Charlotte Cane | |
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Member of Parliament for Ely and East Cambridgeshire | |
Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Lucy Frazer |
Majority | 495 (0.9%) |
Personal details | |
Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Charlotte Kathryn Bourne Cane is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Ely and East Cambridgeshire since 2024.[1]
Cane moved around growing up as her father was in the army, while her mother was a teacher. Cane studied ancient history and archaeology at the University of Birmingham, where she met her husband. The couple worked together as field archaeologists, but due to financial circumstances, Cane retrained as a chartered accountant.[2]
She first ran for election in 2019, when she unsuccessfully stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate in the Harlow constituency.[3][4] Cane was first elected as a Member of Parliament for the Ely and East Cambridgeshire constituency in 2024. She defeated the Conservative candidate Lucy Frazer, who was MP for the abolished South East Cambridgeshire constituency from 2015 to 2024, which covered much of the same area.[5]
In 1994, Cane moved to Reach, Cambridgeshire for an arts charity job, where she would raise her two children.[2]