2021_Cambridgeshire_County_Council_election

2021 Cambridgeshire County Council election
All 61 seats to Cambridgeshire County Council; 31 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	39.1% ( 2.9%)
	Map showing the results of the 2021 Cambridgeshire County Council election
	Council composition after the election
Council control before election; Conservative;	Council control after election ; No Overall Control;

2021 Cambridgeshire County Council election

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The 2021 Cambridgeshire County Council election took place on 6 May 2021 as part of the 2021 local elections in the United Kingdom.^[2] All 61 councillors were elected from 59 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The election was held alongside a full election for Cambridge City Council, the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and one-third of Peterborough City Council.^[3]^[4]^[5]

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In the local government elections the Conservatives had a net gain of 13 councils in England, Cambridgeshire, however was of the few Conservative held councils that was lost.^[17] Only the Labour Party and the Conservative Party contested all 69 seats on the council. The Liberal Democrats stood 61 candidates, not standing in three divisions in Fenland and five divisions in Huntingdon District. The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition stood two candidates in the Godmanchester & Huntingdon South and the Huntingdon North & Hartford divisions. The four UK Independence Party candidates failed to win any seats. The Conservatives lost their overall majority despite winning all 9 Fenland District seats, and the low turnout in the north of the county, Wisbech West not even reaching 25%.^[18]

Results by district

All electoral divisions elected one councillor unless stated otherwise.

(* denotes sitting councillor)

Cambridge (12 seats)

Cambridge

District summary

Labour proved the dominant force in Cambridge, gaining seats in Chesterton and Market divisions from the Liberal Democrats, as well regaining the Cherry Hinton seat previously held by a former Labour member, who did not stand for re-election.^[16]

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East Cambridgeshire (8 seats)

East Cambridgeshire

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The Liberal Democrats won both Ely seats from the Tories, and held on to their Sutton seat. Elsewhere, East Cambs remained blue.^[16]

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Fenland (9 seats)

Fenland

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It was a clean sweep for the Tories in Fenland. Despite some very low turnouts and swings against some candidates they held every seat. Among those returning was Tory group leader Steve Count.^[16]

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Huntingdonshire (17 seats)

Huntingdonshire

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The Tories gained a couple of seats in Huntingdonshire from the LibDems, strengthening their hold on the area, losing by just 11 votes in St Neots East and Gransden to Stephen Ferguson (Independent).^[16]

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South Cambridgeshire (15 seats)

South Cambridgeshire

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The Liberal Democrats in South Cambridgeshire, gained seats from Conservatives in five divisions. The closest battle was in Hardwick, where Michael Atkins (Lib Dems) beat Lina Nieto (Con) by just five votes.^[16]

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One of the two Sawston & Shelford seats was vacant as Roger Hickford had resigned, the other incumbent did not stand for re-election.

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Division	Date			Cause	Resulting Council Composition
					Con	LDem	Lab	STI	Ind

Trumpington	May 2018^[8]	Liberal Democrats	Independent	Sitting councillor loses Whip.	36	14	7	2	2
Trumpington	2 May 2019^[9]	Independent	Liberal Democrats	Independent incumbent resigned. Liberal Democrats won by-election.	36	15	7	2	1
Duxford	27 February 2020^[10]	Conservative	Liberal Democrats	Conservative incumbent resigned. Liberal Democrats won by-election.	35	16	7	2	1
Cherry Hinton	7 December 2020^[11]	Labour	Independent	Councillor quit party to sit as an independent member.	35	16	6	2	2
Sawston and Shelford	26 February 2021^[12]	Conservative	Vacant	Sitting councillor resigned.^[13]	34	16	6	2	2

Results Map
Party		Councillors				Votes
Party			Of total	Net			Of total	Net
	Conservative Party	28	45.9%	-8	28 / 61	77,068	39.0%	-1.6%
	Liberal Democrats	20	32.8%	+5	20 / 61	56,465	28.6%	-1.2%
	Labour Party	9	14.8%	+2	9 / 61	37,783	19.1%	+0.8%
	Green	0	0.0%	0	0 / 61	18,572	9.4%	+5.6%
	Independents	2	3.3%	+1	2 / 61	5,150	2.6%	+0.3%
	St. Neots Independents	2	3.3%	0	2 / 61	2,283	1.2%	-0.6%
	UK Independence Party	0	0.0%	0	0 / 61	343	0.2%	-3.5%
	Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	0	0.0%	0	0 / 61	55	0.0%	-
	Workers Party of Britain	0	0.0%	0	0 / 61	48	0.0%	-

	Seats	+/−	Votes	%	+/−
Labour	9	2	16,325	41.9	+4.8
Liberal Democrats	3	2	10,705	27.5	−9.7
Green	0		6,418	16.5	+8.3
Conservative	0		5,501	14.1	−0.7
UKIP	0		27	0.1	−0.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alex Bulat	1,129	41.77	1.17
	Green	Jeremy Caddick	924	34.18	25.76
	Conservative	Timothy Haire	326	12.06	1.29
	Liberal Democrats	Rosy Ansell	324	11.99	25.63
Majority			205	7.58	4.60
Turnout			2,703	38.69	+0.0
	Labour hold		Swing	−12.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hilary Cox	1,359	48.16	3.33
	Liberal Democrats	Fionna Tod	611	21.65	9.30
	Conservative	Robert Boorman	475	16.83	1.43
	Green	Stephen Lawrence	377	13.4	+7.4
Majority			748	26.51	+12.6
Turnout			2,822	40.87	−2.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+6.3

2021_Cambridgeshire_County_Council_election

2021 Cambridgeshire County Council election

Previous composition

2017 election

Composition of council seats before election

Changes between elections

The campaign

Results summary

Aftermath

Election of group leaders

Election of leader of the council

Results by district

Cambridge (12 seats)

East Cambridgeshire (8 seats)

Fenland (9 seats)

Huntingdonshire (17 seats)

South Cambridgeshire (15 seats)

By-elections

St Neots The Eatons

Arbury

Soham South and Haddenham

Yaxley and Farcet

See also

References

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Catherine Rae	1,339	40.65	10.87
	Liberal Democrats	Alastair Gadney	1,105	33.55	5.34
	Green	Simon Baron	537	16.30	10.67
	Conservative	Philip Salway	313	9.50	1.87
Majority			234	7.03	+6.1
Turnout			3,329	49.15	+2.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bryony Goodliffe	1,617	48.59	0.20
	Conservative	Eric Barrett-Payton	861	25.87	3.34
	Green	Richard Potter	456	13.70	6.95
	Liberal Democrats	Gillian Moore	394	11.84	10.09
Majority			756	22.72	3.54
Turnout			3,328	40.17	+1.2
	Labour hold		Swing	−1.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gerri Bird	1,639	39.91	3.74
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Manning *	1,505	36.64	7.45
	Green	Elizabeth May	520	12.66	7.54
	Conservative	Mike Harford	416	10.13	2.24
	UKIP	Peter Burkinshaw	27	0.66	1.60
Majority			134	3.26	4.66
Turnout			4,107	51.32	+2.7
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	+5.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Elisa Meschini *	1,478	49.25	9.17
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Rathwell	570	18.99	14.95
	Conservative	John Ionides	503	16.76	3.03
	Green	Mark Slade	450	15.00	8.22
Majority			908	30.26	+24.1
Turnout			3,001	34.94	−1.1
	Labour hold		Swing	+12.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Nick Gay	872	37.63	8.22
	Liberal Democrats	Yemi Macaulay	781	33.71	8.16
	Green	Nicola Elliott	432	18.64	0.20
	Conservative	Phoebe Pickering	232	10.01	−0.3
Majority			91	3.93	−8.5
Turnout			2,317	34.11	+0.6
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	8.19

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Lucy Nethsingha *	971	41.66	9.51
	Labour	Tariq Sadiq	777	33.33	5.12
	Green	Shanna Hart	386	16.56	8.47
	Conservative	James Vitali	197	8.45	−3.9
Majority			194	8.32	−14.6
Turnout			2,331	40.57	+0.3
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	7.32

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Howitt	1,896	48.47	7.31
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Argent	1,018	26.02	7.87
	Green	Edwin Wilkinson	606	15.49	1.86
	Conservative	Shapour Meftah	392	10.02	−1.3
Majority			878	22.4	+15.2
Turnout			3,912	46.29	+3.6
	Labour hold		Swing	7.59

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Alex Beckett	1,355	35.95	10.43
	Labour	Steve King	1,168	30.99	4.40
	Conservative	Donald Douglas	647	17.17	3.61
	Green	Jacqueline Whitmore	599	15.89	9.65
Majority			187	4.96	−14.8
Turnout			3,769	48.91	+0.1
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	−7.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Neil Shailer	2,056	53.17	8.50
	Green	Elisabeth Whitebread	722	18.67	9.67
	Liberal Democrats	Sam Oliver	601	15.54	21.63
	Conservative	Daniel Collis	488	12.62	+3.5
Majority			1,334	34.5	+27.0
Turnout			3,867	42.94	−0.6
	Labour hold		Swing	0.58

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Philippa Slatter	1,470	41.70	2.69
	Labour	Pam Stacey	995	28.23	1.38
	Conservative	Steven George	651	18.47	5.79
	Green	Ceri Galloway	409	11.60	+4.5
Majority			475	13.48	+4.1
Turnout			3,525	41.38	−3.0
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	2.04

	Seats	+/−	Votes	%	+/−
Conservative	5	2	10,480	44.2	−10.0
Liberal Democrats	3	2	8,113	34.2	+3.4
Labour	0		3,614	15.2	+2.6
Green	0		1,514	6.4	+4.0

Burwell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Josh Schumann *	1,551	51.60	2.29
	Liberal Democrats	Charlotte Kathryn Bourne Cane	761	25.32	3.10
	Labour	Liz Swift	694	23.09	9.90
Majority			789	26.25
Turnout			3,006	33.84
	Conservative hold		Swing	2.70

Ely North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Whelan	1,233	42.14	6.77
	Conservative	Richard Hobbs	1,080	36.91	12.41
	Labour	Louise Moschetta	373	12.75	2.56
	Green	Richard Ingram	240	8.20	N/A
Majority			151	5.23
Turnout			2,926	41.58
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing	9.59

Ely South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Piers Coutts	1,763	45.64	6.90
	Conservative	John McFall	1,122	29.04	17.04
	Labour	Rebecca Denness	618	16.00	0.82
	Green	Gemma Bristow	360	9.32	N/A
Majority			641	16.59
Turnout			3,863	46.76
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing	11.97

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Ambrose Smith *	904	53.71	3.52
	Labour	Adam Cooley	363	21.57	0.64
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Speed	251	14.91	5.65
	Green	Lee Phillips	165	9.80	N/A
Majority			541	32.14
Turnout			1,683	23.39
	Conservative hold		Swing	1.44

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mark Goldsack	1,570	62.93	3.30
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Warner	400	16.03	1.41
	Labour	Mark Hucker	367	14.71	1.63
	Green	Katy Prentice	158	6.33	N/A
Majority			1,170	46.89
Turnout			2,532	29.61
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.94

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Dan Schumann	1,620	51.44	6.28
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Barker	740	23.50	2.58
	Labour	Lydia Hill	553	17.56	7.46
	Green	Floramay Waterhouse	236	7.49	+1.4
Majority			880
Turnout			3,149	35.39
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Lorna Helen Dupre *	2,155	65.26	19.50
	Conservative	Jonathan Rodney Farmer	972	29.44	13.53
	Labour	Carlos Toranzos	175	5.30	-6.0
Majority			1,183
Turnout			3,302	37.81
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	16.52

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alan Gordon Sharp	1,661	50.39	17.05
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Edward Powell	809	24.54	6.33
	Labour	Steven John O'Dell	471	14.29	12.60
	Green	Elaine Marshall	355	10.77	N/A
Majority			852
Turnout			3,296	38.17
	Conservative hold		Swing	5.36

	Seats	Votes	%	+/−
Conservative	9	17,030	63.0	+8.3
Labour	0	4,411	16.3	+2.7
Independent	0	2,077	7.7	+1.2
Liberal Democrats	0	1,946	7.3	-2.2
Green	0	1,299	4.8	+1.8
UKIP	0	97	0.4	−11.8
Workers Party	0	48	0.2	+0.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anne Hay*	1,410	59.12	10.66
	Labour	Marian Phillips	413	17.32	9.38
	Independent	Daniel Divine	405	16.98	+9.4
	Green	Andrew Crawford	157	6.6	N/A
Majority			997
Turnout			2,385	28.69	−1.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.64

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jan French*	2,978	57.7	+8.3
	Conservative	Steve Count*	2,906	56.3	+2.9
	Labour	Martin Field	1,053	20.4	+0.3
	Labour	Mark Taylor	667	12.9	-7.3
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Bligh	640	12.4	-1.9
	Green	Jazmin Stewart	446	8.6	+2.7
	Green	Robert White	384	7.4	+2.9
	Independent	David Patrick	381	7.4	N/A
Majority			1,853
Turnout			5,188	28.36
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Gowing*	1,819	68.51	28.76
	Labour	Amanda Hirson	480	18.08	10.94
	Liberal Democrats	Liam O'Rourke	192	7.23	2.06
	Green	Emma Pollard	164	6.18	2.00
Majority			1,339	50.43
Turnout			2,655	31.83
	Conservative hold		Swing	8.91

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon King*	1,728	57.56	3.39
	Liberal Democrats	Gavin Booth	895	29.81	6.91
	Labour	Chris Mountain	242	8.06	1.32
	Green	Ruth Johnson	137	4.56	N/A
Majority			833
Turnout			3,002	33.04	4.03
	Conservative hold		Swing	1.76

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Chris Boden*	2,055	75.39	9.70
	Labour	Peter Bibb	571	20.95	7.52
	Liberal Democrats	Diane Cutler	100	3.67	0.81
Majority			1,484
Turnout			2,726	33.68	6.66
	Conservative hold		Swing	1.09

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Connor*	1,727	61.09	5.34
	Labour	Jes Hibbert	497	17.58	7.88
	Independent	Bob Wicks	455	16.1	N/A
	Green	Simon Wilkes	148	5.2	0.65
Majority			1,232
Turnout			2,827	32.74	2.94
	Conservative hold		Swing	6.61

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samantha Hoy*	1,358	62.6	-0.6
	Independent	Spike Crowson	358	16.5	N/A
	Labour	Reginald Martin Mee	286	13.2	-1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Rasa McGill	119	5.5	+2.34
	Workers Party	Clayton Maxwell Payne	48	2.21	N/A
Majority			1,000
Turnout			2,169	27.96	2.16
	Conservative hold		Swing	5.22

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Steve Tierney*	1,049	57.5	-3.6
	Independent	Andy Maul	451	24.7	N/A
	Labour	Daniel James Kerry	202	11.1	+0.3
	UKIP	Ted Hurlock	97	5.3	-6.7
	Independent	Lynn Monk	27	1.5	N/A
Majority			598
Turnout			1,826	24.18	2.62
	Conservative hold		Swing	10.44

	Seats	+/−	Votes	%	+/−
Conservative	12	1	23,249	49.8	+1.0
Independent	2	1	2,888	6.2	+2.9
St Neots Independents	2		2,283	4.9	−2.4
Liberal Democrats	1	2	7,711	16.5	−4.8
Labour	0		7,566	16.2	+3.9
Green	0		2,762	5.9	+5.9
UKIP	0		219	0.5	−6.5
TUSC	0		55	0.1	+0.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Derek Gardener *	2,362	68.0	+6.2
	Liberal Democrats	Alastair Angus Henderson-Begg	488	14.0	-16.9
	Green	John McCutcheon	319	9.2	N/A
	Labour	Philip Nigel Sly	306	8.8	+1.5
Majority			1,874
Turnout			3,475	43.21
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ken Billington	1,494	43.4	-1.6
	Liberal Democrats	John Richard Childs	1,326	38.5	-10.1
	Labour	Sam Wakeford	419	12.2	+5.7
	Green	Gareth John Holsgrove	206	6.0	N/A
Majority
Turnout			3,445	38.94
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Martin Wilson*	1,258	46.0	-6.3
	Conservative	Paula Jane Sparling	972	35.6	+6.9
	Labour	Samuel Paul Week	465	17.0	+4.7
	TUSC	Will Martin	38	1.4	N/A
Majority
Turnout			2,733	36.89
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonas King	1,039	39.0	+5.6
	Labour	Patrick Kadewere	847	31.8	+10.7
	Liberal Democrats	Phil Pearce	670	25.1	-9.9
	UKIP	Peter Henry Ashcroft	93	3.5	-7.0
	TUSC	Geoff Eagle	17	0.6	N/A
Majority
Turnout			2,666	31.88
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Tom Sanderson *	1,427	55.2	+7.2
	Labour	Leedo George	636	24.9	+13.1
	Conservative	Gus Thomas Rankin	494	19.3	-6.1
Majority
Turnout			2,588	34.73
	Independent hold		Swing