Thankyou Cambridge!
I have just returned home from breakfast with your new MP, David Howarth. He won by a convincing majority of over 4000 votes.
From the County Council web site:
Cherry Hinton Electorate: 5480
Candidate Party VotesChristine Margaret Carter The Labour Party Candidate 1633Neil Alan Ford Green Party 237Benjamin William Hutchings Liberal Democrats 1105Edward Alexander Macnaghten The Conservative Party Candidate 1054
Turnout: 4029: 73.52%The following candidate has been elected to serve the Cherry Hinton Electoral Division
Christine Margaret Carter
This has been a Labour/Conservative marginal ward previously! I can't take much credit for the change - I have delivered more paper than usual, which probably helps, but as a candidate I was basically just a representative of the party.