| Election Name: | 2023 East Cambridgeshire District Council election |
| Country: | Cambridgeshire |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2019 East Cambridgeshire District Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2019 |
| Next Election: | 2027 East Cambridgeshire District Council election |
| Next Year: | 2027 |
| Seats For Election: | All 28 seats to East Cambridgeshire District Council |
| Majority Seats: | 15 |
| Leader1: | Anna Bailey |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Last Election1: | 15 seats, 41.9% |
| Seats Before1: | 16 |
| Seats After1: | 15 |
| Leader2: | Lorna Dupré |
| Party2: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Last Election2: | 13 seats, 40.7% |
| Seats Before2: | 10 |
| Seats After2: | 13 |
| Leader3: | Sue Austen |
| Party3: | Independent politician |
| Last Election3: | 0 seats, 1.9% |
| Seats Before3: | 2 |
| Seats After3: | 0 |
| Map Size: | 255px |
| Leader | |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| Before Election: | Anna Bailey |
| Before Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| After Election: | Anna Bailey |
| After Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
The 2023 East Cambridgeshire District Council election took place on 4 May, 2023, to elect all 28 members of East Cambridgeshire District Council in Cambridgeshire, England. The Conservative Party retained control of the Council.
Prior to the election the council was under Conservative control. At the previous election in 2019 the Conservatives had won 15 seats and the Liberal Democrats had won 13 seats. A by-election and changes of allegiance between 2019 and 2022 meant that going into the election the Conservative held 16 seats and the Liberal Democrats 9 seats, with an independent group comprising two former Liberal Democrats. There was also one vacant seat.[1]
Following the results, the council remained under Conservative control; the overall result in seat numbers was the same as that of 2019, with the Conservatives taking 15 seats and the Liberal Democrats 13 seats.[2]
| Results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Change | |
| Conservative Party | 15 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | 13 | ||
The results for each ward were:[3] [4]
Seats recorded as Liberal Democrat holds for comparison with 2019, but two of the three councillors in this ward had subsequently left the party and formed an independent group in 2020. One of them, Sue Austen, stood for re-election as an independent but was unsuccessful.
Both seats are recorded as Conservative gains from Liberal Democrats to allow comparison with the 2019 result, but Mark Goldsack had earlier won his seat for the Conservatives in a by-election in 2021.
Lucius Vellacott was 18 on the date of his election, making him the youngest District Councillor in the United Kingdom at the time.[5]
Triggered by resignation of Liberal Democrat councillor Robert Pitt.