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.
Copeland
Bransty Ward
Sean Cullen – Independent
Joseph Ghayouba – Labour Party
Charles Edward Maudling – Conservative Party
Ryan Gerard Redmond – Independent
Cleator Moor and Frizington
Linda Jones-Bulman – Labour Party
Christopher Paul Turner – Conservative Party
Aliscia Marie Ellie Wood – Independent
Cleator Moor West
Rhiannon Connors – Independent
Michael Christopher – Labour Party
Ged McGrath – Conservative Party
Egremont
Shane Branthwaite – Independent
Jeffrey Hailes – Conservative Party
Sam Pollen – Labour Party
Egremont North and St Bees
Reginald Graham Minshaw – Labour Party
Louis Thomason – Independent
Chris Whiteside – Conservative Party
Gosforth
James Richard Dickaty – Labour Party
Mike Minogue – Liberal Democrat
David Willis Moore – Conservative Party
Hillcrest and Hensingham
Edwin Dinsdale – Independent
Jeanette Forster – Labour Party
High Brian O’Kane – Conservative Party
Howgate
Martin Steven Barbour – Conservative Party
William Robert Dixon – Heritage Party – Free Speech and Liberty
Eren McGuire – Independent
Gillian Ruth Troughton – Labour Party
Kevin Young – Independent
Kells and Sandwith
Tanisha Dobinson – Independent
Arthur William Creighton Lamb – Conservative Party
Emma Louise Williamson – Labour Party
Millom
Bob Kelly – Labour Party
Doug Wilson – Conservative Party
Millom Without
Jeff Amos – Liberal Democrat
Andy Pratt – Conservative Party
Anna Mary Todd – Labour Party
Mirehouse
Gemma Dinsdale – Independent
Oliver Joseph Dorgan – Conservative Party
Mike Hawkins – Labour Party
Tony Lowrey – Independent
Wammo Walmsley – Independent
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