Cambridge City 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 day. Therefore, 15 of the 42 seats on the Council were up for election. Overall turnout was 34.4%, down from 37.0% in 2004. The lowest turnout (28.4%) was in Abbey ward and the highest (40.8%) in Queen Edith's.

Results

Cambridge Local Election Result 2006
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Liberal Democrat	11	1	0	+1	73.3	38.4	11853	-4.8
	Labour	4	1	1	0	26.7	25.4	7837	-2.1
	Conservative	0	0	1	-1	0	22.1	6799	3.0
	Green	0	0	0	0	0	12.7	3908	2.7
	Respect	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	294	N/A
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	0.4	138	0.2

The composition of the Council after the election was:

Liberal Democrats - 29 (69.0%)
Labour - 13 (31.0%)

Results by ward

Abbey


Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Miriam Lynn	668	37.4
	Green	Margaret Wright	464	26.0
	Conservative	Simon Mitton	362	20.3
	Liberal Democrat	Edward Sexton	292	16.3
Majority			204	11.4
Turnout			1,786	28.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Arbury


Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	Timothy Ward	1,022	40.3
	Labour	Michael Todd-Jones	816	32.1
	Conservative	Shapour Meftah	482	19.0
	Green	Michael Smith	219	8.6
Majority			206	8.1
Turnout			2,539	36.9
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Castle


Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	Simon Kightley	985	48.3
	Conservative	Edward MacNaghten	476	23.3
	Green	Stephen Lawrence	298	14.6
	Labour	Lucy Sheerman	282	13.8
Majority			509	24.9
Turnout			2,041	31.5
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Cherry Hinton


Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Stuart Newbold	1,071	42.9
	Conservative	Eric Barrett-Payton	864	34.6
	Liberal Democrat	Natalie Mayer-Hutchings	367	14.7
	Green	Neal Ford	193	7.7
Majority			207	8.3
Turnout			2,495	32.0
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Coleridge


Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Lewis Herbert	909	41.8
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Blackhurst	477	22.0
	Conservative	Stephen Alexander Jones	463	21.3
	Green	Hamish Downer	186	8.6
	UKIP	Albert Watts	138	6.4
Majority			432	19.9
Turnout			2,173	36.3
	Labour hold		Swing

East Chesterton


Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	Marian Holness	884	40.6
	Labour	Richard Layfield	583	26.8
	Conservative	Kevin Francis	482	22.1
	Green	Peter Pope	228	10.5
Majority			301	13.8
Turnout			2,177	35.9
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

King's Hedges


Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	Neale Upstone	718	40.0
	Labour	Gerri Bird	533	29.7
	Conservative	Mark Taylor	350	19.5
	Green	Gerhard Goldbeck-Wood	193	10.8
Majority			185	10.3
Turnout			1,794	29.61
	Liberal Democrat gain from Labour		Swing

Market


Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	Colin Rosenstiel	772	42.7
	Conservative	Timothy Haire	392	21.7
	Green	Martin Lucas-Smith	359	19.9
	Labour	Maureen Donnelly	285	15.8
Majority			380	21.0
Turnout			1,808	28.7
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Newnham


Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	Roderick Cantrill	974	46.2
	Conservative	James Strachan	475	22.6
	Labour	Joseph Powell	336	16.0
	Green	Anna Gomori-Woodcock	321	15.2
Majority			499	23.7
Turnout			2,106	31.7
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Petersfield


Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Kevin Blencowe	879	39.0
	Liberal Democrat	Steven Cooper	848	37.7
	Green	John Collins	282	12.5
	Conservative	Rosemary Clarkson	243	10.8
Majority			31	1.4
Turnout			2,252	35.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Queen Edith's


Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	Alan Baker	1,489	56.7
	Conservative	Donald Douglas	735	28.0
	Labour	Leonard Freeman	219	8.3
	Green	Shayne Mitchell	181	6.9
Majority			754	28.7
Turnout			2,624	40.8
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Romsey

Note: the top two candidates were elected; vote percentage and swing for parties, not candidates
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	Sarah Ellis-Miller	1,065	Lib Dem
	Liberal Democrat	Raj Shah	815	41.0
	Labour	Jonathan Goodacre	623	Lab
	Labour	Tariq Sadiq	491	24.3
	Green	Jesse Griffiths	358	Green
	Respect	Thomas Woodcock	294	Respect
	Respect	Samuel Caldwell	268	12.3
	Conservative	Hugh Mennie	235	Con
	Green	Neil Hewett	216	12.5
	Conservative	Angela Ozturk	216	9.8
Majority			192	8.1
Turnout			2291	36.9
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Because both seats were up for election each voter had two votes (i.e. plurality-at-large bloc voting). Party vote percentages are calculated as percent of the total number of votes; the number (not the percentage) of turnout has been estimated by halving the total number of votes.

Trumpington


Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	Sheila Stuart	960	45.5
	Conservative	John Ionides	752	35.7
	Green	Ceri Galloway	205	9.7
	Labour	Pamela Stacey	191	9.1
Majority			208	9.9
Turnout			2,108	39.5
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

West Chesterton


Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrat	Max Boyce	1,000	42.5
	Conservative	Steven Mastin	488	20.8
	Labour	Simon Watkins	442	18.8
	Green	Sarah Peake	421	17.9
Majority			512	21.8
Turnout			2,351	36.7
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Sources

Council elections in Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017

Peterborough City Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2001 2002 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Cambridge City Council	1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

East Cambridgeshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Fenland District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015

Huntingdonshire District Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

South Cambridgeshire District Council	1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016

Isle of Ely County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 Abolished

Huntingdon & Peterborough County Council	1967 1970 Abolished

See also: Wards Boundary changes

(2005 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 2006 (→ 2007)

London boroughs	Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster

Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton

Unitary authorities	Blackburn with Darwen Bristol Derby Halton Hartlepool Kingston upon Hull Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Slough Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Thurrock Warrington Wokingham

District councils (England)	Adur Amber Valley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bedford Brentwood Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Carlisle Castle Point Cheltenham Cherwell Chester Chorley Colchester Congleton Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Daventry Eastbourne Eastleigh Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Fareham Gloucester Gosport Great Yarmouth Harlow Harrogate Hart Hastings Havant Hertsmere Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Lincoln Macclesfield Maidstone Mole Valley Newcastle-under-Lyme North Hertfordshire Norwich Nuneaton and Bedworth Oxford Pendle Penwith Preston Purbeck Redditch Reigate and Banstead Rochford Rossendale Rugby Runnymede Rushmoor Shrewsbury and Atcham South Bedfordshire South Cambridgeshire South Lakeland St Albans Stevenage Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Swale Tamworth Tandridge Three Rivers Tunbridge Wells Watford Waveney Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing Wyre Forest

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