}} (Put "Castle Point" in search box to see specific results.)</ref><ref name="vote2014">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/councils/E07000069|title=Castle Point|work=[[BBC News Online]]|access-date=27 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="defector">{{cite news|title=Defector gives power back to Conservatives|last=Mansfield|first=Katie|date=5 November 2014|work=[[The Echo (Essex)|The Echo]]|publisher=[[NewsBank]]}}</ref>
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!colspan="2"|Party in control!!Years
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| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || 1974–1976
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| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || 1976–1995
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| {{Party name with colour|Labour Party (UK)}} || 1995–2003
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| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || 2003–2014
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| {{Party name with colour|No overall control}} || 2014–2014
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| {{Party name with colour|Conservative Party (UK)}} || 2014–2022
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| {{Party name with colour|No overall control}} || 2022–2024
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| {{Party name with colour|The People's Independent Party|full=yes}} || 2024–present
|}