General Election 2019: A bluffer’s guide to Cambridgeshire’s political history

paul.brackley@iliffemedia.co.uk

Published: 00:04, 13 December 2019

| Updated: 00:21, 13 December 2019

Want to brush up on your election knowledge?

Here’s how Cambridge, South Cambridgeshire and South East Cambridgeshire have voted over the years, and how the national picture looked in 2015 and 2017.

Just click through the slides, and you can select a year to pause the animation and see how the parties fared that year.

So let’s look at the results from 2017.

In Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner enjoyed a comfortable win.

The 2017 General Election result for Cambridge (24104615)

And Heidi Allen had a huge majority in South Cambridgeshire for the Tories - a party she left earlier this year, becoming a Liberal Democrat by way of time as an independent and with Change UK.

Election results in South Cambridgeshire - Heidi Allen, who is not standing for re-election - was elected as a Tory but switched to the Liberal Democrats in October 2019 (24128572)

There was another big majority for Lucy Frazer in 2017 in South East Cambridgeshire.

The 2017 General Election result for South East Cambridgeshire (24104711)

Here’s how the county map looked after the 2017 vote.

General Election 2017 results map for Cambridgeshire (24129079)

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