Local Election Results 2003
Copeland
Whole council up for election. Three Conservative councillors were elected unopposed.
Other results for Copeland:2007201120152019
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:2005200920132017
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party | Votes | Percent | Seats |
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| Labour | 13737 | 50.5% | 31 |
| Conservative | 10318 | 37.9% | 16 |
| Independent | 1962 | 7.2% | 3 |
| Liberal Democrat | 1180 | 4.3% | 1 |
| Joseph Sunderland | Ind | 463 | 71.0% |
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| Simon Leyton | Lab | 189 | 29.0% |
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| Yvonne Clarkson | C | unop. | |
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| John Jackson | C | unop. | |
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| Keith Hitchen | C | 502 | 68.6% |
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| Roger Putnam | LD | 230 | 31.4% |
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| Dorothy Wonnacott | C | 924 | 52.4% |
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| James Hewitson | Lab | 839 | 47.6% |
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| Anthony Johnston | Lab | 829 | |
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| Mark Mallard | C | 812 | |
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| Edward Brenan | Lab | 798 | |
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| Allan Mossop | C | 752 | |
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| Anthony Wells | Ind | 616 | 53.4% |
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| Joan Hully | Lab | 538 | 46.6% |
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| William Southward | Lab | 511 | |
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| John Henney | Lab | 445 | |
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| Catherine Giel | Lab | 679 | 63.8% |
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| David Banks | Lab | 652 | |
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| Hilda Morris | C | 194 | 18.2% |
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| Mike Minogue | LD | 192 | 18.0% |
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| Stuart Bowers | LD | 180 | |
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| Willis Metherell | Lab | 992 | 59.6% |
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| Brian Dixon | Lab | 963 | |
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| Kevin Young | Lab | 952 | |
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| Frank Hollowell | LD | 441 | 26.5% |
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| Mary Lancaster | LD | 349 | |
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| Joyce Toft | C | 231 | 13.9% |
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| Stephen Litt | LD | 197 | |
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| Samuel Meteer | Lab | 975 | 64.5% |
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| Elaine Woodburn | Lab | 936 | |
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| Margaret Woodburn | Lab | 933 | |
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| Steven Hill | C | 536 | 35.5% |
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| Alfred Bailey | C | 402 | |
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| Elizabeth Hutson | C | 402 | |
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| Michael McVeigh | Lab | 1184 | 66.7% |
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| Peter Watson | Lab | 1043 | |
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| Constance Watson | Lab | 1005 | |
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| John Holmes | C | 592 | 33.3% |
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| Jean Lewthwaite | C | 572 | |
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| Frederick Blinco | C | 537 | |
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| Robert Salkeld | C | 327 | 68.7% |
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| Mary Ross | Lab | 149 | 31.3% |
|---|
| Peter Connolly | Lab | 616 | 51.0% |
|---|
| James Close | Ind | 592 | 49.0% |
|---|
| Timothy Knowles | Lab | 425 | |
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| David Gray | C | 563 | 71.9% |
|---|
| Christina Cornall | Lab | 220 | 28.1% |
|---|
| Janet Johnston | Lab | 987 | 62.6% |
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| Henry Wormstrup | Lab | 944 | |
|---|
| Paul Whalley | Lab | 901 | |
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| Marcus Swift | C | 589 | 37.4% |
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| David Hall | C | 572 | |
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| Margaret Barnes | LD | 317 | 50.6% |
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| Francis Cairns | C | 309 | 49.4% |
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| Norman Williams | Lab | 1104 | 71.7% |
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| Jamieson Reed | Lab | 970 | |
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| Margarita Docherty | Lab | 859 | |
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| Gareth Maley | C | 436 | 28.3% |
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| Alistair Norwood | C | 828 | 66.6% |
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| Andrew Wonnacott | C | 728 | |
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| John Woolley | Lab | 415 | 33.4% |
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| John Park | Lab | 683 | 50.7% |
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| Frederick Gleaves | C | 665 | 49.3% |
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| Alan Altree | C | 407 | |
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| George Clements | Lab | 791 | 75.1% |
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| Alan Holliday | Lab | 661 | |
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| Leah Higgins | C | 262 | 24.9% |
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| Dorothy Faichney | Lab | 1320 | 81.2% |
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| Robert Docherty | Lab | 1132 | |
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| Michael Ashbrook | Lab | 875 | |
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| George Higgins | C | 305 | 18.8% |
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| Dorothy Gray | C | 204 | |
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| Geoffrey Blackwell | Lab | 343 | 54.9% |
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| Edward Fox | C | 282 | 45.1% |
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| Francis McPhillips | C | 905 | 60.5% |
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| Francis Heathcote | C | 898 | |
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| Raymond Cole | C | 872 | |
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| Gavin Towers | Lab | 591 | 39.5% |
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| Keith Crellin | Lab | 502 | |
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| Norman Clarkson | C | 575 | 74.6% |
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| Archibald Ross | Lab | 196 | 25.4% |
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| Peter Tyson | Lab | 536 | 55.1% |
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| James Prince | Lab | 360 | |
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| Gordon Brown | Ind | 291 | 29.9% |
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| Sheena Gray | C | 146 | 15.0% |
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| David Moore | C | 1147 | 74.6% |
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| Eileen Eastwood | C | 962 | |
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| Charles Tuley | Lab | 390 | 25.4% |
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