Copeland Borough Council election results

It has been an interesting day and one full of very mixed results throughout Cumbria with some successes and some defeats for all the main parties, though I don't think anyone who spent much time on the doorstep could possibly be unaware of the considerable anger among a substantial proportion of the electorate at the failure to implement the Referendum decision and leave the EU.

Labour retained their majority of the council, which astonished me because they had effectively done everything possible to throw it away, but after his emphatic re-election, Independent Mike Starkie effectively retains the balance of power on most issues, because it takes a two-thirds majority to over-rule the executive that he appoints, and neither Labour or the Conservatives can muster that.

The council has been reduced from 51 to 33 councillors and there were extensive boundary changes, so a number of incumbent councillors were fighting seats which were much less safe than the ones they had before. Although the Conservatives lost six sitting councillors we actually wound up with a fairly similar proportion of the total seats on the council to what we had before.

Total number of councillors elected was

Labour: 19
Conservative: 10
Independent: 4

At the time of posting this Copeland BC does not have the full results up on their website but you can find the names of all the successful candidates and an outline of how the individual wards voted on the Whitehaven News website here.

I would like to congratulate all the successful candidates and commiserate with all those who lost, especially the Conservative candidates and thank all those who took the time and trouble to cast their vote, especially those who voted Conservative. 

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