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Elections taking place in May 2025 in Cambridgeshire include choosing new county councillors




This year people across Cambridgeshire will be asked to head to the polls to cast their vote in local elections scheduled to take place on Thursday, May 1.

In 2025, every seat at Cambridgeshire County Council is up for election, after four years of being run by a coalition of Liberal Democrat and Labour, with some independent councillors.

The county council is responsible for providing services including adult and children’s social care, schools, maintaining roads, and running libraries.

This year people across Cambridgeshire will be asked to head to the polls to cast their vote in local elections scheduled to take place on Thursday, May 1.
This year people across Cambridgeshire will be asked to head to the polls to cast their vote in local elections scheduled to take place on Thursday, May 1.

The last full council elections in 2021 saw the Conservatives lose control of the county council.

At the time the group was still the largest party at the authority, but they failed to win an overall majority.

This led to the Liberal Democrats, Labour, and some independent councillors coming together to make a joint administration agreement to run the county council.

Resignations and by-elections have seen the make-up of the county council change since the last full council election.

Currently the Liberal Democrats are the largest group at the authority with 23 councillors, followed by the Conservatives with 21 councillors.

Labour has 10 councillors and there are two independent councillors, four non-aligned independent councillors, and one St Neots Independent councillor.

Whoever is elected to the county council this year could be the last councillors to be part of the authority.

Plans for local government reorganisation could see the county council, and other councils in the area, cease to exist and be replaced by a new unitary authority, or multiple authorities.

In May, people will also be asked to elect a new Mayor to head up the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.

The current Mayor, Dr Nik Johnson, has announced that he will not be standing for re-election.

There are also a few by-elections due to be held at Cambridge City Council and East Cambridgeshire District Council.

In Cambridge by-elections have been called in East Chesterton and West Chesterton following the resignations of former councillors Alice Gilderdale and Sam Carling.

A by-election has also been called in the Stretham district in East Cambridgeshire following the resignation of former councillor Caroline Shepherd.

People who have registered to vote will be sent a poll card confirming what elections they are being asked to vote in.

Anyone who has not yet registered to vote has until the end of Friday, April 11, to do so in order to be able to vote in this year’s local elections.

Voters will also be asked to show an accepted form of photo ID at the polling station before they will be issued with a ballot paper.

Anyone who does not have a photo ID can apply for a voter authority certificate, but will need to do so by 5pm on Wednesday, April 23 to vote in this year’s elections.



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