Huntingdonshire District Council elections

Huntingdonshire District Council in Cambridgeshire, England holds elections for all its councillors together every fourth year. Prior to changing to all-out elections in 2018, one third of the council was elected each year, followed by one year without an election. Since the last boundary changes in 2018, 52 councillors have been elected from 26 wards. ^[1]

Council elections

Summary of the council composition after recent council elections, click on the year for full details of each election. Boundary changes took place for the 2004 election reducing the number of seats by 1, leading to the whole council being elected in that year. ^[2]

Composition of the council ^[3]

Year	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats [a]	UKIP	Green [b]	Independents & Others	Council control after election
Local government reorganisation; council established (50 seats)
1973	16	9	0	–	–	25		No overall control
New ward boundaries (53 seats) [4]
1976	30	1	0	–	0	22		Conservative
1978	28	2	1	–	0	23		Conservative
1979	35	2	1	–	0	15		Conservative
1980	33	6	1	–	0	13		Conservative
1982	32	7	2	–	0	12		Conservative
1983	37	8	2	–	0	6		Conservative
1984	36	7	3	–	0	7		Conservative
1986	41	6	2	–	0	4		Conservative
1987	44	5	1	–	0	3		Conservative
1988	46	4	1	–	0	2		Conservative
1990	41	6	3	–	0	3		Conservative
1991 [5]	41	5	5	–	0	2		Conservative
1992	42	3	7	–	0	1		Conservative
1994	36	4	12	0	0	1		Conservative
1995	31	7	14	0	0	1		Conservative
1996	33	5	13	0	0	2		Conservative
1998	34	3	14	0	0	2		Conservative
1999	36	0	14	0	0	2		Conservative
2000	37	0	13	0	0	3		Conservative
2002	36	0	14	0	0	3		Conservative
2003	36	0	14	0	0	3		Conservative
New ward boundaries (52 seats) [6]
2004	40	0	10	0	0	2		Conservative
2006	39	0	11	0	0	2		Conservative
2007	39	0	11	0	0	2		Conservative
2008	38	0	12	0	0	2		Conservative
2010	37	0	12	2	0	1		Conservative
2011	41	0	8	2	0	1		Conservative
2012	39	1	7	3	0	2		Conservative
2014	35	1	5	7	0	4		Conservative
2015	36	2	4	6	0	4		Conservative
2016	34	2	6	6	0	4		Conservative
New ward boundaries (52 seats)
2018	30	4	7	0	0	11		Conservative
2022	22	4	10	0	1	15		No overall control

District result maps

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  2002 results map
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  2003 results map
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  2004 results map
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  2006 results map
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  2007 results map
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  2008 results map
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  2010 results map
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  2011 results map
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  2012 results map
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  2014 results map
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  2015 results map
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  2016 results map
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  2018 results map
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  2022 results map

By-election results

By-elections occur when seats become vacant between council elections. Below is a summary of recent by-elections; ^[7] full by-election results can be found by clicking on the by-election name.

By-election	Date	Incumbent party		Winning party
Farcet	21 August 1997		Conservative		Conservative
Brampton	6 November 1997		Conservative		Liberal Democrats
Eynesbury	2 April 1998		Liberal Democrats		Conservative
Gransden	10 December 1998		Conservative		Conservative
Huntingdon North	3 June 1999		Conservative		Conservative
Upwood and the Raveleys	8 March 2001		Conservative		Conservative
Eynesbury	7 June 2001		Conservative		Conservative
Farcet	7 June 2001		Conservative		Conservative
Gransden	7 June 2001		Conservative		Conservative
Eaton Socon	21 March 2002		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats
Hemingford Grey	19 September 2002		Conservative		Liberal Democrats
Little Paxton	5 May 2005		Conservative		Conservative
Earith	12 October 2006		Conservative		Conservative
St Neots Eaton	23 November 2006		Conservative		Conservative
Warboys and Bury	15 February 2007		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats
Ramsey	2 April 2009		Conservative		Conservative
Ramsey	23 July 2009		Liberal Democrats		UKIP
Huntingdon North	29 October 2009		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats
Fenstanton	25 February 2010		Conservative		Liberal Democrats
Earith	21 June 2012		Conservative		Conservative
Brampton	2 May 2013		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats
Warboys and Bury	7 August 2014		Conservative		Conservative
St Neots Priory Park	27 November 2014		Conservative		Conservative
Huntingdon East	10 December 2015		UKIP		Liberal Democrats
St Neots Eaton Ford	4 May 2017		Conservative		St Neots Independents
Godmanchester & Hemingford Abbots	2 August 2019		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats
Alconbury	12 December 2019		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats
St Ives East	13 February 2020		Conservative		Conservative
Huntingdon North	6 May 2021		Labour		Labour
St Ives East	6 May 2021		Conservative		Conservative
St Ives South	6 May 2021		Conservative		Conservative
Warboys	6 May 2021		Conservative		Conservative
St Neots East	8 July 2021		Labour		Independent
Huntingdon East	4 November 2021		Liberal Democrats		Liberal Democrats
Great Paxton	2 May 2024		Conservative		Liberal Democrats
St Neots Eatons	19 September 2024		Conservative		Independent

Notes

1. Includes totals for the predecessors of the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party and SDP (both of which participated in the Alliance).
2. Includes totals for the predecessors of the Green Party of England and Wales, the Ecology Party and Green Party UK.

References

1. "The Huntingdonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2017, Statutory Instrument 2017 No. 480". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
2. "Huntingdonshire council". BBC News Online. 12 June 2004. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
3. "Composition calculator". Colin Rallings & Michael Thrasher . The Elections Centre, Plymouth University . Retrieved 14 May 2025.
4. legislation.gov.uk - The District of Huntingdon (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976. Retrieved on 19 November 2015.
5. legislation.gov.uk - The Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire (County Boundaries) Order 1991. Retrieved on 5 November 2015.
6. legislation.gov.uk - The District of Huntingdonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2002. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
7. "Local Authority Byelection Results". Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2014.

External links

• Huntingdonshire District Council