An election to

Cambridgeshire County Council Cambridgeshire County Council is the county council of Cambridgeshire, England. The council consists of 61 councillors, representing 59 electoral divisions. The council is based at New Shire Hall at Alconbury Weald, near Huntingdon. It is a mem ...

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 The 2005 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 5 May 2005, to elect List of MPs elected in the 2005 United Kingdom general election, 646 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. The Labour Party (U ...

. 69 councillors were elected from 60 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by

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. 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

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retained their majority on the council, while the Labour Party lost all their rural councillors with their representation limited to the city of

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Results

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.

Results by electoral division

Cambridge (14 seats)

East Cambridgeshire (9 seats)

Fenland (11 seats)

Huntingdonshire (19 seats)

South Cambridgeshire (16 seats)

References

{{United Kingdom local elections, 2005 Cambridgeshire County Council elections 2005 English local elections 2000s in Cambridgeshire