Here are the results from the 2023 local election results in Cumbria.
Polls closed at 10pm last night and counts took place overnight. The Allerdale area count – which includes Keswick – takes place today.
All contested parishes and wards for Westmorland and Furness Council have been verified and the results are below.
Those elected are bolded up.
Penrith Town Council
Penrith North – four seats
Turnout 31.8%
- William Balderstone, Conservatives 273 votes
- Paul Jackson, Labour 339 votes
- Michael Scott Jackson 385 votes
- Daniel Marcus Jayson, Liberal Democrats 676 votes
- Ronald J Kenyon 605 votes
- Dale Normington, Conservatives, 241 votes
Penrith South – two seats
Turnout 22.2%
- Roger Burgin, Liberal Democrats 298
- Margaret Clark 154
- Danny Smith, Labour 159
Penrith West – three seats
Turnout 22.2%
- Barbara Jayson, Liberal Democrats 271
- Dave Knaggs, Labour 169
- Hilary Snell, Labour 172
- Jeff Thomson, Independent 246
Crosby Ravensworth Parish Council – seven seats
Turnout 59%
- David Matthew Graham 120
- David William Hewitt 111
- Ginny Holroyd 125
- John Charles Lynch 110
- Debbie McCall 110
- Joan Elizabeth Raine 150
- Diane Ridgway 107
- Helen Katherine Rimmer 119
Kirkby Stephen Parish Council – nine seats
Turnout 30.5%
- Alexander Doyle Birtles 349 votes
- Philip Roy Dew 267 votes
- Maurice Edward Hall, independent 219 votes
- Sandy Lancaster 297 votes
- John Stephen Murray 197 votes
- Paul Richardson 279 votes
- Dorothy Thornton 198 votes
- Christine Tinn 107 votes
- Adrian Harvey Martin Waite 194 votes
- Mike Walker 181 votes
- Grace Sophia Wren 284 votes
Matterdale Parish Council – 12 seats
Turnout 44.5%
- Paul Brian Airey 71
- Claire Elizabeth Beaumont 71
- Richard Allen Dobinson, Maintenance Man 85
- Michael James Firth 70
- Veronica Anne Gore 75
- David George Richard Harrison 82
- Daniel William Holder 61
- Richard Nevard Lloyd 82
- William Arthur McAlpine 42
- Pamela Jane Newport 60
- John Charles O’Neill 75
- Ben Shaw 72
- Jean Wilson 67
Musgrave Parish Council – five seats
Turnout 50.8%
- David Charles Bates 39
- Mike Clarke 43
- Norman Bradley English 25
- Paul Taylor 52
- Michael Kevin Watson 41
- Timothy Michael Wells 51
