Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoral election, 2017

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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoral election, 2017
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4 May 20172021 →
Turnout 32.9%

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Candidate James Palmer Rod CantrillKevin Price
Party Conservative Liberal Democrat Labour
1st Round vote76,06447,02637,297
Percentage38.0%23.5%18.6%
2nd Round vote88,82667,205Eliminated
Percentage56.9%43.1%Eliminated
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CandidatePaul BullenJulie Howell
Party UKIP Green
1st Round vote15,93112,628
Percentage8.0%6.3%
2nd Round voteEliminatedEliminated
PercentageEliminatedEliminated
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Mayor before election

Position established

Elected Mayor

James Palmer
Conservative

The inaugural Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoral election was held on 4 May 2017 to elect the Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The supplementary vote system was used to elect the mayor for a four-year term of office. Subsequent elections will be held in May 2021 and every four years after.

The Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is a combined authority mayor, first elected in May 2017. The mayor is leader of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.

Contents

The mayor will lead the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority established in 2017 by the seven local councils in Cambridgeshire (Cambridgeshire County Council, Peterborough City Council, Cambridge City Council, East Cambridgeshire District Council, Fenland District Council, Huntingdonshire District Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council) as part of a devolution deal giving local government in the county additional powers and funding. [1]

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority combined authority covering the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire in the East of England

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority is a combined authority covering the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire in the East of England. The authority was established on 3 March 2017. The authority is led by the directly elected Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, with Conservative James Palmer winning the first elections in May 2017.

Cambridgeshire County Council British administrative body

Cambridgeshire County Council is the county council of Cambridgeshire, England. The council consists of 61 councillors, representing 59 electoral divisions. The Conservative Party took control of the council at the 2017 election after four years of no party having overall control. The council meets at Shire Hall in Cambridge. It is a member of the East of England Local Government Association.

Peterborough City Council council for Peterborough

Peterborough City Council is the local authority for Peterborough in the East of England. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. The City was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1874; from 1888, it fell within the jurisdiction of the Soke of Peterborough county council and from 1965, Huntingdon and Peterborough county council. In 1974, it was replaced by a wholly new non-metropolitan district, broadly corresponding to the Soke, in the new enlarged Cambridgeshire. In 1998, Peterborough became independent of Cambridgeshire as a unitary authority, but the city continues to form part of that county for ceremonial purposes as defined by the Lieutenancies Act 1997.

The mayoral election was on the same day as the Cambridgeshire County Council election being held across most of the county except Peterborough, which is administered separately as a unitary authority outside the area covered by the county council.

Unitary authorities of England top and only level of local government in some parts of England

Unitary authorities of England are local authorities that are responsible for the provision of all local government services within a district. They are constituted under the Local Government Act 1992, which amended the Local Government Act 1972 to allow the existence of counties that do not have multiple districts. They typically allow large towns to have separate local authorities from the less urbanised parts of their counties and provide a single authority for small counties where division into districts would be impractical. Unitary authorities do not cover all of England. Most were established during the 1990s and a further tranche were created in 2009. Unitary authorities have the powers and functions that are elsewhere separately administered by councils of non-metropolitan counties and the non-metropolitan districts within them.

Candidates

Area covered by the new mayor. Cambridgeshire UK locator map 2010.svg
Area covered by the new mayor.

Conservative Party

James Palmer, leader of East Cambridgeshire District Council, was selected to be the Conservative Party candidate at a general meeting of party members on 21 January 2017. [2] The shortlist for the selection process was announced on 14 January and consisted of three candidates: [3]

Conservative Party (UK) Political party in the United Kingdom

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. Presently led by Theresa May, it has been the governing party since 2010. It presently has 314 Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, 249 members of the House of Lords, and 18 members of the European Parliament. It also has 31 Members of the Scottish Parliament, 12 members of the Welsh Assembly, eight members of the London Assembly and 9,008 local councillors. One of the major parties of UK politics, it has formed the government on 45 occasions, more than any other party.

March, Cambridgeshire Town and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England

March is a Fenland market town and civil parish in the Isle of Ely area of Cambridgeshire, England. It was the county town of the Isle of Ely which was a separate administrative county from 1889 to 1965. It is now the administrative centre of Fenland District Council.

St Neots town in Cambridgeshire, England

St Neots is a town and civil parish in the non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire, England, within the historic county of Huntingdonshire, next to the Bedfordshire county border. It lies on the banks of the River Great Ouse in the Huntingdonshire District, 15 miles (24 km) west of Cambridge and 50 miles (80 km) north of central London. St Neots is the largest town in Cambridgeshire with a population of approximately 40,000 in 2014. The town is named after the Cornish monk Saint Neot, whose bones were subject to translation from the hamlet of St Neot on Bodmin Moor on consecration of the Priory of St Neots circa 980.

Eaton Socon village in the United Kingdom

Eaton Socon is a district of St Neots in Cambridgeshire, England. It was originally a village in Bedfordshire, along with the neighbouring village of Eaton Ford, but officially became part of the town in 1965. Eaton Socon changed relatively little until this time, but on its inclusion into Cambridgeshire a significant amount of development took place to the west of the village into the 1980s, with areas covering Monarch Road and the upper end of Nelson Road being developed in a particularly short space of time. The population of Eaton Socon is around 5000 people.

Heidi Allen, MP for South Cambridgeshire since 2015, declared an intention to seek the Conservative nomination [8] but was unsuccessful in reaching the final shortlist. [3] Marco Cereste, former leader of Peterborough City Council, also failed to make the shortlist. [9]

Heidi Allen British politician

Heidi Suzanne Allen is a British politician and MP. Previously a Conservative, she joined The Independent Group and renounced her membership of the Conservative Party on 20 February 2019 citing concerns over allowing the "hard-line anti-EU awkward squad" take over the party in a joint letter with Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston.

South Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency) Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom

South Cambridgeshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Heidi Allen since May 2015, originally a Conservative, but latterly a member of The Independent Group.

English Democrats

Stephen Goldspink, former Peterborough city councillor, was the English Democrats mayoral candidate. [10]

Green Party

Julie Howell, Orton parish councillor and co-leader of Peterborough Green Party, was announced as the Green Party candidate on 19 January 2017 after a vote by party members. [11]

Independent

Peter Dawe, former UKIP member and Ely-based social entrepreneur, stood as an independent candidate for mayor. [12] [13] On 25 January, Dawe announced he had chosen Peterborough-based entrepreneur Mark Ringer, founder and director of the Willow Festival, to be his unofficial running mate and deputy. [14]

Labour Party

Kevin Price, deputy leader of Cambridge City Council and councillor for King's Hedges, was declared the winner of the Labour Party selection process on 6 February 2017 [15] after defeating Fiona Onasanya, county councillor for King's Hedges, [16] in a ballot of party members.

Other candidates who did not make the shortlist but were reported in local media as contesting the Labour Party selection included Peterborough City councillors Ed Murphy and Ansar Ali, 2015 Huntingdon parliamentary candidate Nik Johnson, and vice-chairman of Huntingdon CLP Samuel Sweek. [17] [18]

Liberal Democrats

Rod Cantrill, councillor for Newnham, Cambridge City Council, was announced as the Liberal Democrat candidate on 14 January 2017 following a ballot of party members. [19]

United Kingdom Independence Party

Paul Bullen, councillor for St Ives and UKIP group leader, Cambridgeshire County Council, was confirmed as the party's candidate on 11 January 2017. [20] [21]

Results

Nominations for candidates wishing to stand in the election closed on 4 April 2017, after which the final list of candidates was published by East Cambridgeshire District Council. [22]

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mayoral Election 2017 [23]
PartyCandidate1st round2nd round
 First round votes  Transfer votes 
TotalOf roundTransfersTotalOf round
Conservative James Palmer76,06438.0%12,76288,82656.9%
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Liberal Democrat Rod Cantrill47,02623.5%20,17967,20543.1%
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Labour Kevin Price37,29718.6%
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UKIP Paul Bullen15,9318.0%
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Green Julie Howell12,6286.3%
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Independent Peter Dawe9,1764.6%
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English Democrat Stephen Goldspink2,2561.1%
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Turnout 200,37832.9%

Results by local authority

First and second preference votes were counted by local authority and published online by East Cambridgeshire District Council. [24]

First count results

PartyCandidateCambridgeEast CambsFenlandHuntingdonshirePeterboroughSouth CambsTotal
Conservative James Palmer5,3849,98010,51319,91412,62917,64476,064
Liberal Democrats Rod Cantrill13,2735,1741,4947,3953,10016,59047,026
Labour Kevin Price12,2222,4952,6024,6038,6146,76137,297
UKIP Paul Bullen9661,3362,7545,1113,3592,40515,931
Green Julie Howell3,0291,1568791,9823,0122,57012,628
Independent Peter Dawe1,2041,2889592,1401,2072,3789,176
English Democrats Stephen Goldspink1131205194248512292,256

Second count results

PartyCandidateCambridgeEast CambsFenlandHuntingdonshirePeterboroughSouth CambsTotal
TransfersTotalTransfersTotalTransfersTotalTransfersTotalTransfersTotalTransfersTotalTransfersTotal
Conservative James Palmer1,2436,6271,12511,1051,59912,1123,24623,1603,04015,6692,50920,15312,76288,826
Liberal Democrats Rod Cantrill6,68419,9571,7996,9731,0862,5802,99510,3902,5165,6165,09921,68920,17967,205

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