Nominations close for Copeland Borough Council election

Nominations closed yesterday for the election of a Directly-Elected Mayor of Copeland and for 33 Copeland Borough Councillors. There are also elections for town and parish councils. The "statement of persons nominated" documents indicating who is standing have now been published for the various elections in Copeland and can be found here.

The three candidates to be Mayor of Copeland are
  • Ged McGrath (Conservative,) 
  • Linda Jones-Bulman (Labour)
  • Mike Starkie (Independent)
The wards for Copeland Borough Council have been thoroughly reorganised and the number of councillors reduced from 51 to 33.

The proportionate level of competition is higher than in previous years. The Conservatives are the only party standing a full slate of 33 candidates: Labour are standing 27, there are also six independent candidates, one Lib/Dem candidate and one UKIP candidate.

Because of Labour's problems finding candidates two Conservative councillors - David Moore and Andy Pratt in the new Gosforth and Seascale ward - have been re-elected unopposed and the Conservatives are guaranteed at least one member of the council for each of the enlarged Hillcrest Ward, the new combined Millom ward, and the new Black Coombe & Scafell Ward.

The general position throughout Lancashire and Cumbria is that the Conservatives are doing quite well at finding candidates and our morale is good enough that we have had people out on the doorstep in many parts of the county for weeks. Conservatives are fighting 100% of the district/borough/city council seats in Lancashire and in five of the six council areas in Cumbria and have at least one candidate in every ward in the sixth area.

And I think it is going to be a very interesting set of elections.

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