Cambridge Lib Dems won 8 seats out of 14 up for election. They welcomed 3 new Councillors in King's Hedges, Trumpington and Market, and a returning Councillor in East Chesterton.
Lib Dems won 10 out of the 14 wards up for election in May including making another gain in King's Hedges.
Liberal Democrats in Cambridge were re-elected comfortably in ten of the City Council seats that were up for re-election and made a historic gain in traditionally Labour King's Hedges.
The Conservatives lost their one City Councillor in Cherry Hinton to the Labour Party.
David Howarth won Cambridge for the Liberal Democrats with a majority in excess of 4,000. The result overturned Labour's majority of over 8,000 in an astonishing 15% swing from Labour to the Lib Dems. The Conservatives came third with a much reduced share of the result.
The full results in Cambridge were:
David Howarth, Liberal Democrat: 19,152 44% (+18.9% from 2001)
Anne Campbell, Labour: 14,813 34% (-11.1%)
Ian Lyon, Conservative: 7,193 16.5% (-6.4%)
Others: 2,411 5.5%
Turnout: 43,847 62% (+1%)
Lib Dems made gains and increased their support across Cambridgeshire, winning twenty-three seats across the County (a gain of six). Within Cambridge City, Lib Dems won ten of the fourteen wards contested. Petersfield, Arbury and Romsey wards gained their first ever Lib Dem County Councillors.
The Liberal Democrats gained two seats in the City Council elections, held on 9 June 2004, with both Labour and the Conservatives losing out. The Lib Dems now have 28 city councillors, Labour 13 and the Conservatives just one.
At the 2004 European Elections the Eastern Region returned Andrew Duff as a Liberal Democrat MEP. Our share of the vote increased by 2.1%. In Cambridge City we were the most popular party, receiving over a quarter of the vote. Labour were second with 21.3%.
European Elections - Eastern Region - June 2004
European Elections - Eastern Region - June 1999
Archive of Cambridge City and County election results
County Council Elections since 1973
Manifesto 2005 (County Council)
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