The County Council is responsible for things like education and transport. There’s a complete list on the County Council web site. The last election was in May 2005.

	Con	Lab	LDem	Lib	Ind
1989	46	20	9	1	1
1993	33	21	20	1	2
1997	33	10	16	–	–
2001	34	9	16	–	–
2005	42	4	23	–	–

So the Conservatives are currently in control of the council and have tended to be for quite a while.

This situation is unlikely to change, especially since Peterborough (which tended to return Labour members) was split off as a unitary authority. The county council has
pages to let you look at the representation in details included a clickable map.

Our division is Waterbeach, which covers the villages of Waterbeach, Landbeach, Milton and Chittering and we have one councillor.

There are three candidates this time:

Godson Lawal, Labour

Godson lives in Arbury Park.

Peter Johnson, Conservative

Peter is an SCDC councillor for Waterbeach, Landbeach and Chittering. He lives in Waterbeach.

Michael Williamson, Liberal Democrat

Michael has been our county councillor for the last four years. He lives in Waterbeach too but has of course been engaged with Milton and its issues over the last four years so is familiar with the problems in the village.

The voting figures for the last four elections were as follows:

	Con	Lab	LDem	Green
1993	593	248	1437	–
1997	1350	*345	3143	–
2001	1071	611	2545	112
2005	1789	–	2820	–

* the candidate didn’t put a party on the ballot paper, but is
believed to have been standing for Labour.

As you’ll see from past elections this is pretty much a straight fight between Tory and Lib Dem with Labour only putting up a token candidate here.