Map of the results of the 2007 Fenland council election. Conservatives in blue and independent in grey.
The 2007 Fenland District Council election took place on 4 May 2007 to elect members of FenlandDistrict Council in Cambridgeshire, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.[1]
The results saw the Conservatives strengthen their majority on the council after winning 39 of the 40 seats on the council.[2] Only 13 of the 27 wards were contested, with Conservatives taking the seats in the other 14 wards without opposition.[2] This meant the Conservatives had been guaranteed a majority even before voting, as 18 of their candidates were unopposed and another 4 were in multi seat wards were there were not enough candidates from other parties.[3]
Labour lost the 3 seats they had been defending, 2 in Waterlees ward in Wisbech and 1 in March East.[2]
What was remarkable, however, about the results was areas such as Waterlees ward, traditionally, had been part of larger wards (until the 2003 boundary changes) that were opposition strongholds. [3] Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats failed to win any seats, but did come within 37 votes in Slade Lode ward in Chatteris.[2] The only non-Conservative elected was independent Mark Archer, who gained Manea from Conservative Robert Sears by almost 200 votes,[4] in a seat which Sears had won in a by-election in 2006.[3]
