By Robert Haile
The electorate have spoken and the make up of the Shadow Westmorland and Furness Council has been decided.
Of the 65 seats available the Liberal Democrats took 36 seats with the Labour Party taking 15, Conservative Party have 11, Independents 2 and there will be 1 Green Party Councillors.
The Old Barrow and Hindpool ward recorded the lowest voter turnout with 21.1 percent with no ward getting above 32 percent turnout as the Labour Party took 13 of the 19 seats in Barrow with the Conservatives taking 5 with the Independents taking just 1 seat.
Despite there success in the other two areas the Liberal Democrats failed to pick up a seat.
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.
Below is the full set of results with turnout in each ward as votes cast and percent with each candidate with the number of votes gained.
Those elected are in bold as in some wards there is more than one councillor.
Barrow
Dalton North – Votes 2665 32.01 percent
Ben Shirley – Conservative Party 921
Daniel Christopher Edwards – Conservative Party 783
Robert Douglas Elliot – Labour Party 556
Rachael Hogg – Liberal Democrat 262
Stephen John Coleman – Liberal Democrat 143
Dalton South – Votes 2863 32.99 percent
Dave Taylor – Independent 585
Tony Callister – Labour Party 488
Steve Nott – Labour Party 483
Sam Ronson – Conservative Party 469
Des English – Conservative Party 432
Martin David McLeavy – Independent 268
Barbara Lilian Miller – Liberal Democrat 74
Peter Graham Baker – Liberal Democrat 64
Hawcoat and Newbarns – Votes 7816 31.44 percent
Les Hall – Conservative Party 1151
Niyall Allister Phillips – Conservative Party 1069
Roy Worthington – Conservative Party 993
David Robert Cassidy – Labour Party 974
Mike Leach – Labour Party 913
Hayley Louise Preston – Labour Party 891
Denise Hazel Edwards – Independent 558
Steven Lindsay Pryer – Independent 468
Wendy Ada McClure – Independent 416
David Ian Benett Opie – Liberal Democrat 160
Sheila Eccles – Liberal Democrat 123
Christine Pearl Herbert – Liberal Democrat 100
Old Barrow and Hindpool – Votes 4958 21.1 percent
Anne Burns – Labour Party 1183
Kevin Robert Hamilton – Labour Party 1089
Margaret Ann Thomson – Labour Party 1076
Anne Bispham – Conservative Party 501
Piya Das – Conservative Party 407
Brenda Joyce Lauderdale – Conservative Party 406
Adam Grant Campbell – Liberal Democrat 114
Gill Gardiner – Liberal Democrat 99
Stephen Raymond Pickthall – Liberal Democrat 83
Ormsgill and Parkside – Votes 5633 24.68 percent
Derek Brook – Labour Party 1211
Bill McEwan – Labour Party 1242
Beverly Ann Morgan – Labour Party 1177
Elaine Burley – Conservative Party 635
Ann Denise English – Conservative Party 575
Emma Louise Wylie – Conservative Party 527
Jayne Marie Richardson – Liberal Democrat 114
Phil Walker – Liberal Democrat 84
Alasdair Wilkinson-Marsh – Liberal Democrat 68
Risedale and Roosecote – Votes 6617 28.2 percent
Jane Amelia Murphy – Labour Party 1152
Andy Coles – Labour Party 1139
Trevor Alan Biggins – Labour Party 1130
Derek Gawne – Conservative Party 984
Lynda Lea Shaw – Conservative Party 947
Ronnie Haddow – Conservative Party 871
Michael Wilson Barwise – Liberal Democrat 145
Jade Sullivan – Liberal Democrat 128
Heather Troughton – Liberal Democrat 121
Walney Island – Votes 6136 26.73 percent
Frank Cassidy – Labour Party 1349
Anita Gwendoline Husband – Labour Party 1179
Therese Mary Assouad – Labour Party 1175
Paul Allen Rose – Conservative Party 681
Steve Sharpe – Conservative Party 638
Terri-Ann Gibney – Conservative Party 622
Steven Fletcher – Independent 275
Paul Martin Trollope – Liberal Democrat 81
Chris Hogg – Liberal Democrat 77
Tina Perkins – Liberal Democrat 59
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