2008 South Cambridgeshire District Council election

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Elections to South Cambridgeshire District Council were held on 1 May 2008 as part of the UK local elections. Twenty seats, about a third of the council, were up for election. Both Gamlingay seats were contested after a councillor retired earlier. The seats last contested in 2004 and would be again in 2012.

The Conservative Party kept its overall majority. They were defending 8 seats, Independents 6, Liberal Democrats 5, and Labour 1 seat in Bassingbourn.

Before the election, some councillors changed party allegiance: independents Mark Howell and Simon Edwards joined the Conservatives; Liberal Democrat James Quinlan stood as an Independent; incumbent Lib Dem Val Trueman also stood as an Independent in Melbourn. The Conservatives gained Howell’s and Edwards’s seats but lost Girton to an Independent. No other seats changed hands.