He later tweeted: “While I am bitterly disappointed not to have got to the second round in the Cambs and Peterborough Mayoral election, I am pleased that Palmer will no longer be Mayor.
“He has let down our area. I look forward to working with Dr Johnson on behalf of all our residents.”
The triumphant doctor himself said after the win was secured that he was “over the moon and honoured”.
In his first interview after the result, he told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “I’m over the moon, and I feel hugely honoured to be the lad who came from the north east and ended up adopting Cambridgeshire as my home. And feeling the support across the county – I’m just delighted”.
Cambridgeshire local elections 2021: When the results are expected for the council, mayor, and PCC elections
The results are not as instant as a general election
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A pub in Conington, Hunts, is doubling as a polling station for Thursday. (Image: Cambridge News)
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Residents and candidates will be nervously waiting for updates on the four local elections as the county went to the polls today (May 6).
The mystery behind why Newmarket is in Suffolk even though it looks like it should be in Cambs
Have you ever wondered why the town is in Suffolk but its racecourse is in Cambridgeshire?
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Newmarket is the home of horse racing and one of the most famous towns in the whole of England.
Although poorly maintained by the council since that time, the kerbstones of these two pathways are still in place today.
In March 1945 EUDC further resolved to install a public sewer along the length of Upherds Lane at a cost to the public purse of £720.0s.0d, including repair to the construction of the lane.
Extensive potholes in Upherds Lane, Ely
- Credit: Harry Rutter / Archant
Further efforts by residents of the lane to require the council to bring the road up to a reasonable standard were opposed by the council until, in May 1956, when in an effort to resolve the dispute, a legal opinion was sought from the local solicitors, Hall, Ennion and Young.
The term of office for 60 of the 61 members of Cambridgeshire County Council is effectively over. Fresh elections will take place on May 6.
For one, of course, his time as a councillor, and that of a tenant of the council farms estate, ended abruptly and simultaneously some weeks earlier.
Roger Hickford resigned as deputy council leader and member for Sawston and Shelford on February 26.
It was ahead of a decision to be taken by his former council colleagues over whether to release a report of an investigation into his tenancy and interactions with the county farms team.
Tory Party chiefs, whilst confident of retaining control, have learned from past experience -including that of 2013 when UKIP delivered an extraordinary electoral blow – not to be complacent.