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An election to Cumbria County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the United Kingdom local elections, 2013. All 84 councillors were elected from electoral divisions which returned one county councillor each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. Following an electoral review carried out by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England, newly drawn electoral divisions were used without change in the number of county councillors.
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All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections. It is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election. Prior to the election local Conservatives were leading a coalition with the Liberal Democrats with the Labour party as the council's official opposition.
Summary
The election saw the council remain in no over control. However Labour councillors overtook Conservatives to become the largest party on the county council.
The Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties still had enough seats to remain in a weakened majority coalition, as such discussions opened up between Labour and Liberal Democrat groups and a coalition was formed between those two parties. Thus this forced the local Conservatives back into opposition as they were before the 2009 election.
Members elected
The election returned members as follows: