Local Election Results 2015
Copeland
Whole council up for election. One Conservative councillor was elected unopposed.
Other results for Copeland:
2003
2007
2011
2019
By-elections for Copeland (may be incomplete): 10th June 2004 (Harbour)
— 6th April 2006 (Cleator Moor N.; Gosforth; Hensingham)
— 20th September 2007 (Harbour)
— 2nd May 2013 (Hensingham)
— 8th June 2017 (Newtown)
— 2nd November 2017 (Egremont S.)
— 6th May 2021 (Whitehaven C.)
Results for Cumbria county council: 2005
2009
2013
2017
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
First preferences
| Steve Gibbons |
Lab |
12867 |
39.9% |
| Mike Starkie |
Ind |
9836 |
30.5% |
| Chris Whiteside |
C |
9509 |
29.5% |
Run-off
| Mike Starkie |
Ind |
15233 |
51.7% |
| Steve Gibbons |
Lab |
14259 |
48.3% |
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Labour |
13846 |
42.5% |
29 |
| Conservative |
12342 |
37.9% |
17 |
| Independent |
4244 |
13.0% |
5 |
| Green Party |
1330 |
4.1% |
0 |
| UK Independence Party |
604 |
1.9% |
0 |
| Liberal Democrat |
182 |
0.6% |
0 |
| Graham Sunderland |
Ind |
527 |
70.2% |
| Elaine Haraldsen |
C |
224 |
29.8% |
| Yvonne Clarkson |
C |
808 |
45.3% |
| Sam Meteer |
Ind |
562 |
31.5% |
| Graham Grant |
C |
479 |
|
| Julia Lee |
Lab |
415 |
23.2% |
| Anne Bradshaw |
Lab |
1259 |
53.7% |
| Brian O'Kane |
C |
1087 |
46.3% |
| Graham Roberts |
C |
1009 |
|
| Arthur Lamb |
C |
711 |
|
| Hugh Branney |
Lab |
1091 |
49.8% |
| Joan Hully |
Lab |
1082 |
|
| Linda Jones-Bulman |
Lab |
805 |
|
| Nick Ford |
UKIP |
604 |
27.6% |
| David Walker |
C |
495 |
22.6% |
| Dave Banks |
Lab |
747 |
74.9% |
| Dave Riley |
Lab |
666 |
|
| Elizabeth Hutson |
C |
250 |
25.1% |
| Jackie Bowman |
Lab |
875 |
59.8% |
| Gillian Troughton |
Lab |
859 |
|
| John Bowman |
Lab |
839 |
|
| Andrew Wonnacott |
C |
587 |
40.2% |
| Sam Pollen |
Lab |
935 |
39.3% |
| John Burns |
Lab |
787 |
|
| Jean Lewthwaite |
C |
666 |
28.0% |
| Jacqui Smith |
Ind |
606 |
25.5% |
| Lee Butterworth |
Ind |
549 |
|
| Jane Tyson |
Grn |
170 |
7.2% |
| Michael McVeigh |
Lab |
915 |
43.3% |
| Lena Hogg |
Lab |
732 |
|
| Neil Ferguson |
Lab |
623 |
|
| Graham Hutson |
C |
518 |
24.5% |
| Paul Downton |
Ind |
511 |
24.2% |
| Adam Nichol |
Ind |
379 |
|
| Erica Flint |
Grn |
168 |
8.0% |
| John Dirom |
C |
271 |
47.5% |
| Dave Camlin |
Grn |
211 |
37.0% |
| Mike Minogue |
LD |
88 |
15.4% |
| Peter Connolly |
Lab |
648 |
64.1% |
| Gwynneth Everett |
Lab |
581 |
|
| Dan Glover |
C |
363 |
35.9% |
| Alan Jacob |
C |
600 |
79.2% |
| Jim Hewitson |
Lab |
158 |
20.8% |
| Carla Arrighi |
Ind |
856 |
35.9% |
| Charles Maudling |
Ind |
815 |
|
| William Kirkbride |
Lab |
753 |
31.6% |
| Henry Wormstrup |
Lab |
616 |
|
| Glenn Gray |
C |
500 |
21.0% |
| Ian St John |
Grn |
274 |
11.5% |
| Doug Wilson |
C |
315 |
47.8% |
| Barrie Crawford |
Lab |
290 |
44.0% |
| Nigel Gilligan |
Grn |
54 |
8.2% |
| Allan Forster |
Lab |
1011 |
66.8% |
| Raymond Gill |
Lab |
955 |
|
| Jeanette Forster |
Lab |
903 |
|
| Hazel Dirom |
C |
502 |
33.2% |
| John Kane |
Lab |
732 |
53.8% |
| Alistair Norwood |
C |
629 |
46.2% |
| Allan Mossop |
C |
523 |
|
| Fred Gleaves |
C |
542 |
54.8% |
| Denise Burness |
Lab |
447 |
45.2% |
| Jane Micklethwaite |
C |
368 |
|
| Rowena Pitt |
Lab |
352 |
|
| Michael Guest |
Ind |
550 |
42.6% |
| Allan Holliday |
Lab |
518 |
40.1% |
| John Woolley |
Lab |
424 |
|
| Doreen Platt |
C |
224 |
17.3% |
| Gilbert Scurrah |
C |
496 |
66.4% |
| Lynette Gilligan |
Grn |
251 |
33.6% |
| Mark Holliday |
Lab |
918 |
53.4% |
| Paul Whalley |
Lab |
718 |
|
| Christopher Reay |
Lab |
551 |
|
| John Little |
Ind |
465 |
27.1% |
| George Higgins |
C |
336 |
19.5% |
| Martin Barbour |
C |
259 |
38.1% |
| Geoff Blackwell |
Lab |
253 |
37.3% |
| Alan Lawson |
Ind |
167 |
24.6% |
| Raymond Cole |
C |
756 |
47.0% |
| Felicity Wilson |
C |
755 |
|
| Bob Kelly |
Lab |
650 |
40.4% |
| Ged McGrath |
C |
568 |
|
| Sally Millar |
Grn |
202 |
12.6% |
| Ian Hill |
C |
610 |
65.9% |
| Alan Alexander |
Lab |
221 |
23.9% |
| Les Abrahams |
LD |
94 |
10.2% |
| Peter Stephenson |
Lab |
638 |
68.9% |
| Peter Tyson |
Lab |
533 |
|
| Sam Holding |
C |
288 |
31.1% |
| David Moore |
C |
1016 |
73.2% |
| Andy Pratt |
C |
946 |
|
| Wendy Skillicorn |
Lab |
372 |
26.8% |
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