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VOTERS are going into polling stations across most of the Epping Fores today as a third of the seats on the District Council are up for grabs.

Unlike the eight other Essex districts where elections are taking place, the Epping Forest results will not be known until tomorrow.

For the second successive year - following a successive change of plan last year - the ballot papers are being counted at Waltham Abbey Town Hall tomorrow with the full results expected by mid-afternoon.

Elections are also being held in a number of town and parish council wards across the district.

Check this website for the full results and reaction.

The current make-up of the 58-seat council, including one vacancy, is: Con 31, Lib Dem 10, BNP 6, LRA 5, Ind Group 2, Lab 1, Others (Independent members who are not members of the independent group) 3.

The full list of candidates standing in the district council elections today is: BUCKHURST HILL EAST: Graham Cater (BNP), Dev Dodeja (Lib Dem), Marshall Vance (Con).

BUCKHURST HILL WEST: Bob Church (Con), Jill Sutcliffe (Lib Dem).

CHIGWELL ROW: Connie Lye (Lib Dem), Brian Sandler (Local Conservatives); Robert Steel (Green).

CHIGWELL VILLAGE: John Knapman (Local Conservatives), Christopher Lord (Green), Arnold Verrall (Lib Dem).

EPPING HEMNALL: Jessica Barnecutt (Green), James Butler (BNP), Matthew Daniel (Con), Paul Handford (Lab), Jon Whitehouse (Lib Dem).

EPPING LINDSEY AND THORNWOOD COMMON: Tony Bentley (BNP), Simon Bullough (Lab), Lorraine Collier (Lib Dem), Robert Jones (Green), Christopher Whitbread (Con).

GRANGE HILL: David Bateman (Con), Pamela Okonkwo (Lib Dem).

HIGH ONGAR, WILLINGALE AND THE RODINGS: Amy Barnecutt (Green), Maggie McEwen (Con), Brian Surtees (Lib Dem), Robin Tilbrook (English Democrats).

LOUGHTON ALDERTON: Rosemary Brookes (Loughton Residents Association), Tony Frankland (BNP), Margaret Owen (Lab), Roger Taylor (Con), Neil Woollcott (Lib Dem).

LOUGHTON BROADWAY: Jesse Briton (Green), Valerie Metcalfe (Con), Pat Richardson (BNP), Roger Salmon (Lab), Eleonor Spencer (Lib Dem).

LOUGHTON FAIRMEAD: Alexander Copeland (BNP), Ben Glassman (Con), Matthew Hartley (Lab), Peter Sinfield (Lib Dem), David Wixley (Loughton Residents Association).

LOUGHTON FOREST: Rebecca Cohen (Con), Paul Evans (BNP), John Game (Lab), James Hart (Con), Tom Owen (Lab), Christopher Pond (Loughton Residents Association), Enid Robinson (Lib Dem), David White (Loughton Residents Association).

LOUGHTON RODING: Ken Angold-Stephens (Loughton Residents Association), Angela Ayre (Lab), Lorne Daniel (Con), Peter Fuller (Lib Dem), Tom Richardson (BNP).

LOUGHTON ST JOHNS: Jill Bostock (Lab), Caroline Pond (Loughton Residents Association), David Roderick (Lib Dem), Lynne Turpin (BNP), Nigel Wagland (Con).

LOUGHTON ST MARYS: Rodney Barrett (Loughton Residents Association), Edward Butler (BNP), Martin Lawford (Lab), Michael McGough (UK Independence Party), Mick Spence (Lib Dem), Edward Stacey (Con).

MORETON AND FYFIELD: Tony Boyce (Con), Doug Kelly (Lib Dem), Anne Palmer (English Democrats).

PASSINGFORD: Ingrid Black (Lib Dem), Diana Collins (Con).

THEYDON BOIS: Nicola Barnecutt (Green), George Howard (Lib Dem), Terry Howard (BNP), John Philip (Con), Andrew Smith (UK Independence Party).

WALTHAM ABBEY HONEY LANE: Christine Akers (Lib Dem), Jonathon Collier (Con), Gerry Martin (BNP).

WALTHAM ABBEY NORTH EAST: Phil Chadburn (Lib Dem), Jeane Lea (Con).

WALTHAM ABBEY SOUTH WEST: Peggy Ayre (Lib Dem), Martin Harvey (UK Independence Party), Bill Pryor (Con).

11:15am Thursday 1st May 2008

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