Ireby is in the
parliamentary constituency of
Penrith and Solway. In the
December 2019 general election, the
Tory candidate for Workington,
Mark Jenkinson, was elected the
MP, overturning a 9.4 per cent Labour majority from the 2017 election to eject shadow environment secretary
Sue Hayman by a margin of 4,136 votes. Until the December 2019 general election The Labour Party had won the seat in the constituency in every general election since 1979.The
Conservative Party had only been elected once in Workington since
World War II, at the 1976 by-election. In the
2024 United Kingdom general election, under new constituency boundaries
Penrith and Solway went back to Labour. Before
Brexit, its residents were covered by the
North West England European Parliamentary Constituency. For
Local Government purposes, it is in the Bothel and Wharrels
electoral ward of
Cumberland Council. Historically, it was in
Allerdale district of Cumbria between 1974 and 2023, and the
Wigton Rural District of
Cumberland from 1894 to 1974. The village forms part of the
civil parish of
Ireby and Uldale and has its own
Parish Council along with Uldale, Ireby and Uldale Parish Council. ==In popular culture==