| Election Name: | 2005 Cambridgeshire County Council election |
| Country: | Cambridgeshire |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Party Colour: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2001 Cambridgeshire County Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2001 |
| Next Election: | 2009 Cambridgeshire County Council election |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
| Election Date: | 5 May 2005 |
| Majority Seats: | 35 |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election1: | 34 seats, 40.5% |
| Seats Before1: | 33 |
| Seats1: | 42 |
| Seat Change1: | 8 |
| Popular Vote1: | 112,543 |
| Percentage1: | 41.0% |
| Swing1: | 0.5% |
| Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Last Election2: | 16 seats, 31.5% |
| Seats Before2: | 17 |
| Seats2: | 23 |
| Seat Change2: | 7 |
| Popular Vote2: | 104,310 |
| Percentage2: | 38.0% |
| Swing2: | 6.5% |
| Party3: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Last Election3: | 9 seats, 25.5% |
| Seats Before3: | 8 |
| Seats3: | 4 |
| Seat Change3: | 5 |
| Popular Vote3: | 43,630 |
| Percentage3: | 15.9% |
| Swing3: | 9.6% |
| Map Size: | 400px |
| Council control | |
| Posttitle: | Council control after election |
| Before Election: | Conservative |
| After Election: | Conservative |
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.
| Party | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | |||
| 16 | |||
| 9 | |||
| Total | 59 | ||
| Party | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | |||
| 17 | |||
| 8 | |||
| 1 | |||
| Total | 59 | ||
|}
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.
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).
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[1] 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.[2] Walters would return as leader until May 2008 when Jill Tuck (Waldersey) replaced him with Lawrence McGuire (Norman Cross) as her deputy.
| Party | Seats | +/- | 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 | +0.23 | ||||
Division Results
| Party | Seats | +/- | Votes | % | +/- | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 3 | 14,033 | 40.84 | +4.28 | |||
| 3 | 1 | 18,421 | 53.61 | +13.17 | |||
| 0 | 1,569 | 4.57 | −17.07 | ||||
| 0 | 336 | 0.98 | −0.38 | ||||
Division Results
| Party | Seats | +/- | Votes | % | +/- | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 2 | 21,232 | 52.00 | +2.41 | |||
| 0 | 11,060 | 27.09 | +11.61 | ||||
| 0 | 6,865 | 16.81 | −17.43 | ||||
| 0 | 1,084 | 2.65 | +2.65 | ||||
| 0 | 592 | 1.45 | +1.45 | ||||
| Party | Seats | +/- | 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 | +0.50 | ||||
Division Results
| Party | Seats | +/- | 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 | +2.99 | ||||
Division Results