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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 .
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 .
Puddletown is part of the Puddletown and Lower Winterborne ward which elects 1 member to Dorset Council. [27] In the UK national parliament, Puddletown is within the West Dorset parliamentary constituency. Historically, Puddletown was in the Dorchester Rural District from 1894 to 1974, [28] and the West Dorset district from 1974
In the early 20th century, Shire Hall in Dorchester was the local facility for dispensing justice and the meeting place of Dorset County Council. [1] After deciding the Shire Hall was inadequate for their needs, county leaders chose to procure a new county headquarters: the site selected had previously been open land known as "Colliton Park" which had once been occupied by the monastic ...
2024 Dorset Council election: Winterborne & Broadmayne (1 seat) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Roland Tarr* 747 : 62.1 +5.5 : Conservative: Mark Penfold 314 26.1 −3.1 Reform UK: Graham Richard Brant 142 11.8 −2.4 Rejected ballots 10 0.82 Turnout: 1,203 34.81 −6.39 Registered electors: 3,490 Liberal Democrats hold: Swing: 4.2
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 ...
2019 Dorset Council election: Stour and Allen Vale (1 seat) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative: Robin David Cook : 606 : 43.5 : Liberal Democrats: Joanna Jane Bury 328 23.5 Independent: Francis Edward Raven-Vause 201 14.4 UKIP: Michael Simmons 165 11.8 Labour: Stephen Gerry 94 6.7 Majority Turnout: 35.80 Conservative win (new seat)
Dorset County Council was the county council of Dorset in England. It was created in 1889 and abolished in 2019. Throughout its existence, the council was based in Dorchester. Bournemouth and Poole were made independent from the county council in 1997 when their councils became unitary authorities.