Cambridge local elections
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One third of Cambridge
City Council is elected each year, followed by one year without election.
1973 - 1976
Conservative
1976 - 1979
No overall control
1979 - 1986
Labour
1986 - 1987
No overall control
1987 - 1988
Labour
1988 - 1992
No overall control
1992 - 1996
Labour
1996 - 1998
No overall control
1998 - 2000
Liberal Democrat 2000 - present
Cambridge Council election, 1999
Cambridge Council election, 2000
Cambridge Council election, 2002
Cambridge Council election, 2003
Cambridge Council election, 2004
Cambridge Council election, 2006
Cambridge Council election, 2007
Cambridge Council election, 2008
Cambridge Council election, 2010
Cambridge Council election, 2011
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
City Council is elected each year, followed by one year without election.
Political control
LabourLabour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
1973 - 1976
Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
1976 - 1979
No overall control
No overall control
Within the context of local councils of the United Kingdom, the term No Overall Control refers to a situation in which no single party achieves a majority of seats and is analogous to a hung parliament...
1979 - 1986
Labour
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
1986 - 1987
No overall control
No overall control
Within the context of local councils of the United Kingdom, the term No Overall Control refers to a situation in which no single party achieves a majority of seats and is analogous to a hung parliament...
1987 - 1988
Labour
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
1988 - 1992
No overall control
No overall control
Within the context of local councils of the United Kingdom, the term No Overall Control refers to a situation in which no single party achieves a majority of seats and is analogous to a hung parliament...
1992 - 1996
Labour
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
1996 - 1998
No overall control
No overall control
Within the context of local councils of the United Kingdom, the term No Overall Control refers to a situation in which no single party achieves a majority of seats and is analogous to a hung parliament...
1998 - 2000
Liberal Democrat 2000 - present
Council elections
Cambridge Council election, 1998Cambridge Council election, 1999
Cambridge Council election, 2000
Cambridge Council election, 2002
Cambridge Council election, 2003
Cambridge Council election, 2004
Cambridge Council election, 2006
Cambridge Council election, 2006
Elections for Cambridge City Council were held on Thursday 4 May 2006. As Cambridge City Council is elected by thirds, one seat in each of the city's 14 wards was up for election. The exception was Romsey, where two seats were up for election as a by-election for the other seat was held on the same...
Cambridge Council election, 2007
Cambridge Council election, 2008
Cambridge Council election, 2010
Cambridge Council election, 2011
Cambridge Council election, 2011
Elections for Cambridge City Council were held on Thursday 5 May 2011. As the council is elected by thirds, one seat in each of the wards was up for election, with the exception of Cherry Hinton ward where two seats were up for election due to the early retirement of Councillor Stuart Newbold...