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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 .
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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.
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]
A meeting of leaders and chief executives of all nine of Dorset's local authorities followed on 12 October 2015, "to discuss options for the future of local government in the area". [11] That was followed by a series of public consultations and, ultimately, by statutory instruments for the reform of local government across Dorset, drawn up in ...
People from East Dorset District (2 C, 5 P) V. Verwood (9 P) W. Wimborne Minster (2 C, 17 P) Pages in category "East Dorset District" The following 16 pages are in ...
In the 1918 redistribution, the four Dorset constituencies were retained, but their boundaries were redrawn. East Dorset was reduced in area to about half its former size, with the northern part of the pre-1918 seat being transferred to North Dorset and the southern part to South Dorset. In the 1950 redistribution, this constituency disappeared.