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Local Election Results 2008

Cambridge

One-third of council up for election.

Left = Left List

Other results for Cambridge: 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
By-elections for Cambridge (may be incomplete): 21st July 2005 (Coleridge) — 16th November 2006 (Trumpington) — 4th June 2009 (East Chesterton) — 4th November 2010 (Coleridge) — 2nd May 2013 (Abbey) — 13th November 2014 (Queen Edith's) — 4th May 2017 (Arbury) — 13th September 2018 (Petersfield) — 8th August 2019 (Newnham) — 18th August 2022 (Trumpington) — 4th July 2023 (King's Hedges) — 23rd November 2023 (Queen Edith's) — 12th September 2024 (Romsey)
Results for Cambridgeshire county council: 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021

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Consolidated results — Cambridge 2008

Party Votes Percent Seats
Liberal Democrat 9718 32.8% 8
Labour 7624 25.7% 3
Conservative 7410 25.0% 1
Green Party 3374 11.4% 1
Independent 851 2.9% 1
Left List 328 1.1% 0
UK Independence Party 165 0.6% 0
English Democrats Party 161 0.5% 0

Abbey [Grn gain from Lab]

Margaret Wright Grn 812 41.4%
John Durrant Lab 645 32.9%
Andrew Bower C 376 19.2%
Callie Leroux LD 129 6.6%

Arbury [Lab gain from LD]

Mike Todd-Jones Lab 941 35.3%
Rhodri James LD 908 34.1%
Shapour Meftah C 468 17.6%
Catherine Terry Grn 187 7.0%
Tim Hawke EDP 161 6.0%

Castle [Ind gain from LD]

John Hipkin Ind 851 39.0%
Valerie Holt LD 707 32.4%
Edward MacNaghten C 255 11.7%
Sam Wakeford Lab 225 10.3%
Stephen Lawrence Grn 145 6.6%

Cherry Hinton

Robert Dryden Lab 1247 52.0%
Sarah El-Neil C 827 34.5%
David Willingham LD 167 7.0%
Neil Ford Grn 157 6.5%

Coleridge [C gain from Lab]

Christopher Howell C 955 40.2%
Tariq Sadiq Lab 941 39.7%
Alain Desmeir LD 219 9.2%
Valerie Hopkins Grn 193 8.1%
Albert Watts UKIP 65 2.7%

East Chesterton

Jennifer Liddle LD 777 38.4%
Kevin Francis C 576 28.5%
Stefan Haselwimmer Lab 368 18.2%
Peter Pope Grn 203 10.0%
Peter Burkinshaw UKIP 100 4.9%

King's Hedges [LD gain from Lab]

Neil McGovern LD 760 40.6%
Gerri Bird Lab 562 30.1%
Cyril Weinman C 419 22.4%
James Youd Grn 129 6.9%

Market

Tim Bick LD 645 44.1%
Sheila Lawlor C 342 23.4%
Nick Dale Lab 255 17.4%
Shayne Mitchell Grn 222 15.2%

Newnham

Sian Reid LD 870 50.1%
James Strachan C 427 24.6%
Jennifer Butler Grn 238 13.7%
William Redfern Lab 200 11.5%

Petersfield

Ben Bradnack Lab 857 44.3%
Elizabeth Parkin LD 541 28.0%
Jonathan Newton C 301 15.6%
Simon Sedgwick-Jell Grn 236 12.2%

Queen Edith's

Amanda Taylor LD 1250 49.9%
Donald Douglas C 838 33.5%
Jonathan Goodacre Lab 233 9.3%
Martin Lawson Grn 183 7.3%

Romsey

Catherine Smart LD 791 37.2%
Len Freeman Lab 535 25.1%
Tom Woodcock Left 328 15.4%
Sam Barker C 285 13.4%
Keith Garrett Grn 189 8.9%

Trumpington

Salah al-Bandar LD 985 45.9%
Peter Hase C 828 38.6%
Ceri Galloway Grn 178 8.3%
Pamela Stacey Lab 154 7.2%

West Chesterton

Ian Nimmo-Smith LD 969 43.2%
Steven Mastin C 513 22.9%
Mike Sargeant Lab 461 20.5%
Sarah Peake Grn 302 13.5%

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