The 2025 Cambridgeshire County Council election took place as part of the 2025 local elections in the United Kingdom. All 61 councillors were elected from 59 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The election was held alongside the election of a Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The council was under no overall control prior to the election. The election saw the Liberal Democrats win a majority of the seats on the council for the first time.
Previous council composition
Prior to the election, the council was under no overall control, being run by a joint Liberal Democrat, Labour and independent administration, led by Lucy Nethsingha, a Liberal Democrat.
Changes 2021âÂÂ2025
- November 2022: Derek Giles (St Neots Independents) dies - by-election held February 2023
- January 2023: Douglas Dew (Conservative) joins Liberal Democrats
- February 2023: Geoffrey Seeff (Liberal Democrats) gains by-election from St Neots Independents
- March 2023: Hilary Cox Condron (Labour) and Dan Schumann (Conservative) resign - by-elections held May 2023
- April 2023: Josh Schumann (Conservative) leaves party to sit as an independent
- May 2023: Mike Black (Labour) and Bill Hunt (Conservative) win by-elections
- January 2024: Mac McGuire (Conservative) dies - by-election held March 2024; Ryan Fuller (Conservative) leaves party to sit as an independent
- February 2024: Jonas King (Conservative) and Keith Prentice (Conservative) leave party to sit as independents
- March 2024: Andrew Wood (Liberal Democrats) gains by-election from Conservatives
- May 2024: Keith Prentice (independent) joins Labour
- February 2025: Kevin Reynolds (Conservative) leaves party to sit as an independent
Summary
The Liberal Democrats won 31 of the 61 seats on the council, giving them an overall majority on the council for the first time.
Election result
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Results by division
Cambridge
Division results
East Cambridgeshire
Division results
Fenland
Division results
Huntingdonshire
Division results
Ten months after his election, Councillor Sanderson joined the Liberal Democrats.
Five months after his election, Councillor Watt left Reform to sit as an Independent. In January 2026, he joined Advance UK.
South Cambridgeshire
Division results
Notes
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