Little Broughton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Broughton, in the Cumberland district, in the county of Cumbria, England, located 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Cockermouth.

[1] Little Broughton is part of the Penrith and Solway constituency of the UK Parliament.

For Local Government purposes it was in the Broughton St Bridget's electoral ward of Allerdale Borough Council until 2023.

This ward stretches north to Bridekirk with a total population at the 2011 Census of 4,178.

[2] It is now administered as part of the Cumberland unitary authority.