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]

Year	Conservative	UK Independence Party	Liberal Democrats	Independent	Labour	Green	Vacant	Notes
1973 [3]	16		0	25	9		0
1976 [3]	30		0	22	1		0	(New ward boundaries) [4]
1978 [3]	35		1	15	2		0
1979 [3]	24		3	7	6		0
1980 [3]	33		1	13	6		0
1982 [3]	32		2	12	7		0
1983 [3]	37		2	6	8		0
1984 [3]	36		7	3	7		0
1986 [3]	41		2	4	6		0
1987 [3]	44		1	1	5		0
1988 [3]	46		1	2	4		0
1990 [5]	42		3	2	6		0
1991 [6]	41		5	2	5		0	District boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same [7]
1992 [8]	42		7	1	3		0
1994 [9]	37	0	11	1	4		0
1995 [10]	31	0	14	1	7		0
1996 [11]	33	0	13	2	5		0
1998 [12]	34	0	14	2	3		0
1999 [13]	36	0	14	2	0		1
2000 [14]	37	0	13	3	0		0
2002 [15]	37	0	13	3	0		0
2003 [16]	36	0	14	3	0		0
2004 [2]	40	0	10	2	0		0	New ward boundaries [17]
2006 [18]	40	0	10	2	0		0
2007 [19]	39	0	11	2	0		0
2008 [20]	38	0	12	2	0		0
2010 [21]	37	2	12	1	0		0
2011 [22]	41	2	8	1	0		0
2012 [23]	39	3	7	2	1		0
2014 [24]	34	7	5	4	1		1
2015	35	6	4	4	2		0
2016	32	6	5	6	2		0
2018 [25]	30	0	7	11	4		0	Whole council elected
2022 [26]	22	0	10	15	4	1	0

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; ^[27] 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		The St Neots Independent Group
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

References

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27. "Local Authority Byelection Results". Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2014.

External links

• Huntingdonshire District Council