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Dorset Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Dorset in England. It is a unitary authority , being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council .
2024 Dorset Council election: Dorchester Poundbury (1 seat) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Richard Martin Biggs* 780 : 54.0 +18.1 : Conservative: Peter Jonathon Stein 449 31.1 −1.5 Labour: Nick Boothroyd 122 8.4 +4.1 Green: Len Herbert 93 6.4 +0.7 Turnout: 1,444 41.38 Liberal Democrats hold: Swing
Dorset is a unitary authority area, existing since 1 April 2019, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It covers all of the ceremonial county except for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole .
2019 Dorset Council election: Beacon (1 seat) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative: Jane Somper : 1,020 : 64.4 : Liberal Democrats: Alexandra Gale 423 26.7 Labour: Samuel Charles Skey 142 9.0 Majority 597 37.7 Turnout: 42.60 Conservative win (new seat)
Bournemouth and Poole had both been unitary authorities since 1997, whilst Christchurch was a lower tier district council, with Dorset County Council providing county-level services in that borough. The way the changes were implemented was to create a new non-metropolitan district and a non-metropolitan county both called Bournemouth ...
Dorset County Council's responsibilities included schools, social care for the elderly and vulnerable, road maintenance, libraries and trading standards. The county council's area was also administered by six smaller authorities that have their own district or borough councils. The responsibilities of these councils included local planning ...
2019 Dorset Council election: Radipole (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Peter Lawrence Fraser Barrow : 1,346 : 51.3 : Liberal Democrats: David Michael Gray : 1,234 : 47.0 : Conservative: Peter Dickenson 709 27.0 Conservative: John Twidale Ellis 671 25.6 Labour: Mark Duxbury 541 20.6 Labour: Grafton Alphonso Straker 62 2. ...
2019 Dorset Council election: Dorchester West (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Andy Canning : 1,221 : 44.7 : Independent: Les Fry : 1,064 : 38.9 : Liberal Democrats: Janet Elizabeth Hewitt 973 35.6 Conservative: Gerald Duke 512 18.7 Green: Len Herbert 434 15.9 Conservative: Ian Francois Bernard Gosling 336 12.3 Labour ...