1933 Dagenham Urban District Council election

The eighth election to Dagenham Urban District Council took place on 1 April 1933. The ratepayers' associations put forward a full slate of candidates for the second year in a row, but made no gains. The new People's Party was set up by Augustus Gibbs, who had previously been a Labour Party member, but was unable to gain any seats. Gibbs resigned from the council after the election, which triggered a by-election in the Dagenham ward in May. Another by-election took place in Chadwell Heath ward in September, following the resignation of James Tyler.

In 1933 seven of the seats were up for re-election:

• Becontree Heath, 3 seats (out of 8)
• Chadwell Heath, 1 seat (out of 5)
• Dagenham, 3 seats (out of 10)

The seats were last contested three years prior at the election in 1930.

Nominations closed on 18 March 1933 and polling took place on 1 April 1933.^[1]

As at the election the previous year, the ratepayers' associations for the three wards put forward a full slate of candidates. Augustus Gibbs, elected in 1932 as a Labour Party candidate, had broken away from the Labour group on the council to form the new People's Party and stood candidates in this election.^[2] The residents association in Becontree Heath ward—the Manor Farm Residents' Association—put forward a candidate.^[2]

The results were as follows:^[3][2]

The by-election took place on 18 May 1933, following the resignation of Augustus Gibbs.^[4][5][6]

The by-election took place on 22 September 1933, following the resignation of James Tyler.^[7] H. Atkinson and Eric Howard were both members of the Chadwell Heath Ratepayer' Association.^[8] After H. Atkinson was chosen as the ratepayers' candidate, Eric Howard decided to also stand as an independent candidate.^[9]