Date published: 2007/05/04
The Cambridge local election results were fairly boring. Indeed, only 35% of the electorate even bothered to vote. There was no change in the composition of the council, with the Lib Dems having 29 seats and Labour 13. The Conservatives got 25% of the vote (but no seats), just behind Labour on 27%, with the Lib Dems on 33%, while the Greens managed 13%. (The academic middle class is alive and well in Cambridge.) A couple of the contests were close. The Lib Dems won Arbury by just 12 votes and Kings Hedges by just 18 votes, over Labour. If this is the best the Lib Dems can do when Labour is floundering in the polls then it seems they have probably peaked in Cambridge and will in the next couple of years start to head downhill.
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