2005 Cambridgeshire County Council election

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.

Results summary

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Party strength by electoral division
The following maps show the percentage of the vote each party obtained by electoral division. A colour key for each map can be viewed by clicking on the image.

Election of Group Leaders
John Walters (Sawtry and Ellington) was re-elected leader of the Conservative Group with John Reynolds (Bar Hill) re-elected as the deputy leader, Julian Huppert (East Chesterton) was re-elected leader of the Lib Dem Group with Judith Broadway (Soham and Fordham Villages) as the deputy leader, and Martin Ballard (Coleridge) was elected leader of the Labour Group with Christine Carter (Cherry Hinton) as the deputy leader.

Huppert would stand down as leader in May 2007 and was replaced by David Jenkins (Cottenham, Histon and Impington) with Peter Downes (Brampton and Kimbolton) as his deputy. Ballard would stand down as leader in May 2008 to be replaced with Paul Sales (Abbey).

Election of Leader of the Council
John Walters the leader of the conservative group was duly elected leader of the council and formed a conservative administration.

Walters would retire as leader in May 2007 to be succeeded by Shona Johnston (Willingham) who had been the Cabinet Member for Children and Young People’s Services. Dennis Pegram (St Ives) was elected as deputy leader. However Johnstone was forced to resign after less than 6 months after admitting making an "inappropriate" phone call to a chief executive candidate. Walters would return as leader until May 2008 when Jill Tuck (Waldersey) replaced him with Lawrence McGuire (Norman Cross) as her deputy.

Cambridge (14 seats)
District Summary

Division Results

East Cambridgeshire (9 seats)
District Summary

Division Results

Fenland (11 seats)
District Summary

Huntingdonshire (19 seats)
District Summary

Division Results

South Cambridgeshire (16 seats)
District Summary

Division Results