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.
The Cockermouth constituency was abolished in 1918, when it became part of the Workington Constituency.
George Fletcher, Whig, 1698-1701Anthony Lowther, 1721-1722Charles Jenkinson, 1761-1767John Anstruther, 1790-1796Robert Plumer Ward, 1802-1806John Osborn, 1807-1808William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, 1808-1813Edward Horsman, Liberal, 1836-1852Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, 1857-68.Wilfred Lawson, Liberal, 1885-1900Sir John Scurrah Randles, Conservative, 1900–1906Wilfred Lawson, Liberal, 1906Sir John Scurrah Randles, Conservative, 1906–1910Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Brayton, 1910-1916Joseph Bliss, 1916-1918The Workington Constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918, which also abolished the constituency of Cockermouth.
Thomas Cape, 1918–1945Fred Peart, Labour, 1945-1976, now Baron Peart, of WorkingtonRichard Page, Conservative, 1976-1979Dale Campbell-Savours, Labour, 1979-1983The Whitehaven constituency, created 1832, was renamed Copeland constituency in 1983.
William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, 1832–1833Robert Hudson, Conservative, 1924-1929Frank Anderson, Labour, 1945-1959Joseph Bede Symonds, Labour, 1959-1970Jack Cunningham, Labour, 1970-1983Henry Charles Howard, 1885-1886James William Lowther 1886-1918Penrith and Cockermouth
James William Lowther, Conservative, 1918-1921Sir Henry Cecil Lowther, Coalition Conservative, 1921-1922Levi Collison, Liberal, 1922-1923Arthur Carlyne Niven Dixey, Conservative, 1923-1935Alan Vincent Gandar Dower, Conservative, 1935-1950Lt.-Col. A V G Dower, Conservative, 1945-1950R D Scott, Conservative, 1950-1955William Whitelaw, Conservative, 1955-1983Wilfrid Lawson, 1859-1865Edgar Grierson, Labour, 1945-1950Alfred Hargreaves, Labour, 1950-1955Dr Donald Johnson, Conservative, 1955-1964Ron Lewis, Labour, 1964-1983Westmorland
The Parliament constituency of Westmorland was renamed Westmorland and Lonsdale in 1983
Anthony Lowther, 1722-1741William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, 1813–1831William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, 1833–1841William Fletcher-Vane, Conservative, 1945-1959Michael Jopling, Conservative, 1959-1983Walter Monslow (Labour Party) 1945-1966Albert Booth (Labour Party) 1966-1983This section lists Members of parliament for the new county of Cumbria since the re-organisation in 1983
Penrith and The Border
David Maclean, Conservative, 1983-2010Rory Stewart, Conservative, 2010-Barrow and Furness
Cecil Franks, Conservative, 1983-1992John Hutton, Labour, 1992-2010John Woodcock, Labour Co-operative, 2010-Westmorland and Lonsdale
Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, Conservative, 1983-1997Tim Collins, Conservative, 1997-2005Tim Farron, LibDem, 2005-Copeland
Jack Cunningham, Labour, 1983-2005Jamie Reed, Labour, 2005-2017Trudy Harrison, Conservative, 2017-Dale Campbell-Savours, Labour, 1983-2001 - now Baron Campbell-SavoursTony Cunningham, Labour, 2001-Ron Lewis, Labour, 1983-1987Eric Martlew, Labour, 1987-2010John Stevenson, Conservative, 2010-