Local Elections 2017: Cambridgeshire

There are elections for 61 new councillors on Cambridgeshire County Council.

Cambridgeshire County Council has returned to outright Conservative control after four years as a hung council.

There are 61 councillors on Cambridgeshire County Council.

County Council elections are held every four years and in the last election in 2013, the Conservatives lost their overall majority and the council became hung with no one party in overall control.

That means no one party had enough councillors to out-vote all the other councillors from other parties.

There is also an election in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough for an elected mayor with new devolved powers from central government over housing, transport and local investment.

There are no local authority elections in Peterborough

The Conservative have won an overall majority on Cambridgeshire County Council.

Your new councillors on Cambridgeshire County Council

CAMBRIDGE

  • Abbey - Joan Whitehead (Lab)

  • Arbury - Jocelynne Scutt (Lab)

  • Castle - Claire Richards (Lab)

  • Cherry Hinton - Sandra Crawford (Lab)

  • Chesterton - Ian Manning (Lib Dem)

  • King’s Hedges - Elisa Meschini (Lab)

  • Market - Nichola Harrison (Lib Dem)

  • Newnham - Lucy Nethsingha (Lib Dem)

  • Petersfield - Linda Jones (Lab)

  • Queen Edith’s - Amanda Taylor (Lib Dem)

  • Romsey - Noel Kavanagh (Lab)

  • Trumpington - Donald Adey (Lib Dem)

EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE

  • Burwell - Joshua Schumann (Con)

  • Ely North - Lis Every (Con)

  • Ely South - Anna Bailey (Con)

  • Littleport - Ian Smith (Con)

  • Soham North & Isleham - Paul Raynes (Con)

  • Soham South & Haddenham - Bill Hunt (Con)

  • Sutton - Lorna Dupre (Lib Dem)

  • Woodditton - Mathew Shuter(Con)

FENLAND

  • Chatteris - Anne Hay (Con)

  • March North & Waldersey - Steve Count (Con) Janet French(Con)

  • March South & Rural - John Gowing (Con)

  • Roman Bank & Peckover - Simon King (Con)

  • Whittlesey North - Chris Boden (Con)

  • Whittlesey South - David Connor (Con)

  • Wisbech East - Samantha Hoy (Con)

  • Wisbech West - Steven Tierney (Con)

HUNTINGDONSHIRE

  • Alconbury & Kimbolton - Ian Gardener (Con)

  • Brampton & Buckden - Peter Downes (Lib Dem)

  • Godmanchester & Huntingdon South - Graham Wilson (Lib Dem)

  • Huntingdon North & Hartford - Michael Shellens (Lib Dem)

  • Huntingdon West - Tom Sanderson (Ind)

  • Ramsey & Bury - Adela Costello (Con)

  • St Ives North & Wyton - Ryan Fuller (Con)

  • St Ives South & Needingworth - Kevin Reynolds (Con)

  • St Neots East & Gransden - Julie Wisson (Con)

  • St Neots Eynesbury - Simone Taylor (Ind)

  • St Neots Priory Park & Little Paxton - David Wells (Con)

  • St Neots The Eatons - Derek Giles (Ind)

  • Sawtry & Stilton - Simon Bywater (Con)

  • Somersham & Earith - Steve Criswell (Con)

  • The Hemingfords & Fenstanton - Ian Bates (Con)

  • Warboys & The Stukeleys - Terry Rogers (Con)

SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE

  • Bar Hill - Lynda Harford (Con)

  • Cambourne - Mark Howell (Con)

  • Cottenham & Willingham - Timothy Wotherspoon (Con)

  • Duxford - Peter Topping (Con)

  • Fulbourn - John Williams (Lib Dem)

  • Gamlingay - Sebastian Kindersley (Lib Dem)

  • Hardwick - Lina Joseph (Con)

  • Histon & Impington - David Jenkins (Lib Dem)

  • Linton - Henry Batchelor (Lib Dem)

  • Longstanton, Northstowe & Over - Peter Hudson (Con)

  • Melbourn & Bassingbourn - Susan Van de Ven (Lib Dem)

  • Papworth & Swavesey - Mandy Smith (Con)

  • Sawston & Shelford - Kevin Cuffley (Con) Roger Hickford (Con)

  • Waterbeach - Anna Bradnam (Lib Dem)

The Conservatives had a working majority on Cambridgeshire County Council between 1997 and 2013 but no other party has controlled the council since local government re-organisation in 1973.

Since the last election in 2013 there have been boundary changes in Cambridgeshire which have reduced the number of councillors from 69 to 61.

There are 59 electoral divisions in Cambridgeshire; 57 will be represented by a single councillors but two divisions will have two councillors - March North & Waldersey along with Sawston & Shelford.

The result of the last County Council election in Cambridgeshire in 2013.