Voters across Allerdale will take to the polls on Thursday, May 2 to choose the candidates they would like to see as their borough councillors for the next four years.

The nominees are

Arlecdon and Ennerdale (2 seats): Gwynneth Anne Everett (Labour), Duncan Hoyle (Labour), Arthur

William Creighton Lamb (Conservative), Steven Robert Morgan (Independent), Allan David Mossop (Conservative). Beckermet (1 seat): Yvonne Risager Thomsen Clarkson (Conservative), Sam Meteer (Independent). Black Combe and Scafell (2 seats): Ged McGrath (Conservative), Anne Mary Todd (Labour), Doug Wilson (Conservative). Cleator Moor (three seats): Hugh Anthony Branney (Labour), Herbert Winford Crossman (Independent), Lee Malcolm Doran (UKIP), Oliver Joseph Dorgan (Conservative), Nicholas Frederick Ford (Independent), Joan Isobel Hully (Labour), Linda Jones-Bulman (Labour), Calum Thomas Monteath Nicholson (Conservative), Chris Whiteside (Conservative). Corkickle (1 seat): Gemma Dinsdale (Labour), Andrew Wonnacott (Conservative). Distington, Lowca and Parton (2 seats): Dave Banks (Labour), Jackie Bowman (Labour), Daniel James Glover (Conservative), Elaine Haraldsen (Conservative). Egremont (3 seats): Harry Nicholas Berger (Conservative), Tom Higgins (Labour), Mike McVeigh (Labour), Sam Pollen (Labour), Archibald Charles Reid (Conservative), Christopher Paul Turner (Conservative). Gosforth and Seascale (2 seats): David Willis Moore (Conservative), Andy Pratt (Conservative) - no election needed. Hillcrest (3 seats): Allan Forster (Labour), Joseph Ghayouba (Labour), Alistair William Millar Norwood (Conservative), Hugh Brian O'Kane (Conservative), Russell Studholme (Conservative). Kells (1 seat): Christopher James Hayes (Independent), John Kane (Labour), Brigid Anne Whiteside (Conservative). Millom (3 seats): Denise Barbara Burness (Labour), James Lawrence Samuel Date (Conservative), Fred Gleaves (Conservative), Bob Kelly (Labour), Felicity Jane Wilson (Conservative). Moresby (1 seat): Martin Steven Barbour (Conservative), Reginald Graham Minshaw (Labour). Moor Row and Bigrigg (1 seat): Graham Robert Calvin (Labour), Jean Lewthwaite (Conservative), Mike Minogue (Lib Dem). Sneckyeat (1 seat): Jeanette Forster (Labour), Stephen Haraldsen (Conservative). St Bees (1 seat): Alan Alexander (Labour), Jeffrey Hailes (Conservative). Whitehaven Central (3 seats): Carla Arrighi (Conservative), Sean Cullen (Labour), Elizabeth Hutson (Conservative), Charles Edward Maudling (Independent), Christopher John Reay (Labour), Graham Robert Phillip

Melville Roberts (Conservative), Eileen Weir (Labour). Whitehaven South (3 seats): Mike Hawkins (Labour), Graham Victor Hutson (Conservative), Doreen Platt (Conservative), Andi Elizabeth Rutherford (Labour), Jonathan Peter Spencer (Conservative), Peter David Tyson (Labour), Wammo Walmsley (Independent).