King's Hedges Election Results

Well now the election results across most of the Country are known it's been pretty clear that the Liberal Democrats haven't had a good night, the fact that the Conservatives haven't had a good night either isn't really that much of a consolation.

Here in Cambridge City we lost several good Councillors including my ward colleague Cllr Neil McGovern who was part of the Cambridge City Executive and who has worked very hard for King's Hedges residents but unfortunately it wasn't enough to turn back the Labour Tide.

The full results for the City elections are available on the City Councils website here. From the website;

"Before the elections, the composition of the 42 seats on the council was 25 Liberal Democrats, 14 Labour, 2 Green and 1 Independent. 


Labour gained four seats and the Conservatives gained one, while the Liberal Democrat party lost four seats and the Green party lost one. 


A Green councillor announced on election day that he was switching his allegiance to the Labour party, so after the elections the composition of the council was 21 Liberal Democrats, 19 Labour, 1 Conservative and 1 Independent."

The result in King's Hedges was;

• Gawthrope, Nigel Peter (Labour) - ELECTED 827
• Karimi, Arnette (Conservative) 199
• McGovern, Neil Michael (Liberal Democrat) 576
• Tyes, Ian (United People's Party) 105

Here is a quick diagram showing how the vote was shared out;

King's Hedges Share of Vote

Phil Rodgers has done an excellent visualisation of the last two elections on his blog (available here) which shows that both the Liberal Democrat and Labour share of the vote have increased over last year at the expense of the Conservatives but that the Labour share of the vote has increased both by more and from a higher base.

Congratulations to Nigel on his election victory, I look forward to meeting him at the next North Area Committee meeting.