Cambridge City Ward Electorates

1945 - 19671968 - 19751975 - 19891990 - 20032004-

Wards existing 1945 - 1967

Ward 1945 1946 1947 1948 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956
Market31533144325631832585255826182571247523502222
Trumpington38343804424746444394444943654399429742004263
Newnham36383714379238263292333132313122307930313042
Castle55835536551454965128514551345033492547824707
West Chesterton65366477660466406123617361165986602760736458
East Chesterton69336847681570156729681667186627663765756511
Abbey47384764483648305111587960706203626062076297
St Matthew's47564756477847184420437842834136405639623875
Petersfield54465506549754144981504049834874482447204651
Romsey68016849681067446367631262046133605959435839
Coleridge62426511634664906066602263076302627964146368
Cherry Hinton30083040316135403836400843084839534861016471
City Total6066860948616566254059032601116033760225602666035860704
Growth % 0.5%1.2%1.4%-5.7%1.8%0.4%-0.2%0.1%0.2%0.7%
Ward Average50565079513852124919500950285019502250305059
Ward Std Dev'n13571362128312561225124712491246128113521425


Ward 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967
Market21302020189418401772168015881482148814611420
Trumpington42374122407941564069397239243911392838113815
Newnham29552989279727572760268027142692272627122705
Castle46174519444044544314428644124481454046244814
West Chesterton6729728577647977828483928855946699131028510517
East Chesterton65296582658767656800668766636660681567036837
Abbey62486264605759915942617362706234628861416017
St Matthew's37643562338632753043285827122669263126232524
Petersfield45744529425842604189414740753957393937703633
Romsey57485591546054495365529752075158514550915040
Coleridge62906282626262466171616761156120611261116005
Cherry Hinton65616669680868297053717573057580768977307751
City Total6038260414597925999959762595145984060410612146106261078
Growth %-0.5%0.1%-1.0%0.3%-0.4%-0.4%0.5%1.0%1.3%-0.2%0.0%
Ward Average50325035498350004980496049875034510150895090
Ward Std Dev'n14831589171217701868194020472195229223672430


1945 - 19671968 - 19751975 - 19891990 - 20032004-

Wards existing 1968 - 1975 (continuing as Electoral Divisions until 1981)

Ward 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1977 1981
Newnham 14448453649117704799939523907392743594428
Newnham 2     42254281427043274159
Castle4815473749625176511051535115509351004909
West Chesterton4765461248594924487049175028500450984897
Arbury5783608166106949728073317385755582098717
East Chesterton5075514654405449534953625396547755655466
Trumpington3841389342484379446844814511457846874733
Market3520342438037362737477797604735678177556
Abbey6313616665836512637163246302628063066549
Petersfield3824379840504249418443194270421042153910
Romsey5543545257165669566057095751586257915670
Coleridge6015600063516655651864176515664966646420
Cherry Hinton 17543761383649023958642124327453347624677
Cherry Hinton 2     57715826581759996134
City Total61485614586589774051747697595276218766117889978225
Growth %0.7%-0.0%7.2%12.4%1.0%1.7%0.4%0.5%3.0%-0.9%
Ward Average5124512254916171623154255444547256365588
Ward Std Dev'n1128115412581387153811561136112312141318
Note - 18 to 21 year-olds were entitled to vote from 1970, but University students were not generally registered until 1971 after a Court Case has established that they were entitled to be registered and vote in respect of their term-time addresses.


1945 - 19671968 - 19751975 - 19891990 - 20032004-

Wards existing 1975 - 2003

Ward197519761977197819791980198119821983198419851986198719881989
Abbey445744954480464747894741468746694637470047914852488248354807
Arbury504154575593563255645463539353625374541954205367544952935356
Castle593259866012595259365913564357315848584157895850613562536246
Cherry Hinton496351325195528352445225519052465289536753995373539954135408
Coleridge496151285167516851085193538753355430554356685777585658825850
East Chesterton620562556310633462036088611860986116621363586347642863906364
King's Hedges388639583990406641844398467850835198520953755323545853445296
Market599661626378647462306082614759595876588357865893598859805753
Newnham633667486846680967196733689670547199714870047125718671607144
Petersfield603360526041609659655836577157555789569856435761601260526046
Queen Edith's613761456081611459175902582758825964597659195926598659515855
Romsey573657135657572256395620557855995607561055765560567456485592
Trumpington564257135804587755495549565957415569569758495824608860665975
West Chesterton528653755345532052945249526453115219528752965367543956055549
City Total766117831978899794947834177992782387882579115795917987380345819808187281241
Growth %0.5%2.2%0.7%0.8%-1.5%-0.4%0.3%0.8%0.4%0.7%0.4%0.7%2.0%-0.1%-0.8%
Ward Average547255945636567855965571558856305651568557055739585658485803
Ward Mean Dev'n606574578565491454420401412380353370405421409
Ward Std Dev'n703716734709626575560540567543500519533546542


1945 - 19671968 - 19751975 - 19891990 - 20032004-

Wards existing 1975 - 2003

* from 2002 electorates in effect from 1st December the previous year
Ward199019911992199319941995199619971998199920002001*2002*2003*2004
Abbey491947054788479547904882485848594739472648114767480148064810
Arbury521752305215527052465225530052225110516250935095514751785128
Castle613561116267625964266742706770977076711570587127711770386970
Cherry Hinton544454335394543054655481558556085573559855195449549254625464
Coleridge579857295719569857715912599559745995594159765990597758665832
East Chesterton639562996510653467456951695469796914700270157033720271807313
King's Hedges528350735062498449554995493849054823484948094763484248324825
Market587560086118619361306448660966476627677268766854687767686702
Newnham723673087415747174277527805280707982795879047775778577887921
Petersfield619561956179624463866775698272337248729877537744789278417830
Queen Edith's576856835796574458555938596460706187612562076160613261376229
Romsey557853955434552557226031604461556274622761166081613160175949
Trumpington619361556203605560776250618362775921610759906035605560806079
West Chesterton558254965490551057265835595761316139608361276048616461236059
City Total816188082081590817128272184992864888722786608869638725486921876148711687111
Growth %0.5%-1.0%1.0%0.1%1.2%2.7%1.8%0.9%-0.7%0.4%0.3%-0.4%0.8%-0.6%0.0%
Ward Average583057735828583759096071617862316186621262326209625862236222
Ward Mean Dev'n436491532534534610683703715729778784797786805
Ward Std Dev'n563621657666680744857887905912957958968955980


1945 - 19671968 - 19751975 - 19891990 - 20032004-

Wards existing from 2004

* electorates in effect from 1st December the previous year; + in effect 15th October 2012
Ward 2004 *2005 2005 *2006 2006 *2007 *2008 *2009 2009 *2010 2011 *2012 +2012 2013 2014
Abbey 6246 6253 6246 6343 6348 6455 6329 6508 6517 6734 6732 6733 6818 6730 7005
Arbury 6781 6806 6779 6888 6959 6732 6592 6694 6693 6760 6778 6745 6717 6830 6946
Castle 6579 6529 6524 6121 6519 6427 6207 6498 6573 6533 6627 6622 6010 6519 6651
Cherry Hinton 6270 6305 6282 6346 6368 6270 6152 6288 6286 6358 6290 6425 6517 6393 6460
Coleridge 5770 5838 5825 6009 6005 5870 6043 6227 6225 6394 6306 6625 6700 6510 6699
East Chesterton 5946 5953 5912 6102 6128 5832 5885 6268 6263 6451 6600 6768 6862 6693 6805
King's Hedges 6196 6056 6022 6117 6133 5735 5638 5876 5868 6016 6121 6347 6571 6360 6495
Market 6682 6533 6511 6179 6402 6323 6256 6219 6420 6661 6490 6449 5911 6396 6688
Newnham 6312 6291 6292 6676 6718 6594 6525 6530 6499 6564 6509 6684 5282 6654 6737
Petersfield 5966 6097 6132 6270 6337 5998 6198 6331 6279 6281 6286 6251 6061 5994 6125
Queen Edith's 6408 6478 6421 6464 6488 6039 6130 6332 6367 6358 6423 6580 6107 6617 6722
Romsey 6258 6258 6259 6479 6526 6094 6381 6527 6532 6650 6501 6540 6706 6359 6619
Trumpington 5397 5437 5353 5427 5429 5415 5528 5822 5735 5879 6015 5978 5817 6019 6732
West Chesterton 6312 6377 6364 6404 6499 6191 6042 6156 6173 6218 6084 6160 6393 6273 6475
City Total 87123 87211 86922 87825 88859 85975 85906 88276 88420 89857 89762 90907 88472 90347 93159
Annual Growth % 0.0% 0.1% -0.2% 0.7% 2.2% -2.1% -0.1% 2.8% 0.2% 1.6% -0.1% 1.3% -2.7% -0.6% 3.1%
Ward Average 6223 6229 6209 6273 6347 6141 6136 6305 6316 6418 6412 6493 6319 6453 6654
Ward Mean Dev'n 263 252 257 241 243 286 222 183 198 204 195 193 390 197 157
Ward Std Dev'n 352 329 339 329 346 347 290 237 256 251 229 230 448 240 212


Ward *2015 2015 *2016 2016 *2017 2017 *2018 2018
Abbey 6647 7044 6240 6311 6542 6606 6685 6768
Arbury 6787 7266 6059 6203 6315 6438 6532 6586
Castle 6758 8002 5616 5854 6230 6054 6820 6634
Cherry Hinton 6015 6344 5852 5976 6196 6268 6251 6329
Coleridge 6574 6884 5943 6054 6272 6299 6410 6481
East Chesterton 6494 6821 6121 6238 6473 6519 6477 6600
King's Hedges 6136 6454 5777 5925 5975 6058 6072 6197
Market 6929 8495 4955 5207 5457 5233 5988 5837
Newnham 7039 8126 5087 5317 5454 5255 5895 5671
Petersfield 5866 6536 4852 4978 5338 5327 5440 5530
Queen Edith's 6679 7125 5945 6101 6329 6336 6580 6653
Romsey 6203 7037 5862 6069 6301 6337 6580 6624
Trumpington 6872 8059 7117 7567 8135 8305 8921 9108
West Chesterton 6233 6577 5702 5830 6067 6136 6175 6282
City Total 91232 100770 81128 83630 87084 87171 90826 91300
Annual Growth % -2.1% 8.2% -11.1% -17.0% 7.3% 4.2% 4.3% 4.7%
Ward Average 6517 7198 5795 5974 6220 6227 6488 6521
Ward Mean Dev'n 307 566 397 390 405 471 456 475
Ward Std Dev'n 353 673 555 589 649 729 762 810


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