“Now let’s hope they can work together for the good of Cambridge, the sub-region, the country and the world.
“It’s the best possible consolation prize, augmented by election as Police and Crime Commissioner of Darryl Preston (who has my wholehearted endorsement).”
Mr Wotherspoon said that he had spent the weekend “metaphorically clearing my desk, in particular sieving the 10,000 emails of the past six months”.
Chairman Tim Wotherspoon says he is a “Champion of public transport improvement in Cambridge & South Cambridgeshire, but there is no point in implementing it if it can’t be paid for in some creative way other than just through increasing tax” pic.twitter.com/4fI9jDGmD1 Robert Alexander LL.B., LL.M. Int l Law (@robalexander001) November 15, 2018
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”.
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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).
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With Cambridgeshire going to the polls this Thursday to vote in four elections, there have been several changes to the ways people are voting.
Voters whose first preference was for an eliminated candidate, but who put one of the remaining two candidates as their second choice, will then have their second preferences counted.
Those second preferences are used to top up the totals of the remaining candidates, and whoever has the highest total wins.
The incumbent, Conservative James Palmer, won in 2017, but his lead narrowed when the second preferences were counted, from 29,000 votes to 21,600.
He secured 38 per cent of the vote in the first round, and 56.9 per cent in the second.
The Lib Dems secured 23.5 per cent in the first round, coming second.
Their vote share then increased to 43.1 per cent when second preference votes were counted.