By Robert Haile
The new County Council elections will take place on May 5 to decide who will sit on the 65 seat council and which party will have the control.
Cumbria currently works with a county and borough, district or city council but from April 2023 this system will change to a unitary authority with the county being split into two.
Cumberland will be made of Copeland Borough, Allerdale Borough and Carlisle City while Eden District, South Lakeland District and Borrow Borough will form Westmorland and Furness.
Of the 65 councillors for Westmorland and Furness South Lakeland will elected 30, Eden 16 and Barrow 19 but who is standing and which political parties are being represented.
Barrow
Dalton North
Stephen John Coleman – Liberal Democrat
Daniel Christopher Edwards – Conservative Party
Robert Douglas Elliot – Labour Party
Rachael Hogg – Liberal Democrat
Ben Shirley – Conservative Party
Dalton South
Peter Graham Baker – Liberal Democrat
Tony Callister – Labour Party
Des English – Conservative Party
Martin David McLeavy – Independent
Barbara Lilian Miller – Liberal Democrat
Steve Nott – Labour Party
Sam Ronson – Conservative Party
Dave Taylor – Independent
Hawcoat and Newbarns
David Robert Cassidy – Labour Party
Sheila Eccles – Liberal Democrat
Denise Hazel Edwards – Independent
Les Hall – Conservative Party
Christine Pearl Herbert – Liberal Democrat
Mike Leach – Labour Party
Wendy Ada McClure – Independent
David Ian Benett Opie – Liberal Democrat
Niyall Allister Phillips – Conservative Party
Hayley Louise Preston – Labour Party
Steven Lindsay Pryer – Independent
Roy Worthington – Conservative Party
Old Barrow and Hindpool
Anne Bispham – Conservative Party
Anne Burns – Labour Party
Adam Grant Campbell – Liberal Democrat
Piya Das – Conservative Party
Gill Gardiner – Liberal Democrat
Kevin Robert Hamilton – Labour Party
Brenda Joyce Lauderdale – Conservative Party
Stephen Raymond Pickthall – Liberal Democrat
Margaret Ann Thomson – Labour Party
Ormsgill and Parkside
Derek Brook – Labour Party
Elaine Burley – Conservative Party
Ann Denise English – Conservative Party
Bill McEwan – Labour Party
Beverly Ann Morgan – Labour Party
Jayne Marie Richardson – Liberal Democrat
Phil Walker – Liberal Democrat
Alasdair Wilkinson-Marsh – Liberal Democrat
Emma Louise Wylie – Conservative Party
Risedale and Roosecote
Michael Wilson Barwise – Liberal Democrat
Trevor Alan Biggins –
Andy Coles – Labour Party
Derek Gawne – Conservative Party
Ronnie Haddow – Conservative Party
Jane Amelia Murphy – Labour Party
Lynda Lea Shaw – Conservative Party
Jade Sullivan – Liberal Democrat
Heather Troughton – Liberal Democrat
Walney Island
Therese Mary Assouad – Labour Party
Frank Cassidy – Labour Party
Steven Fletcher – Independent
Terri-Ann Gibney – Conservative Party
Chris Hogg – Liberal Democrat
Anita Gwendoline Husband – Labour Party
Tina Perkins – Liberal Democrat
Paul Allen Rose – Conservative Party
Steve Sharpe – Conservative Party
Paul Martin Trollope – Liberal Democrat