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 Councillor.
The Levens and Crooklands ward recorded the highest voter turnout with 54.66 percent as the Liberal Democrats took 25 of the 30 seats in South Lakeland with the Conservatives taking 3 with the Labour Party and Green Party taking just 1 seat each.
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.
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.
South Lakeland
Bowness and Lyth – Votes 1406 48.34 percent
Steve Bavin – Liberal Democrat 747
Jim Bland – Conservative Party 584
Simon Philip Clayton – Green Party 75
Burton and Holme – Votes 1468 52.57 percent
Vicky Hughes – Liberal Democrat 891
Tom Harvey- Conservative Party 519
Simon Joseph Blunden – Green Party 58
Coniston and Hawkshead – Votes 1337 50.93 percent
Suzanne Mary Pender – Liberal Democrat 854
Michael Ian Hoad – Conservative Party 370
Paul Andrew Martin – Labour Party 60
Mark Richard Poole – Green Party 53
Grange and Cartmel – Votes 11,923 49.85 percent
Jenny Boak – Liberal Democrat 2588
Pete Endsor – Liberal Democrat 2486
Sue Sanderson – Liberal Democrat 2040
Fiona Marguerite Hanlon – Independent 1428
Tor McLaren – Conservative Party 1050
James Townley – Conservative Party 882
David Edward Wilson – Conservative Party 729
Mandy Barnett – Green Party 301
Paul Anthony Woods – Green Party 177
Luke Stanley Benjamin Mossbarnett – Green Party 137
Lilian El-Doufani – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 105
High Furness – Votes 1404 45.97 percent
Matt Brereton- Conservative Party 581
Ian Charles Wharton – Liberal Democrat 562
Stephen Francis Carter – Labour Party 164
Peter Alan Howlet – Green Party 97
Kendal Castle – Votes 3809 42.74 percent
Eamonn Matthew Hennessy – Liberal Democrat 1224
Helen Ngaire Ladhams – Liberal Democrat 1212
Nigel Byrom – Conservative Party 430
David Lewis Williams – Conservative Party 404
Claire Wickham – Green Party 207
Janet Mary Antrobus – Green Party 198
Penny Henderson – Labour Party 134
Kendal Highgate – Votes 3313 38.13 percent
Phil Dixon – Liberal Democrat 1111
Matt Severn – Liberal Democrat 942
Margaret Bond – Conservative Party 279
Mike Nicholson – Conservative Party 264
Rosie Naish – Green Party 256
Ian Rodham – Green Party 179
Oliver Gill – Labour Party 160
Trevor Batchelor – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 122
Kendal Nether – Votes 3558 37.99 percent
Shirley Amelia Evans – Liberal Democrat 1192
Jonathan Cornthwaite – Liberal Democrat 1166
Lyndsay Elizabeth Slater – Conservative Party 333
Raymond Bower – Conservative Party 271
Liz Wood – Green Party 199
Paul Michael Braithwaite – Labour Party 182
Daniel Alexander Rayson – Green Party 154
Paul John Casson – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 61
Kendal South – Votes 4493 49.33 percent
Jonathan Richard Brook – Liberal Democrat 1547
Doug Rathbone – Liberal Democrat 1540
Luke Ivan Gudgeon – Conservative Party 564
Shiela Ann Worthington – Conservative Party 421
Elsa Fuster – Green Party 177
Lois Katharine Sparling – Labour Party 135
Phil Whiting – Green Party 109
Kendal Strickland and Fell – Votes 4657 49.44 percent
Giles Charles Archibald – Liberal Democrat 1381
Peter Carlyle Thornton – Liberal Democrat 1225
Laura Miller – Green Party 749
Graham Jeffery Vincent – Green Party 576
Virginia Elizabeth Branney – Labour Party 243
Irene Asbury – Conservative Party 221
Jacqueline Scott – Conservative Party 215
Martin Powell-Davies – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 47
Kent Estuary – Votes 4905 52.15 percent
Helen Elizabeth Chaffey – Liberal Democrat 1767
Rupert James Audland – Liberal Democrat 1621
Margaret Elizabeth Handley- Conservative Party 654
Peter Smillie – Conservative Party 526
Jill Abel – Green Party 337
Levens and Crooklands – Votes 1718 54.66 percent
Janet Mary Battye – Liberal Democrat 1106
Kevin Ronald Holmes – Conservative Party 539
Hilary Margaret Pickup – Green Party 73
Low Furness – Votes 1461 43.91 percent
Ben Thomas Cooper – Conservative Party 650
Janet Willis – Liberal Democrat 627
Eirik Raymond Haugsbak Hunt – Labour Party 128
Paul Alan Rigg – Green Party 56
Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale – Votes 5851 51.81 percent
Ian David Mitchell – Liberal Democrat 1891
Hazel Margaret Hodgson- Liberal Democrat 1854
Kevin John Lancaster – Conservative Party 983
Pat Bell – Conservative Party 898
Tony Gray – Green Party 225
Ulverston – Votes 11,409 42.76 percent
Judy Filmore – Green Party 1445
Jackie Drake – Labour Party 1286
Helen Irving – Conservative Party 1265
Michelle Scrogham – Labour Party 1247
Andrew Clifford Butcher – Conservative Party 1218
Mark Wilson – Labour Party 1189
Amanda Jane Rigg – Conservative Party 1165
Bob Gerry – Green Party 930
Rob O’Hara – Green Party 864
Andrew Hudson – Liberal Democrat 345
Dave Rushton – Liberal Democrat 246
Charles Edward Howarth – Liberal Democrat 209
Upper Kent – Votes 1574 47.44 percent
Ali Jama – Liberal Democrat 949
Deborah Huck – Conservative Party 415
Fran Richardson – Green Party 210
Windermere and Ambleside – Votes 9625 45.52 percent
Will Clark – Liberal Democrat 2330
Andrew Guy Jarvis – Liberal Democrat 2231
Dyan Jones – Liberal Democrat 2183
Cath Musetti – Conservative Party 966
Jolyon Ronald Thornhill Stephenson – Conservative Party 774
Paula Marie Cross – Conservative Party 751
Kate Threadgold – Green Party 390
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