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For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to retain the eight current constituencies in Dorset, with minor boundary changes to reflect changes to ward boundaries following the reorganisation of local government authorities within the county.
North Dorset: East Chelborough: Beaminster Rural District [23] West Dorset: East Holme: Wareham and Purbeck Rural District [10] Purbeck: East Lulworth: 246 [72] 17.48 Wareham and Purbeck Rural District [10] Purbeck: East Orchard: 223 [73] 8.32 Shaftesbury Rural District [17] North Dorset: East Stoke: 504 [74] 23.04 Wareham and Purbeck Rural ...
Following significant population growth, largely due to its status as a market town, a local board was established in Wimborne Minster in 1892. [2] After the local board was succeeded by an urban district council in 1894, [3] [4] the new council established offices at Allendale House in Hanham Road.
East Dorset was a local government district in Dorset, England.Its council met in Wimborne Minster between 2016 and 2019. [1] [2]The district (as Wimborne) was formed on 1 April 1974 by merging Wimborne Minster Urban District with Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District, plus the parish of St Leonards and St Ives transferred from the Ringwood and Fordingbridge Rural District in Hampshire. [3]
Map showing the composition of East Dorset District Council as of the last election in 2015. Conservatives in blue, Liberal Democrats in yellow and independents in grey. East Dorset District Council in Dorset , England existed from 1973 to 2019, when it was abolished and subsumed into Dorset Council .
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of Dorset in South West England.All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown.
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]