Cambridge City Council election, 2016

The 2016 Cambridge City Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Cambridge City Council in England. This was on the same day as other nationwide local elections. The Labour Party grouping gained two seats from the Liberal Democrats, increasing their majority on the council from 6 to 10 seats.

Cambridge City Council Election, 2015
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	26	2	0	+2	61.9	45.9	15,279	+11.4
	Liberal Democrat	13	1	2	-1	31.0	27.5	9,172	-0.1
	Conservative	0	0	1	-1	0	11.8	3,927	-5.7
	Green	1	0	0	0	2.4	10.0	3,335	-6.5
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	2.5	830	-1.3
	Independent	2	0	0	0	4.8	2.3	776	+2.1

Ward results

Abbey

Abbey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Leslie Johnson	1,235	61.3	+18.8
	Green	Monica Ursula Hone	292	14.5	-3.6
	Liberal Democrat	Nicky Shepard	266	13.2	-8.3
	Conservative	Angela Ozturk	222	11.0	-7.0
Turnout			2,015	31.9	-23.1
	Labour hold		Swing	13.6

Arbury

Arbury

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mike Todd-Jones	1,430	61.5	+22.4
	Conservative	James Andrew Strachan	282	12.1	-1.4
	Liberal Democrat	Timothy Derek Ward	368	15.8	-11.4
	Green	Stephen Roger Lawrence	245	10.5	-2.8
Turnout			2,325	37.4	-21.6
	Labour hold		Swing	16.9

Castle

Castle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Hipkin	776	37.9	-11.6†
	Labour	Patrick Sheil	562	27.5	+2.0
	Liberal Democrat	Mark Timothy Argent	388	19.0	-11.4
	Green	Alacia Natalie Gent	191	9.3	-12.1
	Conservative	Edward Alexander Macnaghten	129	6.3	-16.1
Turnout			2,046	35.7	-17.3
	Independent hold		Swing	-4.8

†on 2012 election.

Cherry Hinton

Cherry Hinton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Eric William Barrett-Payton
	Liberal Democrat	Jamie Dalzell
	Labour	Robert Paul Dryden
	UKIP	Richard Graham Jeffs
	Green	Caitlin Patterson
Turnout
	[[|N/A]] hold		Swing

Coleridge

Coleridge

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sam Barker
	Liberal Democrat	Raymundo Leysan Carlos
	Green	Virgil Au Wenhan Ierubino
	UKIP	Bill Kaminski
	Labour	Rosy Moore
Turnout
	[[|N/A]] hold		Swing

East Chesterton

East Chesterton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margery Betty Abbott
	UKIP	Peter Burkinshaw
	Conservative	Kevin Andre Francis
	Green	Jiameng Gao
	Liberal Democrat	Shahida Rahman
Turnout
	[[|N/A]] hold		Swing

King's Hedges

King's Hedges

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Dave Corn
	Green	Angela Kalinzi Ditchfield
	Labour	Nigel Gawthrope
	Conservative	Anette Karimi
	Liberal Democrat	Hugh Bernard Newsam
Turnout
	[[|N/A]] hold		Swing

Market

Market

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Tim Bick	777	38.5	+11.1
	Labour	Danielle Greene	717	35.5	+8.0
	Green	Stuart James Tuckwood	401	19.9	-7.8
	Conservative	Barney Baber	125	6.2	-11.3
Turnout
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Newnham

Newnham

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Julius Anthony Carrington
	Labour	Ewan McGaughey
	Liberal Democrat	Lucy Kathleen Nethsingha
	Green	Mark Slade
Turnout
	[[|N/A]] hold		Swing

Petersfield

Petersfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Catherine Claire Durance
	Green	Sharon Deep Kaur
	Liberal Democrat	Daniel Stephen Levy
	Labour	Richard Andrew Robertson
Turnout
	[[|N/A]] hold		Swing

Queen Edith's

Queen Edith's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Beresford
	Green	Joel Henry Chalfen
	Conservative	Manas Deb
	Liberal Democrat	Jennifer A Page-Croft
Turnout
	[[|N/A]] hold		Swing

Romsey

Romsey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sophie Alice Barnett
	Conservative	Roy Leonard Barton
	Green	Jane Heather Carpenter
	Liberal Democrat	Catherine Helen Lindsay Smart
Turnout
	[[|N/A]] hold		Swing

Trumpington

Trumpington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Donald Marshall Adey
	Green	Ceri Berbara Galloway
	Labour	Nick Gay
	Conservative	Shapour Meftah
Turnout
	[[|N/A]] hold		Swing

West Chesterton

West Chesterton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	John David Bachelor
	UKIP	Celia Margaret Conway
	Liberal Democrat	Nichola Jane Harrison
	Conservative	Simon Lee
	Labour	Mike Sargeant
Turnout
	[[|N/A]] hold		Swing