The chair of the Labour Party will tell activists in Cumbria that they can regain Carlisle and Copeland.
The party failed to win either seat at the last general election, with voters in most of the county's other constituencies swinging towards the Conservatives.
The MP for the North East constituency of Wansbeck, Ian Lavery, is set to tell the meeting at the Old Town Hall in Carlisle at 18:00 that his party is not far from forming the next government.
