By Robert Haile
The new County Council elections will take place on May 5 to decide who will sit on the 46 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 46 councillors Copeland will elected 12, Allerdale 16 and Carlisle 18 but who is standing and which political parties are being represented.
Carlisle
Belah
Helen Davison – Green Party
Gareth Michael Ellis – Conservative Party
David Graham – Labour Party
Alan Toole – Independent
Belle Vue
James Robert Bainbridge – Conservative Party
Abdul Harid – Labour Party
Botcherby
Louise Atkinson – Labour Party
Robert William Betton – Independent
Marilyn Louise Bowman – Conservative Party
Robert John Scott Inglis – Green Party
Brampton
Tom Adams – Green Party
Mike Mitchelson – Conservative Party
Iain Armstrong Owens – Labour Party
Castle
Syed Fiftul Ali – Conservative Party
Anne Glendinning – Labour Party
Gavin Hawkton – Green Party
Rob Heal – Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts
Corby and Hayton
Timothy Robert Cheetham – Conservative Party
Roger Dobson – Liberal Democrat
Raymond Tinnion – Independent
Currock
Lisa Margaret Brown – Labour Party
Brent Kennedy – Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts
Fiona Jane Robson – Conservative Party
Dalston and Burgh
Trevor Allison – Liberal Democrat
Alex Key – Labour Party
James Ernest White – Conservative Party
Denton Holme
Grahame Higginson – Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts
Stuart Kelly – Liberal Democrat
Ann Vipond McKerrell – Conservative Party
Christopher John Southward – Labour Party
Harraby North
Robert Gordon Currie – Conservative Party
Ernie Percival – Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts
Cyril Fredrick Weber – Labour Party
Harraby South
Linda Margaret Mitchell – Conservative Party
Lucy Patrick – Labour Party
Sean Clifford Reed – Independent
Houghton and Irthington
Beth Furneaux – Labour Party
John Mallinson – Conservative Party
Paul Anthony Nettleton – Liberal Democrat
Longtown
Sam Bown – Conservative Party
Timothy David Pickstone – Liberal Democrat
Morton
Donna Louise Bertoletti – Green Party
Neville John Lishman – Conservative Party
Anne Quilter – Labour Party
Stanwix Urban
Paul Atkinson – Labour Party
Elizabeth Anne Mallinson – Conservative Party
Paul Nedved – Independent
Brian Kevin Wernham – Liberal Democrat
Upperby
Leighton Llewellyn Rees – Conservative Party
Chris Wills – Labour Party
Wetheral
Ruth E Alcroft – Labour Party
Julia Kim Dobson – Liberal Democrat
Geoff Mitchell – Conservative Party
Yewdale
Stephen Haraldsen – Conservative Party
Jeanette Maria Whalen – Labour Party
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