2017 Cambridgeshire County Council election

2017 Cambridgeshire County Council election
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All 61 seats to Cambridgeshire County Council
31 seats needed for a majority
Turnout36.2%[1]
  First party Second party Third party
 
Con
Lab
Leader Steve Count Lucy Nethsingha Ashley Walsh
Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Labour
Leader since 25 April 2014 May 2015 May 2015
Leader's seat March North & Waldersey Newnham Petersfield (Retiring)
Last election 32 seats, 33.6% 14 seats, 19.7% 7 seats, 17.4%
Seats before 32 14 8
Seats won 36 15 7
Seat change Increase4 Increase1 Steady
Popular vote 68,467 50,716 30,830
Percentage 40.4% 29.9% 18.0%
Swing Increase6.8% Increase10.1% Increase0.6%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  Blank Blank Blank
Party St Neots Independents Independent Green
Last election 2 seats, 1.4% 2 seats, 2.8% 0 seats, 3.3%
Seats before 2 2 0
Seats won 2 1 0
Seat change Steady Decrease 1 Steady
Popular vote 3,107 4,307 6,744
Percentage 1.8% 2.7% 3.7%
Swing Increase 0.4% Decrease 0.1% Increase 0.4%
  Seventh party
 
UKIP
Leader Paul Bullen
Party UKIP
Leader since 8 December 2013
Leader's seat St Ives
Contested Warboys & The Stukeleys (Defeated)
Last election 12 seats, 21.1%
Seats before 10
Seats won 0
Seat change Decrease12
Popular vote 6,555
Percentage 3.6%
Swing Decrease 16.4%
Map showing the results of the 2017 Cambridgeshire County Council elections.
Council control before election

No Overall Control

 Council control after election

Conservative

The 2017 Cambridgeshire County Council election was held on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 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.

Boundary changes to the electoral divisions took effect at this election after a review of the county by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England,[3][4] reducing the number of county councillors from 69 to 61, and the number of electoral divisions from 60 to 59.

The election took place on the same day as the first direct mayoral election for the newly created Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.

The Conservative Party won a majority on the council, while the UK Independence Party lost all their seats.[5]

  1. ^ "Election Results". cambridgeshire.cmis.uk.com. 4 May 2017. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Upcoming elections & referendums". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 5 May 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Cambridgeshire County Council". Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Archived from the original on 8 July 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  4. ^ "The Cambridgeshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2016", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2016/1222
  5. ^ Paul Brackley (5 May 2017). "Cambridgeshire County Council election results: Conservatives take control and UKIP wiped out". Cambridge Independent. Retrieved 5 May 2017.