Cambridge

[batman]

I propose to do a profile of this constituency. Peter did a new profile of the constituency after I had my original one deleted, but unless you particularly want to do one this will be my next. Perhaps Southall (NOT Suth-el!) after that.

[batman]

edited following the general election result.



CAMBRIDGE



This constituency is tightly drawn within the city of Cambridge but since 1983 has not included quite all of its council wards. Of course, like its rival Oxford, Cambridge is known the world over for its ancient university, which is now over 800 years old. The university plays a major role in the city in terms of employment and general economy, and unlike Oxford there is not a major manufacturing employer, with the university and its colleges providing a large number of jobs. The city has also, not unconnected with the university, a number of science parks on its outskirts providing a good deal of employment for workers both within and outside the city boundaries. There are also other students, particularly in Anglia Ruskin University which has a campus here. The total of students in the city numbers many thousands, meaning that out of term time the city is noticeably quieter. In term time however the city centre gets very busy indeed, and a congestion charge has been introduced. The division between what is so often nicknamed town and gown is clear, and does impact on election results in some parts of the city. Indeed, there are signs that the dichotomy is on the increase, with the congestion charge a major issue in some wards, it seems, although the effect of this peaked in the 2023 elections, going into noticeable decline in 2024's. As a constituency, Cambridge for many years could be characterised as a Conservative-leaning marginal, generally only winnable for Labour in landslide conditions. A combination of the weakening of the Conservative vote amongst what might be termed "intellectual" voters - this would include both students and academics, but would be broader than just those two categories - and boundary changes has changed this, and Cambridge has developed into a constituency where the Tories are generally no longer competitive, with instead Labour and the Liberal Democrats fighting it out. Currently, the constituency has a healthy Labour majority, although the latest boundary change removed a ward where Labour have always been stronger than the Lib Dems, the partly-villagey and partly-outer-suburban Cherry Hinton in the south-east of the city; on the constituency's old boundaries, Labour's majority would have been slightly higher still. The other city ward not included in the constituency is Queen Edith's to the west of Cherry Hinton, which has not been included since 1983, generally to the detriment of the Lib Dems (and in years past the Tories) and to the benefit of Labour who have only managed to win that ward once ever.



Cambridge University, as opposed to Anglia Ruskin, is not of course a campus university, which can sometimes confuse the less well-informed amongst the foreign tourists, of whom there are usually many. It is instead, like Oxford and indeed London, composed of a good number of constituent colleges, some ancient, others like Robinson much more recent altogether. Some of the colleges are arranged prettily along the banks of the River Cam, often including historic and beautiful buildings; there are plenty of exceptions to this arrangement though, for example Churchill, New Hall, Newnham and Selwyn which are outside the city centre. Others lie in and around the city centre, and have historic buildings of various vintages, but away from the river, such as Sidney Sussex, Pembroke and Emmanuel. As a result, Cambridge has 3 collegiate wards which contain a significant proportion of students at the university's colleges, Market, Newnham and Castle. None of these wards is quite as heavily student-dominated as the two city centre wards of Oxford. Newnham has the highest proportion but it does have a residential non-college minority, generally pretty prosperous. The other two have larger non-college elements with both Castle and Market having networks of terraced streets, although Castle has owner-occupied streets of semis too. Market's terraces are closer in towards the centre and are more expensive than most terraced houses in the city; they tend to attract the intelligentsia rather than more routine workers. These three wards have had quite a long history of electing Liberal, then Liberal Democrat councillors, a habit which took Newnham a little longer to acquire but not much. All of them can occasionally be won by Labour but it is rare for the party to pick up more than one of them at a time. In the May 2023 local elections, the Liberal Democrats held Market, Labour and the Lib Dems shared the spoils in Castle where two seats were up for election, and most unusually neither won in Newnham, which went to the Green Party. The Greens are a significant presence in some but not many Cambridge wards; for a long time, their strongest ward, perhaps surprisingly, has been Abbey which is a heavily council-estate ward to the east of the city and has one of the lowest student populations of any ward therein. Perhaps the best residential areas in these 3 wards are to be found in Newnham, which has some fine houses, no doubt many of which are occupied by academics and other so-called "intellectual" voters, though Market including as it does the city centre does have some fine properties too.



Three further wards lie not far from the city centre, but have fewer Cambridge University students. One of these, Trumpington, while it reaches fairly close to the city centre, stretches a good deal further south from there to take in the actual village of Trumpington, which is a favoured residential area as are some of the roads more immediately to its north. The others are entirely urban wards, Petersfield and West Chesterton, the latter of which has a more suburban character than the former. All of these wards have in the past elected Conservative councillors, though Petersfield has only been able to do so in outstandingly bad Labour years. Trumpington and West Chesterton were in the past Conservative strongholds, with their generally high-quality owner-occupied detached and semi-detached homes, although the northern end of Trumpington ward, closest in towards the colleges and the city centre, is much more heterogeneous with much more modest terraced streets, rather similar in character to those found in Petersfield ward; this element of the ward, however, has been reduced in the last ward boundary changes. The Tories were still able to win Trumpington ward until the fairly recent past, and they still have a coherent vote there, but they have been overtaken by both Labour and the Lib Dems now, the latter generally prevailing. West Chesterton, which lies on the northern bank of the River Cam, anecdotally has a strong population of academics, but that must be true of Trumpington ward too. Petersfield ward is in contrast heavily dominated by terraced streets of somewhat varying degrees of desirability. Anglia Ruskin University's campus lies close to the boundary of Petersfield and Market wards. There is a fair proportion of both students and academics living in these terraces, but plenty of workers in more routine jobs too. Petersfield has been generally reliable for Labour for decades, with only very sporadic Lib Dem wins interrupting their tenure. Currently, Labour enjoys a strong lead in the ward. The Tories stopped winning in West Chesterton a long while ago, and for a long time the ward was dominated by the Lib Dems. However, Labour has caught up, and in recent years has tended to shade them out although narrowly. Much of its housing is of good quality, including some graceful and pleasant older semis. Labour has won the ward in both the 2022 and 2023 elections, and even in the party's weak year of 2021 was able, in the all-out city elections on slightly altered ward boundaries, to share it with their Lib Dem foes. These 3 wards in a general election, taken together, would generally see something of a Labour lead over the Lib Dems, though not usually a large one.



The other half of the constituency is formed by the outlying non-collegiate wards, most of which have a working class social composition, the main exception to this being East Chesterton in the far north-east of the city. The only other one with a notable Conservative heritage is Coleridge, but it is a long while since any Tories managed to win there; Labour defeats have been rare in the ward since the early 1980s. The other 4 wards completing the constituency after the current boundary change, Abbey, King's Hedges, Arbury and Romsey, are all wards where Labour would generally expect to prevail strongly over both Liberal Democrat and Conservative challenges in general elections, although King's Hedges has departed from this in very recent times. To take Abbey first; this ward lies in the east of the city south of the River Cam, and contains the Cambridge United football ground. (Cambridge shares the distinction with Oxford and Manchester of having both City and United football teams, with Cambridge City being the smaller and less successful of the two - in fact its new ground lies outside the city boundaries.) Abbey is very definitely a council estate ward, and so few are its owner-occupied streets that half a century ago it often did not even see Conservative candidates, its elections being an unequal struggle between victorious Labour and defeated Communist candidates. The Greens' fairly prolonged strength in the ward is not really seen in any other outer ward and is not that easily explained, but it is far from the only working-class council estate ward where the Greens have been successful in England in recent years. In general elections, Abbey ward undoubtedly sees Labour well ahead of its Lib Dem and Conservative opponents. King's Hedges is the next most council-estate-dominated of these 4 wards. For a long time Labour enjoyed strong leads here, although with a brief period when they were effectively challenged by the Lib Dems, unlike in Abbey (this is also true of neighbouring Arbury). This strong lead screeched to a halt in the May 2023 elections, when the Conservatives exploited the local unpopularity of the congestion charge to come close to beating Labour out of nowhere, and they were able to complete their victory in a subsequent by-election caused by the resignation of the Labour deputy leader of the council (she resigned from the Party altogether, too; however, Labour resumed its winning ways, though not particularly convincingly, in the 2024 council elections). This Tory surge was not completely isolated, as the Conservative share rose in many wards of the city, and they were also close to winning in Cherry Hinton, also an outer ward with a strong council estate element, although also one which has a strong owner-occupied element and a fair Conservative heritage. The Tories however were much further behind, not just in Abbey which was won by the Greens in 2023 after a period of Labour tenure, but also in Arbury and Romsey. Arbury, in the north of the city next to King's Hedges, is a mostly council estate ward, but has a stronger owner-occupied element than the latter, and has historically seen more worthwhile Conservative challenges than in King's Hedges, too. In the 2023 elections, the Conservatives re-emerged as the clear challengers to Labour, but were well behind. It remains to be seen whether the Conservatives can build on their victory in King's Hedges; if so, Arbury might be the most logical place for that to happen. Romsey, in the south-east of the city like Coleridge, is different. It does have its council-built dwellings, but is more readily associated with privately-built terraced housing, mostly of a modest nature. In days gone by some of these houses would have been occupied by railway workers, and perhaps a few of them still are. The Lib Dems frustated Labour for quite a few years, but in recent years Labour has rediscovered winning ways in what is a traditional stronghold for them, and the Lib Dems' vote has dropped like a stone here with Labour now well ahead at all levels. Romsey has some similarities to Coleridge, but the latter has a larger semi-detached owner-occupied element. Coleridge was once regularly won by the Tories, but politically it has been long dominated by Labour now. The ward has a somewhat bigger intelligentsia population than some of the other outer wards, and the Greens have recently emerged as a worthwhile challenger to Labour; what one could arguably term the increasingly evenly-split left-wing vote (though Labour remains ahead) has given the Conservatives the faint hope of coming through the middle, as their vote has not by any means disappeared altogether here. Finally we come to East Chesterton, another socially mixed ward which has had long periods of marginality. The Tories used to win regularly here with Labour sometimes agonizingly closely beaten, but the Tories really struggle here now, which comes as a bit of a surprise as its more middle-class residents are not the sort of voters who have in recent years been as sceptical of the Tories as they are in many cities; it really is an outer suburb with only loose links to the universities. Instead, the ward is now fought out between the Liberal Democrats and Labour, with the latter usually successful.



The partial Conservative revival in the city at one point seemed to have the potential to make the overall constituency result quite interesting. However, that revival showed signs of stalling even in the 2024 local elections, and was not seen in the general election result, which was more lopsided than many expected. Although the Labour share of the vote was fractionally down, that of the Liberal Democrats was down by more than 10%, as instead the Greens surged mostly at their expense, amongst a quite significant cross-section of voters of several kinds, not just students or "intellectuals". This left Labour with a commanding majority and the seat does not look to be a particularly enticing prospect at parliamentary level for the Liberal Democrats as some thought it had the potential to be. Daniel Zeichner, who was first elected when he narrowly gained this seat from the rather popular incumbent Julian Huppert of the Liberal Democrats in 2015, has gained ministerial office in the Labour government as Minister of State for Food Security and Rural Affairs, but he will pass the age of 70 during this parliament if it runs for anything like its expected course, and this rather safe-looking seat will undoubedly receive plenty of Labour applicants if he does decide to retire at the next election.

[Deleted]

Jul 18, 2023 8:36:21 GMT batman said:

CAMBRIDGE

This constituency is tightly drawn within the city of Cambridge but since 1983 has not included quite all of its council wards. Of course, like its rival Oxford, Cambridge is known the world over for its ancient university, which is now over 800 years old. The university plays a major role in the city in terms of employment and general economy, and unlike Oxford there is not a major manufacturing employer, with the university and its colleges providing a large number of jobs. The city has also, not unconnected with the university, a number of science parks on its outskirts  providing a good deal of employment for workers both within and outside the city boundaries. There are also other students, particularly in Anglia Ruskin University which has a campus here. The total of students in the city numbers many thousands, meaning that out of term time the city is noticeably quieter. In term time however the city centre gets very busy indeed, and a congestion charge has been introduced. The division between what is so often nicknamed town and gown is clear, and does impact on election results in some parts of the city. Indeed, there are signs that the dichotomy is on the increase, with the congestion charge a major issue in some wards, it seems. As a constituency, Cambridge for many years could be characterised as a Conservative-leaning marginal, generally only winnable for Labour in landslide conditions. A combination of the weakening of the Conservative vote amongst what might be termed "intellectual" voters - this would include both students and academics, but would be broader than just those two categories - and boundary changes has changed this, and Cambridge has developed into a constituency where the Tories are generally no longer competitive, with instead Labour and the Liberal Democrats fighting it out. Currently, the constituency has a healthy-looking Labour majority, although this is slightly reduced with the latest boundary change that removes a ward where Labour have always been stronger than the Lib Dems, the partly-villagey and partly-outer-suburban Cherry Hinton in the south-east of the city. The other city ward not included in the constituency is Queen Edith's to the west of Cherry Hinton, which has not been included since 1983, generally to the detriment of the Lib Dems (and in years past the Tories) and to the benefit of Labour who have only managed to win that ward once ever.

Cambridge University, as opposed to Anglia Ruskin, is not of course a campus university, which can sometimes confuse the less well-informed amongst the foreign tourists, of whom there are usually many. It is instead, like Oxford and indeed London, composed of a good number of constituent colleges, some ancient, some like Robinson much more recent altogether. Some of the colleges are arranged prettily along the banks of the River Cam, and some of their buildings are historic and beautiful; there are plenty of exceptions to this arrangement though, for example Churchill, New Hall, Newnham and Selwyn which are outside the city centre. Some lie in and around the city centre, and have historic buildings of various vintages, but away from the river, such as Sidney Sussex, Pembroke and Emmanuel. As a result, Cambridge has 3 collegiate wards which contain a significant proportion of students at the university's colleges, Market, Newnham and Castle. None of these wards is quite as heavily student-dominated as the two city centre wards of Oxford. Newnham has the highest proportion but it does have a residential non-college minority, generally pretty prosperous. The other two have larger non-college elements with both Castle and Market having networks of terraced streets, although Castle has owner-occupied streets of semis too. Market's terraces are closer in towards the centre and are more expensive than most terraced houses in the city; they tend to attract the intelligentsia rather than more routine workers. These three wards have had quite a long history of electing Liberal, then Liberal Democrat councillors, a habit which took Newnham a little longer to acquire but not much. All of them can occasionally be won by Labour but it is rare for the party to pick up more than one of them at a time. In the May 2023 local elections, the Liberal Democrats held Market, Labour and the Lib Dems shared the spoils in Castle where two seats were up for election, and most unusually neither won in Newnham, which went to the Green Party. The Greens are a significant presence in some but not many Cambridge wards; for a long time, their strongest ward, perhaps surprisingly, has been Abbey which is a heavily council-estate ward to the east of the city and has one of the lowest student populations of any ward therein. Perhaps the best residential areas in these 3 wards are to be found in Newnham, which has some fine houses, no doubt many of which are occupied by academics and other so-called "intellectual" voters, though Market including as it does the city centre does have some fine properties too.

Three further wards lie not far from the city centre, but have fewer Cambridge University students. One of these, Trumpington, while it reaches very close to the city centre close to the Fitzwilliam Museum, stretches a good deal further south from there to take in the actual village of Trumpington, which is a favoured residential area as are some of the roads more immediately to its north. The others are entirely urban wards, Petersfield and West Chesterton, the latter of which has a more suburban character than the former. All of these wards have in the past elected Conservative councillors, though Petersfield has only been able to do so in outstandingly bad Labour years. Trumpington and West Chesterton were in the past Conservative strongholds, with their generally high-quality owner-occupied detached and semi-detached homes, although the northern end of Trumpington ward, closest in towards the colleges and the city centre, is much more heterogeneous with much more modest terraced streets, rather similar in character to those found in Petersfield ward. The Tories were still able to win Trumpington ward until the fairly recent past, and they still have a coherent vote there, but they have been overtaken by both Labour and the Lib Dems now, the latter generally prevailing. West Chesterton, which lies on the northern bank of the River Cam, anecdotally has a strong population of academics, but that must be true of Trumpington ward too. Petersfield ward is in contrast heavily dominated by terraced streets of somewhat varying degrees of desirability. Anglia Ruskin University's campus lies close to the boundary of Petersfield and Market wards. There is a fair proportion of both students and academics living in these terraces, but plenty of workers in more routine jobs too. Petersfield has been generally reliable for Labour for decades, with only very sporadic Lib Dem wins interrupting their tenure. Currently, Labour enjoys a strong lead in the ward. The Tories stopped winning in West Chesterton a long while ago, and for a long time the ward was dominated by the Lib Dems. However, Labour has caught up, and in recent years has tended to shade them out although narrowly. Labour has won the ward in both the 2022 and 2023 elections, and even in the party's weak year of 2021 was able, in the all-out city elections on slightly altered ward boundaries, to share it with their Lib Dem foes. These 3 wards in a general election, taken together, would generally see something of a Labour lead over the Lib Dems, though not usually a large one.

The other half of the constituency is formed by the outlying non-collegiate wards, most of which have a working class social composition, the main exception to this being East Chesterton in the far north-east of the city. The only other one with a notable Conservative heritage is Coleridge, but it is a long while since any Tories managed to win there; Labour defeats have been rare in the ward since their breakthrough in the 1980 city elections (when the Tories held Coleridge in the 1981 county council elections, it had different boundaries from the city council ward, a distinction which also applied to Newnham ward which was very narrowly won by the Tories that year). The other 4 wards completing the constituency after the current boundary change, Abbey, King's Hedges, Arbury and Romsey, are all wards where Labour would generally expect to prevail strongly over both Liberal Democrat and Conservative challenges in general elections, although King's Hedges has departed from this in very recent times. To take Abbey first; this ward lies in the east of the city south of the River Cam, and contains the Cambridge United football ground. (Cambridge shares the distinction with Oxford and Manchester of having both City and United football teams, with Cambridge City being the smaller and less successful of the two - in fact its new ground lies outside the city boundaries.) Abbey is very definitely a council estate ward, and so few are its owner-occupied streets that half a century ago it often did not even see Conservative candidates, its elections being an unequal struggle between victorious Labour and defeated Communist candidates. The Greens' fairly prolonged strength in the ward is not really seen in any other outer ward and is not that easily explained, but it is far from the only working-class council estate ward where the Greens have been successful in England in recent years. In general elections, Abbey ward undoubtedly sees Labour well ahead of its Lib Dem and Conservative opponents. King's Hedges is the next most council-estate-dominated of these 4 wards. For a long time Labour enjoyed strong leads here, although with a brief period when they were effectively challenged by the Lib Dems, unlike in Abbey (this is also true of neighbouring Arbury). This strong lead screeched to a halt in the May 2023 elections, when the Conservatives exploited the local unpopularity of the congestion charge to come close to beating Labour out of nowhere, and they were able to complete their victory in a subsequent by-election caused by the resignation of the Labour deputy leader of the council (she resigned from the Party altogether, too). This was not completely isolated, as the Conservative share rose in many wards of the city, and they were also close to winning in Cherry Hinton, also an outer ward with a strong council estate element, although also one which has a strong owner-occupied element and a fair Conservative heritage. The Tories may regret the excision of Cherry Hinton ward in the boundary changes, as it weakens their renewed challenge in the constituency. The Tories however were much further behind, not just in Abbey which was won by the Greens in 2023 after a period of Labour tenure, but also in Arbury and Romsey. Arbury, in the north of the city next to King's Hedges, is a mostly council estate ward, but has a stronger owner-occupied element than the latter, and has historically seen more worthwhile Conservative challenges than in King's Hedges, too. In this year's elections, the Conservatives re-emerged as the clear challengers to Labour, but were well behind. It remains to be seen whether the Conservatives can build on their victory in King's Hedges; if so, Arbury might be the most logical place for that to happen. Romsey, in the south-east of the city like Coleridge, is different. It does have its council-built dwellings, but is more readily associated with privately-built terraced housing, mostly of a modest nature. In days gone by some of these houses would have been occupied by railway workers, and perhaps a few of them still are. The Lib Dems frustated Labour for quite a few years, but in recent years Labour has rediscovered winning ways in what is a traditional stronghold for them, and the Lib Dems' vote has dropped like a stone here with Labour now well ahead at all levels. Romsey has some similarities to Coleridge, but the latter has a larger semi-detached owner-occupied element. Coleridge was once regularly won by the Tories, but politically it has been long dominated by Labour now. The ward has a somewhat bigger intelligentsia population than some of the other outer wards, and the Greens have recently emerged as a worthwhile challenger to Labour; what one could arguably term the increasingly evenly-split left-wing vote (though Labour remains ahead) has given the Conservatives the faint hope of coming through the middle, as their vote has not by any means disappeared altogether here. Finally we come to East Chesterton, another socially mixed ward which has had long periods of marginality. The Tories used to win regularly here with Labour sometimes agonizingly closely beaten, but the Tories really struggle here now, which comes as a bit of a surprise as its more middle-class residents are not the sort of voters who have in recent years been as sceptical of the Tories as they are in many cities; it really is an outer suburb with only loose links to the universities. Instead, the ward is now fought out between the Liberal Democrats and Labour, with the latter usually successful.

The Conservative revival in the city potentially makes this seat very interesting if it can be to any degree replicated in the parliamentary seat, which is however quite a substantial "if". The Liberal Democrats will undoubtedly seek to portray themselves as the only party which can beat Labour in Cambridge and aim for tactical anti-Labour votes. If Labour has made itself sufficiently unpopular in some of the outer wards in particular (the congestion charge seems to be rather more widely accepted in the inner ones), this could spell danger even if the party is a long way ahead nationally, as they are at the time of writing. But it may be that the Conservative revival is very localised and that Labour continues to win in enough wards to maintain their tenure of the parliamentary seat. The result here will be worth watching even if the overall picture is one of general Labour gains and success. This historic and much-visited constituency continues to be politically a very interesting one despite its apparently goodly Labour notional post-boundary-change majority.

Well done batman. This is great.

[batman]

thank you.

[matureleft]

Jul 18, 2023 9:05:41 GMT batman said:

thank you.

Yes, very good. 

Trumpington no longer stretches quite as far into the city as you suggest and Conservative wins in Coleridge continued regularly until 1984 - the 1980 Labour win was a solitary experience as I remember all too well!

I'd probably quibble about the Conservative decline and its seeming modest recovery. Yes, they lost their intelligentsia vote. They were once dominant in the student vote. That's long-passed as the demographics of the student body of the university (and of Anglia) have changed - the extension of access to women and sterner entry requirements have sorted that out. Obviously the public sector vote has shifted. But they also miss the boat on many of the new private-sector workers - the science parks round the city (owned by colleges not the university) attract plenty of entrepreneurs and small businesses, but the current Conservative offering - nativist and "fuck business" - is pretty unappealing to them. I very much doubt if the strong support for car-drivers will play long at local level or translate to a General Election vote, but we'll see. 

The demography and economics of the city has quite a strong public sector element. It's the HQ of the County Council as well as the City. It has a huge hospital of regional (and beyond in some specialties) significance. The regional government office is there too and it used to have a significant Ministry of Agriculture presence as well. Indeed until fairly recently (2004) South Cambridgeshire District Council was based there too.

The city used to have one major manufacturer, Marshalls based in Abbey ward. Their claim to fame was extending Hercules planes for the Falklands war in record time and designing Concorde's nose. The airport remains and the city is still the base of what is a privately-owned international operation. The employment has scaled back a long way and they are redeveloping parts of the site for housing. The firm and friendly associates used to be pretty influential on development matters on that side of the city. 

[batman]

edited to take into account matureleft's information re the boundaries of Trumpington ward. Hopefully what remains is now accurate.

When I was a student, the Tories lost the lead amongst the student vote, with the University Left, the Liberals and the Conservatives in what was effectively a three-way split. The Conservatives will however have declined a good deal further amongst Cambridge University students since then. One of the University Left's representatives on the Cambridge Students' Union was none other than Andrew Marr; others were Jon Lansman, and the archaeologist & far-left figure Neil Faulkner, now sadly deceased. The Tories' candidate for CSU President, who lost to the Liberals, is now Sir Ernest Ryder.

[Robert Waller]

2021 Census New Boundaries

Age 65+ 11.0% 529/575
Owner occupied 44.1% 531/575
Private rented 33.1% 48/575
Social rented 22.7% 92/575
White 75.3% 439/575
Black 2.5% 209/575
Asian 13.9% 104/575
Managerial & professional 39.7% 116/575
Routine & Semi-routine 13.5 % 547/575
Degree level 55.7% 20/575
No qualifications 9.3% 570/575
Students 26.8% 7/575



General Election Result 2019

Daniel Zeichner Labour 25,776 48.0% −3.9%
Rod Cantrill Liberal Democrats 16,137 30.0% +0.7%
Russell Perrin Conservative 8,342 15.5% −0.8%
Jeremy Caddick Green Party 2,164 4.0% +1.7%
Peter Dawe Brexit Party 1,041 1.9% +1.9%
Miles Hurley Independent 111 0.2% +0.2%
Jane Robins SDP 91 0.2% +0.2%
Keith Garrett Rebooting Democracy 67 0.1% −0.1%

Lab Majority 9,639 18.0 ―4.6

Turnout 53,729 67.4 ―3.8

Labour hold
Swing 2.3 Lab to LD


Boundary Changes

Cambridge consists of
92.4% of Cambridge



Map
boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk/review2023/9bc0b2ea-7915-4997-9d4a-3e313c0ceb51/eastern/Eastern_055_Cambridge_Portrait.pdf


Notional result 2019 on the new boundaries (Rallings & Thrasher)

Lab	23600	47.5%
LD	15501	31.2%
Con	7344	14.8%
Grn	2068	4.2%
BxP	958	1.9%
Oths	269	0.5%
Majority	8099	16.3%

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Jul 18, 2023 12:11:28 GMT batman said:

The Tories' candidate for CSU President, who lost to the Liberals, is now Sir Ernest Ryder.

Whose most recent job is Legal Adviser to the Committee on Privileges of the House of Commons.