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 ceremonial county of Cumbria is divided into two unitary authorities: Cumberland, and Westmoreland and Furness.
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, 2010-2019 Neil Hudson, Conservative, 2019-2024
Barrow and Furness Cecil Franks, Conservative, 1983-1992 John Hutton, Labour, 1992-2010 John Woodcock, Labour Co-operative, 2010-2019 Simon Fell, Conservative, 2019-2024
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, 2005-2017 Trudy Harrison, Conservative, 2017-2024
Workington Dale Campbell-Savours, Labour, 1983-2001 - now Baron Campbell-Savours Tony Cunningham, Labour, 2001-2015 Sue Hayman, Labour, 2015-2019 - now Baroness Hayman of Ullock Mark Jenkinson, Conservative, 2019-2024
Carlisle Ron Lewis, Labour, 1983-1987 Eric Martlew, Labour, 1987-2010 John Stevenson, Conservative, 2010-2024
Sources - lists, for example, all 72 MPs for Cockermouth from 1660 to 1918
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