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.

Previous composition 2001 election Party Seats 34 16 9Total59

Composition of council seats before election Party Seats 33 17 8 1Total59

Changes between elections

In between the 2001 election and the 2005 election, the following council seats changed hands:

Division Date Previous Party New Party Cause Resulting Council Composition Con LDem Lab IndMelbourn 2 October 2003 Incumbent councillor resigned. Liberal Democrat won by-election. 33 17 9 0Fulbourn 10 June 2004 Incumbent councillor resigned. Conservative won by-election. 34 17 8 0Buckden Between June 2004 and April 2005 Councillor quit party to sit as an independent member. 33 17 8 1

Summary Election result

! colspan=2| Total ! 223 ! 69 ! 10 ! colspan=4 | ! 274,177 !

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. Conservative Party Liberal Democrats Labour Party Green Party

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.

Results by district Cambridge Summary +Cambridge District SummaryPartySeats+/-Votes%+/- 10 3 22,508 43.17 +3.60 4 3 14,347 27.52 −7.12 0 9,939 19.06 −3.28 0 5,222 10.02 +6.87 0 122 0.23 +0.23Total 14 52,138 100.0

Division results

East Cambridgeshire Summary +East Cambridgeshire District SummaryPartySeats+/-Votes%+/- 6 3 17,466 49.97 +13.40 3 1 15,584 44.58 +4.15 0 1,569 4.49 −17.15 0 336 0.96 −0.40Total 9 2 34,955 100.00

Division results

Fenland Summary +Fenland District SummaryPartySeats+/-Votes%+/- 11 2 21,232 53.03 +3.05 0 11,060 27.62 +12.28 0 6,865 17.15 −16.82 0 592 1.48 +1.48 0 287 0.72 +0.72Total 11 2 40,036 100.0

Huntingdonshire Summary +Huntingdonshire District SummaryPartySeats+/-Votes%+/- 17 4 35,576 47.41 −2.16 2 24,439 32.57 +1.82 0 13,029 17.36 −1.96 0 1,625 2.17 +2.17 0 376 0.50 +0.50Total 19 4 75,045 100.0

Division results

South Cambridgeshire Summary +South Cambridgeshire District SummaryPartySeats+/-Votes%+/- 11 3 30,212 41.96 +1.97 5 1 28,837 40.05 +7.49 0 2 7,820 10.86 −11.24 0 5,134 7.13 +2.99Total 16 2 72,003 100.0

Division Results

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