Saturday, 11 October 2008

Face of Cumbria 2008: The winner

The voting is over and the winner has been chosen.

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After a total of 8,971 online and text votes were received, we can reveal that you chose NATHAN TOTH, of Carlisle, as the Face of Cumbria 2008.

He beat runner-up Chelsea Peebles, of Carlisle, by 184 votes in the week-long public poll.

The six finalists received the following number of votes:

  • Nathan Toth - 2763
  • Melanie Park - 1253
  • Bridie Lawson - 1534
  • Chelsea Peebles - 2579
  • Chelsea Bewley - 664
  • Jennifer Barry - 178

Three papers - the News & Star, the Times & Star and The Whitehaven News - staged the competition and each had its own voting panel. The results from all three votes were added together and then combined with the result of the text vote to find the overall winner and runner-up.

Nathan receives the £1,000 top prize - a modelling shoot with Simon Anderson Photography and professional portfolio.

Chelsea receives a photo session and smaller portfolio from Simon Anderson Photography.

View all Face of Cumbria 2008 entries here