INDEPENDENT councillor Karen Greenwood won last night's Eden District Council by-election to fill the vacant seat for the Appleby ward.
She polled 187 votes of the 254 cast with Conservative candidate Phil Guest getting 67 votes. The eligible electorate is 1,017, meaning the turnout was 24.9 per cent.
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