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 to be elected 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.
South Lakeland
Bowness and Lyth
Steve Bavin – Liberal Democrat
Jim Bland – Conservative Party
Simon Philip Clayton – Green Party
Burton and Holme
Simon Joseph Blunden – Green Party
Tom Harvey- Conservative Party
Vicky Hughes – Liberal Democrat
Coniston and Hawkshead
Suzanne Mary Pender – Liberal Democrat
Michael Ian Hoad – Conservative Party
Paul Andrew Martin – Labour Party
Mark Richard Poole – Green Party
Grange and Cartmel
Mandy Barnett – Green Party
Jenny Boak – Liberal Democrat
Lilian El-Doufani – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Pete Endsor – Liberal Democrat
Fiona Marguerite Hanlon – Independent
Tor McLaren – Conservative Party
Luke Stanley Benjamin Mossbarnett – Green Party
Sue Sanderson – Liberal Democrat
James Townley – Conservative Party
David Edward Wilson – Conservative Party
Paul Anthony Woods – Green Party
High Furness
Matt Brereton- Conservative Party
Stephen Francis Carter – Labour Party
Peter Alan Howlet – Green Party
Ian Charles Wharton – Liberal Democrat
Kendal Castle
Janet Mary Antrobus – Green Party
Nigel Byrom – Conservative Party
Penny Henderson – Labour Party
Eamonn Matthew Hennessy – Liberal Democrat
Helen Ngaire Ladhams – Liberal Democrat
Claire Wickham – Green Party
David Lewis Williams – Conservative Party
Kendal Highgate
Trevor Batchelor – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Margaret Bond – Conservative Party
Phil Dixon – Liberal Democrat
Oliver Gill – Labour Party
Rosie Naish – Green Party
Mike Nicholson – Conservative Party
Ian Rodham – Green Party
Matt Severn – Liberal Democrat
Kendal Nether
Raymond Bower – Conservative Party
Paul Michael Braithwaite – Labour Party
Paul John Casson – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Jonathan Cornthwaite – Liberal Democrat
Shirley Amelia Evans – Liberal Democrat
Daniel Alexander Rayson – Green Party
Lyndsay Elizabeth Slater – Conservative Party
Liz Wood – Green Party
Kendal South
Jonathan Richard Brook – Liberal Democrat
Elsa Fuster – Green Party
Luke Ivan Gudgeon – Conservative Party
Doug Rathbone – Liberal Democrat
Lois Katharine Sparling – Labour Party
Phil Whiting – Green Party
Shiela Ann Worthington – Conservative Party
Kendal Strickland and Fell
Giles Charles Archibald – Liberal Democrat
Irene Asbury – Conservative Party
Virginia Elizabeth Branney – Labour Party
Laura Miller – Green Party
Martin Powell-Davies – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Jacqueline Scott – Conservative Party
Peter Carlyle Thornton – Liberal Democrat
Graham Jeffery Vincent – Green Party
Kent Estuary
Jill Abel – Green Party
Rupert James Audland – Liberal Democrat
Helen Elizabeth Chaffey – Liberal Democrat
Margaret Elizabeth Handley- Conservative Party
Peter Smillie – Conservative Party
Levens and Crooklands
Janet Mary Battye – Liberal Democrat
Kevin Ronald Holmes – Conservative Party
Hilary Margaret Pickup – Green Party
Low Furness
Ben Thomas Cooper – Conservative Party
Eirik Raymond Haugsbak Hunt – Labour Party
Paul Alan Rigg – Green Party
Janet Willis – Liberal Democrat
Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale
Pat Bell – Conservative Party
Tony Gray – Green Party
Hazel Margaret Hodgson- Liberal Democrat
Kevin John Lancaster – Conservative Party
Ian David Mitchell – Liberal Democrat
Ulverston
Andrew Clifford Butcher – Conservative Party
Jackie Drake – Labour Party
Judy Filmore – Green Party
Bob Gerry – Green Party
Charles Edward Howarth – Liberal Democrat
Andrew Hudson – Liberal Democrat
Helen Irving – Conservative Party
Rob O’Hara – Green Party
Amanda Jane Rigg – Conservative Party
Dave Rushton – Liberal Democrat
Michelle Scrogham – Labour Party
Mark Wilson – Labour Party
Upper Kent
Deborah Huck – Conservative Party
Ali Jama – Liberal Democrat
Fran Richardson – Green Party
Windermere and Ambleside
Will Clark – Liberal Democrat
Paula Marie Cross – Conservative Party
Andrew Guy Jarvis – Liberal Democrat
Dyan Jones – Liberal Democrat
Cath Musetti – Conservative Party
Jolyon Ronald Thornhill Stephenson – Conservative Party
Kate Threadgold – Green Party