The 2018 Cambridge City Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Cambridge City Council in England. This was on the same day as other nationwide local elections.

2018 Cambridge City Council election

← 2016

3 May 2018

2019 →

16:
22 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Party	Labour	Liberal Democrats
Seat change
Swing

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Independent	Green
Seats won	0	0
Seats after		0
Seat change
Swing

Results summary

2018 Cambridge City Council election
Party		This election			Full council			This election
Party		Seats	Net	Seats %	Other	Total	Total %	Votes	Votes %	+/−
	Labour	10	1	66.7	17	27	64.3	17,086	46.4	+0.5
	Liberal Democrats	5		33.3	8	13	31.0	11,736	31.9	+4.4
	Green	0		0.0	1	1	2.4	3,206	8.7	-1.3
	Independent	0	1	0.0	1	1	2.4	0	0.0	-2.3
	Conservative	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	4,681	12.7	+0.9
	UKIP	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	93	0.3	-2.2
	Libertarian	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	26	0.1	New

Ward results

Abbey

Abbey
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Nicky Massey	1,283	57.0	-4.3
	Liberal Democrats	Nicky Shepard	466	20.7	+7.5
	Conservative	David Philip Smith	263	11.7	+0.7
	Green	Naomi Anne Bennett	240	10.6	-3.9
Turnout			2,252
	Labour hold		Swing

Arbury

Arbury
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patrick Sheil	1,250	51.8	-9.7
	Liberal Democrats	Tim Ward	595	24.6	+8.8
	Conservative	Dylan Coll-Reed	351	14.5	+2.4
	Green	Stephen Roger Lawrence	219	9.1	-1.4
Turnout			2,415
	Labour hold		Swing

Castle

Castle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Cheney-Anne Payne	957	40.8	+21.8
	Labour	Mark Reader	932	39.8	+12.3
	Conservative	Othman Bankole Cole	245	10.5	+4.2
	Green	Lucas Ruzowitzky	184	7.8	-1.5
	Libertarian	Aidan Christopher Ulrich Powlesland	26	1.1	New
Turnout
	Liberal Democrats gain from Independent		Swing

Cherry Hinton

Cherry Hinton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Russ McPherson	1,282	56.8	-4.0
	Conservative	Eric William Barrett-Payton	441	19.5	+3.3
	Liberal Democrats	John Louis Oakes	364	16.1	+6.8
	Green	Jenny Richens	171	7.6	+1.3
Turnout			2,258
	Labour hold		Swing

Coleridge

Coleridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lewis Herbert	1,303	55.9	-4.4
	Liberal Democrats	Lindsey Noah Tate	410	17.6	+7.6
	Conservative	Donald Fisher Douglas	388	16.7	+1.9
	Green	Sarah Louise Nicmanis	228	9.8	+1.8
Turnout			2,329
	Labour hold		Swing

East Chesterton

East Chesterton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Carla Louise McQueen	1,362	50.5	+8.9
	Labour	Baijumon Thittalayil Varkey	1,107	41.1	-0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Owen Stewart Dunn	830	30.8	-3.4
	Liberal Democrats	Shahida Rahman	811	30.1	-4.1
	Green	Gareth Peter Bailey	345	12.8	+6.1
	Conservative	Thomas Hedley Fairfax Harwood	336	12.5	+2.6
	Conservative	Timur Coskun	299	11.1	+1.2
	UKIP	Peter Burkinshaw	93	3.5	-4.1
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Two seats were up due to the resignation of Margery Abbott (Labour, elected 2016) ^[1]

King's Hedges

King's Hedges
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Martin Smart	924	51.7	-2.8
	Liberal Democrats	Daniele Josephine Gibney	397	22.2	+8.5
	Conservative	Anette Karimi	302	16.9	+5.1
	Green	Angela Ditchfield	165	9.2	+0.8
Turnout			1,788
	Labour hold		Swing

Market

Market
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony William Martinelli	866	43.5	+5.0
	Labour	Dan Ratcliffe	744	37.3	+1.8
	Green	Jeremy Lloyd Caddick	229	11.5	-8.4
	Conservative	Henry James Mitson	153	7.7	+1.5
Turnout			1,992
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

Newnham

Newnham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Rod Cantrill	1,139	49.7	+6.5
	Labour	Michael Davey	825	36.0	-0.2
	Conservative	Connor Gregory George MacDonald	165	7.2	-3.6
	Green	Mark Slade	164	7.2	-2.7
Turnout			2,293
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Petersfield

Petersfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ann Marie Sinnott	1,256	58.3	-3.1
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Brown	432	20.0	+7.0
	Green	Virgil Au Wenhan Ierubino	278	12.9	-2.2
	Conservative	Simon Lee	189	8.8	-1.6
Turnout			2,155
	Labour hold		Swing

Queen Edith's

Queen Edith's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Colin Stephen McGerty	1,259	44.2	+1.2
	Labour	Dan Greef	827	29.0	±0.0
	Conservative	Manas Deb	543	19.1	-0.6
	Green	Joel Chalfen	218	7.7	-0.7
Turnout			2,847
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Romsey

Romsey
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dave Baigent	1,461	59.3	+9.6
	Liberal Democrats	Joshua Guy Blanchard Lewis	563	22.9	-12.9
	Green	Caitlin Ruth Patterson	269	10.9	+1.3
	Conservative	Martin Keegan	170	6.9	+2.0
Turnout			2,463
	Labour hold		Swing

Trumpington

Trumpington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Katie Thornburrow	1,302	37.7	+12.0
	Liberal Democrats	Dan Hilken	1,298	37.6	-3.7
	Conservative	Philip James Salway	561	16.2	-6.4
	Green	Ceri Barbara Galloway	293	8.5	-1.9
Turnout			3,454
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

West Chesterton

West Chesterton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Jamie Dalzell	1,349	44.2	+6.1
	Labour	Clare Frances King	1,228	40.2	-6.5
	Conservative	Michael John Harford	275	9.0	+3.0
	Green	Shayne Mary Mitchell	203	6.6	+0.1
Turnout			3,055
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

References

^ "Elections 2018: this is who you can vote for in Cambridge - Cambridgeshire Live".

v t e (2017 ←) 2018 United Kingdom local elections (→ 2019)
London boroughs	Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster
Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
Unitary authorities (England)	Blackburn with Darwen Derby Halton Hartlepool Kingston upon Hull Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Slough Southampton Southend-on-Sea Swindon Thurrock Warrington Wokingham
District councils (England)	Adur Amber Valley Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Brentwood Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Carlisle Castle Point Cheltenham Cherwell Chorley Colchester Craven Crawley Daventry Eastleigh Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Fareham Gosport Great Yarmouth Harlow Harrogate Hart Hastings Havant Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Lincoln Maidstone Mole Valley Newcastle-under-Lyme North Hertfordshire Norwich Nuneaton and Bedworth Oxford Pendle Preston Redditch Reigate and Banstead Rochford Rossendale Rugby Runnymede Rushmoor South Cambridgeshire South Lakeland St Albans Stevenage Tamworth Tandridge Three Rivers Tunbridge Wells Watford Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire West Oxfordshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing Wyre Forest
Mayoral elections	Hackney Lewisham Newham Sheffield City Region Tower Hamlets Watford

v t e Council elections in Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021
Peterborough City Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2001 2002 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
Cambridge City Council	1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
East Cambridgeshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Fenland District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Huntingdonshire District Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2022
South Cambridgeshire District Council	1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2022
Isle of Ely County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964
Huntingdon & Peterborough County Council	1967 1970 Abolished
Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough	2017 2021
See also: Wards Boundary changes