2005 Cambridgeshire County Council election

2005 Cambridgeshire County Council election

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All 69 seats to Cambridgeshire County Council
35 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
  Blank Blank Blank
Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Labour
Last election 34 seats, 40.5% 16 seats, 31.5% 9 seats, 25.5%
Seats before 33 17 8
Seats won 42 23 4
Seat change Increase 8 Increase 7 Decrease 5
Popular vote 112,543 104,310 43,630
Percentage 41.0% 38.0% 15.9%
Swing Increase 0.5% Increase 6.5% Decrease 9.6%

Results by electoral division. Striped wards have mixed representation.

Council control before election

Conservative

Council control after election

Conservative

An election to Cambridgeshire County Council took place on 5 May 2005 as part of the 2005 United Kingdom local elections. The election took place on the same day as the 2005 United Kingdom General Election. 69 councillors were elected from 60 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting. New electoral division boundaries were brought in for this election, increasing the number of seats from the 59 seats at the 2001 Cambridgeshire County Council election. The Conservative Party retained their majority on the council, while the Labour Party lost all their rural councillors with their representation limited to the city of Cambridge.