Labour Loses Four Seats in Cambridge Election Results, Peterborough Stays Hung
Cambridge election results left Peterborough City Council in no overall control after Labour lost four of the six seats it was defending. The party finished with 11 seats on the 60-seat council, while the Conservatives moved to 13 and became the largest group.
That left the balance of power split across several parties and independents. Eighteen seats were contested, turnout was 35.24%, and discussions were due to take place over how the authority would be run.
Peterborough Council Seats
Labour kept East ward and Central ward, but lost North ward, Dogsthorpe and Park ward to the Conservatives. It also lost Fletton and Woodston to the Green Party. The Conservatives gained three seats compared with before the election, while Reform UK gained four seats on the night and finished with five councillors.
The Greens finished with six councillors. The Liberal Democrats held eight seats, Peterborough First also held eight, and there were nine independents. Before the election, Labour had run the administration in coalition with the Liberal Democrats and Peterborough First, so the new numbers left no party able to govern alone.
Wayne Fitzgerald And Andrew Pakes
Conservative leader Wayne Fitzgerald said the party was “well and truly alive” in the city. He also said: “We're not dead. We're not going anywhere and the others need to watch out. They need to work hard because we're coming after the seats”.
Andrew Pakes, the Labour MP for Peterborough, said his party had “seen better nights” but was “still standing”. He added: “I'm really pleased that we come out of this as a group that's still standing.” Labour group leader Shabina Qayyum said a good night for the party would have been to defend three of the six seats, and it won two.
Bretton Seat Result
Reform UK’s John Robert Bolton won the Bretton seat from the Conservatives and called it “a reflection that the two parties that have led for over a hundred years have failed yet again”. With coalition talks ahead, the post-election arithmetic now rests on the parties that gained ground and the independents who hold nine seats.
