The Aspatria division covers eight civil parishes:

Aspatria
Hayton & Mealo
Allonby
Holme St. Cuthbert
Allhallows
Westnewton
Dundraw
Bromfield

The ward of Aspatria encompasses the civil parishes of Aspatria, Westnewton, Plumbland and Bothel and Threapland.

Two councillors are elected to the ward.

Cumbria County Council was formed in 1974, when the administrative counties of Cumberland and Westmorland and the county borough of Carlisle were abolished and the areas they covered were combined with parts of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire to form a new non-metropolitan county.

Allerdale is a non-metropolitan district of Cumbria, with borough status. Its council is based in Workington and the borough has a population of 96,422 at the 2011 Census.