Elections 2024: Who is standing for election to Cambridge City Council?

The candidates standing for election to Cambridge City Council on Thursday, 2 May have now been revealed.

Voters are going to the polls to elect a councillor to 14 of the 42 seats on the council to represent them for the next four years.

University Sports Centre city council election count . Picture: Keith Heppell.

Heading into the election, the Labour-controlled city council has 25 Labour councillors, 11 Liberal Democrats, four Greens, one Conservative and one independent.

Every ward will be contested by Labour, the Lib Dems, the Greens and the Conservatives. Three independents will also be standing - David Summerfield in Castle, David Carmona in Newnham and William Bannell in Romsey.

Simon Brignell will stand for the Community Party of Britain in Abbey and Christopher Wilkinson will represent Freedom Alliance in Petersfield.

The council is responsible for services including waste collection, leisure facilities, council housing and planning.

The election for the next Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner will also be taking place on 2 May.

Abbey

\- Rosemary Anne Roe Ansell - Liberal Democrat

\- Naomi Anne Bennett - Green

\- Simon Brignell - Communist Party of Britain

\- Ben Stephen Cartwright - Labour

\- David Philip Smith - Conservative

Arbury

\- Robert William Boorman - Conservative

\- Stephen Roger Lawrence - Green

\- John Leighton - Liberal Democrat

\- Patrick Sheil - Labour

Castle

\- Esme Hennessy - Green

\- Antoinette Nestor - Labour

\- Szymon Sawicki - Conservative

\- Caroline Ann Tuke Stoddart - Liberal Democrat

\- David Summerfield - Independent

Cherry Hinton

\- Mark William Ashton - Labour and Co-operative Party

\- Josh Morris-Blake - Green

\- Mo Pantall - Conservative

\- Aiden Roe - Liberal Democrat

Coleridge

\- Judy Margaret Brunton - Liberal Democrat

\- Tim Griffin - Labour

\- Shapour Meftah - Conservative

\- Sarah Louise Nicmanis - Green

East Chesterton

\- Gerri Bird - Labour

\- Bob Illingworth - Liberal Democrat

\- Elizabeth Alice May - Green

\- Francisco Ribeiro - Conservative

King’s Hedges

Robin Louis Brabham - Green

Jenny Gawthrope Wood - Labour

Sm Nazrul Islam - Conservative

Fionna Tod - Liberal Democrat

Market

\- Tim Bick - Liberal Democrat

\- Rosy Greenlees - Labour

\- John Marenbon - Conservative

\- Krzysztof Strug - Green

Newnham

\- David Carmona - Independent

\- Hugh Clough - Green

\- Lucy Nethsingha - Liberal Democrat

\- Yvonne Nobis - Labour

\- Susie Williams - Conservative

Petersfield

\- Mike Davey - Labour

\- Zakariyah Karimjee - Green

\- Sam Oliver - Liberal Democrat

\- Paul Jonathan Roper - Conservative

\- Christopher Wilkinson - Freedom Alliance – Stop the Great Reset!

Queen Edith’s

\- Eric William Barrett-Payton - Conservative

\- Immy Blackburn-Horgan - Liberal Democrat

\- Oliver Edward Fisher - Green

\- Beth Gardiner-Smith - Labour

Romsey

\- Dave Baigent - Labour

\- William Bannell - Independent

\- Rob Nelson - Conservative

\- John Charles Walmsley - Liberal Democrat

\- Iain Duncan Webb - Green

Trumpington

\- Steven Michael George - Conservative

\- Nadya Lokhmotova - Liberal Democrat

\- Chloe Eva Mosonyi - Green

\- Carlos Fernando Toranzos - Labour and Co-operative

West Chesterton

\- Sam Carling - Labour

\- Jamie Leon Dalzell - Liberal Democrat

\- Michael John Harford - Conservative

\- Shayne Mary Mitchell - Green