Little Broughton is a village and former

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, now in the parish of Broughton, in the Allerdale district, in the county of

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, England, located west of

Cockermouth Cockermouth is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England, so named because it is at the confluence of the River Cocker as it flows into the River Derwent. The mid-2010 census estimates state that Cocke ...

. In 1891 the parish had a population of 820.

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Little Broughton is part of the

Workington Workington is a coastal town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast in the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England. The town was historically in Cumberland. At the 2011 census it had a population of 25,207. Locat ...

constituency of the

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. The current

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Mark Jenkinson Mark Ian Jenkinson (born 28 January 1982) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington since 2019. Early life and career Jenkinson was born in Whitehaven and raised in Workington. He was ed ...

, a member of the Conservative Party. Until the 2019 General Election the Labour Party had won the seat in every general election since 1979; the Conservative Party had previously only been elected once in Workington since

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: this being in the

1976 Workington by-election The 1976 Workington by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in England for the House of Commons constituency of Workington in Cumbria on 4 November 1976. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Richard Page, who became the fir ...

. For the

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residents in Little Broughton voted to elect MEP's for the North West England constituency.. For

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purposes it is in the ''Broughton St Bridget's'' electoral ward of

Allerdale Borough Council Allerdale is a non-metropolitan district of Cumbria, England, with borough status. Its council is based in Workington and the borough has a population of 93,492 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 96,422 at the 2011 Census. The Boro ...

. This ward stretches north to

Bridekirk Bridekirk is a village and civil parish in the Allerdale district in the county of Cumbria, England. It is around north of the Derwent river and about the same distance from the nearest large town of Cockermouth just south of the river. Brideki ...

with a total population at the 2011 Census of 4,178. Broughton is part of the ''Dearham and Broughton'' Ward of

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. The village belongs to a Broughton Parish Council, which covers

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and Little Broughton. Little Broughton was formerly a

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parish, from 1866 Little Broughton was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 October 1898 to form Broughton and

Broughton Moor Broughton Moor is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. It is situated on an extensive moor about north of Broughton, north west of Cockermouth, south of Maryport and north of Workington. According to the 2001 census it had a ...

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Villages in Cumbria Former civil parishes in Cumbria Allerdale {{Cumbria-geo-stub

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