By Robert Haile
The electorate have spoken and the make up of the Shadow Cumberland Council has been decided.
Of the 45 seats available the Labour Party took 30 seats with the Conservative Party taking 7, Liberal Democrats have 4, Independents 3 and there will be 2 Green Party Councillors.
At a turnout of 36.1 percent (76053) for the election with Ward turnout varying from 52.2 percent to 24.1 percent.
In the Carlisle wards the 18 seats 9 Labour Party, 3 Conservative Party, 4 Liberal Democrats, 1 Independents and 1 Green Party Councillor.
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.
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.
Carlisle
Belah – Votes 2078 42.5 percent
Helen Davison – Green Party 944
Gareth Michael Ellis – Conservative Party 756
David Graham – Labour Party 277
Alan Toole – Independent 101
Belle Vue – Votes 1494 32.1 percent
Abdul Harid – Labour Party 788
James Robert Bainbridge – Conservative Party 706
Botcherby – Votes 1397 29.5 percent
Robert William Betton – Independent 553
Louise Atkinson – Labour Party 470
Marilyn Louise Bowman – Conservative Party 305
Robert John Scott Inglis – Green Party 69
Brampton – Votes 1754 39.9 percent
Mike Mitchelson – Conservative Party 752
Tom Adams – Green Party 720
Iain Armstrong Owens – Labour Party 282
Castle – Votes 1166 29.2 percent
Anne Glendinning – Labour Party 562
Gavin Hawkton – Green Party 313
Syed Fiftul Ali – Conservative Party 264
Rob Heal – Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts 27
Corby and Hayton – Votes 1819 46.6 percent
Roger Dobson – Liberal Democrat 1090
Raymond Tinnion – Independent 423
Timothy Robert Cheetham – Conservative Party 306
Currock – Votes 997 24.1 percent
Lisa Margaret Brown – Labour Party 630
Fiona Jane Robson – Conservative Party 286
Brent Kennedy – Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts 81
Dalston and Burgh – Votes 2393 40 percent
Trevor Allison – Liberal Democrat 1142
James Ernest White – Conservative Party 779
Alex Key – Labour Party 472
Denton Holme – Votes 1325 28.4
Christopher John Southward – Labour Party 779
Ann Vipond McKerrell – Conservative Party 329
Stuart Kelly – Liberal Democrat 118
Grahame Higginson – Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts 99
Harraby North – Votes 1096 24.4 percent
Cyril Fredrick Weber – Labour Party 708
Robert Gordon Currie – Conservative Party 339
Ernie Percival – Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts 49
Harraby South – Votes 1550 35.3 percent
Lucy Patrick – Labour Party 634
Linda Margaret Mitchell – Conservative Party 547
Sean Clifford Reed – Independent 369
Houghton and Irthington – Votes 1730 39.9 percent
John Mallinson – Conservative Party 1024
Paul Anthony Nettleton – Liberal Democrat 389
Beth Furneaux – Labour Party 317
Longtown – Votes 1434 36.9 percent
Timothy David Pickstone – Liberal Democrat 949
Sam Bown – Conservative Party 485
Morton – Votes 1354 30.3 percent
Anne Quilter – Labour Party 630
Neville John Lishman – Conservative Party 599
Donna Louise Bertoletti – Green Party 125
Stanwix Urban – Votes 2425 52.2 percent
Brian Kevin Wernham – Liberal Democrat 1472
Elizabeth Anne Mallinson – Conservative Party 559
Paul Atkinson – Labour Party 271
Paul Nedved – Independent 123
Upperby – Votes 1130 25.9 percent
Chris Wills – Labour Party 744
Leighton Llewellyn Rees – Conservative Party 386
Wetheral – Votes 2199 40.3 percent
Geoff Mitchell – Conservative Party 1173
Ruth E Alcroft – Labour Party 607
Julia Kim Dobson – Liberal Democrat 419
Yewdale – Votes 1741 37.9 percent
Jeanette Maria Whalen – Labour Party 944
Stephen Haraldsen – Conservative Party 797
THE HERDWICK NEWS 