2021 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoral election

The 2021 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoral election will be held on 6 May 2021 to elect the mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

6 May 2021


Candidate	James Palmer	Aidan Van de Weyer	Nik Johnson
Party	Conservative	Liberal Democrats	Labour


Candidate		TBD
Party		Green

Mayor before election

James Palmer
Conservative

Elected Mayor

TBD

The supplementary vote system will be used to elect the mayor for a four-year term of office. Subsequent elections will be held in May 2025 and every four years thereafter. The election will be held alongside a full election for Cambridge City Council, the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Cambridgeshire County Council and one-third of Peterborough City Council.[1][2][3]

Background

The mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough serves as the directly elected leader of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority. The mayor has power over investment directly to the combined authority from the government of £20 million a year for 30 years from 2017. The mayor does not incorporate the police and crime commissioner into the post, unlike other combined authorities that are synonymous with a constabulary area.

In the 2017 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoral election, the Conservative candidate James Palmer was elected with 38.0% of the vote in the first round and 56.9% of the second round vote. The Liberal Democrat candidate Rod Cantrill came in second place.

Candidates

Conservative Party

James Palmer, the incumbent mayor will be standing for re-election

Green Party

The Green Party candidate has not been announced yet.

Labour Party

In November 2020, Labour announced Nik Johnson, a children's doctor in Huntingdon as their candidate. He was the party's parliamentary candidate for Huntingdon in 2015 and 2017, and serves as a district councillor. He defeated Cambridge city councillor Katie Thornburrow in a vote of party members.[4]

Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats selected the deputy leader of South Cambridgeshire District Council, Aidan Van de Weyer.[5]

References

"Local Elections 2020". Peterborough City Council.
"Elections in 2020". Cambridge City Council.
"Police and Crime Commissioner elections". The Electoral Commission.
"Labour selects NHS doctor as candidate for Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough election". www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
Veale, Andy (6 June 2020). "Cambridgeshire Lib Dems announce candidate to take on 'aggressive' mayor". Cambridge Independent. Retrieved 6 August 2020.

(2019 ←) 2021 United Kingdom local elections (→ 2022)
Mayoral elections	Bristol Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Doncaster Greater Manchester Liverpool Liverpool City Region London Salford North Tyneside Tees Valley West Midlands West of England West Yorkshire
County councils	Cambridgeshire Cumbria Derbyshire Devon East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk North Yorkshire Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Warwickshire West Sussex Worcestershire
Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
Unitary authorities	Blackburn with Darwen Bristol Buckinghamshire City of London Cornwall Derby Durham Halton Hartlepool Kingston upon Hull Isle of Wight Isles of Scilly Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Northamptonshire Northumberland Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Shropshire Slough Southampton Southend-on-Sea Swindon Thurrock Warrington West Northamptonshire Wiltshire Wokingham
District councils	Adur Amber Valley Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Brentwood Broxbourne Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Carlisle Castle Point Cheltenham Cherwell Chorley Colchester Craven Crawley Eastleigh Elmbridge Epping Forest Exeter Fareham Gloucester Gosport Harlow Hart Hastings Havant Hyndburn Ipswich Lincoln Maidstone Mole Valley North Hertfordshire Norwich Nuneaton and Bedworth Oxford Pendle Preston Redditch Reigate and Banstead Rochford Rossendale Rugby Runnymede Rushmoor South Lakeland St Albans Stevenage Stroud Tamworth Tandridge Three Rivers Tunbridge Wells Watford Welwyn Hatfield West Lancashire West Oxfordshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing
Other elections	London Assembly Police and crime commissioners Scottish Parliament Welsh Parliament

Council elections in Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017
Peterborough City Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2000 2001 2002 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019
Cambridge City Council	1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019
East Cambridgeshire District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019
Fenland District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019
Huntingdonshire District Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019
South Cambridgeshire District Council	1973 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018
Isle of Ely County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964
Huntingdon & Peterborough County Council	1967 1970 Abolished
Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough	2017 2021
See also: Wards Boundary changes

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