Firstly, a huge Thank You to the residents of Sutton Division for re-electing me as your County Councillor for a further four years. It is a privilege to represent such wonderful communities in such a lovely part of the country.

Results

The result in Sutton was

• Lorna Dupré (Lib Dem): 2155 (65.3 per cent)
• Jonathan Farmer (Con): 972 (29.4 per cent)
• Carlos Toranzos (Lab): 175 (5.3 per cent)

Elsewhere in East Cambridgeshire, the two Ely seats changed hands from Conservative to Liberal Democrat, and the two new councillors are Alison Whelan (Ely North) and Piers Coutts (Ely South).

On the County Council as a whole, the Conservatives lost overall control, and now have 28 out of the 61 seats. The Liberal Democrats have 20, Labour nine, and the Independents four. The Annual Meeting of the Council will take place on Tuesday 18 May, when a Leader of the Council should be elected. (The meeting must take place in person, as the law allowing online meetings has expired, and the Government has not extended it. The venue will be the Imperial War Museum at Duxford.)

In what was probably the most significant result of the election, the Mayor of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, James Palmer (Conservative), lost his seat to Nik Johnson (Labour). The Mayor and his Combined Authority have considerable powers over transport, housing, business funding and skills, and this result will inevitably lead to a major change of direction for some very major projects.

And finally, the new Police & Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough is Darryl Preston (Conservative).