2009 Cambridgeshire County Council election

2009 Cambridgeshire County Council election
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All 69 seats to Cambridgeshire County Council; 35 seats needed for a majority
	Results by electoral division. Striped wards have mixed representation.
Leader before election; Jill Tuck; Conservative	Leader after election ; Jill Tuck; Conservative

An election to Cambridgeshire County Council took place on 4 June 2009 as part of the 2009 United Kingdom local elections. The election was delayed from 7 May to coincide with elections to the European Parliament. 69 councillors were elected from 60 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting. The Conservative Party retained their majority on the council, while the Green Party and UKIP gained their first seats.

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All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 4 June 2009 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections,^[1] although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections. It is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.^[2] The next election was scheduled for and held on 2 May 2013.

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Division	Date			Cause	Resulting Council Composition
					Con	LDem	Lab	Ind

Sutton	3 May 2007	Liberal Democrats	Conservative	Conservative won by-election.	43	22	4	0
Hardwick	27 November 2008	Conservative	Liberal Democrats	Liberal Democrat won by-election.	42	23	4	0

Cambridgeshire County Council election, 2009^[3]
Party		Candidates	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	69	42	5	5		60.9	43.4	76,075	+2.3
	Liberal Democrats	68	23	5	5		33.3	33.8	59,269	–4.2
	Labour	69	2	0	2	2	2.9	9.9	17,372^[a]	–6.0
	Green	23	1	1	0	1	1.4	5.9	10,351	+1.9
	UKIP	13	1	1	0	1	1.4	3.9	6,780	+3.5
	Independent	8	0	0	0		0.0	2.7	4,672	+2.1
	Monster Raving Loony	1	0	0	0		0.0	0.3	566	+0.3
	Libertarian	1	0	0	0		0.0	0.1	140	+0.1
	UK First	1	0	0	0		0.0	0.1	117	+0.1
Total		253	69						175,342


Conservative			43.39%
Liberal Democrats			33.80%
Labour			9.91%
Green			5.90%
UKIP			3.87%
Other			3.13%


Conservative			60.87%
Liberal Democrats			33.33%
Labour			2.90%
Green			1.45%
UKIP			1.45%

Party		Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
	Liberal Democrats	11	1	12,121	36.7	−6.5
	Labour	4	2	6,930	21.0	−6.5
	Green	1	1	5,159	15.6	+5.6
	Conservative	0		7,153	21.7	+2.6
	Independent	0		1,181	3.6	+3.6
	UKIP	0		475	1.4	+1.2
Total		14		33,019	100.0

2009 Cambridgeshire County Council election

Previous composition

Changes between elections

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Election result

Party strength by electoral division

Results by district

Cambridge

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Division results

East Cambridgeshire

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Fenland

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Huntingdonshire

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South Cambridgeshire

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Simon Sedgwick-Jell	855	40.6	+28.6
	Labour Co-op	Paul Sales *	617	29.3	–11.1
	Conservative	Timothy Haire	362	17.2	–1.0
	Liberal Democrats	Julian Huppert *	273	13.0	–16.9
Majority			238	11.3	N/a
Total valid votes			2,107	32.2	–23.2
Rejected ballots			22	1.0
Total ballots			2,129	32.6
Registered electors			6,534		+290
	Green gain from Labour Co-op		Swing	+19.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Rupert Moss-Eccardt *	1,146	42.0	+1.0
	Labour Co-op	Ian Kidman	792	29.0	–4.7
	Conservative	Daniel Whant	430	15.8	–2.3
	Green	Catherine Terry	361	13.2	+6.1
Majority			354	13.0	+5.7
Total valid votes			2,729	40.6	–19.9
Rejected ballots			19	0.7
Total ballots			2,747	40.9
Registered electors			6,718		–70
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+2.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Belinda Brooks-Gordon	1,095	43.1	–9.1
	Independent	John Hipkin	756	29.8	N/A
	Conservative	Edward MacNaghten	267	10.5	–8.3
	Green	Stephen Lawrence	226	8.9	–2.1
	Labour	John Buckingham	196	7.7	–10.2
Majority			339	13.3	–20.9
Total valid votes			2,540	37.2	–25.4
Rejected ballots			13	0.5
Total ballots			2,553	37.4
Registered electors			6,828		+301
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	–19.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Christine Carter *	1,021	42.2	+1.7
	Conservative	Charles Harcourt	760	31.4	+5.2
	Green	Neil Ford	320	13.2	+7.3
	Liberal Democrats	Laurence Edkins	319	13.2	–14.2
Majority			261	10.8	–3.6
Total valid votes			2,420	38.6	–25.4
Rejected ballots			17	0.7
Total ballots			2,437	38.9
Registered electors			6,271		–21
	Labour hold		Swing	–1.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tariq Sadiq	929	36.3	+0.4
	Conservative	Andrew Bower	830	32.5	+11.9
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas Yates	325	12.7	–21.7
	Green	Valerie Hopkins	314	12.2	+5.4
	UKIP	Albert Watts	159	6.2	+4.0
Majority			99	3.9	+2.4
Total valid votes			2,557	40.9	–19.0
Rejected ballots			14	0.5
Total ballots			2,571	41.2
Registered electors			6,250		+421
	Labour hold		Swing	–5.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Siep Wijsenbeek	807	35.8	–3.4
	Conservative	James Strachan	559	24.8	+5.5
	Labour	Leonard Freeman	339	15.0	–18.0
	Green	Peter Pope	331	14.7	+6.2
	UKIP	Peter Burkinshaw	220	9.8	N/A
Majority			248	11.0	+4.8
Total valid votes			2,256	35.9	–25.0
Rejected ballots			18	0.8
Total ballots			2,273	36.1
Registered electors			6,290		+374
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	–4.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Pellew	751	39.2	+5.2
	Labour	Primrose Hughes *	500	26.1	–10.8
	Conservative	Matthew Adams	439	22.9	+1.0
	Green	James Youd	228	11.9	+4.6
Majority			251	13.1	+10.1
Total valid votes			1,918	32.7	–22.6
Rejected ballots			22	0.9
Total ballots			1,940	33.0
Registered electors			5,873		–154
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing	+8.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Whitebread	847	44.7	–5.4
	Conservative	Sheila Lawlor	406	21.4	+3.7
	Green	Keith Garrett	401	21.2	+5.4
	Labour	George Owers	239	12.6	–3.7
Majority			441	23.3	–9.1
Total valid votes			1,893	27.2	–30.2
Rejected ballots			9	0.5
Total ballots			1,902	27.4
Registered electors			6,949		+435
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	–4.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Lucy Nethsingha	1,051	46.3	–4.4
	Conservative	James Sharpe	503	22.2	+4.2
	Green	Robert Young	393	17.3	+3.2
	Labour	Malcolm Schofield	323	14.2	–3.0
Majority			548	24.1	–8.5
Total valid votes			2,270	34.1	–28.0
Rejected ballots			15	0.6
Total ballots			2,285	34.3
Registered electors			6,658		+371
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	–4.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Nichola Harrison *	1,009	41.8	+1.4
	Labour	Jennifer May	718	29.7	–1.6
	Green	Shayne Mitchell	353	14.6	–1.1
	Conservative	Shapour Meftah	335	13.9	+1.2
Majority			291	12.1	+3.0
Total valid votes			2,415	38.3	–16.5
Rejected ballots			10	0.4
Total ballots			2,425	38.5
Registered electors			6,306		+169
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+1.5

Trumpington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline Shepherd	991	43.6	–7.4
	Conservative	John Ionides	819	36.0	+8.4
	Green	Ceri Galloway	292	12.9	+4.7
	Labour	Pamela Stacey	170	7.5	–5.8
Majority			172	7.6	–15.8
Total valid votes			2,272	39.4	–21.8
Rejected ballots			20	0.9
Total ballots			2,292	39.7
Registered electors			5,769		+414
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	–7.9

West Chesterton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin Wilkins *	1,157	45.5	–1.0
	Conservative	Michael Morley	522	20.5	+3.1
	Green	Alexandra Collis	459	18.1	+6.4
	Labour	Michael Sargeant	394	15.5	–8.5
Majority			635	25.1	+2.5
Total valid votes			2,532	41.0	–21.8
Rejected ballots			10	0.4
Total ballots			2,542	41.2
Registered electors			6,176		–194
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	–2.1

**East Cambridgeshire District Summary**
Party		Seats	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
	Conservative	7	4	11,632	50.38	+5.80
	Liberal Democrats	2	4	9,380	40.63	−9.34
	Labour	0		1,490	6.45	+1.97
	Independent	0		584	2.53	+2.53
Total		9		23,086	100.00

Ely North and East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Bell *	1,414	47.1	–12.5
	Conservative	David Ambrose-Smith	1,355	45.1	+4.7
	Labour	Robin Hay	233	7.8	N/A
Majority			59	2.0	–17.3
Total valid votes			3,002	37.5	–22.7
Rejected ballots			45	1.4
Total ballots			3,047	38.0
Registered electors			8,015		+799
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	–8.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Geoffrey Heathcock *	1,521	56.3	–2.9
	Conservative	Donald Douglas	651	24.1	+3.1
	Green	Brian Westcott	329	12.2	+6.6
	Labour	Jonathan Goodacre	199	7.4	–6.8
Majority			870	32.2	–6.0
Total valid votes			2,700	42.4	–20.6
Rejected ballots			7	0.3
Total ballots			2,707	42.5
Registered electors			6,367		–45
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	–3.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Kilian Bourke *	829	34.4	–10.6
	Labour	Christine Freeman	493	20.5	–12.8
	Independent	Thomas Woodcock	425	17.6	N/A
	Green	Philip Richards	297	12.3	+1.5
	Conservative	Samuel Barker	270	11.2	+1.5
	UKIP	Marjorie Barr	96	4.0	+2.8
Majority			336	13.9	+2.3
Total valid votes			2,410	36.8	–22.3
Rejected ballots			9	0.4
Total ballots			2,419	36.9
Registered electors			6,557		+279
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+1.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Brown	1,321	47.6	+3.5
	Liberal Democrats	Hazel Williams *	1,290	46.5	–9.5
	Labour	Sandra Wilson	165	5.9	N/A
Majority			31	1.1	N/A
Total valid votes			2,776	44.1	–20.2
Rejected ballots			32	1.1
Total ballots			2,808	44.7
Registered electors			6,289		+123
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	+6.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sue Austen	1,374	52.0	–4.2
	Conservative	Anna Bailey	1,115	44.2	–1.6
	Labour	Michele Wilkinson	153	5.8	N/A
Majority			259	9.8	–2.6
Total valid votes			2,642	41.9	–22.8
Rejected ballots			46	1.5
Total ballots			2,688	42.6
Registered electors			6,308		+462
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	–1.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bill Hunt *	1,642	51.3	+10.0
	Liberal Democrats	Gareth Wilson	1,427	44.6	+7.5
	Labour	Christopher Wilson	131	4.1	–10.6
Majority			215	6.7	+2.5
Total valid votes			3,200	46.6	–24.3
Rejected ballots			33	1.0
Total ballots			3,233	43.0
Registered electors			7,520		+293
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fred Brown	926	53.4	+8.6
	Liberal Democrats	Aaron Broadley	647	37.3	–17.9
	Labour	Edna Simms	134	7.7	N/A
Majority			279	16.3	+5.9
Total valid votes			1,707	28.2	–23.7
Rejected ballots			27	1.6
Total ballots			1,734	28.7
Registered electors			6,044		+469
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	+3.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Palmer	2,331	58.9	+11.5
	Conservative	John Powley *	1,919
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Warner	1,347	34.0	–18.6
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Allan	1,238
	Labour	Jessica Blair	280	7.1	N/A
	Labour	Kerry Murphy	257
Majority			984	24.9	N/A
Total valid votes			3,970	31.3	–19.3
Rejected ballots			77	1.9
Total ballots			4,047	31.9
Registered electors			12,667		+688
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	+15.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Read *	1,131	45.5	+2.2
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Dewar	593	23.9	–32.9
	Independent	Owen Winters	584	23.5	N/A
	Labour	Peter Allenson	178	7.2	N/A
Majority			538	21.6	N/A
Total valid votes			2,486	38.7	–24.4
Rejected ballots			12	0.5
Total ballots			2,498	38.9
Registered electors			6,421		+501
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	+17.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mathew Shuter *	1,811	56.6	+4.9
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Bryant	1,288	38.9	+5.8
	Labour	Steven O'Dell	216	6.5	–10.7
Majority			523	15.8	–0.9
Total valid votes			3,315	42.9	–22.3
Rejected ballots			44	1.3
Total ballots			3,359	43.5
Registered electors			7,729		+95
	Conservative hold		Swing	–0.5

Party		Seats	Votes	%	+/-
	Conservative	11	12,268	51.53	−1.50
	Liberal Democrats	0	4,738	19.90	−7.72
	Labour	0	2,560	10.75	−6.39
	UKIP	0	2,066	8.68	+7.20
	Independent	0	1,721	7.23	+7.23
	Green	0	197	0.83	+0.11
	Libertarian	0	140	0.59	+0.59
	UK First	0	117	0.49	+0.49
Total		11	23,807	100.00

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alan Melton	1,140	50.2	+4.2
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Howes	975	42.9	+15.5
	Labour	Max Kelly	157	6.9	–19.7
Majority			165	7.3	–11.4
Total valid votes			2,272	38.5	–23.6
Rejected ballots			40	1.7
Total ballots			2,312	39.2
Registered electors			5,895		+287
	Conservative hold		Swing	–5.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Geoffrey Harper	981	38.4	–14.2
	Independent	Mark Archer	767	30.0	N/A
	UKIP	Callum Duffy	380	14.9	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Roy Benford	167	6.5	–12.5
	Labour	Bill Ashby	123	4.8	–23.6
	UK First	Len Baynes	117	4.6	N/A
Majority
Total valid votes
Rejected ballots			24	0.9
Total ballots			2,556	36.8
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fred Yeulett	1,229	57.6	+13.1
	Liberal Democrats	Heather Kinnear	497	23.3	+8.2
	Labour	Carol Jones	372	17.4	–15.2
Majority
Total valid votes
Rejected ballots			37	1.7
Total ballots			2,135	33.9
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John West	985	54.9	+2.8
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Colbert	538	29.9	–17.9
	Labour	Harry Jones	242	13.5	N/A
Majority
Total valid votes
Rejected ballots			31	1.7
Total ballots			1,794	33.6
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Clark	1,175	53.3	–4.3
	Independent	Reg Kemp	560	25.4	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Adams	277	12.6	–29.8
	Labour	Joy Owen	177	8.0	N/A
Majority
Total valid votes
Rejected ballots			14	0.6
Total ballots			2,203	35.9
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Steve Tierney	1,326	52.7	–6.3
	UKIP	Christopher Schooling	617	24.5	N/A
	Labour	Joan Diggle	306	12.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Frank Bellard	254	10.1	–30.9
Majority
Total valid votes
Rejected ballots			12	0.5
Total ballots			2,516	36.9
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jill Tuck	936	40.2	–18.6
	Liberal Democrats	Gavin Booth	641	27.4	–13.7
	Independent	Alan Burbridge	394	16.9	N/A
	Green	Paul Carpenter	197	8.5	N/A
	Labour	Dave Goode	146	6.3	N/A
Majority
Total valid votes
Rejected ballots			15	0.6
Total ballots			2,331	38.1
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Martin Curtis	1,393	61.3	+8.9
	Liberal Democrats	David Chapman	499	21.9	+9.4
	Labour	Jes Hibbert	343	15.1	–19.8
Majority
Total valid votes
Rejected ballots			32	1.4
Total ballots			2,271	37.7
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ralph Butcher	1,444	66.1	+8.3
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Ward	487	22.3	+7.5
	Labour	Aiden Hervey	211	9.7	–17.7
Majority
Total valid votes
Rejected ballots			44	2.0
Total ballots			2,183	38.5
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Les Sims	729	41.3	–5.7
	UKIP	Paul Clapp	537	30.4	N/A
	Labour	Barry Diggle	271	15.4	–19.8
	Liberal Democrats	Diane Baldry	212	12.0	–5.8
Majority
Total valid votes
Rejected ballots			12	0.7
Total ballots			1,764	23.9
Registered electors
	Conservative hold		Swing