- 🗳️ Welcome to the Echo’s live and rolling coverage of this year’s local council election results
- 🗳️ We will be bringing you all the results from counts taking place across south Essex throughout the night
- 🗳️ Stick with us to see how candidates hoping to secure seats for Southend Council, Basildon Council and Castle Point Council get on
- 🗳️ Voting closed at 10pm
- 🗳️ Slowly but surely some results are starting to filter through
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