Labour retained its firm grip on Cambridge City Council, retaining all of its seats that were up for election - but it was the Greens who made a gain, at the expense of a prominent Liberal Democrat.
Hugh Clough won in Newnham for the Green party, ousting Lucy Nethsingha, who is also the Lib Dem leader of the county council.
It means the Greens - for whom Naomi Bennett held on to Abbey ward, with an increased majority - now have five seats on the city council, compared to the Lib Dems 10. There remains one independent and one Conservative, while Labour continues to dominate with 25 seats. Some 14 of the 42 seats were up for election.
City council party leaders Mike Davey (Lab, Petersfield) and Tim Bick (Lib Dem, Market) held on to theirs, and there was no scare at the count for Labour this time in Cherry Hinton, where former mayor Mark Ashton held his seat.
In Castle, Antoinette Nestor retained the seat for Labour with the biggest majority it has enjoyed in the ward for some time. But Independent David Summerfield also put in a strong performance, pushing the Lib Dems into third place.
And in Coleridge, held by Tim Griffin for Labour, there was a strong result for the Greens from Sarah Nicmanis, with Conservative Shapour Meftah in third and the Lib Dems trailing in fourth here.
Some familiar Labour stalwarts held their seats. Dave Baigent won comfortably in Romsey, while Gerri Bird was returned to represent East Chesterton and mayor Jenny Gawthrope Wood beat the Conservatives’ Nazrul Islam in King’s Hedges.
In West Chesterton, a battle between red and yellow went Labour’s way, with Sam Carling holding off Jamie Dalzell’s challenge by 208 votes.
The margin was a little tighter in Trumpington, where the Lib Dems’ Nadya Lokhmotova beat Labour’s Carlos Toranzos by 108 votes.
Arbury proved a safe seat for Labour, with Patrick Sheil way out in front, and only 49 votes between the other parties.
And in Queen Edith’s, Immy Blackburn-Horgan cemented her win from November’s by-election for the Lib Dems with an improved majority.
Turnout was 37.8 per cent across the city, rising as high as 48.3 per cent in West Chesterton and falling as low as 32 per cent in Abbey.
The new political make-up of the city council is:
\- 25 Labour councillors
\- 10 Liberal Democrat councillors
\- 5 Green Party councillors
\- 1 Conservative councillor
\- 1 Independent councillor
All the Cambridge City Council May 2024 election results
Abbey
Rosemary Anne Roe Ansell - Liberal Democrat 173
Naomi Anne Bennett - Green 1189 Elected
Simon Brignell - Communist Party of Britain 42
Ben Stephen Cartwright - Labour 650
David Philip Smith - Conservative 226
17 rejected papers
Arbury
Robert William Boorman - Conservative 365
Stephen Roger Lawrence - Green 348
John Leighton - Liberal Democrat 360
Patrick Sheil - Labour 1093 Elected
14 rejected papers
Castle
Esme Hennessy - Green 294
Antoinette Nestor - Labour 771 Elected
Szymon Sawicki - Conservative 88
Caroline Ann Tuke Stoddart - Liberal Democrat 369
David Summerfield - Independent 407
Cherry Hinton
Mark William Ashton - Labour 1149 Elected
Josh Morris-Blake - Green 228
Mo Pantall - Conservative 635
Aiden Roe - Liberal Democrat 356
16 rejected papers
Coleridge
Judy Margaret Brunton - Liberal Democrat 158
Tim Griffin - Labour 1124 Elected
Shapour Meftah - Conservative 419
Sarah Louise Nicmanis - Green 881
12 rejected papers
East Chesterton
Gerri Bird - Labour 1006 Elected
Bob Illingworth - Liberal Democrat 765
Elizabeth Alice May - Green 368
Francisco Ribeiro - Conservative 251
12 rejected papers
King’s Hedges
Robin Louis Brabham - Green 231
Jenny Gawthrope Wood - Labour 974 Elected
Sm Nazrul Islam - Conservative 737
Fionna Tod - Liberal Democrat 217
Rejected papers 20
Market
Tim Bick - Liberal Democrat 777 Elected
Rosy Greenlees - Labour 666
John Marenbon - Conservative 146
Krzysztof Strug - Green 310
Rejected papers: 9
Newnham
David Carmona - Independent 155
Hugh Clough - Green 925 Elected
Lucy Nethsingha - Liberal Democrat 306
Yvonne Nobis - Labour 549
Susie Williams - Conservative 84
6 rejected papers
Petersfield
Mike Davey - Labour 1323 Elected
Zakariyah Karimjee - Green 558
Sam Oliver - Liberal Democrat 399
Paul Jonathan Roper - Conservative 226
Christopher Wilkinson - Freedom Alliance – Stop the Great Reset! 44
17 rejected
Queen Edith’s
Eric William Barrett-Payton - Conservative 459
Immy Blackburn-Horgan - Liberal Democrat 1123 Elected
Oliver Edward Fisher - Green 300
Beth Gardiner-Smith - Labour 758
9 rejected papers
Romsey
Dave Baigent - Labour 1433 Elected
William Bannell - Independent 273
Rob Nelson - Conservative 280
John Charles Walmsley - Liberal Democrat 307
Iain Duncan Webb - Green 524
12 rejected papers
Trumpington
Steven Michael George - Conservative 481
Nadya Lokhmotova - Liberal Democrat 944 Elected
Chloe Eva Mosonyi - Green 331
Carlos Fernando Toranzos - Labour 836
20 rejected papers
West Chesterton
Sam Carling - Labour 1290 Elected
Jamie Leon Dalzell - Liberal Democrat 1082
Michael John Harford - Conservative 236
Shayne Mary Mitchell - Green 397
13 rejected papers
Earlier in the day, Darryl Preston was re-elected for the Conservatives as the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough police and crime commissioner, beating Labour’s Anna Smith - a city councillor - into second, and Lib Dem county councillor Edna Murphy into third.
Elsewhere, Labour became the biggest party on Peterborough City Council, but not enough to take the authority out of no overall control. And James Catmur won the by-election for the Lib Dems in Great Paxton ward on Huntingdonshire District Council.
Read our live blog from the city council count for a blow-by-blow account as it happened.
