The 2017 Cambridgeshire County Council election was held on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. All 61 councillors were elected from 59 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office.

Boundary changes to the electoral divisions took effect at this election after a review of the county by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England, reducing the number of county councillors from 69 to 61, and the number of electoral divisions from 60 to 59.

The election took place on the same day as the first direct mayoral election for the newly created Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.

The Conservative Party won a majority on the council, while the UK Independence Party lost all their seats.

Previous composition 2013 election Party Seats 32 14 12 7 2 2Total69

Composition of council seats before election Party Seats 32 14 10 8 2 3Total69

Changes between elections

In between the 2017 election and the 2021 election, the following council seats changed hands:

Division Date Previous Party New Party Cause Resulting Council Composition Con LD UKIP Lab SNI IndWisbech South4 June 2015 UKIP incumbent resigned. Conservatives won by-election. 33 14 11 7 2 2Romsey25 June 2015 Liberal Democrat incumbent resigned. Labour won by-election. 33 13 11 8 2 2Little Paxton and St Neots North21 August 2015 Councillor quit party to sit as an independent member.32 13 11 8 2 3Sutton18 February 2016 Conservative incumbent died. Liberal Democrats won by-election. 31 14 11 8 2 3Bassingbourn29 February 2016 Sitting councillor joined UKIP.30 14 12 8 2 3Sawtry and Ellington18 July 2016 Sitting councillor joined Conservatives.31 14 11 8 2 3Warboys & Upwood16 September 2016 Sitting councillor joined Conservatives.32 14 10 8 2 3

Results summary

! colspan=2| Total ! 250 ! 61 ! 8 ! colspan=4 | ! 180,003 !

Election of Group Leaders Steve Count (March North & Waldersey) was reelected leader of the Conservative Group, Lucy Nethsingha (Newnham) was reelected leader of the Liberal Democratic Group, and Joan Whitehead (Abbey) was elected leader of the Labour Group. In late 2019 Elisa Meschini (King's Hedges) replaced Whitehead as Labour leader

Election of Leader of the Council Steve Count the leader of the Conservative group was duly elected leader of the council and formed a Conservative administration.

Results by district All electoral divisions elected one councillor unless stated otherwise.

Cambridge Summary +Cambridge District SummaryPartySeats+/-Votes%+/- 7 13,542 37.1 −2.4 5 1 13,582 37.2 +7.1 0 5,408 14.8 +0.4 0 3,005 8.2 −0.6 0 1 750 2.1 −1.6 0 258 0.7 −2.6Total 12 2 28,116 100.0

Division results

East Cambridgeshire Summary +East Cambridgeshire District SummaryPartySeats+/-Votes%+/- 7 1 11,600 54.2 +10.0 1 1 6,605 30.8 +12.5 0 2,710 12.7 −1.1 0 502 2.3 +0.6Total 8 1 21,417 100.00

Division results

Fenland Summary +Fenland District SummaryPartySeats+/-Votes%+/-Conservative 9 3 13,284 54.7 +15.0Labour 0 3,332 13.7 −0.4UKIP 0 5 2,956 12.2 −17.2Liberal Democrat 0 2,272 9.4 −0.2Independent 0 1,573 6.5 +1.1Green 0 858 3.5 +3.5Total 9 2 24,275 100.00

Division results

Huntingdonshire Summary +Huntingdonshire District SummaryPartySeats+/-Votes%+/- 11 3 20,787 48.8 +13.2 3 9,061 21.3 +8.5 2 3,107 7.3 +2.9 1 1 1,406 3.3 +0.4 0 5,251 12.3 +1.1 0 6 2,984 7.0 −24.9Total 17 2 42,596 100.0

Division results

South Cambridgeshire Summary +South Cambridgeshire District SummaryPartySeats+/-Votes%+/- 9 1 22,066 40.1 +4.6 6 1 21,975 40.0 +12.4 0 7,647 13.9 −1.5 0 2,146 3.9 −1.2 0 1 786 1.4 −1.4 0 357 0.7 −12.9Total 15 1 54,977 100.0

Division results

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