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Cumbria County Council was the county council for the non-metropolitan county of Cumbria in the North West of England. Established in April 1974, following its first elections held the previous year, it was an elected local government body responsible for the most significant local services in the area, including schools , roads, and social ...
Cumbria County Council elections. Cumbria County Council in England was elected every four years between 1973 and 2017. Since the last boundary changes in 2013, 84 councillors were elected from 84 wards for the last council before abolition in 2023. [1]
Cumberland is a unitary authority area in Cumbria, England, [4] [5] [6] which means that is a non-metropolitan county and district. It borders Scotland, Northumberland, Westmorland and Furness, and the Irish Sea. Part of the area is in the Lake District National Park and notable landmarks include Carlisle Cathedral, Carlisle Castle and Hadrian ...
2010 boundary changes. Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain Cumbria's constituencies for the 2010 election, making minor changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies.
Council control after election. No overall control. The 2017 Cumbria County Council election took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. [1] All 84 councillors were elected from electoral divisions which return one county councillor each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office.
The hall was the headquarters of the former Westmorland County Council from 1939 to 1974 and also used by Cumbria County Council until a shake-up of local government in 2023.
Westmorland and Furness is a unitary authority area in Cumbria, England. [4] [5] The economy is mainly focused on tourism around both the Lake District and Cumbria Coast, shipbuilding and the port in Barrow-in-Furness, and agriculture in the rural parts of the area. The council area formed on 1 April 2023, on the abolition of Cumbria County ...
In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the county council was abolished and its former area was combined with Cumberland and parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire to form the new county of Cumbria, administered by a new Cumbria County Council. The area formed parts of the districts of South Lakeland and Eden from 1974 to 2023.