Cumbrian MPs

In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the administrative counties of Cumberland and Westmorland were abolished, and were combined with parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire to form the non-metropolitan county of Cumbria.

The administrative and ceremonial county of Cumbria were then divided into six local government districts. There are no unitary authorities in Cumbria.

The first section lists Members of parliament for the old counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, and the second section for the county of Cumbria.

Cumberland and Westmorland

Cockermouth

The Cockermouth constituency was abolished in 1918, when it became part of the Workington Constituency.

• George Fletcher, Whig, 1698-1701
• Anthony Lowther, 1721-1722
• Charles Jenkinson, 1761-1767
• John Anstruther, 1790-1796
• Robert Plumer Ward, 1802-1806
• John Osborn, 1807-1808
• William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, 1808-1813
• Edward Horsman, Liberal, 1836-1852
• Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, 1857-68.
• Wilfred Lawson, Liberal, 1885-1900
• Sir John Scurrah Randles, Conservative, 1900–1906
• Wilfred Lawson, Liberal, 1906
• Sir John Scurrah Randles, Conservative, 1906–1910
• Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Brayton, 1910-1916
• Joseph Bliss, 1916-1918

Workington

The Workington Constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918, which also abolished the constituency of Cockermouth.

• Thomas Cape, 1918–1945
• Fred Peart, Labour, 1945-1976, now Baron Peart, of Workington
• Richard Page, Conservative, 1976-1979
• Dale Campbell-Savours, Labour, 1979-1983

Whitehaven

The Whitehaven constituency, created 1832, was renamed Copeland constituency in 1983.

• William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, 1832–1833
• Robert Hudson, Conservative, 1924-1929
• Frank Anderson, Labour, 1945-1959
• Joseph Bede Symonds, Labour, 1959-1970
• Jack Cunningham, Labour, 1970-1983

Penrith

• Henry Charles Howard, 1885-1886
• James William Lowther 1886-1918

Penrith and Cockermouth

• James William Lowther, Conservative, 1918-1921
• Sir Henry Cecil Lowther, Coalition Conservative, 1921-1922
• Levi Collison, Liberal, 1922-1923
• Arthur Carlyne Niven Dixey, Conservative, 1923-1935
• Alan Vincent Gandar Dower, Conservative, 1935-1950

Penrith & the Border

• Lt.-Col. A V G Dower, Conservative, 1945-1950
• R D Scott, Conservative, 1950-1955
• William Whitelaw, Conservative, 1955-1983

Carlisle

• Wilfrid Lawson, 1859-1865
• Edgar Grierson, Labour, 1945-1950
• Alfred Hargreaves, Labour, 1950-1955
• Dr Donald Johnson, Conservative, 1955-1964
• Ron Lewis, Labour, 1964-1983

Westmorland

The Parliament constituency of Westmorland was renamed Westmorland and Lonsdale in 1983

• Anthony Lowther, 1722-1741
• William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, 1813–1831
• William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, 1833–1841
• William Fletcher-Vane, Conservative, 1945-1959
• Michael Jopling, Conservative, 1959-1983

Barrow-in-Furness

• Walter Monslow (Labour Party) 1945-1966
• Albert Booth (Labour Party) 1966-1983

Cumbria

This section lists Members of parliament for the new county of Cumbria since the re-organisation in 1983

Penrith and The Border

• David Maclean, Conservative, 1983-2010
• Rory Stewart, Conservative, 2010-

Barrow and Furness

• Cecil Franks, Conservative, 1983-1992
• John Hutton, Labour, 1992-2010
• John Woodcock, Labour Co-operative, 2010-

Westmorland and Lonsdale

• Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, Conservative, 1983-1997
• Tim Collins, Conservative, 1997-2005
• Tim Farron, LibDem, 2005-

Copeland

• Jack Cunningham, Labour, 1983-2005
• Jamie Reed, Labour, 2005-

Workington

• Dale Campbell-Savours, Labour, 1983-2001 - now Baron Campbell-Savours
• Tony Cunningham, Labour, 2001-

Carlisle

• Ron Lewis, Labour, 1983-1987
• Eric Martlew, Labour, 1987-2010
• John Stevenson, Conservative, 2010-

Sources

• Historical listings of Members of Parliament - lists, for example, all 72 MPs for Cockermouth from 1660-1918