Cambridge City Ward Electorates

1945 - 1967

1968 - 1975

1975 - 1989

1990 - 2003

2004 - 2019

2021 -

Wards existing 1945 - 1967

Ward	1945	1946	1947	1948	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956
Abbey	4738	4764	4836	4830	5111	5879	6070	6203	6260	6207	6297
Castle	5583	5536	5514	5496	5128	5145	5134	5033	4925	4782	4707
Cherry Hinton	3008	3040	3161	3540	3836	4008	4308	4839	5348	6101	6471
Coleridge	6242	6511	6346	6490	6066	6022	6307	6302	6279	6414	6368
East Chesterton	6933	6847	6815	7015	6729	6816	6718	6627	6637	6575	6511
Market	3153	3144	3256	3183	2585	2558	2618	2571	2475	2350	2222
Newnham	3638	3714	3792	3826	3292	3331	3231	3122	3079	3031	3042
Petersfield	5446	5506	5497	5414	4981	5040	4983	4874	4824	4720	4651
Romsey	6801	6849	6810	6744	6367	6312	6204	6133	6059	5943	5839
St Matthew's	4756	4756	4778	4718	4420	4378	4283	4136	4056	3962	3875
Trumpington	3834	3804	4247	4644	4394	4449	4365	4399	4297	4200	4263
West Chesterton	6536	6477	6604	6640	6123	6173	6116	5986	6027	6073	6458
City Total	60668	60948	61656	62540	59032	60111	60337	60225	60266	60358	60704
Growth %		0.5%	1.2%	1.4%	-5.7%	1.8%	0.4%	-0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.7%
Ward Average	5056	5079	5138	5212	4919	5009	5028	5019	5022	5030	5059
Ward Std Dev'n	1357	1362	1283	1256	1225	1247	1249	1246	1281	1352	1425

Ward	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967
Abbey	6248	6264	6057	5991	5942	6173	6270	6234	6288	6141	6017
Castle	4617	4519	4440	4454	4314	4286	4412	4481	4540	4624	4814
Cherry Hinton	6561	6669	6808	6829	7053	7175	7305	7580	7689	7730	7751
Coleridge	6290	6282	6262	6246	6171	6167	6115	6120	6112	6111	6005
East Chesterton	6529	6582	6587	6765	6800	6687	6663	6660	6815	6703	6837
Market	2130	2020	1894	1840	1772	1680	1588	1482	1488	1461	1420
Newnham	2955	2989	2797	2757	2760	2680	2714	2692	2726	2712	2705
Petersfield	4574	4529	4258	4260	4189	4147	4075	3957	3939	3770	3633
Romsey	5748	5591	5460	5449	5365	5297	5207	5158	5145	5091	5040
St Matthew's	3764	3562	3386	3275	3043	2858	2712	2669	2631	2623	2524
Trumpington	4237	4122	4079	4156	4069	3972	3924	3911	3928	3811	3815
West Chesterton	6729	7285	7764	7977	8284	8392	8855	9466	9913	10285	10517
City Total	60382	60414	59792	59999	59762	59514	59840	60410	61214	61062	61078
Growth %	-0.5%	0.1%	-1.0%	0.3%	-0.4%	-0.4%	0.5%	1.0%	1.3%	-0.2%	0.0%
Ward Average	5032	5035	4983	5000	4980	4960	4987	5034	5101	5089	5090
Ward Std Dev'n	1483	1589	1712	1770	1868	1940	2047	2195	2292	2367	2430

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

Ward	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1977	1981
Abbey	6313	6166	6583	6512	6371	6324	6302	6280	6306	6549
Arbury	5783	6081	6610	6949	7280	7331	7385	7555	8209	8717
Castle	4815	4737	4962	5176	5110	5153	5115	5093	5100	4909
Cherry Hinton 1	7543	7613	8364	9023	9586	4212	4327	4533	4762	4677
Cherry Hinton 2						5771	5826	5817	5999	6134
Coleridge	6015	6000	6351	6655	6518	6417	6515	6649	6664	6420
East Chesterton	5075	5146	5440	5449	5349	5362	5396	5477	5565	5466
Market	3520	3424	3803	7362	7374	7779	7604	7356	7817	7556
Newnham 1	4448	4536	4911	7704	7999	3952	3907	3927	4359	4428
Newnham 2						4225	4281	4270	4327	4159
Petersfield	3824	3798	4050	4249	4184	4319	4270	4210	4215	3910
Romsey	5543	5452	5716	5669	5660	5709	5751	5862	5791	5670
Trumpington	3841	3893	4248	4379	4468	4481	4511	4578	4687	4733
West Chesterton	4765	4612	4859	4924	4870	4917	5028	5004	5098	4897
City Total	61485	61458	65897	74051	74769	75952	76218	76611	78899	78225
Growth %	0.7%	-0.0%	7.2%	12.4%	1.0%	1.7%	0.4%	0.5%	3.0%	-0.9%
Ward Average	5124	5122	5491	6171	6231	5425	5444	5472	5636	5588
Ward Std Dev'n	1128	1154	1258	1387	1538	1156	1136	1123	1214	1318

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.

Wards existing 1975 - 2003

Ward	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
Abbey	4457	4495	4480	4647	4789	4741	4687	4669	4637	4700	4791	4852	4882	4835	4807
Arbury	5041	5457	5593	5632	5564	5463	5393	5362	5374	5419	5420	5367	5449	5293	5356
Castle	5932	5986	6012	5952	5936	5913	5643	5731	5848	5841	5789	5850	6135	6253	6246
Cherry Hinton	4963	5132	5195	5283	5244	5225	5190	5246	5289	5367	5399	5373	5399	5413	5408
Coleridge	4961	5128	5167	5168	5108	5193	5387	5335	5430	5543	5668	5777	5856	5882	5850
East Chesterton	6205	6255	6310	6334	6203	6088	6118	6098	6116	6213	6358	6347	6428	6390	6364
King's Hedges	3886	3958	3990	4066	4184	4398	4678	5083	5198	5209	5375	5323	5458	5344	5296
Market	5996	6162	6378	6474	6230	6082	6147	5959	5876	5883	5786	5893	5988	5980	5753
Newnham	6336	6748	6846	6809	6719	6733	6896	7054	7199	7148	7004	7125	7186	7160	7144
Petersfield	6033	6052	6041	6096	5965	5836	5771	5755	5789	5698	5643	5761	6012	6052	6046
Queen Edith's	6137	6145	6081	6114	5917	5902	5827	5882	5964	5976	5919	5926	5986	5951	5855
Romsey	5736	5713	5657	5722	5639	5620	5578	5599	5607	5610	5576	5560	5674	5648	5592
Trumpington	5642	5713	5804	5877	5549	5549	5659	5741	5569	5697	5849	5824	6088	6066	5975
West Chesterton	5286	5375	5345	5320	5294	5249	5264	5311	5219	5287	5296	5367	5439	5605	5549
City Total	76611	78319	78899	79494	78341	77992	78238	78825	79115	79591	79873	80345	81980	81872	81241
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 Average	5472	5594	5636	5678	5596	5571	5588	5630	5651	5685	5705	5739	5856	5848	5803
Ward Mean Dev'n	606	574	578	565	491	454	420	401	412	380	353	370	405	421	409
Ward Std Dev'n	703	716	734	709	626	575	560	540	567	543	500	519	533	546	542

Wards existing 1975 - 2003

* from 2002 electorates in effect from 1st December the previous year

Ward	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	*2002	*2003	*2004
Abbey	4919	4705	4788	4795	4790	4882	4858	4859	4739	4726	4811	4767	4801	4806	4810
Arbury	5217	5230	5215	5270	5246	5225	5300	5222	5110	5162	5093	5095	5147	5178	5128
Castle	6135	6111	6267	6259	6426	6742	7067	7097	7076	7115	7058	7127	7117	7038	6970
Cherry Hinton	5444	5433	5394	5430	5465	5481	5585	5608	5573	5598	5519	5449	5492	5462	5464
Coleridge	5798	5729	5719	5698	5771	5912	5995	5974	5995	5941	5976	5990	5977	5866	5832
East Chesterton	6395	6299	6510	6534	6745	6951	6954	6979	6914	7002	7015	7033	7202	7180	7313
King's Hedges	5283	5073	5062	4984	4955	4995	4938	4905	4823	4849	4809	4763	4842	4832	4825
Market	5875	6008	6118	6193	6130	6448	6609	6647	6627	6772	6876	6854	6877	6768	6702
Newnham	7236	7308	7415	7471	7427	7527	8052	8070	7982	7958	7904	7775	7785	7788	7921
Petersfield	6195	6195	6179	6244	6386	6775	6982	7233	7248	7298	7753	7744	7892	7841	7830
Queen Edith's	5768	5683	5796	5744	5855	5938	5964	6070	6187	6125	6207	6160	6132	6137	6229
Romsey	5578	5395	5434	5525	5722	6031	6044	6155	6274	6227	6116	6081	6131	6017	5949
Trumpington	6193	6155	6203	6055	6077	6250	6183	6277	5921	6107	5990	6035	6055	6080	6079
West Chesterton	5582	5496	5490	5510	5726	5835	5957	6131	6139	6083	6127	6048	6164	6123	6059
City Total	81618	80820	81590	81712	82721	84992	86488	87227	86608	86963	87254	86921	87614	87116	87111
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 Average	5830	5773	5828	5837	5909	6071	6178	6231	6186	6212	6232	6209	6258	6223	6222
Ward Mean Dev'n	436	491	532	534	534	610	683	703	715	729	778	784	797	786	805
Ward Std Dev'n	563	621	657	666	680	744	857	887	905	912	957	958	968	955	980

Wards existing 2004 - 2019

* 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	*2019	2019
Abbey	6647	7044	6240	6311	6542	6606	6685	6768	6731	6788
Arbury	6787	7266	6059	6203	6315	6438	6532	6586	6476	6442
Castle	6758	8002	5616	5854	6230	6054	6820	6634	6477	6651
Cherry Hinton	6015	6344	5852	5976	6196	6268	6251	6329	6264	6324
Coleridge	6574	6884	5943	6054	6272	6299	6410	6481	6324	6370
East Chesterton	6494	6821	6121	6238	6473	6519	6477	6600	6443	6505
King's Hedges	6136	6454	5777	5925	5975	6058	6072	6197	6089	6205
Market	6929	8495	4955	5207	5457	5233	5988	5837	5738	5839
Newnham	7039	8126	5087	5317	5454	5255	5895	5671	5597	5643
Petersfield	5866	6536	4852	4978	5338	5327	5440	5530	5387	5336
Queen Edith's	6679	7125	5945	6101	6329	6336	6580	6653	6506	6637
Romsey	6203	7037	5862	6069	6301	6337	6580	6624	6375	6464
Trumpington	6872	8059	7117	7567	8135	8305	8921	9108	9389	9648
West Chesterton	6233	6577	5702	5830	6067	6136	6175	6282	6018	6018
City Total	91232	100770	81128	83630	87084	87171	90826	91300	89814	90870
Annual Growth %	-2.1%	8.2%	-11.1%	-17.0%	7.3%	4.2%	4.3%	4.7%	-1.1%	-0.5%
Ward Average	6517	7198	5795	5974	6220	6227	6488	6521	6415	6490
Ward Mean Dev'n	307	566	397	390	405	471	456	475	504	539
Ward Std Dev'n	353	673	555	589	649	729	762	810	904	961

Wards existing from 2021

Ward	2021	2022	2023	2024
Abbey	7388	7282	7521	7467
Arbury	6527	6553	6670	6640
Castle	4856	4703	4706	4952
Cherry Hinton	6431	6452	6546	6536
Coleridge	6512	6457	6588	6540
East Chesterton	6590	6553	6839	6724
King's Hedges	6754	6742	6883	6897
Market	6670	6137	6100	6354
Newnham	6495	5915	5742	6278
Petersfield	6968	6907	7235	7292
Queen Edith's	6792	6856	6808	6858
Romsey	6760	6593	6809	7167
Trumpington	7473	7552	7843	7900
West Chesterton	6621	6452	6559	6594
City Total	92837	91154	92849	94199
Annual Growth %	+2.2%	-1.8%	+1.8%	+1.5%
Ward Average	6631	6511	6632	6729
Ward Mean Dev'n	341	421	507	459
Ward Std Dev'n	579	643	736	658

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