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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 .
2019 Dorset Council election: Dorchester Poundbury (1 seat) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Richard Biggs : 457 : 35.9 : Conservative: Peter Jonathon Stein 415 32.6 Independent: William Gibbons 273 21.4 Green: Tim Oram 73 5.7 Labour: Sinead McCarney 55 4.3 Majority Turnout: 46.20 Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
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)
It was acquired by Wimborne Urban District Council in the late 1930s and converted into a civic centre. [6] It remained the headquarters of the council for another three decades, [7] but ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged East Dorset Council was formed at Furzehill, 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north of Wimborne Minster, in 1974.
2019 Dorset Council election: Blackmore Vale (1 seat) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative: Pauline Hannah Batstone : 912 : 61.8 : UKIP: Bill Woodhouse 224 15.2 Liberal Democrats: Ian De Carteret Edlin 215 14.6 Labour: Kevin Thomas James Shillington 124 8.4 Majority 688 45.3 Turnout: 40.70 Conservative win (new seat)
The council was created on 1 April 2019, when Dorset County Council and five of its six district councils merged to form a unitary authority. A "shadow authority" was created in 2018 to oversee the transition, comprising all the existing district and county councillors representing the area of the new authority. [1]
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 ...