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Cambridgeshire County Council
Type
Type	Non-metropolitan county council
Leadership
Chairman	Cllr Sebastian Kindersley, Liberal Democrat Since 02 May 2013
Vice chairman	Cllr Mandy Smith, Conservative Since 02 May 2013
Leader of the Conservative group	Cllr Steve Count, Conservative
Leader of the Liberal Democrat group	Cllr Lucy Nethsingha, Liberal Democrat
Structure
Seats	69 (36 needed for a majority)
Political groups	Largest party      Conservative Party (32) Official Opposition      Liberal Democrat (14) Other opposition parties      UKIP (10)      Labour Party (8)      Independent (5)
Length of term	up to 4 years
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post
Last election	2 May 2013
Next election	4 May 2017
Meeting place
Shire Hall Cambridge Cambridgeshire United Kingdom
Website
www4.cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Cambridgeshire County Council is the county council of Cambridgeshire, England. The council consists of 69 councillors, representing 60 electoral divisions. Since the 2013 local elections, no party has overall control of the council, with the Conservative group running a minority administration. The council meets at Shire Hall in Cambridge. It is a member of the East of England Local Government Association.

Cambridgeshire County Council was first formed in 1889 as a result of the Local Government Act 1888, as one of two county councils covering Cambridgeshire; the other was the Isle of Ely County Council. In 1965 the two councils were merged to form Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely County Council.

This arrangement lasted until 1974 when, following the Local Government Act 1972, Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely was merged with Huntingdon and Peterborough to form a new non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire under the control of a newly constituted Cambridgeshire County Council. The first elections to the new authority were in April 1973, and the council took office on 1 April 1974.

From its recreation in 1974 until 1998 the county council administered the entire county of Cambridgeshire. In 1998 Peterborough city council became a unitary authority, thus outside the area of the county council. For ceremonial, geographic and certain administrative purposes however, Peterborough continues to be associated with Cambridgeshire, including sharing a Chief Executive Officer.