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.
Eden
Alston and Fellside
Andy Baker – Liberal Democrat
Michael Richard Beveridge – Conservative Party
Michael Timothy Hanley – Labour Party
Ian Lindsey – Labour Party
Dale Andrew Normington – Conservative Party
Mary Robinson – Independent
Richard Raymond William Sanderson – Liberal Democrat
Appleby and Brough
Harry Berkeley – Conservative Party
Andy Connell – Liberal Democrat
Gareth Hayes – Independent
William Patterson – Independent
Graham Simpkins – Liberal Democrat
Colin Smith – Conservative Party
Eamont and Shap
Neil Hughes – Liberal Democrat
Tom Lowther – Conservative Party
Eden and Lyvennet Vale
Lorna Ann Baker – Liberal Democrat
Paula Breen – Conservative Party
Neil McCall – Liberal Democrat
Mike Tonkin
David Whipp – Conservative Party
Greystoke and Ullswater
Judith Margaret Derbyshire – Liberal Democrat
Debbie Wicks – Conservative Party
Hesket and Lazonby
Colin Atkinson – Conservative Party
Roger Burgin – Liberal Democrat
Hilary Frances Carrick – Conservative Party
David Evans – Liberal Democrat
Belinda Lucy Lloyd – Green Party
Elaine Mary Martin – Independent
David Ryland – Independent
Kirkby Stephen and Tebay
Ray Briggs – Conservative Party
Phil Dew – Conservative Party
Sandy Lancaster – Independent
John Stephen Murray – Liberal Democrat
Adrian Harvey Martin Waite – Liberal Democrat
Penrith North
Patricia Ann Bell – Liberal Democrat
Peter Devine – Independent
Harry Fearon – Conservative Party
Helen Jane Fearon – Conservative Party
Scott Jackson – Independent
Ali Ross – Green Party
Mark Brian Rudhall – Liberal Democrat
Wade Tidbury – Green Party
Penrith South
Gillian Elizabeth Barnes – Conservative Party
Margaret Clark – Independent
Mike Eyles – Liberal Democrat
Richard Kevin O’Brien – Green Party
Lee Quinn – Independent
Virginia Christine Taylor – Liberal Democrat
Matt Vickers – Conservative Party